Zhouxiangfeng

PH.D. Physics Dept. of Nanjing University, China, 09/01/2004-06/30/2009B. S. Physics Dept. of Hunan Normal University, China, 09/01/1997-06/30/2001

Teaching assistant, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China, 07/01/2001-06/30/2004 Postdoc, Nankai University, China, 07/01/2009-12/01/2011Associate professor, Nankai University, China, 12/31/2011-12/31/2014Full professor, Nankai University, China, 12/31/2014-Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States, 07/25/2012-01/31/2014Postdoc, Stony Brook University, United States, 02/01/2014-12/31/2015

Research Interests
Superhard Materials; Hydrogen Storage Materials; Surface; First-Principle  Calculations; High-Pressure Physics

2016            The National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11674176).
2014            Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University.
2012            Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-12-0278).
2011            The National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11174152).
2011            Special Postdoctoral Foundation of China (Grant No. 201104302).
2011            Open Project Program of State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology (Grant No. 201106).
2009            The Postdoctoral  Science Fundation of China (Grant No. 20090460685).
2008            Excellent Student Scholarship.
2007            Science Foundation of Nanjing University for Excellent Ph.D students.

Recent Relevant  Publications (* Corresponding authors)

1.  X. L. He, X. J. Weng, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhao, Z. Wang, B. Xu, A. R. Oganov, Y. Tian, X. F. Zhou*, and H. T. Wang, “Two-dimensional boron on Pb (110) surface”

FlatChem (2017)

Invited paper for the special issue of 2D boron:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flatc.2017.07.003

2. X. Dong, A. R. Oganov*, A. F. Goncharov, E. Stavrou,S. Lobanov, G. Saleh, G. R. Qian, Q. Zhu, C. Gatti, V. L. Deringer, R. Dronskowski, X. F. Zhou*, V. B. Prakapenka, Z. Konopková, I. A. Popov, A. I. Boldyrev, and H. T. Wang*, “A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure”

Nat. Chem. 9, 440 (2017). (pdf-file)

Highlighted by Physorg.com, Nature Chemistry, and Sciencenet

3. A. J. Mannix, X. F. Zhou, B. Kiraly, J. D. Wood, D. Alducin, B. D. Myers, X. Liu, B. L. Fisher, U. Santiago, J. R. Guest, M. J. Yacaman, A. Ponce, A. R. Oganov*, M. C. Hersam*, and N. P. Guisinger*, “Synthesis of borophenes: anisotropic, two-dimensional boron polymorphs”
Science 350, 1513 (2015).(pdf-file)

Highlighted by Nature, Science, ScienceDaily, and Physorg.com

4. X. F. Zhou* and H. T. Wang, “Low-dimensional boron: searching for Dirac materials”
Advances in Physics: X 1,  412 (2016). (pdf-file)

Invited paper for the short review Low-dimensional boron: searching for Dirac materials

5. X. F. Zhou*, A. R. Oganov, Z. Wang, I. A. Popov, A. I. Boldyrev, and H. T. Wang, “Two-dimensional magnetic boron”
Phys. Rev. B 93, 085406 (2016). (pdf-file)

6. X. F. Zhou*, A. R. Oganov, X. Shao, Q. Zhu, and H. T. Wang, “Unexpected reconstruction of the α-boron (111) surface”
Phys. Rev. Lett.113, 176101 (2014). (pdf-file)

 Highlighted by ScienceDaily and The Statesman

7. X. F. Zhou*,  X. Dong, A. R. Oganov, Q. Zhu, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang, “Semimetallic two-dimensional boron allotrope with massless Dirac fermions”
Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 085502 (2014).(pdf-file)

  Highlighted by Physicsworld, ScienceDaily, and Physorg.com

8. X. F. Zhou*,  A. R. Oganov, G. R. Qian, and Q. Zhu, “First-principles determination of the structure of magnesium borohydride”
Phys. Rev. Lett.109, 245503 (2012). (pdf-file)

  Highlighted by ScienceDaily with 'Researchers Re-Establish the Structure of Magnesium Borohydride', and Physorg.com

9. X. F. Zhou,  X. Dong, Z. Zhao, A. R. Oganov, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “High-pressure phases of NaAlH4 from first principles”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 061905 (2012). (pdf-file)

