Biography:
Dr. Qichun Zhang obtained his B.S. (1992) at Nanjing University (China), MS (1998) in physical chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, MS (2003) in organic chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and Ph.D. (2007, advised by Prof. Pingyun Feng) in inorganic chemistry at University of California Riverside (USA). Then, he joined Prof. Kanatzidis’ group at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct. 2007 –Dec. 2008). In 2009, he started his career as an Assistant Professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). In 2014, he was promoted to associate professor and became an adjunct associate professor at Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (NTU). He received TCT fellowship in 2013 and lectureship from National Taiwan University in 2014. Currently, he is an associate editor of J. Solid State Chemistry, the Advisory board member of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, the Advisory board member of Materials Chemistry Frontiers, and the Advisory board member of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Also, he is Guest Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2016-2017), Guest Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2017-2018), and Guest Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2017-2018). Currently, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has published > 255 papers and 4 patents (H-index: 54).

Abstract:

Given that surfactants can control the shapes and sizes of micro/nano-particles, they should be able to direct the growth of bulky crystals. In this talk, I will summarize the recent progress on using surfactants as reaction media to prepare crystalline inorganic materials including chalcogenides, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and halides.