Zhuhua Zhang, Professor

Telephone: 025-84895827
Fax: (86) 025-84895827
E-mail: chuwazhang（AT）nuaa.edu.cn
Mailing Address:  325# No.29 Yudao Street, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016, Nanjing, China

Introduction

  Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D in Nanomechanics from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2010. Dr. Zhang has long been committed to the study of nanoscale physical mechanics as well as nanoscale modeling and simulations. Dr. Zhang and coworkers proposed for the first time a new concept—hydrovoltaic effect based on the electronic interaction between functional materials and water and made important prediction to promote the advent of borophene. His research results in 110 SCI-indexed papers in international academic journals, including 60 papers in Chem. Soc. Rev., Nature Nanotech., Nature Chem., Science Adv., Nature Commun., PRL, JACS, Nano Lett., Angew. Chem. and JMPS. These papers have received citations of more than 5000 times, and are selected as research highlights or cover suggestions by Nature Nanotech., Nature rev. Mater and other journals. He has been awarded the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (Nomination Award) in 2013, and the Fok Ying-tung Education Foundation Young Teacher Award in 2020. Dr. Zhang is serving as the Associate Editor of Inter. J. Smart Nano Mater. and Front. Phys., as well as Invited Young Editor of Acta Mech. Sin. and Acta Solid Mech. Sin. He is also the member of Physical Mechanics Professional Committee, Chinese Mechanics Society as well as Professional Committee of Intelligent Composite Materials, China Composite Society.

Education background

l University of Nebraska Lincoln, Materials Physics and Chemistry (8/2009-8/2010)

l Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanomechanics (9/2004-10/2010) Ph.D.

l Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aircraft Environment and Life Support Engineering (9/2000-6/2004), Bachelor

Research experience

l Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, College of Aerospace Engineering, Full Professor (5/2013-present)

l Rice University, Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Postdoc(5/2012-5/2016)

l Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Institute of Nanoscience, Associate Professor(5/2011-5/2012)

l Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Institute of Nanoscience, Lecturer (10/2010-5/2011)

Research interest

l Structures and functionalities of low-dimensional nanomaterials

l Growth mechanism of low-dimensional nanomaterials and nanostructures

l Hydrovoltaics and intelligent behaviors based on interaction between solids and liquids

Representative works

(1) Zhuhua Zhang*, Andrew J. Mannix, Xiaolong Liu, Zhili Hu, Nathan P. Guisinger, Mark C. Hersam^* and Boris I. Yakobson^*, Near-equilibrium growth from borophene edges on silver, Science Adv. 2019, 5 (9), eaax0246.

(2) Xiaocheng Zhou, Zhuhua Zhang* and Wanlin Guo^*. Dislocations as Single Photon Sources in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors, Nano Lett. 20, 4136–4143 (2020).

(3) Zhuhua Zhang, Xuemei Li, Jun Yin, Ying Xu, Wenwen Fei, Minmin Xue, Qin Wang, Jianxin Zhou and Wanlin Guo, Emerging hydrovoltaic technology. Nature Nanotech. 13(12), 1109–1119 (2018). (featured on cover)

(4) Zhuhua Zhang, Yuanyue Liu, Yang Yang and Boris I. Yakobson, Growth mechanism and morphology of hexagonal boron nitride. Nano Lett. 2016, 16 (2), 1398–1403.

(5) Zhuhua Zhang, Yang Yang, Guoying Gao, and Boris I. Yakobson*, Two- dimensional boron monolayers mediated by metal substrates. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54 (44), 13022–13026. (Cover article)

(6) Zhili Hu, Zhuhua Zhang*, Liren Liu, Wanlin Guo*, Extreme pseudo- magnetic fields in carbon nanocones by simple loads, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 124(1), 1-9 (2019).

(7) Zhuhua Zhang, Evgeni S. Penev, Boris I. Yakobson, Two-dimensional boron: structures, properties and applications. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46 (22), 6746-6763. (Cover article)

(8) Zhuhua Zhang, Yang Yang and Boris I. Yakobson, Grain boundaries in hybrid two-dimensional materials. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 2014, 70 (10), 62-70.

(9) Zhuhua Zhang^*, Xiaofei Liu, Boris I. Yakobson, and Wanlin Guo, Two-Dimensional Tetragonal TiC Monolayer Sheet and Nanoribbons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134 (47), 19326.

(10) Zhuhua Zhang, Changfeng Chen, and Wanlin Guo, Magnetoelectric Effect in Graphene Nanoribbons on Substrates via Electric Bias Control of Exchange Splitting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 103 (18), 187204.