10. X. F. Zhou*, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang, “Large shear strength enhancement of g-boron under normal compression”
J. Superhard Mater. 33, 401 (2011). (pdf-file)

  Invited paper for the special issue of Boron and boron-rich solids: to 5 years of discovery of g-boron

11. X. F. Zhou,  A. R. Oganov, X. Dong, L. Zhang, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “Superconducting high pressure phase of platinum hydride from first principles”
Phys.  Rev. B 84, 054543 (2011). (pdf-file)

12. X. F. Zhou,  G. R. Qian, X. Dong, L. Zhang, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “Ab initio study of the formation of transparent carbon under pressure”
Phys.  Rev. B 82, 134126 (2010). (pdf-file)

  Highlighted by Physical Review Focus, NewScientist, ScientificAmerican, and Physorg.com

13. X. F. Zhou, X. Dong, G. R. Qian, L. Zhang, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “Unusual compression behavior of TiO2 polymorphs from first principles”
Phys.  Rev. B 82, 060102 (R) (2010). (pdf-file)

14. X. F. Zhou, G. R. Qian, J. Zhou, B. Xu, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “Crystal  structure and stability of magnesium borohydride from first principles”
Phys.  Rev. B 79, 212102 (2009). (pdf-file)

15. X. F. Zhou, J. Sun, G. R. Qian, X. Guo, Z. Liu, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*, “A  tetragonal phase of superhard BC2N”
J. Appl. Phys. 105, 093521 (2009). (pdf-file)

16. X. F. Zhou, J. Sun, Y. X. Fan, J. Chen, H. T. Wang*, X. Guo, J. He, and Y. Tian, “Most  likely phase of superhard BC2N by  ab initio calculations”
Phys.  Rev. B 76, 100101 (R) (2007). (pdf-file)

17. X. F. Zhou, G. R. Qian, J. Sun, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang, “Raman model predicting  hardness of covalent crystals”
   arXiv: 0912.4942 (pdf-file)

18. K. Luo, Z. Zhao*, M. Ma, S. Zhang, X. Yuan, G. Gao, X. F. Zhou, J. He, D. Yu, Z. Liu, B. Xu*, and Y. Tian, “Si10: A sp3 Silicon Allotrope with Spirally Connected Si5 Tetrahedrons”
Chem. Mater. 28. 6441 (2016). (pdf-file)

19. H. Wang*, Q. Li*, Y. Gao, F. Miao, X. F. Zhou, and X. G. Wan, “Strain effects on borophene: ideal strength, negative Possion's ratio and phonon instability”
New J. Phys. 18. 073016 (2016). (pdf-file)

20. H. Dong*, A. R. Oganov, Q. Wang, S. N. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Zhang, M. D. Esfahani, X. F. Zhou, F. Wu, and Q. Zhu, “Prediction of a new ground state of superhard compound B6O at ambient conditions”
Sci. Rep. 6, 31288 (2016). (pdf-file)

21. Q. Zhu*, A. R. Oganov, Q. F. Zeng, and X. F. Zhou,  “Structure prediction and its applications in computational materials design”
Chem. Model. 12. 219 (2016). (pdf-file)

  Book chapter published by The Royal Society of Chemistry

22. D. Li*, A. R. Oganov, X. Dong, X. F. Zhou, Q. Zhu, G. R. Qian, and H. Dong,  “Nitrogen oxides under pressure: stability, ionization, polymerization, and superconductivity”
Sci. Rep. 5, 16311 (2015). (pdf-file)

23. M. S. Rakitin*, A. R. Oganov*, H. Niu, M. D. Esfahani, X. F. Zhou, G. R. Qian, and V. L. Solozhenko,  “A novel phase of beryllium fluoride at high pressure”
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.17, 26283 (2015). (pdf-file)

24. Z. Wang*, X. F. Zhou, X. Zhang, Q. Zhu, H. Dong, M. Zhao*, and A. R. Oganov*, “Phagraphene: A Low-Energy Graphene Allotrope Composed of 5-6-7 Carbon Rings with Distorted Dirac Cones”
Nano Lett. 15, 6182 (2015). (pdf-file)

  Highlighted by ScienceDaily, and Chemeurope

25. Q. Wang*, A. R. Oganov, Q. Zhu, and X. F. Zhou, “New reconstructions of the (110) surface of rutile TiO2 predicted by an evolutionary method”
Phys. Rev. Lett.113, 266101 (2014). (pdf-file)

26. Q. Zhu, A. R. Oganov*, and X. F. Zhou, “Crystal Structure Prediction and Its Application in Earth and Materials Sciences”
Top Curr Chem (2014). (pdf-file)

  Book chapter published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg

27. G. R. Qian*, X. Dong, X. F. Zhou, Y. Tian, A. R. Oganov, and H. T. Wang*, “Variable cell nudged elastic band method for studying solid-solid structural phase transitions”
Comput. Phys. Commun. 184, 2111 (2013). (pdf-file)

28. X. Dong, X. F. Zhou, G. R. Qian, Z. Zhao, Y. Tian, and H. T. Wang*,  “An ab initio study on the transition paths from graphite to diamond under pressure”
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 25, 145402 (2013). (pdf-file)

29. Z. Zhao, X. F. Zhou, M. Hu, D. Yu, J. He, H. T. Wang, Y. Tian, and B. Xu*, “High Pressure Behaviors of Carbon Nanotubes”
J. Superhard Mater.34, 371 (2012). (pdf-file)

30. Y. Feng, F. Li, Z. Hu, X. Luo, L. Zhang*, X. F. Zhou, H. T. Wang, J. J. Xu, and E. G. Wang,“Tuning the catalytic property of nitrogen-doped graphene for cathode oxygen reduction reaction”
Phys.  Rev. B 85, 155454 (2012). (pdf-file)

31. Z. Zhao, B. Xu, X. F. Zhou,  L. M. Wang, B. Wen, J. He, Z. Liu, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*,“Novel superhard carbon: C-centered orthorhombic C8”
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215502 (2011). (pdf-file)

  Highlighted by Physorg.com

32. Z. Zhao, B. Xu, L. M. Wang, X. F. Zhou, J. He, Z. Liu, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*,“Three Dimensional Carbon-Nanotube Polymers”
ACS Nano 5, 7226 (2011). (pdf-file)

   Highlighted by NPG Asia Materials

33. Z. Zhao, X. F. Zhou, L. M. Wang, B. Xu, J. He, Z. Liu, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*, “Universal Phase Transitions of B1-Structured Stoichiometric Transition Metal Carbides,”
Inorg. Chem. 50, 9266 (2011). (pdf-file)

34. L. Zhang*, X. F. Zhou,  H. T. Wang, J. J. Xu, J. Li, E. G. Wang, and S. H. Wei, “Origin of insulating behavior of the p-type LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface: Polarization-induced asymmetric distribution of oxygen vacancies   ”
Phys.  Rev. B 82, 125412 (2010). (pdf-file)

35. Z. Liu, X. Han, D. Yu, Y. Sun, B. Xu, X. F. Zhou, J. He, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*, “Formation, structure, and electric property of CaB4 single crystal synthesized under high pressure”
   Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 031903 (2010). (pdf-file)

36. Z. Zhao, L. Cui, L. M. Wang, B. Xu, Z. Liu, D. Yu, J. He, X. F. Zhou, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*, “Bulk Re2C: Crystal Structure, Hardness, and Ultra-incompressibility”
   Cryst. Growth Des. 10, 5024 (2010). (pdf-file)

37. X.  Luo, X. F. Zhou, Z. Liu, J. He, B. Xu, D. Yu, H. T. Wang, and Y. Tian*, “Refined  crystal structure and mechanical properties of superhard BC4N  crystal: first-principles calculations”
J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 9516 (2008). (pdf-file)

38. J. Sun, X. F. Zhou, J. Chen, Y. X. Fan, H. T. Wang*, X. Guo, J.  He, and Y. Tian, “Infrared and Raman spectra of b-BC2N from  first-principles calculations”
Phys.  Rev. B 74, 193101 (2006). (pdf-file)

39. J. Sun, X. F. Zhou, G. R. Qian, J. Chen, Y. X. Fan, H. T. Wang*, X.  Guo, J. He, Z. Liu, and Y. Tian, “Chalcopyrite polymorph for superhard  BC2N”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 151911 (2006). (pdf-file)

40. J. Sun, X. F. Zhou, Y. X. Fan, J. Chen, H. T. Wang*, X. Guo, J.  He, and Y. Tian, “First-principles study of electronic structure and optical  properties of heterodiamond BC2N”
Phys. Rev. B 73, 045108  (2006). (pdf-file)