Biomaterials

Biography

Prof. Xianfang Zhu is one of the earliest scientists who initialized nanoresearch in China in 1985 with over 30 years of research, teaching, and industrial experience in a wide range of materials (metal, ceramic, semiconductor, biomaterials, and polymer) science and engineering areas. He received PhD in Electronic Materials Engineering on nanostructures and their metastability in silicon induced by ion bombardment at the Australian National University in Canberra. Thereafter, he joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the stability of nanostructures in semiconductors under energetic beams irradiation at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory to extend his concepts and explore nanoinstability under electron beam irradiation as well as to develop inorganic/organic coreshell nanostructure. He once also worked as associate professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; as a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore; as a senior researcher at the ODU Applied Research Centre in the Jefferson Lab; and as an assistant professor at the University of Georgia on fabrication of low dimensional nanostructures for potential nanotechnology and nanodevice applications. His current research interests are focused on structural instabilities of low dimensional nanostructures under external excitations, energetic beam nanoprocessing, controllable fabrication and growth of low dimensional nanostructures, controllable assembling and construction of large scale arrays of zero dimensional nanostructures, organic and inorganic hybrid at nanoscale, and functionalization of nanostructure etc. Prof. Zhu has (co-) authored over 100 publications, filed 8 patents, chaired; co-chaired, or served as committee or advisory board member at, over 30 international or national conferences, and presented over 70 invited lectures and talks at universities; research institutes; and major international conferences worldwide. He is editor-in-chief of Scientific Journal of Physical Science, associate editor of International Journal of Molecular Engineering and on editorial board of several journals such as Chin Sci Bull etc. He is also an active referee for over 10 top international journals such as Appl Phys Lett, J Phys Chem, Cryst Eng Comm, Carbon, Nanoscale, J Mater Chem, Nano Research, Scientific Reports, ACS Omega, and Chin Phys Lett etc. He is presently the Director of the China-Australia Joint Laboratory for Functional Nanomaterials, an adjunct professor at The University of Queensland in Australia, and a full-time professor in the Department of Physics at Xiamen University in China, as well as the chief scientist for the AMAC International Inc., USA.

Research Interest

His current research interests are focused on structural instabilities of low dimensional nanostructures under external excitations, energetic beam nanoprocessing, controllable fabrication and growth of low dimensional nanostructures, controllable assembling and construction of large scale arrays of zero dimensional nanostructures, organic and inorganic hybrid at nanoscale, and functionalization of nanostructure etc.