ZHANG, Qi

Associate Professor

Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Presidential Young Fellow
Education Background

PhD（Zhejiang University) 

BEng (SunYat-sen University)

Research Field
Smart polymers, polymerization reaction engineering, colloid and interfaces
Academic Area
Materials
Personal Website
https://polysz.cuhk.edu.cn/en
Email
qizhang@cuhk.edu.cn
Biography

Dr. Qi Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Fellow in School of Science and Engineering. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Sun Yat-sen University and Zhejiang University, respectively. He worked in GE Global Research Center (Shanghai), McMaster University and Zhejiang University of Technology, before joining CUHK, Shenzhen in March 2018. Dr. Zhang’s research interests are in the areas of stimuli-responsive smart materials, polymerization reaction engineering, colloid and interfaces. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers on prestigious journals (e.g., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, ACS Macro Lett.) with more than 1800 citations and H index of 24, many of which have been selected as hot articles or journal covers. Dr. Zhang was elected as "2021 Future Chemical Engineering Scholar".

Academic Publications

Google scholar link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LrJWUYIAAAAJ&hl=en

Representative publications:

1. Xiaoqing Ming, Le Yao, He Zhu, Qi Zhang*, Shiping Zhu*. Dramatic and Reversible Water‐Induced Stiffening Driven by Phase Separation within Polymer Gels. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2021, 2109850.

2. Shuaishuai Huang, Yichen Wan, Xiaoqing Ming, Jiaming Zhou, Miaomiao Zhou, Hong Chen, Qi Zhang*, Shiping Zhu*. Adhering low surface energy materials without surface pre-treatment via ion-dipole interactions. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 41112-41119.

3. Lei Shi, Changgeng Zhang, Yuhan Du, He Zhu, Qi Zhang*, Shiping Zhu*. Improving Dielectric Constant of Polymers through Liquid Electrolyte Inclusion. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 30, 2007863.

4. Xiaoqing Ming, Lei Shi, He Zhu, Qi Zhang*. Stretchable, Phase-Transformable Ionogels with Reversible Ionic Conductor-Insulator Transition. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 30, 2005079.

5. Yuanfeng Wang, Xin Liang, He Zhu, John H. Xin, Qi Zhang*, Shiping Zhu*. Reversible Water Transportation Diode: Temperature-Adaptive Smart Janus Textile for Moisture/Thermal Management. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 30, 1907851.