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Overview

Lei Zhu is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within engineering and materials science, with significant contributions across several subfields including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, emphasizing areas such as advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, dielectric materials and actuators, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, conducting polymers and their applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, liquid crystal research advancements, and advanced battery technologies research.

Lei Zhu has published extensively in respected venues, establishing a presence in journals such as Macromolecules, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Chemical Engineering Journal, Science, and Nanoscale. These outlets have hosted multiple studies that explore materials science and engineering advancements.

Recent publications include:

  • Facile Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Iron/Cobalt Metal-Organic Framework for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations, 2022, Nature
  • Intrinsic polymer dielectrics for high energy density and low loss electric energy storage, 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • A relaxor ferroelectric polymer with an ultrahigh dielectric constant largely promotes the dissociation of lithium salts to achieve high ionic conductivity, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Enhanced piezoelectricity from highly polarizable oriented amorphous fractions in biaxially oriented poly(vinylidene fluoride) with pure β crystals, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in Zhu's research network comprise Guanchun Rui, Ruipeng Li, Elshad Allahyarov, Qiong Li, and Mingwang Pan, reflecting ongoing partnerships that contribute to the depth and breadth of the research output.

In addition to journal articles, Lei Zhu has contributed to book publications, including one titled Liquid Crystalline Polymers, published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

The combination of research topics and publication venues indicates a focus on the development and application of polymeric and ferroelectric materials, energy conversion technologies, and advanced functional materials for biomedical and environmental applications. This multidisciplinary approach integrates chemistry, materials science, and engineering principles.

Best Publications

  • Exploring Strategies for High Dielectric Constant and Low Loss Polymer Dielectrics

    Lei Zhu

  • Novel Ferroelectric Polymers for High Energy Density and Low Loss Dielectrics

    Lei Zhu;Qing Wang

  • FLOW-INDUCED SHISH KEBAB PRECURSOR STRUCTURES IN ENTANGLED POLYMER MELTS

    Rajesh H. Somani;Ling Yang;Lei Zhu;Benjamin S. Hsiao

  • Polymer nanocomposites for electrical energy storage

    Qing Wang;Lei Zhu

  • Crystallization Temperature-Dependent Crystal Orientations within Nanoscale Confined Lamellae of a Self-Assembled Crystalline−Amorphous Diblock Copolymer

    Lei Zhu;Stephen Z. D. Cheng;Bret H. Calhoun;Qing Ge

  • Phase structures and morphologies determined by self-organization, vitrification, and crystallization: confined crystallization in an ordered lamellar phase of PEO-b-PS diblock copolymer

    L. Zhu;S.Z.D. Cheng;B.H. Calhoun;Q. Ge

  • Facile Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Iron/Cobalt Metal-Organic Framework for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis.

    Kai Ge;Shujuan Sun;Yi Zhao;Kai Yang

  • Surface self-diffusion of an organic glass.

    L. Zhu;C. W. Brian;S. F. Swallen;P. T. Straus

  • Novel polymer ferroelectric behavior via crystal isomorphism and the nanoconfinement effect

    Lianyun Yang;Xinyu Li;Elshad Allahyarov;Elshad Allahyarov;Elshad Allahyarov;Philip L. Taylor

  • 50th Anniversary Perspective: Dielectric Phenomena in Polymers and Multilayered Dielectric Films

    Eric Baer;Lei Zhu

  • Unexpected shish-kebab structure in a sheared polyethylene melt.

    Benjamin S. Hsiao;Ling Yang;Rajesh H. Somani;Carlos A. Avila-Orta

  • Intrinsic polymer dielectrics for high energy density and low loss electric energy storage

    Junji Wei;Lei Zhu

  • Crystal Orientation Effect on Electric Energy Storage in Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) Copolymers

    Fangxiao Guan;Fangxiao Guan;Fangxiao Guan;Jilin Pan;Jilin Pan;Jilin Pan;Jing Wang;Jing Wang;Jing Wang;Qing Wang

  • A relaxor ferroelectric polymer with an ultrahigh dielectric constant largely promotes the dissociation of lithium salts to achieve high ionic conductivity

    Yan-Fei Huang;Yan-Fei Huang;Tian Gu;Guanchun Rui;Peiran Shi

  • Interfacial Polarization-Induced Loss Mechanisms in Polypropylene/BaTiO3 Nanocomposite Dielectrics

    Guoqiang Zhang;Daniel Brannum;Daxuan Dong;Longxiang Tang

  • Crystalline Morphology and Polymorphic Phase Transitions in Electrospun Nylon-6 Nanofibers

    Yi Liu;Li Cui;Fangxiao Guan;Yi Gao

  • Relaxor ferroelectric polymer exhibits ultrahigh electromechanical coupling at low electric field

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  • Mixed Polymer Brush-Grafted Particles: A New Class of Environmentally Responsive Nanostructured Materials

    Bin Zhao;Lei Zhu

  • Reduction of Dielectric Hysteresis in Multilayered Films via Nanoconfinement

    Matthew Mackey;Donald E. Schuele;Lei Zhu;Lionel Flandin

  • Hard and soft confinement effects on polymer crystallization in microphase separated cylinder-forming PEO-b-PS/PS blends

    Lei Zhu;Brion R Mimnaugh;Qing Ge;Roderic P Quirk

  • Fluoropolymer ferroelectrics: Multifunctional platform for polar-structured energy conversion

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  • Surface-enhanced crystallization of amorphous nifedipine.

    Lei Zhu;Letitia Wong;Lian Yu

  • Crystal Orientation Changes in Two-Dimensionally Confined Nanocylinders in a Poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene/Polystyrene Blend

    Ping Huang;Lei Zhu;Stephen Z. D. Cheng;Qing Ge

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin S. Hsiao
Benjamin S. Hsiao Stony Brook University
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Roderic P. Quirk
Roderic P. Quirk University of Akron
Eric Baer
Eric Baer Case Western Reserve University
Edwin L. Thomas
Edwin L. Thomas Texas A&M University
Morton H. Litt
Morton H. Litt Case Western Reserve University
Bernard Lotz
Bernard Lotz University of Strasbourg
Ming Jiang
Ming Jiang Fudan University
Lian Yu
Lian Yu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Zhong-Ming Li
Zhong-Ming Li Sichuan University

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