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Qichun ZHANG

Associate Professor
(A joint appointment between SPMS & MSE, NTU)

Education: B.Sc., Nanjing University; PhD, UC Riverside; Post-doc, Northwestern University

Research Area: Exotic Materials and Applications including: organic semiconductors, inorganic semiconductors and inorganic-organic hybrid materials

Phone: (65) 67904705

E-mail: qczhang@ntu.edu.sg

Webpage: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/qczhang/

Research Interest

The research in ZHANG group mainly focuses on exotic materials and their applications including:

  1. Design, synthesis and characterization of novel organic conjugated materials as well as their applications in flexible and stretchable optoelectronic devices, both in thin films (field-effect transistors, photovoltaics, memory, OLEDs, thermoelectric, sensing, etc) and at the nanoscale.

  2. Novel electrode materials as well as new design for Microbial Fuel Cells.

  3. Design and synthesis of Novel crystalline inorganic materials for photocatalytic and thermoelectric applications

  4. Inorganic-organic upconversionnanoprobes as next generation biomarkers for biosensing, bioimaging, and NIR-controlled drug release.

Selected Publications

  1. Wei-Wei Xiong, Jianwei Miao,Kaiqi Ye, Yue Wang, Bin Liu, Qichun Zhang* “Threading Chalcogenide Layers with Polymer Chains”, AngewChem Int. Ed. 2015, in press.

  2. Benlin Hu, Chengyuan Wang, Jiangxin Wang, Junkuo Gao, Kai Wang, Jiansheng Wu, Guodong Zhang, Wangqiao Cheng, Bhavanasi Venkateswarlu, Mingfeng Wang, Pooi See Lee, Qichun Zhang* “Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Polymer with Multiple Redox for High-Density Data Storage” Chemical Science 2014, 5 (9), 3404 – 3408.

  3. Pei-Yang Gu, Feng Zhou, Junkuo Gao, Gang Li, Chengyuan Wang, Qing-Feng Xu, Qichun Zhang,* Jian-Mei Lu* “Synthesis, Characterization and Nonvolatile Ternary Memory Behavior of A Larger Heteroacene with Nine Linearly-fused Rings and Two Different Heteroatoms” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135 (38), 14086–14089.

  4. Wei-Wei Xiong, Eashwer Umesh Athersh,Yu Ting Ng,Junfeng Ding, Tom Wu, Qichun Zhang* “Growing Crystalline Chalcogenidoarsenates in Surfactants: From Zero-Dimensional Cluster to Three-Dimensional Framework”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135(4), 1256-1259.

  5. Gang Li, Yuechao Wu, Junkuo Gao, Chengyuan Wang, Junbo Li, Huacheng Zhang, Yang Zhao, Yanli Zhao, Qichun Zhang* “Synthesis and Physical Properties of Four Hexazapentacene Derivatives” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134(50), 20298-20301.