Professor Sam Zhang, President, Thin Films Society; Editor, CRC Materials Book Series
Editor-in-Chief, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters ; Principal Editor, JMR

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Sam's Current Research Centers In the Following Four Areas:

  • Hard yet tough nanocomposite coatings for tribological applications by physical vapor deposition ; Measurement of fracture toughness of cerammic films and coatings.
  • Biological Coatings and Drug Delivery Applications: Sol-Gel synthesis of hydroxyapatite coating on titanium alloys for biomedical applications; bioMEMS; Controlled drug release.
  • Electronic Thin Films in optoelectronic applications, data storage, etc.
  • Energy Films and Coatings for dye sensitized solar cells and solid oxide fuel cells.

    • Collaborating Professors/Researchers:


    Click for staff member's hompage RAWAT Rajdeep Singh: Thin Films in Microelectronics (National Institute of Education) Click for staff member's hompage CHEN Tupei: Electronics Thin Films and Devices (School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
    Click for staff member's hompage LI Bo: Thin films (Central Iron and Steel Research Institute) Click for staff member's hompage ZHAO Dongliang: Functional Coatings (Central Iron and Steel Research Institute)

    Research staff

    PhD students

    Click for staff member's hompage ILYAS Usman (Advisor : RAWAT Rajdeep Singh; ZHANG Sam) Thin Films in Microelectronics Click for staff member's hompage LI Xiaodong (Advisor : CHEN Tupei; ZHANG Sam) Surface plasmon enhanced silicon solar cell based on metal nanoparticles
    Click for staff member's hompage DING Hui (Advisor : ZHANG Sam) Energy Thin Films Click for staff member's hompage DU Zhaofu (Advisor : Zhao Dongliang; ZHANG Sam) Nanocomposite coatings
    Click for staff member's hompage QIU Yuexiu (Advisor : Li Bo; ZHANG Sam) Self-lubricating nanocomposite coatings for high speed machining Click for staff member's hompage WANG Ming (Advisor : Zhao Dongliang; ZHANG Sam) DSSC
    Click for staff member's hompage WANG Xiaoyan (Advisor : ZHANG Sam) High-Aspect-Ratio Anodic TiO2 Nanotube Arrays with Small Diameter for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Click for staff member's hompage LI Fengji (Advisor : ZHANG Sam) Mechanism of in-situ CNT toughening of hard Nanocomposite coatings
    Click for staff member's hompage WANG Yuxi (Advisor : ZHANG Sam) Toughening of Si-doped CrAlN hard coatings

    Master of Engineering Students

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