Affiliations

• Materials Science and Engineering

Education Profile

• Ph.D., University of Barcelona, 1992
• M.S., Tianjin University, 1986
• B.S., Tianjin University, 1983

Research Interests

​Professor Zhang's research interests include magnetism, magnetic materials, magneto-transport, spintronics , magnetic cooling, nano materials, multiferroics materials, graphene and carbon-based materials, and bio-materials.

Selected Publications

• Hongtao Wang, Qingxiao Wang, Yingchun Cheng, Kun Li, Yingbang Yao, Qiang Zhang, Cezhou Dong, Peng Wang, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Wei Yang, X. X. Zhang "Doping Monolayer Graphene with Single Atoms" Nano Lett. 12, 141(2012)
• Yingbang Yao, QingXiao Wang, Hongtao Wang, Bei Zhang, Chao Zhao, Zhihong Wang, Zhengkui Xu, Ying Wu, Wei Huang , Pei-Yuan Qian and X. X. Zhang "The bio-assembled nano-composites in conch shells exhibit giant electret hysteresis" Advanced Materials, 2012 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201202079)
• Z.B. Guo, W.B. Mi, R.O. Aboljadayel,B. Zhang, Q. Zhang,P.G. Barba, A. Manchon, and X.X. Zhang "Effects of surface and interface scattering on anomalous Hall effect in Co/Pd multilayers " Physical Review B86, 104433(2012)
• Yingbang Yao, Long Chen, Zhihong Wang, H. Alshareef, and X. X. Zhang, 'Electrical and piezoelectric properties of BiFeO3 thin films on SrxCa1-xRuO3-buffered SrTiO3 substrates', J. Appl. Phys. 111, 114102 (2012)
• Hongtao Wang, Kun Li, Yingchun Cheng, Qingxiao Wang, Yingbang Yao, Udo Schwingenschloeg, X. X. Zhang, Wei Yang, 'Interaction between Single Noble Metal Atoms and the Graphene Edge: A Study via Aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy', Nanoscale 4, 2920 (2012).