I am currently an Associate Professor at the department of Chemistry and Materials Science, at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU). I have previously worked also at the College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu as full Professor and associate Professor at the joint QMUL (Queen Mary University of London)/ SCU Institute and as visiting lecturer at QMUL School of Physics and Astronomy (UK). My research direction focuses on nanotechnology, especially on the in-situ design and engineering of nanofabrication techniques for the controlled growth of magnetically ordered nanowires. I have been working on fabrication methods for simultaneous growth and confinement of magnetically-ordered single-crystalline materials inside low dimensional nanocarbons (multiwall carbon nanotubes, MWCNTs).  To date, my research work has resulted in 126 publications (111 papers as first and/or corresponding author) in significant Physics, Materials and Chemistry journals, these include Carbon (I.F. 10.5), Applied Materials Today (I.F. 7.2), Materials Today Chemistry (I.F. 6.7), Journal of Materials Chemistry C (I.F. 5.7), Materials Today Comm (I.F.3.7), Chemical Communications (I.F. 4.3), New Journal of Chemistry (I.F. 2.7), Diamond and Related Materials (I.F. 4.3), Applied Physics Letters (I.F. 3.5) and others. I have been also awarded with 3 national-level NSFC, 1 Provincial and 2 University level fundings for a total of 1.65 million Yuan awarded funds as project-leader (P.I.). I have also more than 10 years’ experience in experimental and analytical approaches in numerous characterization techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-rays (EDX), selective area electron diffraction (SAED), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), temperature dependent X-ray-diffraction (T-XRD), Rietveld refinements, Magnetometry-analyses and Raman spectroscopy techniques.

Carbon Nanotubes, Nanotechnology, Nanofabrication, Nanowires, Magnetic Devices, Spintronics,  Antiferromagnetism, Ferromagnetism, Superconductivity

I have been engaged in the design of in-situ chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and chemical vapour synthesis (CVS) methods, as well as on structural characterization, manipulation and application of low-dimensional nanoscale systems (one dimensional systems, i.e. carbon nanotubes and collapsed carbon nanotubes). Additionally, I have been working on the growth-mechanism and structural manipulation of carbon nano-onions, collapsed nano-carbons, nano-graphitic-systems, single-crystal pyrolytic systems, non-equilibrium carbons and metal-filled (ferromagnetic-nanocrystals) nanocarbons. The functionalities of multiwall CNTs can be tailored through modification of the structural, magnetic and superconducting properties of the chosen encapsulated nanowires.

I have been engaged in numerous academic activities, including teaching at the undergraduate, graduate and PhD level. I have been teaching courses to undergraduates since 2015, these include lectures on general physics, as well as on nanotechnology, nanofabrication, materials-science, laboratories (health and safety), structural characterization, magnetism/nanomagnetism and complex thermodynamic systems. I have been supervising master, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. Below I include a list of courses that I have been teaching over the past ten years:

Courses:

1) Thermodynamics of magnetic ordering in nanoscale carbons（2017）PhD/Master

2）Crystallography/Electron Diffraction (2015-2016) PhD/Master

3）College Physics A, B (2014 – 2021) Undergraduates (bachelor students)

4)  Magnetism in carbon nanomaterials filled with iron, nickel, cobalt and their alloys (2015) PhD/Master.

5)  Theory, synthesis and application of novel-nano carbons (2014) PhD/Master.

6) Health and safety in the laboratory (Open Lectures), bachelor/master/PhD students

7) Invited lectures on synthesis, characterization, manipulation and applications of nanocarbons 2021-2023 at Sichuan University.

8) General Physics (including principles and applications of nanotechnology/ nanomagnetism/magnetic hyperthermia cancer therapy in medical physics) (2023, international undergraduate bachelor students).

9) General Physics (including viscous boundary layers, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, nanotechnology, magnetic-ordering, nanomagnetism, ferromagnetism and its applications in nanomedicine) (2024, international undergraduate bachelor students).

10) Thermodynamics of ferromagnets in magnetic fields (Including nanoscale systems for applications in nanomedicine). Simple and complex Thermodynamic Systems, (2024, International students, at Sichuan University).

Excellent Teaching Quality award 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (Sichuan University)

- 2020 TAL Outstanding scholar award