Zhu Mingwei

Zhu Mingwei

Associate professor

Address: Rm. A401, Tang Zhongying Building, Gulou Campus, Nanjing University (NJU).

Tel.: 025-83594317

Email： mwzhu@nju.edu.cn

Lab Homepage: natureinvent.nju.edu.cn

Research Areas:

Ecological energy materials; metamaterials; artificial microstructure materials; green preparation and application

Course:

Optoelectronic Technology

Profile:

Zhu Mingwei is an associate professor at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, NJU and the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures (NLSSM). He received his Ph.D. in materials science in 2004 from Zhejiang University. He conducted his post-doctoral research at NLSSM, NJU, from 2004 to 2006 and has been continuing his research at NLSSM and lecturing at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2007. In 2015 and 2016, he visited and conducted research at University of Maryland, USA.

Zhu has published over 30 SCI papers in international top journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Energy Materials and some of his research achievements have extensive social and academic influences as they were reported by Nature, Nature Energy, Science Daily, Discover, Materials Today, Scientific American, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, CCTV, Xinhuanet, and Global Science. He holds 12 Chinese invention patents and 5 American patents

Major Research Interests:

Functions and properties of green, recyclable, high-performance new artificial microstructure materials with natural materials as their functional elements for their artificial design, manipulation and development; their application to areas of environmental, energy, detection, and sensing studies.

Research Projects:

Zhu has taken charge of two projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and one of Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation and was a key participant in two sub-projects of the National Key Basic Research Project (the 973 Project).

Research Achievements:

Articles（# equal contributor）:

[1]Song, J. W., Chen, C. J., Zhu, S. Z., Zhu, M. W.,# Dai, J. Q., Ray, U., Li, Y. J., Kuang, Y. D., Li, Y. F., Quispe, N., Yao, Y. G., Gong, A., Leiste, U. H., Bruck, H. A., Zhu, J. Y., Vellore, A., Li. H., Minus, M., Jia, Z., Martini, A., Li, T., & Hu, L. B. (2018). A general strategy for processing wood into super strong and tough structural materials. Nature, 554, 224.

[2] Zhu, M. W., Li, Y. J., Chen, G., Jiang, F., Yang, Z., Luo, X. G., Wang, Y. B., Lacey, S. D., Dai, J. Q., Wang, C. W., Jia, C., Wan, J. Y., Yao, Y. G., Gong, A., Yang, B., Yu, Z. F., Das, S., & Hu, L. B. (2017). Tree-inspired design for high-efficiency water extraction. Advanced Materials, 29, 1704107.

[3]Zhu, M. W., Wang, Y. L., Zhu, S. Z., Xu, L. S., Jia, C., Song, J. W., Yao, Y. G., Wang, Y. B., Li, Y. F., Henderson, D., Luo, W., Li, H., Minus, M. L., Li, T., & Hu, L. B. (2017). Anisotropic, transparent films with aligned cellulose nanofibers. Advanced Materials, 29, 1606284.

[4]Zhu, M. W., Li, Y. J., Chen, F. J., Zhu, X. Y., Dai, J. Q., Li, Y. F., Yang, Z., Yan, X. J., Song, J. W., Wang, Y. B., Hitz, E., Luo, W., Lu, M. H., Yang, B., & Hu, L. B. (2017). Plasmonic wood for high-efficiency solar steam generation. Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1701028.

[5]Chen, F. J., Gong, A. S., Zhu, M. W., Chen, G., Lacey, S. D., Jiang, F., Li, Y. F., Wang, Y. B., Dai, J. Q., Yao, Y. G., Song, J. W., Liu, B. Y., Fu, K., Das, S., & Hu, L. B. (2017). Mesoporous, three-dimensional wood membrane decorated with nanoparticles for highly efficient water treatment. ACS Nano, 11(4), 4275-4282.

[6]Zhu, M. W., Song, J. W., Li, T., Gong, A., Wang, Y. B., Dai, J. Q., Yao, Y. G., Luo, W., Henderson, D., & Hu, L. B. (2016). Highly anisotropic, highly transparent wood composites. Advanced Materials, 28(26), 5181-5187.

[7] Zhu, M. W., Li, T., Davis, C. S., Yao, Y. G., Dai, J. Q., Wang, Y. B., AlQarati, F., Gilman, J. W., & Hu, L. B. (2016). Transparent and haze wood composites for highly efficient broadband light management in solar cells. Nano Energy, 26, 332.

[8] Li, T., Zhu, M. W.,# Yang, Z., Song, Jianwei, Dai, J. Q., Yao, Y. G., Luo, W., Pastel, G., Yang, B., & Hu, L. B. (2016). Wood composite as an energy efficient building material: guided sunlight transmittance and effective thermal insulation. Advanced Energy Materials, 6, 1601122.