Professor and Deputy Director of SIOM
Materials sciences
Phone: 86-21-69064137
Email: lzhang@siom.ac.cn

Research Focus
Prof. ZHANG is devoted to the research in the field of glass structure, infrared glass, laser materials glass and ceramics, as well as the techniques towards the large-size fabrication:
[1] Deeply investigate the structure and structural evolution of many optical glass systems, such as aluminate, borate, phosphate, and fluophosphate glasses, based on the developed series of dipolar-NMR techniques. The results were published about 20 papers in the leading journals, including Mater. Chem., J. Mater. Chem., and J. Phys. Chem.
[2] New strategy to the compositional design for IR-glass, called “Solid-solution of weak covalent intermediate against crystallization”, were proposed to face the challenge that glass with good infrared transmission is hard to prepare to the large size with high optical quality. Three types of oxyfluoride glasses with the excellent infrared transmission were developed. Their key techniques towards the high-quality and large-size fabrication, with diameter over 600 mm, were successfully overcome, produced the widely applications in the environmental monitoring, aerospace, and anti-terrorism; The results were published about 30 papers in the leading journals, including Adv. Opt. Mater., J. Mater. Chem., J. Phys. Chem., Opt. Lett., and Scientific Reports.
[3] Successfully develop series of laser materials for the next-generation extreme laser applications, including the fluophosphate laser glasses, LuAG ceramics, and sesquioxide ceramics. The results were published about 30 papers in the leading journals, including ACS. Nano, Mater. Design. J. Mater. Chem. J. Am. Ceram. Soc., J. Eur. Ceram. Soc., Opt. Lett., and Opt. Express.
Honors
[1] the Chinese Academy of Sciences “100-Talent Program”, 2006;
[2] Excellent Academic Leader of Shanghai, 2009; 
[3] Young Leading Scientist of Chinese Ceramics society, 2013; 
[4] The person of the year award, Scientific Chinese, 2013 
[5] Leading Talent on S&T Innovation of China, 2016.
Publications
[1] Bing Tang, Hongxing Dong*, Liaoxin Sun, Weihao Zheng, Qi Wang, Fangfang Sun, Xiongwei Jiang, Anlian Pan, Long Zhang*, Single-Mode Lasers Based on Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Submicron Spheres, ACS Nano, 11(11), 10681-10688, 2017;
[2] K. Wang, J. Wang, J. Fan, M. Lotya, A. O’Neill, D. Fox, Y. Feng, X. Zhang, B. Jiang, Q. Zhao, H. Zhang, J. N. Coleman, L. Zhang*, and W.Blau*, Ultrafast Saturable Absorption of Two-Dimensional MoS2 Nanosheets, ACS Nano, 7 (10), 9260 (2013);
[3] Long Zhang, Carla C. de Araujo, Hellmut Eckert, " A new sol-gel route to aluminum fluoride phosphate glasses: Mechanistic investigations by NMR spectroscopy ". Chem. Mater. 17, 3101-3107(2005);
[4] J. Zhan, H. Dong, S. Sun, X. Ren, Y. Liu, J. Liu, Z. Chen, C. Lienau, L. Zhang*, Surface-Energy-Driven Growth of ZnO Hexagonal Microtube Optical Resonators, Adv. Optical Mater., 4, 126-134 (2016);
[5] Y. Liu, H. X. Dong*, J. Lu, J. X. Zhan, J. Z. Li, Z. H. Chen, and L. Zhang* Free-Standing, Single-Crystalline Parallelogram Sb Shallow- Doped ZnO Wave-Guided Optical Resonators. Adv. Optical Mater. 2, 1090–1097 (2014);
[6] G. Tao, Z. Bai, Y. Chen, L. Zhang*, Generic Synthesis and Versatile Applications of Molecularly Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Mesoporous Organosilica Nanoparticles with Asymmetric Janus Topologies and Structures, Nano Res., 10(11), 3970-3810 (2017);
[7] R. Zhang, M. de Oliveira, Z. Wang, R. Fernandes, A. S. S. de Camargo, J. Ren* , L. Zhang*, H. Eckert*, Structural Studies of Fluoroborate Laser Glasses by Solid State NMR and EPR Spectroscopies, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121(1): 741-752, 2017;
[8] R. Zhang, J. Ren*, X. Yuan, L. Zhang*. Structural Studies of Bi2O3-NaPO3 Glasses by Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 (2017) 10087-10094;
[9] Y. Peng, X. Zou, Z. Bai, Y. Leng, B. Jiang*, X. Jiang, L. Zhang*, Mid-infrared laser emission from Cr:ZnS channel waveguide fabricated by femtosecond laser helical writing, Scientific Reports, 5, 18365 (2015);
[10] Y. P. Peng, X. Q. Yuan, J. J. Zhang, and L. Zhang*, The effect of La2O3 in Tm3+-doped germanated-tellurite glasses for ~2μm emission, Scientific Reports, 4, 5256(2014).