Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (11674161, 11174122)
six big talent peak project from Jiangsu Province (XCL-004)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2018
First Online: 4 May 2018
Authors’ Information
: WX is a current Ph.D. candidate at the School of Physics, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. X. H. Zhu. He completed his undergraduate M. S. in Condensed Matter Physics in 2017 at the School of Physics, Nanjing University, where he studied fabrication and characterization of rare earth-doped perovskite manganite nanocrystals under the supervision of Prof. X. H. Zhu. His research interests include the fabrication and characterization of low-dimensional perovskite manganite nanostructures. HW is a current Ph.D. candidate at the School of Physics, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. X. H. Zhu. His research interests include the fabrication and characterization of low-dimensional perovskite multiferroic nanostructures. PX is a current M. Sci. candidate at the School of Physics, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. X. H. Zhu. Her research interests include the fabrication and characterization of low-dimensional perovskite oxide nanostructures.XZ obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph. D degrees in Materials Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China) in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He has been a professor at the School of Physics, Nanjing University since 2006. He worked as academic consultant at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) in 2012 and 2013, Queen’s University of Belfast (United Kingdom) from 2004 to 2006, Max-Planck-Inst Mikrostrukturphys (Halle Saale, Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from 2003 to 2004, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2000 to 2001. He was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholarship in 2002, the First Grade National Natural Science prize from Ministry of Education of China in 2003, and Second Grade National Natural Science price from Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2005. His current research interests include processing of multiferroic perovskite materials (nanocrystals, thin films, and bulk materials), and nanoscaled structural fabrication; defects and microstructures of perovksite-structured multiferroics characterized by (HR)TEM techniques; and microstructure/property relationships in both advanced functional ceramic materials and nanostructured functional materials. He has published > 130 papers in prestigious international refereed journals together with the SCI cited times of > 1700.
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