Zhiping Xu

Postdoctoral Associate

xuzp@MIT.EDU
Office: 1-174
Phone number: 617-452-3395
Fax: 617-324-4014

Research Focus

My interests focus on the mechanics and physics of nano/bio-materials, by utilzing a bottom-up computer simulation approach. I have been working on mechanical and electronic properties of carbon based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene. My current project focuses on on bio-inspired thermal materials, which has broad impacts on both engineering applications (e.g. thermal management, thermo-electrics) and basic physics (e.g. energy transfer process in protein, DNA and hybrid nano-inorganic materials). My work is aimed to design synthetic hierarchical structures for engineering use, with use of nano-materials that feature outstanding structural, electronic and most importantly, thermal properties.

Education

2008-now		Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
2007 - 2008:		Postdoctoral researcher, Department of mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University
2002 - 2007		Ph. D at Department of Engineering Mechanics Tsinghua University
1998 - 2002		Undergraduate at Department of Engineering Mechanics Tsinghua University

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Publications

Z. Xu, "Graphene nanoribbon under tension", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (in press), 2008
L. Ci, Z. Xu, L. Wang, W. Gao, F. Ding, B. I. Yakobson, P. M. Ajayan, "Nanocutting of graphene", Nano Reseach Vol. 1, paper number 116, 2008.
Z. Xu, L. Wang and Q. Zheng, "Condensed multiwalled carbon nanotubes as super fibers", Small Vol. 4, paper number 733, 2008
Z. Xu, Q. Zheng, Q. Jiang, C. Ma, Y. Zhao, G. Chen, H. Gao and G. Ren, "Transphonon effects in ultrafast nanodevices", Nanotechnology Vol. 19, paper number 255705, 2008
Z. Xu, "Energy dissipation in the double-walled carbon nanotube based mechanical oscillators", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Vol. 5, paper number 655, 2008
Z. Xu, Q. Zheng and G. Chen, "Thermally driven large-amplitude fluctuations in carbon-nanotube-based devices", Physical Review B Vol. 75, paper number 195445, 2007
Z. Xu, Q. Zheng and G. Chen, "Elementary building blocks of graphene-nanoribbon-based electronic devices", Applied Physics Letters Vol. 90, paper number 223115, 2007
Y. Zhao, C. Ma, L. Wong, G. Chen, Z. Xu, Q. Zheng, Q. Jiang and A. T. Chwang, "Quansi-reversible energy flows in carbon-nanotube-based oscillators", Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Vol. 3, paper number 1, 2006
Y. Zhao, C. Ma, L. Wong, G. Chen, Z. Xu, Q. Zheng, Q. Jiang and A. T. Chwang, "Energy exchanges in carbon nanotube oscillators", Nanotechnology Vol. 17, paper number 1032, 2006
Q. Xia, D. Wei, Z. Xu and Q. Zheng, "Estimate of effective properties of metal particle tape based on micromechanics", Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Vol. 28, paper number 323, 2006
Z. Xu, L. Wang and Q. Zheng, "Mechanics of carbon nanotubes", Advances in Mechanics Vol. 34, paper number 97, 2004

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