Dr. Xuetong Zhang

Tel: 01904-432544 E-mail: xz523@york.ac.uk

Current Project:

Chemical Mimicry of Neural Network (Co-supervised by Prof. Paul Walton, Prof. David Smith, Dr. Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klair & Dr. Victor Chechik)

Research interests:

Nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, conducting polymers, Gold); Colloid chemistry synthesis (gel, micelle, vesicle); Electrochemistry synthesis (electrodeposition); Electrophoresis & dielectrophoresis

Selected publication:

Xuetong Zhang, Wenhui Song, Peter J F Harris, Geoffrey R Mitchell. "Electro-deposition of Chiral Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composite Films", ChemPhysChem (DOI: 10.1002/ cphc.200700213, to appear in issue 12/2007)

Xuetong Zhang, Wenhui Song, Peter J F Harris, Geoffrey R Mitchell, Tam T T Bui, Alex F Drake. "Chiral Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composite Nanofibres", Advanced Materials 2007, 19(8), 1079-1083

Xuetong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Wenhui Song, Zhongfan Liu. "Controllable Synthesis of Conducting Polypyrrole Nanostructures", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2006, 110(3), 1158-1165

Xuetong Zhang, Zhou Lü, Mengting Wen, Hailin Liang, Jin Zhang, Zhongfan Liu. "Single- Walled Carbon Nanotubes Based Coaxial Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and its Electrical Properties", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2005, 109(3), 1101-1107

Yunze Long, Zhaojia Chen, Xuetong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Zhongfan Liu. "Synthesis and electrical properties of carbon nanotube polyaniline composites, Applied Physics Letter 2004, 85(10), 1796-1798

Xuetong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Zhongfan Liu, Colin Robinson. "Inorganic/organic Mesostructure Directed Synthesis of Wire/Ribbon–like Polypyrrole Nanostructures", Chemical Communications 2004, (16), 1852-1853 (ACS Heart Cut paper)

Xuetong Zhang, Jin Zhang, Rongming Wang, Tao Zhu, Zhongfan Liu. "Surfactant Directed Polypyrrole/CNTs Nanocables: Synthesis, Characterization, and Enhanced Electrical Properties", ChemPhysChem 2004, 5(7), 998-1002