Qiming Zhang

Qiming Zhang
Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
N-219 Millennium Science Complex
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-8994
qxz1@psu.edu

Research Interests:

Novel electronic materials, especially soft electronic materials and ferroelectric based materials, and their device applications
Electroactive polymers and nanocomposites for applications such as artificial muscles, sensors and actuators, energy storage and conversion, photonic and electro-optic, and electrocaloric solid state cooling devices.

Journal Articles and Publications:

Sheng Liu, Yang Liu, Hülya Cebeci, Roberto Guzmán de Villoria, Jun-Hong Lin, Brian L. Wardle and Q. M. Zhang. High Electromechanical Response of Ionic Polymer Actuators with Controlled-Morphology Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Nafion Nanocomposite Electrodes. Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, (2010).
Xin Zhou, Xuanhe Zhao, Zhigang Suo, Chen Zou, James Runt, Sheng Liu, Shihai Zhang, and Q. M. Zhang. Electrical Breakdown and Ultra-high Electrical Energy Density in P(VDF-HFP) Copolymer. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 162901(2009).
S. G. Lu,1 B. Rožič, Q. M. Zhang, Z. Kutnjak, Xinyu Li, E. Furman, Lee J. Gorny, Minren Lin, B. Malič, M. Kosec, R. Blinc, and R. Pirac. Organic and inorganic relaxor ferroelectrics with giant electrocaloric effect. Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 162904 (2010)
Zhao Feng, S. G. Lu, Q. M. Zhang, M. El Tahchi, Enhancing the magnetoelectric response of Metglas/PVDF laminates by exploiting the flux concentration effect. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 112903 (2009).
Sheng Liu, R. Montazami, Y. Liu, V. Jain, M. Lin, J. Heflin, and Q. M. Zhang, Layer-by-layer self-assembled conductor network composites in ionic polymer metal composite actuator with high strain response. Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 023505 (2009).
Kailiang Ren, Sheng Liu, Minren Lin, Yong Wang, and Q. M. Zhang, A Compact Electroactive Polymer Actuator Suitable for Refreshable Braille Display. Sensors and Actuators A143(2), 335 (2008).
Kailiang Ren, Yiming Liu, H. Hofmann, and Q. M. Zhang, An Active Energy Harvesting Scheme with An Electroactive Polymer. Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 132910 (2007).
Baojin Chu, Xin Zhou, Kailiang Ren, Bret Neese, Minren Lin, Qing Wang, F. Bauer, and Q. M. Zhang. A Dielectric Polymer with High Electric Energy Density and Fast Discharge Speed. Science 313, 334 (2006).
Q.Chen, M.R.Lin, J.E.Lee, Q.M.Zhang, and S.Yin, Nanocomposite with very large electro- optic effect and widely tunable refractive index. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 141121 (2006).
Bret Neese, Baojin Chu, Sheng-Guo Lu, Yong Wang, E. Furman, and Q. M. Zhang, Large Electrocaloric Effect in Ferroelectric Polymers Near Room Temperature. Science, 321, 821-823 (2008).
Feng Xia, Srinivas Tadigadapa and Q. M. Zhang. Electroactive Polymer Based Microfluidic Pump. Sensors &Actuators A125, 346 (2006).