CURRICULUM VITAE ChuanFang Zhang (John CF Nash) - Drexel ...

John C.F. Zhang (Chuanfang Zhang)
Ph. D candidate, research stuff, A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
Department of Materials Sci. & Eng., Drexel University, USA
3141 Chestnut Street, Alum 175, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: +1 (215)-858-6887 (US)
Email: cz334@drexel.edu ruoshuang123@gmail.com
Website: http://nano.materials.drexel.edu
East China Univ. of Sci. & Tec., Meilong Rd 130, Shanghai, China
Phone: +86-18817516745 (China), Email: ruoshuang@126.com
Education
! 2012.11-2014.11 Ph.D candidate: Materials Engineering Drexel University
Advisor: Prof. Yury Gogotsi
! 2011.9-2012.11 Ph.D candidate Materials Engineering ECUST
Advisor: Prof Wen M. Qiao
! 2009.9-2011.9 M. Sc. Chemical Engineering ECUST
Advisor: Prof. Shan X. Lu
Rank: The first place among PhD candidates
! 2005.9-2009.6 B. Sc. Chemical Engineering, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities
Advisor: Prof Liang Xian
Rank: First of grade for three years, graduated with honored
degree, selected as one of the best thesis
Professional Experiences
Teaching assistant, Department of MSE, Drexel University 2014.1-2014-4
" Thermodynamics of Solids, MATE 510, Core course in Materials Science and
Engineering
" Teaching the Factsage software for the thermodynamics calculation on class
" Assisting students on computational thermodynamics
" Formulating the mid-term exam and final exam sheet
" Tutoring the class on thermodynamics questions
" Grading on the reviews and homework of the entire class
Research stuff, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel 2012.11-2014.11
" Responsible researcher of Drexel-UCLA collaboration for U.S Department of
Energy/Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Program
(PI: Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Prof. Bruce Dunn)
" Researcher, U.S Department of Energy/Batteries for Advanced Transportation
Technologies (BATT) (PI: Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Prof. Michel, Barsoum)
Research assistant, Functional Carbon Materials Lab, ECUST 2011.9-2012.11
" Responsible Researcher supported by National Science Foundation of China
and Shanghai Pujiang Program
Lab Instructor, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel 2012.9-2014.11
" Instructor for other scientists visiting the lab
John C.F. Zhang

