Argonne National Laboratory

Hua Zhou

Physicist

Physicist & APS Beamline Scientist CHEX

Biography

Research Interests

Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering, Coherent X-ray Scattering, Multimodal X-ray Microscopy, In-situ X-ray studies of thin film growth and surface processing, quantum heterostructures for information science, electrolyte gating for reconfigurable control, fundamental interactions at solid-liquid interfaces for energy conversions and storage

Education

  • University of Vermont  Ph.D. in Materials Science, 2007
  • Beijing University of Technology B.S., 2002

Experience

  • Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab, 11/2016–Present, Physicist
  • Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab, 10/2011–10/2016, Assistant Physicist
  • Chemical Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Lab, 01/2010–10/2011 Postdoctoral Fellow
  • National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Lab, 10/2007–12/2009 Research Associate

Award/Recognition

  •  2023 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate
  •  2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate
  •  2022 World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University
  •  2021 Argonne Physical Sciences and Engineering Excellence Award
  •  2018 Gopal K. Shenoy Excellence in Beamline Science Award

Recent Publications

  1. L. Zhang, C. J. Liu, H. Cao, A. J. Erwin, D. D. Fong, A. Bhattacharya, L. P. Yu, L. Stan, C. W. Zou, M. V. Tirrell*, H. Zhou*, and Wei Chen*, Advanced Materials 37, 2308871 (2024).
  2. S. Nair, Z. F. Yang, D. Y. Lee, S. L. Guo, J. T. Sadowski, S. Johnson, A. Saboor, Y. Li, H. Zhou, R. B. Comes, W. C. Jin, K. A. Mkhoyan, A. Janotti, and B. Jalan, Nature Nanotechnology 18, 1005 (2023).
  3. H. Han, H. Zhou, C. Guillemard, M. Valvidares, A. Sharma, Y. Li, A. K. Sharma, I. Kostanovskiy, A. Ernst, and S. S. P. Parkin, Advanced Materials 35, 2207246 (2023).
  4. X. Yan, F. Wrobel, I. C. Tung, H. Zhou*, H. Hong, F. Rodolakis, A. Bhattacharya, J. L. McChesney*, and D. D. Fong*, Advanced Materials 34, 2200866 (2022).
  5. J. Jiang, L. F. Zhang, C. Ming, H. Zhou, P. Bose, Y. W. Guo, Y. Hu, B. W. Wang, Z. Z. Chen, R. Jia, S. Pendse, Y. Xiang, Y. B. Xia, Z. H. Lu, X. X. Wen, Y. Cai, C. L. Sun, G. C. Wang, T. M. Lu, D. Gall, Y. Y. Sun, N. Koratkar, E. Fohtung, Y. F. Shi, and J. Shi, Nature 607, 480 (2022).
  6. H. T. Zhang, T. J. Park, A. N. M. Nafiul Islam, D. S. J. Tran, S. Manna, Q. Wang, S. Mondal, H. M. Yu, S. Banik, S. B. Cheng, H. Zhou, S. Gamage, S. Mahapatra, Y. M. Zhu, Y. Abate, N. Jiang, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, A. Sengupta, C. Teuscher, and S. Ramanathan, Science 375, 533 (2022).
  7. H. Cao, H. L. Guo, Y. C. Shao, Q. X. Liu, X. F. Feng, Q. W. Lu, Z. P. Wang, A. D. Zhao, A. Fujimori, Y. D. Chuang, H. Zhou*, and X. F. Zhai*, Nano Letters 21, 3981 (2021).
  8. M. T. Hua, S. W. Wu, Y. F. Ma, Y. S. Zhao, Z. L. Chen, I. Frenkel, J. Strzalka, H. Zhou, X. Y. Zhu, and X. M. He, Nature 590, 594 (2021).
  9. C. J. Liu, X. Yan, D. F. Jin, Y. Ma, H. W. Hsiao, Y. L. Lin, T. M. Bretz-Sullivan, X. J. Zhou, J. Pearson, B. Fisher, J. S. Jiang, Wei Han, J. M. Zuo, J. G. Wen, D. D. Fong, J. R. Sun, H. Zhou, A. Bhattacharya, Science 371, aba5511 (2021). 
  10. G. Wan, J. W. Freeland, J. Kloppenburg, G. Petretto, J. N. Nelson, D. Y. Kuo, C. J. Sun, J. G. Wen, J. T. Diulus, G. S. Herman, Y. Q. Dong, R. H. Kou, J. Y. Sun, S. Chen, K. M. Shen, D. G. Schlom, G. M. Rignanese, G. Hautier, D. D. Fong*, Z. X. Feng*, H. Zhou*, Jin Suntivich*, Science Advances 7, eabc7323 (2021).
  11. C. Liu, J. Qian, Y. F. Ye, H. Zhou, C. J. Sun, C. Sheehan, Z. Y. Zhang, G. Wan, Y. S. Liu, J. H. Guo, S. Li, H. Shin, S. Hwang, T. B. Gunnoe, W. A. Goddard III, and S. Zhang, Nature Catalysis 4, 36 (2020).
  12. M. Q. Zeng, J. X. Liu, L. Zhou, R. G. Mendes, Y. Q. Dong, M. Y. Zhang, Z. H. Cui, Z. H. Cai, Z. Zhang, D. M. Zhu, T. Y. Yang, X. L. Li, J. Q. Wang, L. Zhao, G. X. Chen, H. Jiang, M. H. Rümmeli, H. Zhou*, and L. Fu*, Nature Materials 19, 528 (2020).
