John C.F. Zhang  

John C.F. Zhang (Chuanfang Zhang) Ph. D candidate, research stuff, A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute Department of Materials Sci. & Eng., Drexel University, USA 3141 Chestnut Street, Alum 175, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: +1 (215)-858-6887 (US) Email: cz334@drexel.edu ruoshuang123@gmail.com Website: http://nano.materials.drexel.edu East China Univ. of Sci. & Tec., Meilong Rd 130, Shanghai, China Phone: +86-18817516745 (China), Email: ruoshuang@126.com

Education ! 2012.11-2014.11 Ph.D candidate: Materials Engineering Drexel University

Advisor: Prof. Yury Gogotsi ! 2011.9-2012.11 Ph.D candidate Materials Engineering ECUST

Advisor: Prof Wen M. Qiao ! 2009.9-2011.9 M. Sc. Chemical Engineering ECUST Advisor: Prof. Shan X. Lu Rank: The first place among PhD candidates ! 2005.9-2009.6 B. Sc. Chemical Engineering, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities

Advisor: Prof Liang Xian Rank: First of grade for three years, graduated with honored

degree, selected as one of the best thesis

Professional Experiences Teaching assistant, Department of MSE, Drexel University 2014.1-2014-4

" Thermodynamics of Solids, MATE 510, Core course in Materials Science and Engineering

" Teaching the Factsage software for the thermodynamics calculation on class " Assisting students on computational thermodynamics " Formulating the mid-term exam and final exam sheet " Tutoring the class on thermodynamics questions " Grading on the reviews and homework of the entire class

Research stuff, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel 2012.11-2014.11 " Responsible researcher of Drexel-UCLA collaboration for U.S Department of

Energy/Office of Electricity’s Energy Storage Program (PI: Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Prof. Bruce Dunn)

" Researcher, U.S Department of Energy/Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) (PI: Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Prof. Michel, Barsoum)

Research assistant, Functional Carbon Materials Lab, ECUST 2011.9-2012.11 " Responsible Researcher supported by National Science Foundation of China

and Shanghai Pujiang Program Lab Instructor, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel 2012.9-2014.11

" Instructor for other scientists visiting the lab

John C.F. Zhang  

" Showing how to fabricate the electrodes, assemble the cell for Lehigh Univ. " Coaching several undergraduates on how to fabricate electrodes

Lab Instructor, Functional Carbon Materials Lab, ECUST 2011.9-2012.11 " Experimental instructor for master student and younger Ph.D candidates " Instructor for lab touring and technical visitingand learning " Super-user of electrochemical equipments (Gamry, Arbin)

Teaching assistant, Department of Science, ECUST 2009.9-2011.7 " Teaching Math for undergraduate, grade, evaluation " Arrange the coordination between other assistants and teachers

Expertise ! Materials preparation

" Hydrothermal preparation of metal oxide/carbon composites " Sol-gel Emulsion polymerization of RF, PF, MF resins " Chlorination and oxidation of layered carbides " Synthesis of two-dimensional MXene " Synthesis of two-dimensional metal oxide/carbon composites from MXene

! Materials characterization " X-ray diffraction, particle size, d-space " TGA, gas sorption, BET, NLDFT, t-plot, very familiar with Quadrasorb SI

analyser and micromerities 2020 " Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR analysis of carbon materials and functionalities

! Electrochemical characterization " Various methods of electrode fabrication (cold rolling, coating,

electrospinning, vacuum filtration, and micropipette coating etc.) " Various methods of cell assembling (coin cell, sandwich, Swagelok, soft

pack, in-series cells etc.) " Extensive knowledge of electrochemical techniques (CVA, GCPL, EIS,

Linear sweep, OCV, chronopotentiometry etc.) and data analysis " Extensive knowledge of various electrochemical equipments (Gamry, Arbin,

VMP3, MPG, Autolab, Land, CHI etc.) ! Super-user access

" Glove box of manual and automatic ones, swagelok, coin cell battery and supercapacitor, electrode fabrication

" Potentialstats, galvanostats and Electrochemical Impedence Spectroscopy

Research Experiences ! Drexel University, Nov, 2012-Dec, 2014

" Hydrothermally deposited Nb2O5, MoO3 onto CDC and graphene and tested as pseudocapacitor electrode material in different electrolytes

