Faculty
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ZHAO Zhigang / 赵志刚
  • Department：Division of Nano-devices and Materials
  • Position：Professor
  • Expertise：Tungsten-based and alumina-based functional materials; Photoelectrochemistry; Environment monitoring materials;
  • Email：zgzhao2011@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
  1. The research, development and applications of tungsten-based and alumina-based functional materials;
  2. Photoelectrochemical materials and devices;
  3. Nanofiber-based environment monitoring materials;
Experience:
Employment

Jun. 2011 - Present 

Professor

SINANO, CAS 

Dec. 2007- May 2011 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 

Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

May 2007 – Dec. 2007

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dayton University, USA

Nov. 2006 – Apr. 2007

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Osaka University, Japan

Education

Ph.D. 2006 

Materials Science and Engineering

co-cultivated by Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and  Ecole Central Paris, France 

M.S. 2003

Materials Science and Engineering

Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B.S. 2000 

Materials Science and Engineering 

CSU 

Selected Publication:
  1. Z. G. Zhao, M. Miyauchi, Nanoporous-walled Tungsten Oxide Nanotubes as Highly-active Visible-light-driven Photocatalysts; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 7051, 2008. (The article was highlighted in Asian Nature Material, also reported in Japanese newspaper “Business and Technology”)
  2. Z. G. Zhao, Z. F. Liu, M. Miyauchi, Tailored Remote Photochromic Coloration of In-situ Synthesized CdS Quantum Dots-loaded WO3 films; Adv. Funct. Mater. 20, 4162, 2010.
  3. Z. G. Zhao, Z. F. Liu, M. Miyauchi, Nature-Inspired Construction, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Properties of Single-Crystalline Tungsten Oxide Octahedra; Chem. Comm. 46, 3321, 2010.
  4. Z. G. Zhao, M. Miyauchi, A novel visible-light-driven photochromic material with high-reversibility: tungsten oxide-based organic-inorganic hybrid microflowers; Chem. Comm. 45, 2204, 2009.
  5. Z. G. Zhao, T. Kodaira, N. Nagai, Y. Hakuta, K. K. Bando, H. Takashima, F. Mizukami, Self-standing microporous films of arrayed alumina nanofibers including Schiff base molecules: Effect of the environment around the molecules on their photoluminescence. J. Mater. Chem., 2012.
  6. Z. G. Zhao, N. Nagai, T. Kodaira, F. Mizukami, Surface Treatment- and Calcination Temperature-Dependent Adsorption of Methyl Orange Molecules in Wastewater on Self-standing Alumina Nanofiber Films. J. Mater. Chem., 21, 1498, 2011.
  7. Z. G. Zhao, M. Miyauchi, Shape modulation of tungstic acid and tungsten oxide hollow structures; J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 6539, 2009
  8. Z. G. Zhao, F. X. Geng, J. B. Bai H. M. Cheng, Facile and controlled synthesis of 3D Nanorods-based Urchin-like and Nanosheets-based Flower-like Cobalt Basic Salt Nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. C, 111(10), 3848, 2007.
  9. Zhi-Gang Zhao, Li-Jie Ci, Hui-Ming Cheng, Jin-Bo Bai, The growth of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with different morphologies on carbon fibers. Carbon, 43(3), 663, 2005.
  10. Z. G. Zhao, F. X. Geng, H. T. Cong, J. B. Bai, H. M. Cheng, Controllable self-assembly of ZnS nanoparticles into nanorods, nanosheets, and microspheres. Nanotechnology, 17(18), 4731, 2006.
  11. Z. G. Zhao, F. Li, C. Liu, H. M. Cheng, Light emission and degradation of single-walled carbon nanotube filament. J. Appl. Phys., 98(4), 044306, 2005 (The article was selected for the August 29, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology).