Personal Profile
Dr. Zhao-Long Chen is an Assistant Professor and PhD supervisor at the School of Advanced Materials, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. He has published dozens of papers in top journals such as Nat. Mater., Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., and Adv. Mater. His work has been cited over 4,000 times with an H-index of 35, and he holds more than 10 Chinese patents.
His research has been featured by renowned media like Phys. Org, Compound Semiconductor, Semiconductor Today, and Science Net. He also serves as a reviewer for journals such as Nat. Rev. Mater. and Nat. Commun.
Education Background
2014–2019: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (Supervisor: Academician Zhongfan Liu)
2010–2014: B.Sc. in Chemistry, Tai Shan College, Shandong University
Work Experience
2024–Present: Distinguished Research Fellow, College of New Materials, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
2019–2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Institute of Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore (Co-supervisor: Professor Konstantin Novoselov)
Research Interests
Our group is dedicated to using artificial intelligence to develop new methods for the synthesis and preparation of low-dimensional nanomaterials and to explore the transformative applications of nanotechnology. The specific research directions are as follows:
(1) Controllable preparation of carbon materials;
(2) Wafer-scale preparation of low-dimensional materials and functional devices;
(3) Heterogeneous integration technology based on two-dimensional materials.
Publications
1. Xiang Lan#, Fen Zhang#, Ziwei Huang#, Xuyang Zhang, Zhaolong Chen*, Mianzeng Zhong*, Yingliang Chengv, Zhengwei Zhang* Universal production of anisotropic bilayer WSe2 nanoscrolls for high-performance photodetector. 2D Mater. 2025, 12 015009
2. Zhizhan Qiu#, Yixuan Han#, Keian Noori#, Zhaolong Chen#, Mikhail Kashchenko#, Li Lin, Thomas Olsen, Jing Li, Hanyan Fang, Pin Lyu, Mykola Telychko, Xingyu Gu, Shaffique Adam, Su Ying Quek, Aleksandr Rodin, AH Castro Neto, Kostya S Novoselov*, Jiong Lu* Evidence for electron–hole crystals in a Mott insulator. Nat. Mater. 2024, 23, 1055–1062.
3. Zhaolong Chen, Chunyu Xie, Wendong Wang, Jinpei Zhao, Bingyao Liu, Jingyuan Shan, Xueyan Wang, Min Hong, Li Lin, Li Huang, Xiao Lin, Shenyuan Yang*, Xuan Gao, Yanfeng Zhang*, Peng Gao*, Kostya S. Novoselov*, Jingyu Sun*, and Zhongfan Liu*. Direct growth of wafer-scale highly-oriented graphene on sapphire. Sci. Adv. 2021, 7, eabk0115.
4. Zhaolong Chen#,Kou Yang#, Tongfeng Xian, Coskun Kocabas, Sergei V Morozov, Antonio H Castro Neto, Kostya S. Novoselov, Daria V Andreeva,* and Maciej Kopersk* Electrically Controlled Thermal Radiation from Reduced Graphene Oxide Membranes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 23, 27278–27283.
5. 陈召龙，高鹏，刘忠范.新型石墨烯基LED器件器件：从生长机理到器件特性.物化学报. 2020, 35 (X), 0001–0009.
6. Zhaolong Chen#, Hongliang Chang#, Ting Cheng#, Tongbo Wei,* Ruoyu Wang, Shenyuan Yang, Zhipeng Dou, Bingyao Liu, Shishu Zhang, Yadian Xie, Zhiqiang Liu, Yanfeng Zhang, Jinmin Li, Feng Ding,* Peng Gao,* and Zhongfan Liu* Direct growth of nano-patterned graphene on sapphire and its application in light emitting diodes. Adv. Func. Mater. 2020, 2001483. (Frontispiece)
7. Zhaolong Chen#, Zhiqiang Liu#, Tongbo Wei*, Shenyuan Yang, Zhipeng Dou, Yunyu Wang, Hongliang Chang, Haina Ci, Yue Qi, Junxi Wang, Yanfeng Zhang, Peng Gao*, Jinmin Li*, and Zhongfan Liu*. Improved Epitaxy of AlN Film for Deep Ultraviolet Light-emitting Diodes Enabled by Graphene. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1807345.
8. Zhaolong Chen#, Yue Qi#, Xu-dong Chen, Yanfeng Zhang, and Zhongfan Liu*. Direct CVD Growth of Graphene on Traditional Glass: Methods and Mechanisms. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1803639.
9. Zhipeng Dou#,Zhaolong Chen#, Ning Li, Shenyuan Yang*, Zhiwei Yu, Yuanwei Sun, Yuehui Li, Bingyao Liu, Qiang Luo, Tianbao Ma, Lei Liao*, Zhongfan Liu, and Peng Gao* Atomic mechanism of strong interactions at the graphene/sapphire interface. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5013.
10. Zhaolong Chen#, Xiang Zhang#, Zhipeng Dou#, Tongbo Wei,* Zhiqiang Liu, Yue Qi, Haina Ci, Yunyu Wang, Yang Li, Hongliang Chang, Jianchang Yan, Shenyuan Yang, Yanfeng Zhang, Junxi Wang, Peng Gao,* Jinmin Li,* and Zhongfan Liu*. High-Brightness Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Enabled by a Directly Grown Graphene Buffer Layer. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1801608.
Message to Prospective Students
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