Team leader
Prof. Tao Zhang, Ph. D., Ph. D. supervisor, Group leader of Interface-Functional Polymer Materials (iFPM).
Prof. Tao Zhang has studied and worked in Sichuan University, Dresden University of Technology, Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, and Dresden Advanced Electronic Devices Research Center (cfaed) . He is currently a professor at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Egneering, CAS, the head of the interface functional polymer materials team, and the overseas high-level talent of CAS and Zhejiang Province. Prof. Tao Zhang commit to the design and synthesis of new materials of two-dimensional conjugated polymers and the basic research on the application of marine functional materials. He has published more than 60 papers in Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., ACS Macro Lett., etc., of which were cited more than 4000 times. He has won the third prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Federation of Light Industry, SASTIP of the Dresden University of Technology , cfaed INSPIRE grant，leading talent of Ningbo and other awards. He leads several key projects such as the Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zhejiang Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists, Ningbo "3315" Innovation Team, etc. At the same time, Tao Zhang also serves as a youth editorial board of Chin. Chem. Lett. (Elsevier Publishing Group, IF 8.46) and a guest editor of Polymers (MPDI Publishing Group, IF 4.91).
Research Interests
Controllable polymerization of surface and interface; Two-dimensional polymer (including COF and MOF); polymer brush; porous polymer film; marine functional polymer material.
Enrollment majors
070305-Polymer Chemistry and Physics-Functional and High Performance Polymers
080501-Material Physics and Chemistry-Surface and Interface Chemistry and Physics
Work Experience
2015. 10-2015. 12, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dresden University of Technology, Prof. Rainer Jordan
2016. 01-2019. 12, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dresden Advanced Electronic Devices Research Center (cfaed), Prof. Xinliang Feng
2018. 08-2018. 11, Visiting scientist, University of Cambridge, Prof. Henning Sirringhaus
2020. 01-To date, Team leader of the iFPM, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, CAS
Education
2004. 09-2008. 07, Sichuan University, B.S.
2008. 09-2011. 07, Sichuan University, M.Sc., Prof. Wuyong Chen
2011. 10-2015. 10, Dresden University of Technology, Ph.D., Prof. Rainer Jordan
Representative papers
1. Tao Zhang#, Haoyuan Qi#, Zhongquan Liao#, Yehu David Horev, Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz, Petko St Petkov, Zhe Zhang, Rishi Shivhare, Panpan Zhang, Kejun Liu, Viktor Bezugly, Shaohua Liu, Zhikun Zheng, Stefan Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Hossam Haick, Ehrenfried Zschech, Ute Kaiser, Renhao Dong, Xinliang Feng*, Engineering crystalline quasi-two-dimensional polyaniline thin film with enhanced electrical and chemiresistive sensing performances, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 4225;
2. Tao Zhang*, Edmondo M Benetti*, Rainer Jordan*, Surface-initiated Cu(0)-mediated CRP for the rapid and controlled synthesis of quasi-3D structured polymer brushes, ACS Macro Letters 2019, 8, 145-153;
3. Tao Zhang#, Yang Hou#, Volodymyr Dzhagan, Zhongquan Liao, Guoliang Chai, Markus Löffler, Davide Olianas, Alberto Milani, Shunqi Xu, Matteo Tommasini, Dietrich RT Zahn, Zhikun Zheng, Ehrenfried Zschech, Rainer Jordan, Xinliang Feng*, Copper-surface-mediated synthesis of acetylenic carbon-rich nanofibers for active metal-free photocathodes, Nature Communications 2018, 9, 1140,;
4. Yunjiao Che, Tao Zhang*, Yunhao Du, Ihsan Amin, Claudia Marschelke, Rainer Jordan*, "On Water" Surface-initiated Polymerization of Hydrophobic Monomers, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018, 57, 16380-16384;
5. Tao Zhang*, Zhongquan Liao, Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, Arezoo Dianat, Xiaoling Liu, Peng Xiao, Ihsan Amin, Rafael Gutierrez, Tao Chen, Ehrenfried Zschech, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Rainer Jordan*, Polymerization driven monomer passage through monolayer chemical vapour deposition graphene, Nature Communications 2018, 9, 4051.
E-mail: tzhang@nimte.ac.cn
TEL: 0574-86652961