| Asst Prof Zhang Qichun
Assistant Professor
Division of Materials Science
School of Materials Science & Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: QCZHANG@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 4705
Office: N4.1-02-17 |
| Education |
- PhD University of California, Riverside 2007
- MSc University of California, Los Angeles 2004
- MS (Physical Chem) Inst. of Chem, Chinese Acad of Sciences 1998
- BSc Nanjing University 1992
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| Biography |
Assistant professor, MSE, NTU, 2009-
Postdoc. fellow Northwestern University, advisor: Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,2007-2008
Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, 2007,advisor: Prof.Pingyun Feng, Univ. of California Riverside, USA
MS., Organic Chemistry, 2004,advisor: Prof. Fred Wudl, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA
MS., Physical Chemistry, 1998, advisor: Prof. Peiji Wu, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
B. S., Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, 1992.
He also worked as research associate in Research Institute of Nanjing Chemical Industry Co.(1992-1995) and Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences(1998-2000) |
| Research Interests |
| My research primarily is focus on creating functional materials by the rational synthesis and processing and on their practical applications, with particular interests in the following areas: (1) novel nanostructured thermoeletric materials and device fabrication; (2) inorganic nanomaterials: shaped and size controlled synthesis, colloidal dispersion, surface chemistry directed assembly and functionalities; (3) synthesis and characterization of porous materials with controllable morphology and composition; (4) synthesis and organization of semiconducting clusters; (5) organic conjugated materials. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2010-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2013-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2010-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2012-)
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2013-)
- Maritime Clean Energy Research Programme (MCERP) (2011-) [by Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)]
- NTU Internal Funding - New Initiative Funding (2011-)
- Seed Funding (2012-)
- Start Up Grant (2009-)
- Vestas-NTU (2011-)
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| Current Projects |
- Energy and Electronic Couplings at Nanoparticle-Polymer Interface in Organic Photovoltaic Cells
- Graphene-Based Materials: Synthesis, Functionalization and Applications
- Highly-conductive n-type organic wires for enhancing bioelectronic programme
- Integration of Thermoelectric Modules into Ship-Board Equipments to improve the Fuel Efficiency and Reduce CO2 Emission
- Materials Research for Wind Turbine Applications
- Novel Halide-Chalcogenide Hybrid Materials for Non-linear Optical Applications to Detect Chemical and Biological Hazards
- Organic Quantum Dots: Smart Materials for Nanoelectronics (Quantum Dot Solar Cells)
- Organic nanowire-polymer composites as networks for stretchable solar devices
- Synthesis and characterization of organic conjugated molecules and conjugated polymer nanowires
- Waste Energy Harvesting for Sustainable Earth
| Selected Publications | - Liu Y., Kanhere PD., Wong CL., Tian YF., Feng YH., Boey F., Wu T., Chen HY., White TJ., Chen Z., Zhang QC. (2010). Hydrazine-hydrothermal method to synthesize three-dimensional chalcogenide framework for photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 183(11), 2644-2649.
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