Lihua Zhang

Lihua Zhang’s research interests focus on the microstructure and applications of nanomaterials. By advanced TEM and STEM techniques, she works on exploiting detailed understanding of microstructure and property relationships of nanoscale materials, interface, biomaterials, and semiconductors.  Currently, she further emphasizes on application of Cs-corrected transmission electron microscopy techniques to investigate the atomic structure and chemistry of nanostructures. Her recent work covers energy storage/conversion materials including catalysts, thermoelectric materials, ferromagnetic materials, and battery materials.

• B.S.: Shenyang University of Technology.  Major: Materials Science
• Master: Shenyang University of Technology
• PhD: Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science
  • TEM characterization of nanostructures in binary immiscible element system.

• Postdoctoral Research: NCEM, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
  • Project: Investigation on the vacancy decay of the elastic strain caused by phase transformation of small Pb and PbX inclusions in Al.

• Shichen Fu, Kyungnam Kang, Kamran Shayan, Anthony Yoshimura, Siamak Dadras, Xiaotian Wang, Lihua Zhang, Siwei Chen, Na Liu, Apoorv Jindal, Xiangzhi Li, Abhay N. Pasupathy, A. Nick Vamivakas, Vincent Meunier, Stefan Strauf & Eui-Hyeok Yang, Enabling room temperature ferromagnetism in monolayer MoS₂ via in situ iron-doping, Nature Communications 11, Article number: 2034 (2020). [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15877-7]
  • Publisher’s version: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15877-7

• Vitor R. Manfrinato, Fernando E. Camino, Aaron Stein, Lihua Zhang, Ming Lu, Eric A. Stach and Charles T. Black, Patterning Si at the 1 nm Length Scale with Aberration-Corrected Electron-Beam Lithography: Tuning of Plasmonic Properties by Design, Advanced Functional Nanomaterials, 29(52), 1970353 (2019). [DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201903429]
  • Publisher’s version: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.201903429
  • Free publicly available manuscript (OSTI): https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1546045-patterning-si-nm-length-scale-aberration-corrected-electron-beam-lithography-tuning-plasmonic-properties-design

• William E. Taifan,  Yuanyuan Li, John P. Baltrus, Lihua Zhang, Anatoly I. Frenkel, Jonas Baltrusaitis, Operando Structure Determination of Cu and Zn on Supported MgO/SiO₂ Catalysts during Ethanol Conversion to 1,3-Butadiene, ACS Catal. 9, 1, 269-285 (2019). [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03515]
  • Publisher’s version: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.8b03515
  • Free publicly available manuscript (OSTI): https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1492773-operando-structure-determination-cu-zn-supported-mgo-sio2-catalysts-during-ethanol-conversion-butadiene

• Chenyu Wang, Lihua Zhang (Co-first author), Hongzhou Yang, Jinfong Pan, Jingyue Liu, Charles Dotse, Yiliang Luan, Rui Gao, Cuikun Lin, Jun Zhang, James P. Kilcrease, Xiaodong Wen, Shouzhong Zou and Jiye Fang, High-Indexed Pt₃Ni Alloy Tetrahexahedral Nanoframes Evolved through Preferential CO Etching,  Nano Lett., 17(4), 2204-2210, (2017). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04731]
  • Publisher’s version: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04731
  • Free publicly available manuscript (OSTI): https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1368669-high-indexed-pt3ni-alloy-tetrahexahedral-nanoframes-evolved-through-preferential-co-etching

• Junhua Song, Philip P. Rodenbough, Lihua Zhang, Siu-Wai Chan, Size-Dependent Crystal Properties of Nanocuprite, Applied Ceramic Technology, 13(2), 389-394, (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/ijac.12486]
  • Publisher’s version: https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijac.12486
  • Free publicly available manuscript (OSTI): https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1354528-size-dependent-crystal-properties-nanocuprite
     
• Fanke Meng, Enyuan Hu, Lihua Zhang, Kotaro Sasaki, James T. Muckerman and Etsuko Fujita, Biomass-derived high-performance tungsten-based electrocatalysts on graphene for hydrogen evolution, J. Mater. Chem. A, 3, 18572-1857, (2015).

• Tomer Zidki, Lihua Zhang, Vladimir Shafirovich, and Sergei V. Lymar., Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Cobalt(II) Adsorbed on Silica Nanoparticles,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 35, 14275-14278, (2012).

• Ranjith Krishna Pai, Lihua Zhang, Dmytro Nykpanchuk, Mircea Cotlet and Chad S.Korach, Biomimetic Pathways for nanosturcutured Poly(KAMPS)/aragonite Composites that Mimic Seashell Nacre, Advanced Engineering Materials, 13(10), B415-B422, (2011).

• Avishai Ofan, Lihua Zhang, Ophir Gaathon, Sasha Bakhru, Hassaram Bakhru, David Welch, Yimei Zhu, Richard M. Osgood Jr., Spherical solid He nanometer bubbles in an anisotropic complex oxide, PRB, 82(10), p104113, (2010).

• Kotaro Sasaki, Lihua Zhang, R.R. Adzic. Niobium oxide-supported platinum ultra-low amount electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,10 159-167, (2008).
• L. H. Zhang, E.Johnson, U.Dahmen, Obervation of the vacancy decay of the elastic strain caused by phase transformation of small Pb inclusions in Al,  Acta Mater, 53, 3635-3642 (2005).

• L. H. Zhang, M. L. Sui, L. Zhang, K. Y. Hu and D. X. Li, Investigation on morphological stability of ultrathin Pb films, APL, 78, 3621-3623, (2001).