  13. Y. Y. Zhou*, H. Zhou*, J. J. Deng, W. Cha, and Z. H. Cai, Matter 2, 360 (2020). 
  14. Y. Zhong, B. R. Cheng, C. B. Park, A. Ray, S. Brown, F. Mujid, J. U. Lee, H. Zhou, J. K. Suh, K. H. Lee, A. J. Mannix, K. B. Kang, S. J. Sibener, D. A. Muller, J. W. Park, Science 366, 1379 (2019).
  15. J. Li, S. Y. Hwang, F. M. Guo, S. Li, Z. W. Chen, R. H. Kou, K. Sun, C. J. Sun, H. Gan, A. P. Yu, E. A. Stach, H. Zhou*, and D. Su*, Nature Communications 10, 2224 (2019). 
  16. I. C. Tung, A. Krishnamoorthy, S. Sadasivam, H. Zhou, Q. Zhang, K. L. Seyler, G. Clark, E. M. Mannebach, C. Nyby, F. Ernst, D. L. Zhu, J. M. Glownia, M. E. Kozina, S. H. Song, S. Nelson, H. Kumazoe, F. Shimojo, R. K. Kalia, P. Vashishta, P. Darancet, T. F. Heinz, A. Nakano, X. D. Xu, A. M. Lindenberg, and H. D. Wen, Nature Photonics (2019).
  17. Y. K. Yuan, Y. F. Lu, G. Stone, K. Wang, C. M. Brooks, D. G. Schlom, S. B. Sinnott, H. Zhou*, and V. Gopalan*, Nature Communication 9, 5220 (2018).
  18. H. Liu, Y. Dong, D. Xu, E. A. Karapetrova, S. Lee, L. Stan, P. Zapol, H. Zhou,* D. D. Fong*, Advanced Materials 1804775 (2018). 
  19. H. J.  Liu, Y. Q. Dong, M. J Cherukara, K. Sasikumar, B. Narayanan, Z. H. Cai, B. Lai, L. Stan, S. B. Hong, M. K. Y. Chan, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, H. Zhou*, D. D Fong*, ACS Nano 12, 4938 (2018).
  20. Z. Zhang, D. Schwanz, B. Narayanan, M. Kotiuga, J. A Dura, M. Cherukara, H. Zhou, J. W. Freeland, J. R. Li, R. Sutarto, F. Z. He, C. Z. Wu, J. X. Zhu, Y. F. Sun, K. Ramadoss, S. S. Nonnenmann, N. F. Yu, R. Comin, K. M. Rabe, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, and S. Ramanathan, Nature 553,68 (2017).
  21. Y. Zhou, X. F. Guan, H. Zhou, K. Ramadoss, S. Adam, H. J. Liu, S. S. Lee, J. Shi, M. Tsuchiya, D. D. Fong, and S. Ramanathan, Nature 534, 231 (2016).
  22. T. H. Kim, Y. K. Yuan, D. Puggioni, L. Xie, N. Campbell, H. Zhou, P. J. Ryan, Y. S. Choi, J. W. Kim, S. W. Ryu, J. R. Patzner, J. Podkaminer, J. Irwin, Y. J. Ma, X. L. Ke, C. J. Fennie, M. S. Rzchowski, X. Q. Pan, J. M. Rondinelli, V. Gopalan, and C. B. Eom, Nature 533, 68 (2016).
  23. H. Zhou* and D. D. Fong*, ​“In situ X-ray Scattering of Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films”, Book Chapter of Epitaxial Growth of Complex Metal Oxides, Edited by G. Koster, G. Rijnders and M. Huijben, Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier) (2015).

Conferences and Workshops Organization

  1. 2016 Advanced Photon Source-Center for Nanoscale Materials User Meeting Workshop WK08
  2. 2016 International Materials Research Congress Symposium E2
  3. 2017 APS/CNM Joint User Meeting Workshop WK10
  4. 2017 International Materials Research Congress Symposium F6
  5. 2017 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium TC07
  6. 2018 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium EN20
  7. 2018 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium ET12
  8. 2019 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium ES03
  9. 2019 APS/CNM Joint User Meeting Workshop WK02
  10. 2019 Materials Science & Technology Meeting Symposium: Emergent Materials under Extremes and Decisive In-situ Characterizations
  11. 2019 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium MQ03
  12. 2020 Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting Symposium S09
  13. 2020 Materials Science & Technology: Functional Defects in Electroceramic Materials
  14. 2021 Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting Symposium S09
  15. 2021 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium CT04
  16. 2022 Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting Symposium S09
  17. 2022 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium EQ02
  18. 2022 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium SF05
  19. 2023 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting Symposium EN07
  20. 2023 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium EN10
  21. 2024 Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting Symposium S17
  22. 2024 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Symposium EN10