Xu Zhang
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China
E-mail: xuzhang@jiangnan.edu.cn
ResearcherID: AAC-9822-2020
Profiles
Ø 2022-02 to present
Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, P. R. China
Associate Professor (School of Chemical and Material Engineering)
Ø 2019-08 to 2022-01
Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China
Assistant Professor (Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology)
Ø 2017-08 to 2019-07
Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China
Postdoctoral Researcher (Materials Science and Engineering)
Ø 2009-09 to 2015-06
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China
Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering)
Ø 2005-09 to 2009-06
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China
Bachelor’s Degree (Polymer Materials and Engineering)
Research interests
Polymer physics
Polymer theory and simulations
Self-assembly of copolymers
Polymer composites
Polymer nanocomposites
3D printing
Publications (10 representative papers)
1. Haopeng Zhang; Xiaohui Yu; Yufei Wang; Xiaoshan Fan*; Yue-E Miao; Xu Zhang*; Tianxi Liu*. Mechanically robust, stretchable, recyclable, and biodegradable ionogels reinforced by polylactide stereocomplex nanocrystals. Composites Science and Technology, 2022, 230(Part 1): 109740.
2. Yufei Wang; Xiaohui Yu; Haopeng Zhang; Xiaoshan Fan*; Yiting Zhang; Zibiao Li; Yue-E Miao; Xu Zhang*; Tianxi Liu*. Highly-stretchable, soft, low-hysteresis, and self-healable ionic conductive elastomers enabled by long functional cross-linkers. Macromolecules, 2022, 55(17): 7845-7855.
3. Xiaohui Yu; Haopeng Zhang; Yufei Wang; Xiaoshan Fan*; Zibiao Li; Xu Zhang*; Tianxi Liu*. Highly stretchable, ultra-soft, and fast self-healable conductive hydrogels based on polyaniline nanoparticles for sensitive flexible sensors. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32(33): 2204366.
4. Bing Zhang; Qichun Feng; Hui Song; Xu Zhang*; Chao Zhang*; Tianxi Liu. Hierarchical response network boosts solvent-free ionic conductive elastomers with extreme stretchability, healability, and recyclability for ionic sensors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14(6): 8404-8416.
5. Xu Zhang; Jianlei Wang*; Tianxi Liu*. 3D printing of polycaprolactone-based composites with diversely tunable mechanical gradients via multi-material fused deposition modeling. Composites Communications, 2021, 23: 100600.
6. Xu Zhang; Wei Fan*; Tianxi Liu*. Fused deposition modeling 3D printing of polyamide-based composites and its applications. Composites Communications, 2020, 21: 100413.
7. Jianlei Wang; Suhail Mubarak; Duraisami Dhamodharan; Nidhin Divakaran; Lixin Wu*; Xu Zhang*. Fabrication of thermoplastic functionally gradient composite parts with anisotropic thermal conductive properties based on multicomponent fused deposition modeling 3D printing. Composites Communications, 2020, 19: 142-146.
8. Liqiang Zhang; Rui Wang; Jianlei Wang; Lixin Wu*; Xu Zhang*. Mechanically robust nanocomposites from screen-printable polymer/graphene nanosheet pastes. Nanoscale, 2019, 11(5): 2343-2354.
9. Yuewei Li; Jie Zhong; Lixin Wu*; Zixiang Weng; Longhui Zheng; Shuqiang Peng; Xu Zhang*. High performance POSS filled nanocomposites prepared via UV-curing based on 3D stereolithography printing. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 2019, 117: 276-286.
10. Youdan Zheng; Rui Wang; Xiangyu Dong; Lixin Wu*; Xu Zhang*. High strength conductive polyamide 6 nanocomposites reinforced by prebuilt three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(33): 28103-28111.