" In-situ oxidation of two dimensional MXene and tested as electrode material for pseudocapacitor and lithium-ion battery

" Emulsion polymerization of RF resins and activation of carbon spheres " Electrospinning of PANi and PANi/MXene for lithium-ion battery electrode

John C.F. Zhang  

" Selectively electrochemical etching of MAX and MXene " Carbon spheres tested in organic and RTIL for high energy density supercap " MXene as lithium-ion battery anode materials

! East China University of Sci & Tec. Sep, 2011-Oct, 2012 " Hydrothermally deposited RuO2 onto nitrogen-enriched mesoporous carbon

for pseudocapacitor material " Electrochemically intercalation of low surface area graphitic carbons " Electrochemically intercalation of different cations into LiMn2O4

Manuscript reviewer and professional membership

" Reviewer: ACS Nano, Carbon " Membership: Materials Research Society (MRS), The Electrochemical

Society (ECS)

Social experiences ! Drexel Research Day 2014, Philadelphia, PA Judge

" Grading the candidates’ research on three-dimensional printing technique " Grading the candidate’s research on the metal defects using novel method

! 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA Symposium Assistant " Coordinating with session chairs on the overall process of talks " Technical problem shooting for the smooth of talks " Communicate with speakers

! Drexel Research Day 2013, Philadelphia, PA Judge " Novelty, expression and cutting-edge of candidates’ research

! 2011 Annual Conference on Carbon, Shanghai Deputy Secretary " Operating the reception, check-in, instructor of touring around campus " Symposium assistant of the sessions " Responsible stuff of the program abstract

! 2010 World Exposition, Shanghai Group leader of volunteers " Coordinated the schedule of volunteering work, tackled with the

emergencies " Provided help for thousands of tourists from all over the world

! 2011 International students gathering in ECUST host, MC " Host this influential annual gathering for international students

! 2011 ‘Start English’ club President " Initiated the English club aim to improve the oral English of Chinese

graduates, undergraduates even postdocs ! 2009 John C.F. Zhang’s senior Math School President

" Initiated my math school aim to help the senior in math for the master entrance exams

" Teaching the seniors math by myself, rent the classroom, blackboard " Interviewed by the University post and appeared in the headlines

John C.F. Zhang  

Publications

! C. Zhang, K. Hatzell, M. Boota, B. Dyatkin, M. Beidaghi, Donghui Long,

Wenming Qiao, E. C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi. Highly Porous Carbon Spheres for

Electrochemical Capacitors and Capacitive Flowable Suspension Electrodes,

Carbon (submitted)

! C. Zhang, R. Maloney, M. Beidaghi, M. Lukatskya, B. Dyatkin, E. Perre, D.

Long, W. Qiao, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, Synthesis of Nb2O5–carbide derived

carbon composite with layered structure for electrochemical pseudocapacitor,

Carbon (Prepared and ready to submit)

! C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, M. Lukatskya, K. Cook, R. Maloney, B.

Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, High crystallized Nb2O5-Carbon sheets with

two-dimensional layered structures for high performance supercapacitor,

Advanced Materials (Prepared)

! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, G. Sun, A. Pentecost, J. Wang, W. Qiao, L. Ling, D. Long,

Y. Gogotsi, Ion Intercalation Into Graphitic Carbon With a Low Surface Area

for High Energy Density Supercapacitors, Journal of Electrochemical Society

(Submitted)

! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, M. Zhao, A. Pentecost, Z. Ling, J. Wang, D. Long, L. Ling,

W. Qiao, Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrous

RuO2/Mesoporous Carbon Nanocomposites via Nitrogen Doping, ACS

Applied Materials & Interfaces (Submitted)

! C. Zhang, Y. Xie, J. Wang, A. Pentecost, D. Long, L. Ling, W. Qiao, Effect of

graphitic structure on electrochemical ion intercalation in supercapacitors,

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Submitted)    

! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, Z. Ling, D. Long, W. Qiao,

Y. Gogotsi, B. Dunn. In-situ oxidation of MXene to prepare transition metal

oxide/carbon composite (Nb2O5, TiO2) with two dimensional structure for high

performance pseudocapacitor. In preparation

John C.F. Zhang  

! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, D. Long, W. Qiao, M.

