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Zihua Zhu is affiliated with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within engineering and materials science, with significant focus on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their work addresses advances in battery materials and technologies, the electronic and structural properties of oxides, and ion-surface interactions and analysis.

The scientist's research output encompasses key topics including:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties

Zihua Zhu has contributed to a wide range of publication venues, notably:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces

Frequent collaborators include Mark Bowden, Yadong Zhou, Yingge Du, Mark Engelhard, and Xiao-Ying Yu.

Among the scientist's recent papers are:

  • Real-time mass spectrometric characterization of the solid-electrolyte interphase of a lithium-ion battery, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Electrochemically induced amorphous-to-rock-salt phase transformation in niobium oxide electrode for Li-ion batteries, 2022, Nature Materials
  • Controlling Surface Phase Transition and Chemical Reactivity of O3-Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes for High-Performance Na-Ion Batteries, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • Environment of Metal-O-Fe Bonds Enabling High Activity in CO2 Reduction on Single Metal Atoms and on Supported Nanoparticles, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Dynamic Lattice Oxygen Participation on Perovskite LaNiO3 during Oxygen Evolution Reaction, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Their research primarily explores the interplay between materials chemistry and energy applications, particularly focusing on battery technologies and catalytic reactions involving metal oxides and related compounds.

Best Publications

  • Enabling High-Voltage Lithium-Metal Batteries under Practical Conditions

    Xiaodi Ren;Lianfeng Zou;Xia Cao;Mark H. Engelhard

  • Real-time mass spectrometric characterization of the solid-electrolyte interphase of a lithium-ion battery.

    Yufan Zhou;Yufan Zhou;Mao Su;Mao Su;Xiaofei Yu;Xiaofei Yu;Yanyan Zhang

  • Mitigating Voltage Fade in Cathode Materials by Improving the Atomic Level Uniformity of Elemental Distribution

    Jianming Zheng;Meng Gu;Arda Genc;Jie Xiao

  • Instability, intermixing and electronic structure at the epitaxial LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) heterojunction

    Scott A. Chambers;Mark H. Engelhard;V. Shutthanandan;Zihua Zhu

  • Polyvinylpyrrolidone-induced anisotropic growth of gold nanoprisms in plasmon-driven synthesis

    Yueming Zhai;Joseph S. DuChene;Yi-Chung Wang;Yi-Chung Wang;Jingjing Qiu

  • Nanopatterned Assembling of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles on Silicon

    Jiwen Zheng;Zihua Zhu;and Haifeng Chen;Zhongfan Liu

  • Electrochemically induced amorphous-to-rock-salt phase transformation in niobium oxide electrode for Li-ion batteries

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  • Raman scattering enhancement contributed from individual gold nanoparticles and interparticle coupling

    Zihua Zhu;Tao Zhu;Zhongfan Liu

  • The fate of silicon during glass corrosion under alkaline conditions: A mechanistic and kinetic study with the International Simple Glass

    Stéphane Gin;Patrick Jollivet;Maxime Fournier;Claude Berthon

  • Atomic origins of water-vapour-promoted alloy oxidation.

    Langli Luo;Mao Su;Mao Su;Pengfei Yan;Lianfeng Zou

  • Grain Growth and Phase Stability of Nanocrystalline Cubic Zirconia under Ion Irradiation

    Yanwen Zhang;Weilin Jiang;Chongmin Wang;Fereydoon Namavar

  • Epitaxial growth, structure, and intermixing at the LaAlO 3 / SrTiO 3 interface as the film stoichiometry is varied

    Liang Qiao;Timothy C. Droubay;Tamas Varga;Mark E. Bowden

  • Thermodynamic instability at the stoichiometric LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) interface.

    Liang Qiao;Timothy C. Droubay;V. Shutthanandan;Zihua Zhu

  • Cold crucible induction melter studies for making glass ceramic waste forms: A feasibility assessment

    Jarrod V. Crum;Vincent Maio;John S. McCloy;Clark Scott

  • Nanometer-Scale Chemistry of a Calcite Biomineralization Template: Implications for Skeletal Composition and Nucleation

    Oscar Branson;Elisa A. Bonnin;Daniel E. Perea;Howard J. Spero

  • In Situ Molecular Imaging of the Biofilm and Its Matrix

    Yuanzhao Ding;Yuanzhao Ding;Yufan Zhou;Juan Yao;Craig Szymanski

  • Damage profile and ion distribution of slow heavy ions in compounds

    Yanwen Zhang;In-Tae Bae;Kai Sun;Chongmin Wang

  • Direct Probes of 4 nm Diameter Gold Nanoparticles Interacting with Supported Lipid Bilayers

    Julianne M. Troiano;Laura L. Olenick;Thomas R. Kuech;Eric S. Melby

  • Response of Strontium Titanate to Ion and Electron Irradiation

    Yanwen Zhang;Jie Lian;Zihua Zhu;Wendy D. Bennett

  • Controlling Surface Phase Transition and Chemical Reactivity of O3-Layered Metal Oxide Cathodes for High-Performance Na-Ion Batteries

    Junhua Song;Junhua Song;Kuan Wang;Jianming Zheng;Mark H. Engelhard

  • Probing liquid surfaces under vacuum using SEM and ToF-SIMS.

    Li Yang;Xiao-Ying Yu;Zihua Zhu;Martin J. Iedema

  • In Situ Mass Spectrometric Determination of Molecular Structural Evolution at the Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Zihua Zhu;Yufan Zhou;Pengfei Yan;Rama Sesha Vemuri

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Weber
William J. Weber University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yanwen Zhang
Yanwen Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mark H. Engelhard
Mark H. Engelhard Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chongmin Wang
Chongmin Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scott A. Chambers
Scott A. Chambers Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark E. Bowden
Mark E. Bowden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hailiang Dong
Hailiang Dong China University of Geosciences
Libor Kovarik
Libor Kovarik Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Donald R. Baer
Donald R. Baer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peter V. Sushko
Peter V. Sushko Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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