Email: jianzhou@xjtu.edu.cn
Academic Appointments
2018-present Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2017-2018 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013-2017 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
Education
2013 (Ph. D.) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, China
2008 (B. Sc.) Department of Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Peking University, China
Honors & Awards
2017 DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Award, American Physical Society
2013 Excellent Ph. D. thesis, Peking University
2013 Excellent Graduate Student, Beijing, China
2012 “Top-10 Academic” Award, Peking University
Recent Main Research Fields
Theoretical calculation of low-dimensional nanomaterials
Globally structural search method of defect morphology
Topological materials, spintronics, superconductors, and valleytronics
Energy materials
Selected Publications (10)
1.Ferromagnetism in Semihydrogenated Graphene Sheet.
J. Zhou, Q. Wang, Q. Sun*, X. S. Chen, Y. Kawazoe, P. Jena
Nano Lett. 9, 3867 (2009). (highly cited paper)
2.Electric field enhanced hydrogen storage on polarizable materials substrates.
J. Zhou, Q. Wang, Q. Sun*, P. Jena, X. S. Chen
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 2801 (2010).
3.Electronic and magnetic properties of a BN sheet decorated with hydrogen and fluorine.
Jian Zhou, Qian Wang, Qiang Sun*, Puru Jena
Phys. Rev. B 81, 085442 (2010). (highly cited paper)
4.Magnetism of Phthalocyanine-Based Organometallic Single Porous Sheet.
Jian Zhou, Qiang Sun*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 15113 (2011).
5.Penta-Graphene: A New Carbon Allotrope.
Shunhong Zhang, Jian Zhou, Qian Wang*, Xiaoshuang Chen, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Puru Jena
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112, 2372 (2015). (highly cited paper, included in Wikipedia)
6.Stability of B12(CN)122−: Implications for Lithium and Magnesium Ion Batteries.
Hongmin Zhao†, Jian Zhou†,*, Puru Jena*
(†equal contribution)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 3704 (2016). (VIP)
7.Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferrimagnetic Honeycomb Lattices.
Jian Zhou*, Qiang Sun, Puru Jena*
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046403 (2017).
8.Two-dimensional topological crystalline quantum spin Hall effect in transition metal intercalated compounds.
Jian Zhou*, Puru Jena
Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication) 95, 081102(R) (2017).
9.Giant Valley Splitting and Valley Polarized Plasmonics in Group-V Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers.
Jian Zhou*, Puru Jena
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 5764 (2017).
10.Colossal Stability of Gas Phase Tri-anions: Super-pnictogens.
Tianshan Zhao, Jian Zhou, Qian Wang*, Puru Jena*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 13421 (2017). (VIP, outside front cover)