" Showing how to fabricate the electrodes, assemble the cell for Lehigh Univ.
" Coaching several undergraduates on how to fabricate electrodes
Lab Instructor, Functional Carbon Materials Lab, ECUST 2011.9-2012.11
" Experimental instructor for master student and younger Ph.D candidates
" Instructor for lab touring and technical visitingand learning
" Super-user of electrochemical equipments (Gamry, Arbin)
Teaching assistant, Department of Science, ECUST 2009.9-2011.7
" Teaching Math for undergraduate, grade, evaluation
" Arrange the coordination between other assistants and teachers
Expertise
! Materials preparation
" Hydrothermal preparation of metal oxide/carbon composites
" Sol-gel Emulsion polymerization of RF, PF, MF resins
" Chlorination and oxidation of layered carbides
" Synthesis of two-dimensional MXene
" Synthesis of two-dimensional metal oxide/carbon composites from MXene
! Materials characterization
" X-ray diffraction, particle size, d-space
" TGA, gas sorption, BET, NLDFT, t-plot, very familiar with Quadrasorb SI
analyser and micromerities 2020
" Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR analysis of carbon materials and functionalities
! Electrochemical characterization
" Various methods of electrode fabrication (cold rolling, coating,
electrospinning, vacuum filtration, and micropipette coating etc.)
" Various methods of cell assembling (coin cell, sandwich, Swagelok, soft
pack, in-series cells etc.)
" Extensive knowledge of electrochemical techniques (CVA, GCPL, EIS,
Linear sweep, OCV, chronopotentiometry etc.) and data analysis
" Extensive knowledge of various electrochemical equipments (Gamry, Arbin,
VMP3, MPG, Autolab, Land, CHI etc.)
! Super-user access
" Glove box of manual and automatic ones, swagelok, coin cell battery and
supercapacitor, electrode fabrication
" Potentialstats, galvanostats and Electrochemical Impedence Spectroscopy
Research Experiences
! Drexel University, Nov, 2012-Dec, 2014
" Hydrothermally deposited Nb 2 O 5 , MoO 3 onto CDC and graphene and
tested as pseudocapacitor electrode material in different electrolytes
" In-situ oxidation of two dimensional MXene and tested as electrode
material for pseudocapacitor and lithium-ion battery
" Emulsion polymerization of RF resins and activation of carbon spheres
" Electrospinning of PANi and PANi/MXene for lithium-ion battery electrode
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" Selectively electrochemical etching of MAX and MXene
" Carbon spheres tested in organic and RTIL for high energy density supercap
" MXene as lithium-ion battery anode materials
! East China University of Sci & Tec. Sep, 2011-Oct, 2012
" Hydrothermally deposited RuO 2 onto nitrogen-enriched mesoporous carbon
for pseudocapacitor material
" Electrochemically intercalation of low surface area graphitic carbons
" Electrochemically intercalation of different cations into LiMn 2 O 4
Manuscript reviewer and professional membership
" Reviewer: ACS Nano, Carbon
" Membership: Materials Research Society (MRS), The Electrochemical
Society (ECS)
Social experiences
! Drexel Research Day 2014, Philadelphia, PA Judge
" Grading the candidates’ research on three-dimensional printing technique
" Grading the candidate’s research on the metal defects using novel method
! 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA Symposium Assistant
" Coordinating with session chairs on the overall process of talks
" Technical problem shooting for the smooth of talks
" Communicate with speakers
! Drexel Research Day 2013, Philadelphia, PA Judge
" Novelty, expression and cutting-edge of candidates’ research
! 2011 Annual Conference on Carbon, Shanghai Deputy Secretary
" Operating the reception, check-in, instructor of touring around campus
" Symposium assistant of the sessions
" Responsible stuff of the program abstract
! 2010 World Exposition, Shanghai Group leader of volunteers
" Coordinated the schedule of volunteering work, tackled with the
emergencies
" Provided help for thousands of tourists from all over the world
! 2011 International students gathering in ECUST host, MC
" Host this influential annual gathering for international students
! 2011 ‘Start English’ club President
" Initiated the English club aim to improve the oral English of Chinese
graduates, undergraduates even postdocs
! 2009 John C.F. Zhang’s senior Math School President
" Initiated my math school aim to help the senior in math for the master
entrance exams
" Teaching the seniors math by myself, rent the classroom, blackboard
" Interviewed by the University post and appeared in the headlines
John C.F. Zhang

Publications
! C. Zhang, K. Hatzell, M. Boota, B. Dyatkin, M. Beidaghi, Donghui Long,
Wenming Qiao, E. C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi. Highly Porous Carbon Spheres for
Electrochemical Capacitors and Capacitive Flowable Suspension Electrodes,
Carbon (submitted)
! C. Zhang, R. Maloney, M. Beidaghi, M. Lukatskya, B. Dyatkin, E. Perre, D.
Long, W. Qiao, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, Synthesis of Nb 2 O 5 –carbide derived
carbon composite with layered structure for electrochemical pseudocapacitor,
Carbon (Prepared and ready to submit)
! C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, M. Lukatskya, K. Cook, R. Maloney, B.
Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, High crystallized Nb 2 O 5 -Carbon sheets with
two-dimensional layered structures for high performance supercapacitor,
Advanced Materials (Prepared)
! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, G. Sun, A. Pentecost, J. Wang, W. Qiao, L. Ling, D. Long,
Y. Gogotsi, Ion Intercalation Into Graphitic Carbon With a Low Surface Area
for High Energy Density Supercapacitors, Journal of Electrochemical Society
(Submitted)
! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, M. Zhao, A. Pentecost, Z. Ling, J. Wang, D. Long, L. Ling,
W. Qiao, Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrous
RuO 2 /Mesoporous Carbon Nanocomposites via Nitrogen Doping, ACS
Applied Materials & Interfaces (Submitted)
! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, J. Wang, A. Pentecost, D. Long, L. Ling, W. Qiao, Effect of
graphitic structure on electrochemical ion intercalation in supercapacitors,
Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Submitted)
! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, Z. Ling, D. Long, W. Qiao,
Y. Gogotsi, B. Dunn. In-situ oxidation of MXene to prepare transition metal
oxide/carbon composite (Nb 2 O 5 , TiO 2 ) with two dimensional structure for high
performance pseudocapacitor. In preparation
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! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, D. Long, W. Qiao, M.
Barsoum, Y. Gogotsi, B. Dunn. CO 2 oxidation of MXenes to prepare transition
metal oxide/carbon composites and used as anode in lithium-ion battery. In
preparation
! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, D. Long, W. Qiao, M.
Barsoum, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi. High performance of TiO 2 /Carbon composites
prepared from one-step oxidation of Ti 3 C 2 using as Li-ion battery anode. In
preparation
! M. Naguib, O. Mashtalir, M. Lukatskaya, B. Dyatkin, C. Zhang, V. Presser, Y.
Gogotsi, and M. Barsoum, One-Step Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Transition
Metal Oxide on Thin Sheets of Disordered Graphitic Carbon by Oxidation of
MXenes, Chemcomm, DOI: 10.1039/c0xx00000x
! X. Xiao, T. Q. Li, H. Y. Jin, Z. H. Peng, Q. P. Luo, C. Zhang, Y. Gogotsi, J.
Zhou, Freestanding Functionalized Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrode for
Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors, Nano Energy, (2014) 6, 1-9
! D. Ge, L. Yang, L. Fan, C. Zhang, X. Xiao, Y. Gogotsi, S. Yang, Foldable
paper-based supercapacitor electrodes from interpenetrating networks of
polyaniline nanoribbons and single-walled carbon nanotubes, Angewandte
Chemie (Prepared and ready to submit)
! X. Xiao, Z. Peng, C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, Z. Yang, B. Yao, T. Li, N. Wu, Q.
Luo, Y. Gogotsi, and J. Zhou, Binder-free MoO 3-x nanobelt/carbon nanotube
films as negative electrodes for Li + intercalation pseudocapacitors, Advanced
Materials (Submitted)
! L. P. Kong, C. Zhang, X. Bing, Y. Li, W. Qiao, D. Long, L. Ling. Active
edge-enriched orthorhombic Nb2O5 nanoparticles with a intercalaction
capacitance, in preparation
John C.F. Zhang

