一、研究领域或方向

先进功能材料（例如强关联材料，拓扑材料）在电子光学以及传感领域的应用

材料新奇物理化学行为的探索调控

薄膜材料的合成外延生长以及微纳器件制备

二、工作经历

2021.01 72886必赢欢迎光临 教授

2015.05 美国Purdue University材料工程系 博士后

2013-2015 美国Iowa State University电子与计算机工程系 博士后

2008-2013 72886必赢欢迎光临 博士

三、学术成果介绍

主要研究强关联材料等功能材料体系的非线性行为，在研究材料相变行为敏感性调节/强关联材料的电/光器件方面做出了一系列成果。至今共发表论文46篇，其中包括Nature，PNAS，Phys. Rev. Lett.等。

部分代表论文：

1. M. Kotiuga*, Z. Zhang*, J. Li, F. Rodolakis, H. Zhou, R. Sutarto, F. He, Q. Wang, Y. Sun, Y. Wang, N. A. Aghamiri, S. B. Hancock, L. P. Rokhinson, D. P. Landau, Y. Abate, J. W. Freeland, R. Comin, S. Ramanathan, K. M. Rabe, “Carrier localization in perovskite nickelates from oxygen vacancies”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 116, 21992–21997, 2019. (*Co-first Authorship)

2. Z. Zhang, B. H. Robison, and S. Ramanathan, “Marine biology requires new line of inquiry in materials research”, MRS Bull., 44, 597-599, 2019.

3. Z. Zhang, D. Schwanz, B. Narayanan, M. Kotiuga, J. A. Dura, M. Cherukara, H. Zhou, J. W. Freeland, J. Li, R. Sutarto, F. He, C. Wu, J. Zhu, Y. Sun, K. Ramadoss, S. S. Nonnenmann, N. Yu, R. Comin, K. M. Rabe, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, S. Ramanathan, “Perovskite nickelates as electric-field sensors in salt water”, Nature, 553, 68–72,2018.

4. Z. Zhang, F. Zuo, C. Wan, A. Dutta, J. Kim, J. Rensberg, R. Nawrodt, H. H. Park, T. Larrabee, X. Guan, Y. Zhou, S.M. Prokes, C. Ronning, V. M. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, M. A. Kats, and S. Ramanathan, “Evolution of metallicity in vanadium dioxide by creation of oxygen vacancies,” Phys. Rev. Appl., 7, 34008, 2017.

5. Z. Zhang, X. Ding, J. Sun, T. Suzuki, T. Lookman, K. Otsuka, and X. Ren, “Nonhysteretic superelasticity of shape memory alloys at the nanoscale,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 145701, 2013.

6. Z. Zhang, X. Ding, J. Deng, J. Cui, J. Sun, T. Suzuki, K. Otsuka, and X. Ren, “Surface effects on structural phase transformations in nanosized shape memory alloys,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 117, 7895–7901, 2013.