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Shengbai Zhang
Kodosky Constellation Professor; Professor of Physics
Education:
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989 (Physics).
M.S., University of California at Berkeley, 1985 (Physics).
B.S., Jilin University, Changchun, China, 1982 (Electronic Science and Engineering).
Career Highlights:
1989-91: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto.
1991-94: Research Associate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
1994-97: Staff Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
1997-00: Senior Scientist I, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
2000-07: Senior Scientist II, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
2006- : Adjunct Professor, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Research Interests:
My research objective is to help solving urgent national needs in sustainable energy, environment, technology, and security by quantum-mechanical computations. Research areas cover first-principles structural and electronic properties of a broad range of solid-state materials from crystalline, amorphous semiconductors, metals, to various nanostructures. In particular, we study 1) the physics and chemistry behind the formation of novel nanostructures such as SiC spiral helixes. 2) Defect and doping physics. This down-to-the-earth science can be challenging and has the most relevance to today’s hi-tech such as inexpensive solar cells and widegap electronics. 3) Hydrogen storage. The physics of molecular adsorption and fast proton transport in nanostructures can lead to new directions for future hydrogen economy. 4) New method development. We recently developed a van der Waals energy method to treat weak interactions in complex organic and bio systems efficiently and accurately. We also explore cyber-enabled discoveries of new physics and chemistry by utilizing the mega computation facilities at RPI’s CCNI.
Published over 200 peer reviewed scientific papers with some 5,500 total citations (Hirsch Index = 41). Citations for 2008 alone hits 1,000.
Select 2008 Publications:
H. X. Yang, L. F. Xu, Z. Fang, C. Z. Gu, and S. B. Zhang, “Bond Counting Rule for Carbon and Its Application to the Roughness of Diamond (001)”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026101 (2008).
Y. Zhao, M. T. Lusk, A. C. Dillon, M. J. Heben, and S. B. Zhang, “Boron-based organometallic nanostructures: hydrogenstorage properties and structure stability”, Nano Lett. 8, 157 (2008).
X. Han, S. Zheng, Y. Zhang, K. Zheng, S. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X. Zhang, X. Liu, G. Chen, Y. Hao, and X. Guo, “Polarization Driven Covalently-Bonded Octahedral-Twinning and Backbone-Peripheral-Helical Nanoarchitectures”, Nano Lett. 8, 2258 (2008).
Lee SH, Kim YH, Deshpande R, Parilla PA, Whitney E, Gillaspie DT, Jones KM, Mahan AH, Zhang SB, Dillon AC, “Reversible Lithium-Ion Insertion in Molybdenum Oxide Nanoparticles”, ADVANCED MATERIALS 20, 3627 (2008).
Y. Li, Z. Zhou, S. Zhang, and Z. Chen, “MoS2 Nanoribbons: High Stability and Unusual Electronic and Magnetic Properties”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 16739 (2008).
Y. Y. Sun, Yong-Hyun Kim, Kyuho Lee, and S. B. Zhang, “Accurate and efficient calculation of van der Waals interactions within density functional theory by local atomic potential approach”, J CHEM PHYS 129, 154102 (2008).
Contact:
(518) 276-6127
zhangs9@rpi.edu
Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~zhangs9/
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