Dr. Xuan Zhou
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). My research at UTSA involves two major areas:
In the field of high pressures, we compress materials, photonic devices and electrochemical systems with GPa (10,000 atm)-level hydrostatic pressures in a diamond anvil cell to find out-of-box solutions to current major challenges in the fields of nano-optics and electrochemistry.
My research background covers nano-optics, nano-photopolymerization, materials under shock compressions, and photoelectrocatalysis. I obtained my B.S. in Materials Physics from Xi’an Jiaotong University (2009, China). After that, I started an adventure in France for my graduate research. I worked with Prof. Renaud Bachelot in Optics and Nanotechnology at the Université de Technologie de Troyes to get my Master's (2010, France) and Ph.D. degree (2014, France). In 2014, I joined the group of Prof. Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a postdoctoral research in photoelectrochemistry. In 2016, I joined the group of Prof. Dana D. Dlott as a postdoc studying energetic materials and inter materials (e.g. metal-organic framework) under shock wave.
In my spare time, if any, I like sketching, painting and hiking.
- Nano-photolithography
- Materials under high pressures
In the field of high pressures, we compress materials, photonic devices and electrochemical systems with GPa (10,000 atm)-level hydrostatic pressures in a diamond anvil cell to find out-of-box solutions to current major challenges in the fields of nano-optics and electrochemistry.
My research background covers nano-optics, nano-photopolymerization, materials under shock compressions, and photoelectrocatalysis. I obtained my B.S. in Materials Physics from Xi’an Jiaotong University (2009, China). After that, I started an adventure in France for my graduate research. I worked with Prof. Renaud Bachelot in Optics and Nanotechnology at the Université de Technologie de Troyes to get my Master's (2010, France) and Ph.D. degree (2014, France). In 2014, I joined the group of Prof. Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a postdoctoral research in photoelectrochemistry. In 2016, I joined the group of Prof. Dana D. Dlott as a postdoc studying energetic materials and inter materials (e.g. metal-organic framework) under shock wave.
In my spare time, if any, I like sketching, painting and hiking.
