DETAILS: Dr. Zhu is a world famous secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) expert with more than 15 years of experience. He has published over 100 articles in prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, and Analytical Chemistry. He is a co-inventor of in situ liquid SIMS enabled by System for Analysis at the Liquid Vacuum Interface (SALVI), which won a 2014 R&D 100 award and a 2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer (FLC award). EDUCATION: PhD, Analytical Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University (2006). MS, Chemistry, Peking University (2000). BS, Chemistry, Peking University (1997).

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) to resolve interesting scientific questions in biological, environmental and material fields. Especially, the phenomena at solid-liquid and gas-liquid interfaces are of great interest. In situ liquid SIMS enabled by ToF-SIMS and System for Analysis at the Liquid Vacuum Interface (SALVI) is a major tool to study solid-liquid and gas-liquid interfaces. In addition, nanoscale chemical imaging using NanoSIMS (elemental and isotopic imaging) and ToF-SIMS (elemental and molecular imaging) is a unique tool to resolve many challenging scientific questions. Moreover, SIMS has traditionally been used as a depth profiling tool. Depth profiling of novel materials is also an important research direction in my lab.