Yong Zhang
National Center for NanoScience and Technology (NCNST)
No.11 ZhongGuanCun BeiYiTiao, Beijing 100190, China
Tel: 0086-10-82545739
Email: zhangyong@nanoctr.cn
Qualifications
PhD of Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS);
BSc of Xi’an Jiaotong University
Employment History
2015 – present Professor, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
2011 – 2015 Research Fellow, School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland
2007 – 2008 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering School of Materials Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, USA
2006 – 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany
Awards and Honours
Distinguished Undergraduate Student, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China 2001
Research Interests
Low-dimensional nanostructures and nanodevices and their applications in Magnetism, Plasmonics, Photonics, and Nonlinear Optics; Carbon-based nanomaterials; 2D atomic crystals; Hybrid thin films; Polymer chemistry and physics
Selected Publications
1. Yong Zhang*, Werner Blau*, Nonlinear optics: Dipoles align inside a nanotube, Nature Nanotechnology 2015, 10, 205.
2. Yong Zhang*, John Magan, Werner Blau*, A general strategy for hybrid thin film fabrication and transfer onto arbitrary substrates, Scientific Reports 2014, 4, 4822.
3. Yong Zhang*, Jing Jing Wang, Kyle E. Ballantine, Paul R. Eastham, Werner Blau*, Hybrid plasmonic nanostructures with unconventional nonlinear optical properties, Advanced Optical Materials 2014, 2, 331.
4. Yong Zhang*, Qian Wang, Single-solvent facile synthesis of monodisperse sub-20 nm polymeric nanoparticles via self-assembly process, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2014, 416, 177.
5. Yong Zhang*, Qian Wang, Brian Ashall, Dominic Zerulla, Gil U Lee*, Magnetic-plasmonic dual modulated FePt-Au ternary heterostructured nanorods as a promising nano-bioprobe, Advanced Materials 2012, 24, 2485.
6. Yong Zhang, Brian Ashall, Gillian Doyle, Dominic Zerulla*, Gil U Lee*, Highly-ordered Fe-Au heterostructured nanorod arrays and their exceptional near-infrared plasmonic signature, Langmuir 2012, 28, 17101.
7. Yong Zhang, Manuel Dasilva, Brian Ashall, Gillian Doyle, Dominic Zerulla, Timothy D. Sands, Gil U Lee*, Magnetic manipulation and optical imaging of an active plasmonic single particle Fe-Au nanorod, Langmuir 2011, 27, 15292.
8. Yong Zhang*, Qian Wang, Ultrathin and large-area macroporous polymeric membranes formed through self-assembly of sub-10 nm elastic nanoparticles, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2011, 32, 1645.