Barsoum, Y. Gogotsi, B. Dunn. CO2 oxidation of MXenes to prepare transition

metal oxide/carbon composites and used as anode in lithium-ion battery. In

preparation

! C. Zhang, S. Kim, M. Naguib, M. Ghidiu, M. Zhao, D. Long, W. Qiao, M.

Barsoum, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi. High performance of TiO2/Carbon composites

prepared from one-step oxidation of Ti3C2 using as Li-ion battery anode. In

preparation  

! M. Naguib, O. Mashtalir, M. Lukatskaya, B. Dyatkin, C. Zhang, V. Presser, Y.

Gogotsi, and M. Barsoum, One-Step Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Transition

Metal Oxide on Thin Sheets of Disordered Graphitic Carbon by Oxidation of

MXenes, Chemcomm, DOI: 10.1039/c0xx00000x  

! X. Xiao, T. Q. Li, H. Y. Jin, Z. H. Peng, Q. P. Luo, C. Zhang, Y. Gogotsi, J.

Zhou, Freestanding Functionalized Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrode for

Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors, Nano Energy, (2014) 6, 1-9

! D. Ge, L. Yang, L. Fan, C. Zhang, X. Xiao, Y. Gogotsi, S. Yang, Foldable

paper-based supercapacitor electrodes from interpenetrating networks of

polyaniline nanoribbons and single-walled carbon nanotubes, Angewandte

Chemie (Prepared and ready to submit)

! X. Xiao, Z. Peng, C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, Z. Yang, B. Yao, T. Li, N. Wu, Q.

Luo, Y. Gogotsi, and J. Zhou, Binder-free MoO3-x nanobelt/carbon nanotube

films as negative electrodes for Li+ intercalation pseudocapacitors, Advanced

Materials (Submitted)

! L. P. Kong, C. Zhang, X. Bing, Y. Li, W. Qiao, D. Long, L. Ling. Active

edge-enriched orthorhombic Nb2O5 nanoparticles with a intercalaction

capacitance, in preparation

John C.F. Zhang  

Conference Presentations and Posters

# R. P. Maloney, M. Beidaghi, J. C. Zhang, M. Lukatskaya, E. Perre, Y. Gogotsi,

B. Dunn, 2013 U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Storage Systems

Program, Peer Review and Update Meeting, San Diego, USA (Poster and Talk)

# J. C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, M. Lukatskya, K. Cook, R. Maloney, B.

Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, High crystallized Nb2O5-Carbon sheets with two-dimensional

layered structures for high performance supercapacitor, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting,

Boston, MA (Poster)

# John C.F. Zhang, Kelsey B. Hatzell, Muhammad Boota, Boris Dyatkin, Majid

Beidaghi, Emin C. Kumbur, Yury Gogotsi. Carbon Spheres: grape-like

nanomaterials for high performances supercapacitors, Books & Bagels

Conversations on Interdisciplinary Resaerch (invited talk)

# Majid Beidaghi, Chuanfang Zhang, Ryan Maloney, Bruce Dunn,

Yury Gogotsi. Three-Dimensional Structures of Nb2O5/Graphene As High Rate

Electrodes for Li-Ion Capacitors, 2014 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco,

California (Talk)

Honors and Awards " Outstanding Presentation at Books & Bagels 2014 " Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for conducting research at Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA, USA (From Nov, 2012 to Dec, 2014) 2012 " Excellent deputy secretary for Annual Conference on Carbon, ECUST 2011 " Grand Jury Prize for Graduate English Speaking Competiton 2012 " Excellent group leader in 2010 World Expo and Star Volunteers 2010 " Comprehensive courses credits 2010 " Best Graduates with the best thesis 2009 " Provincial second prize-College Students Scientific Innovation Competition 2009 " 2nd place in English Speaking Competition in NW Univ for Nation. Twice 2007 " Excellent Prize in National English Comprehensive competition 2006 " National Scholarship, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities, 2006 " National Encouragement Scholarship, N.W. Univ. for Nationalities 2007

Languages " English (Excellent and Proficient) " Mandarin (Excellent and Proficient)

John C.F. Zhang  

Volunteer and Community Service " Organizing the 2011 Annual Conference on Carbon (Carbon 2011), Shanghai,

China, 2011 " Being a private English translator for the “Eye-cancer” families from China for

free " Providing professional training for other PhD students on the electrochemical

setup, electrode fabrication etc.

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References References are available upon request