Conference Presentations and Posters
# R. P. Maloney, M. Beidaghi, J. C. Zhang, M. Lukatskaya, E. Perre, Y. Gogotsi,
B. Dunn, 2013 U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Storage Systems
Program, Peer Review and Update Meeting, San Diego, USA (Poster and Talk)
# J. C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, M. Lukatskya, K. Cook, R. Maloney, B.
Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, High crystallized Nb 2 O 5 -Carbon sheets with two-dimensional
layered structures for high performance supercapacitor, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting,
Boston, MA (Poster)
# John C.F. Zhang, Kelsey B. Hatzell, Muhammad Boota, Boris Dyatkin, Majid
Beidaghi, Emin C. Kumbur, Yury Gogotsi. Carbon Spheres: grape-like
nanomaterials for high performances supercapacitors, Books & Bagels
Conversations on Interdisciplinary Resaerch (invited talk)
# Majid Beidaghi, Chuanfang Zhang, Ryan Maloney, Bruce Dunn,
Yury Gogotsi. Three-Dimensional Structures of Nb 2 O 5 /Graphene As High Rate
Electrodes for Li-Ion Capacitors, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco,
California (Talk)
Honors and Awards
" Outstanding Presentation at Books & Bagels 2014
" Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for conducting research at Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, USA (From Nov, 2012 to Dec, 2014) 2012
" Excellent deputy secretary for Annual Conference on Carbon, ECUST 2011
" Grand Jury Prize for Graduate English Speaking Competiton 2012
" Excellent group leader in 2010 World Expo and Star Volunteers 2010
" Comprehensive courses credits 2010
" Best Graduates with the best thesis 2009
" Provincial second prize-College Students Scientific Innovation Competition 2009
" 2 nd place in English Speaking Competition in NW Univ for Nation. Twice 2007
" Excellent Prize in National English Comprehensive competition 2006
" National Scholarship, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities, 2006
" National Encouragement Scholarship, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities 2007
Languages
" English (Excellent and Proficient)
" Mandarin (Excellent and Proficient)
John C.F. Zhang

Volunteer and Community Service
" Organizing the 2011 Annual Conference on Carbon (Carbon 2011), Shanghai,
China, 2011
" Being a private English translator for the “Eye-cancer” families from China for
free
" Providing professional training for other PhD students on the electrochemical
setup, electrode fabrication etc.
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References
References are available upon request
John C.F. Zhang