PUBLICATIONS
Full record on Google Scholar (h-index 16). Total 33 publications, including 1 in Nature Communication, 6 in Phys. Rev. Lett., 5 in Nano. Lett., 3 in ACS Nano, 1 in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1 in J Mater. Chem. A.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Ihsan Boustani, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Search for the largest two-dimensional aggregates of boron: An ab initio study. Phys. Rev. B 83, 193405 (2011).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
2. Zhen Zhu and David Tomanek, Formation and Stability of Cellular Carbon Foam Structures: An Ab Initio Study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 135501 (2012).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
3. Jinying Zhang, Zhen Zhu, Yanquan Feng, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Yasumitsu Miyata, Ryo Kitaura, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Natalie A. Fokina, Peter R. Schreiner, David Tomanek, and Hisanori Shinohara, Evidence of diamond nanowires formed inside carbon nanotubes from diamantane dicarboxylic acid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 3717 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material: text] [Supplementary material: movie] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
4. Ceren Tayran, Zhen Zhu, Matteo Baldoni, Daniele Selli, Gotthard Seifert, and David Tomanek, Optimizing electronic structure and quantum transport at the graphene-Si(111) interface: An ab-initiodensity-functional study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 176805 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
5. