Wenrui Zhang
Curriculum Vitae
Staff Scientist
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: zhangwenrui@nimte.ac.cn
Join Us
We are hiring Postdoc and PhD students who are interested in the following directions:
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1. Epitaxial thin film growth/design for transparent conductive oxides
2. Wide bandgap semiconductor and electronic devices
3. Carrier transport in solar energy conversion
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Please send your CV directly to zhangwenrui@nimte.ac.cn
Research overview
We synthesize functional materials and enable their applications for advanced solid-state devices and renewable energy conversion. We strive to perfect the growth of thin films and heterostructures, and control the fundamental building blocks with atomic-level precision. The improved capability of precise materials synthesis allows us to explore emerging phenomena in correlated electron systems from bulk to interface, and to drive the development of novel information technology. In parallel, we explore exotic carrier transport and dynamics in model semiconductors, with an aim to accelerate materials design and discovery for efficient solar energy conversion.
Education
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering
Texas A&M University (TAMU)
2011-2015
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B.S. Materials Science and Engineering
Wuhan University of Science & Technology (WUST)
2007-2011
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Honors and Awards
-Outstanding Oral Presentation Award (Consecutively), Early Career Research Symposium, BNL, 2018, 2017
-Outstanding Reviewer Award, Institute of Physics Publishing (Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics), 2017
-Best Poster Award, NSLS-II and CFN Users’ Meeting, BNL, 2017
-Graduate Travel Grant, TAMU, 2013
-First-grade Outstanding Student Scholarships, Top 3%, WUST, 2007-2011
-Xu Jiayin Scholarship, WUST, 2010
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Appointment
Staff Scientist: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences
2020-Current
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Postdoc Research Associate: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Project: Correlated Electron Systems and Low Dimensional Materials
Advisor: Dr. Gyula Eres and Dr. Thomas Zac Ward 2018-2020
Postdoc Research Associate: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
2016-2018
Project: Exotic Transport in Semiconductors for Solar Fuel Production
Advisor: Dr. Mingzhao Liu 2016-2018
Graduate Research Assistant: Texas A&M University
Project: Ferroic Functionalities Achieved by a Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Approach
Advisor: Prof. Haiyan Wang 2011-2015
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Services
Advisory Panel for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2018-Current
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Proposal Review Panel for DOE NSRC program 2019-Current
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Reviewer for 30+Journals:
- Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Chemical Communications
- Materials Research Letters, Applied Physics Letters, APL Materials, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matters,
- Nanotechnology, Materials & Design, Applied Surface Science, Materials Science and Engineering A,
- Scientific Reports, Polymers, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Nanoscale Research Letters, Thin Solid Films, Vacuum, Materials Research Express, Surface Review and Letters.