Research Interests

Controllable growth of 2D materials by surface and interface engineering, and development of preparation techniques for large-sized single crystal 2D materials, with focus on the excavation and exploration of mechanisms and techniques. Specific research directions include:

1. Preparation of large-sized single crystal metal foil, while providing a rich substrate system for the preparation of 2D single crystals;

2. Epitaxial growth of 2D single crystals, focusing on the nucleation and epitaxial mechanism, to develop preparation techniques for large-size 2D single crystals;

3. Preparation of novel 2D materials, focusing on growth mechanisms and the exploration of new techniques;

Education Background

2015.09 – 2019.06, Peking University, Condensed matter physics, Ph.D

2012.09 – 2014.07, KULeuven, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, M.S.

2008.09 – 2012.06, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Materials science and engineering, B.S.

Work Experience

2023.04 – present, Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, USTB, Beijing, P. R. China

2021.07 – 2023.03, associate professors, The Institute for Multidisciplinary Innovation, USTB, Beijing, P. R. China

Honors 

Publications

1.  Muhong Wu^#, Zhibin Zhang^#, Xiaozhi Xu^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Yunrui Duan, Jichen Dong, Ruixi Qiao, Sifan You, Li Wang, Jiajie Qi, Dingxin Zou, Nianze Shang, Yubo Yang, Hui Li, Lan Zhu, Junliang Sun, Haijun Yu, Peng Gao, Xuedong Bai, Ying Jiang, Zhu-Jun Wang, Feng Ding*, Dapeng Yu*, Enge Wang*, Kaihui Liu*. Seeded Growth of a Library of A4-size Single-crystal Copper Foils with Various High-index Facets. Nature 2020, 581, 406.

2. Zhihong Zhang^#, Xiaonan Yang#, Kaihui Liu, Rongming Wang*. Epitaxy of 2D materials toward single crystals, Advanced Science 2022, 9, 2105201.

3. Zhihong Zhang, Xiaozhi Xu, Ruixi Qiao, Junjiang Liu, Yuxia Feng, Zhibin Zhang, Peizhao Song, Muhong Wu, Lan Zhu, Xuelin Yang, Peng Gao, Lei Liu, Jie Xiong, Enge Wang, and Kaihui Liu*. Low-temperature Epitaxy of Transferable High-quality Pd(111) Films on Hybrid Graphene/Cu(111) Substrate. Nano Research 2019, 12, 271.

4. Zhihong Zhang^#, Xiaozhi Xu#, Lu Qiu, Shaoxin Wang, Tianwei Wu, Feng Ding, Hailin Peng, Kaihui Liu. The Way towards Ultrafast Growth of Single-Crystal Graphene on Copper. Advanced Science 2017, 4, 1700087.

5. Xingguang Li, Zhihong Zhang*, Zhibin Zhang, Jinzong Kou, Muhong Wu, Mengze Zhao, Ruixi Qiao, Zhiqiang Ding, Zhiqiang Zhang, Fang Liu, Xiaonan Yang, Dingxin Zou, Xinqiang Wang, Peng Gao, Ying Fu, Enge Wang*, Kaihui Liu*. Production of single-crystal Cu plates by electrodeposition on high-index Cu foils, Science Bulletin 2023, 68, 1611.

6. Huanyu Ye^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Rongming Wang*, Nucleation and Growth of Nanocrystals Investigated by In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy, Small 2023, 2303872, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202303872.

7. Xiaozhi Xu^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Jichen Dong, Ding Yi, Jingjing Niu, Muhong Wu, Li Lin, Rongkang Yin, Mingqiang Li, Jingyuan Zhou, Shaoxin Wang, Junliang Sun, Xiaojie Duan, Peng Gao, Ying Jiang, Xiaosong Wu, Hailin Peng, Rodney S Ruoff, Zhongfan Liu, Dapeng Yu, Enge Wang, Feng Ding, Kaihui Liu. Ultrafast epitaxial growth of metre-sized single-crystal graphene on industrial Cu foil. Science Bulletin 2017, 62, 1074.

