Name:		Xiaodong Zhang
	Year of Birth:		1986
	Address:		Department of Chemistry, Lihua Building, University of Science and Technology of China, No. 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, China
	Tel:		0551-63606649
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	E-mail:		zhxid@ustc.edu.cn
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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2004.09 - 2008.07，B.S. (Material Chemistry) Degree, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University, China.
• 2008.09 - 2013.06, Ph. D. (Nano Chemistry), Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China.
• 2013.06-Present iChEM fellow, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Synthesis and functionality of two-dimensional semiconductors with atomic thickness

MAJOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2013 Presidential Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2013 Excellent graduates of University of Science and Technology of China
• 2012 National Scholarship for graduate students
• 2012 Qiushi graduate student scholarship, Qiushi Science and Technologies Foundation
• 2008 Excellent graduates of Anhui University

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Xiaodong Zhang and Yi Xie*, “Recent advances in free-standing two-dimensional crystals with atomic thickness: design, assembly and transfer strategies”Chem. Soc. Rev.，2013，42，8187.
2. Xiaodong Zhang，Jiajia Zhang，Jinyang Zhao，Bicai Pan，Mingguang Kong，Jing Chen and Yi Xie*, “Half-metallic ferromagnetism in synthetic Co9Se8 nanosheets with atomic thickness” J. Am. Chem. Soc.，2012，134，11908?11911.
3. Xiaodong Zhang，Xiao Xie，Hui Wang，Jiajia Zhang，Bicai Pan and Yi Xie*，“Enhanced photoresponsive ultrathin g-C3N4 nanosheets for bioimaging” J. Am. Chem. Soc.，2013，135，18-21.
4. Xiaodong Zhang, Jianguang Xu, Hui Wang, Jiajia Zhang, Hanbing Yan, Bicai Pan, Jingfang Zhou and Yi Xie*, “Ultrathin nanosheets of MAX phases with enhanced thermal and mechanical properties in polymeric compositions: Ti3Si0.75Al0.25C2” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 4361-4365.
5. Xiaodong Zhang, Qinghua Liu, Lingju Meng, Hui Wang, Wentuan Bi, Yanhua Peng, Tao Yao, Shiqiang Wei* and Yi Xie*，“In-plane co-assembly route to atomically-thick inorganic-organic hybrid nanosheets”ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 1682-1688.
6. Xiaodong Zhang, Wensheng Yan and Yi Xie*, “Synthetic nolanite Fe2.5V1.5V5.6O16 nanocrystals: a new room-temperature magnetic semiconductor with semiconductor-insulator transition” Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 11252-11254.
7. Xiaodong Zhang, Wensheng Yan and Yi Xie*, “Synthetic beta-K0.33V2O5 nanorods: a metal–insulator transition in vanadium oxide bronze” Chem. Asian J., 2011, 6, 3230-3235.