8.  Dikui Zhou^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Yihan Zhu^#, Yiqun Xiao, Qingqing Ding, Luoyuan Ruan, Yiran Sun, Zhibin Zhang, Chongzhi Zhu, Zongping Chen, Yongjun Wu, Yuhui Huang, Guan Sheng, Jixue Li, Dapeng Yu, Enge Wang, Zhaohui Ren*, Xinhui Lu*, Kaihui Liu*, Gaorong Han*. Pattern-potential-guided growth of textured macromolecular films on graphene/high-index copper. Advanced Materials 2021, 33, 2006836.

9. Fang Liu^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Xin Rong, Ye Yu, Tao Wang, Bowen Sheng, Jiaqi Wei, Siyuan Zhou, Xuelin Yang, Fujun Xu, Zhixin Qin, Yuantao Zhang*, Kaihui Liu*, Bo Shen, Xinqiang Wang*. Graphene‐Assisted Epitaxy of Nitrogen Lattice Polarity GaN Films on Non‐Polar Sapphire Substrates for Green Light Emitting Diodes. Advanced Functional Materials 2020, 30, 2001283.

10. Jianwei Wang^#, Zhihong Zhang^#, Shujie Wang^#, Ruifeng Zhang, Yi Guo, Gang Cheng, Yuzong Gu, Kaihui Liu*, Ke Chen*. Superstable copper nanowire network electrodes by single-crystal graphene covering and their applications in flexible nanogenerator and light-emitting diode. Nano Energy 2020, 71, 104638.

Patents

1. 张智宏，徐小志，刘开辉。大尺寸Cu(100)单晶铜箔的制备方法，专利号：ZL201610098625.5

2. 张智宏，徐小志，俞大鹏，王恩哥，刘开辉。一种快速连续制备大晶畴石墨烯薄膜的方法，专利号：ZL201610191702.1

3. 张智宏，徐小志，吴慕鸿，俞大鹏，王恩哥，刘开辉。超大尺寸多层单晶石墨烯和大尺寸单晶铜镍合金的制备方法，专利号：ZL201710028076.9

4.  徐小志，张智宏，刘开辉。一种氧化物衬底辅助的快速制备大尺寸单晶石墨烯的方法，专利号：ZL201510561590.X

5. 徐小志，张智宏，刘开辉。大尺寸Cu(111)单晶铜箔和超大尺寸单晶石墨烯的制备方法，专利号：ZL201610098623.6

6. 徐小志，张智宏，俞大鹏，王恩哥，刘开辉。一种连续制备大单晶石墨烯的方法，专利号：ZL201610193137.2

7. 徐小志，张智宏，吴慕鸿，俞大鹏，王恩哥，刘开辉。一种大尺寸单晶铜箔的制备方法，专利号：ZL201710020397.4

8. 吴慕鸿，张智宏，徐小志，俞大鹏，王恩哥，刘开辉。一种快速连续制备超大单晶薄膜的方法及装置，专利号：ZL201710278012.4

9.  刘开辉，张智宏，王恩哥，俞大鹏。一种基于单晶二维材料/单晶铜的垂直异质外延单晶金属薄膜的方法，专利号：ZL201910171877.

10. 杨学林，沈波，冯玉霞，张智宏，刘开辉，张洁，许福军，王新强，唐宁。一种在多晶或非晶衬底上生长单晶氮化镓薄膜的方法,专利号：ZL. 201810715485.0.

Research Funding

1.  Principal Investigator, Research on in-situ growth of two-dimensional van der Waals metal/tellurene heterojunction and high-mobility p-type electronic devices, Funded by Interdisciplinary Research Project for Young Teachers of USTB (Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, FRF-IDRY-22-016), 2023 -2024

2. Principal Investigator, Controllable epitaxial growth of large-size single-crystal graphene/MoS2 van der Waals heterostructure, Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52202161), 2023-2025

3. Principal Investigator, Precision manufacturing of two-dimensional single crystal materials with surface and interface regulation, funded by the special talent fund of University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2021-2024.

4. Principal Investigator, Research on the preparation and application of double-layer graphene single crystal, funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020T130023), 2020-2021

5. Principal Investigator, Preparation of single crystal nickel foil and epitaxial growth of two-dimensional materials, funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M660282), 2019-2020

Professional Activities

1. Young editorial board of Rare Metals, since 2023.07

2. Director assistant of Interdisciplinary Institute of Light-Element Quantum Materials, since 2021.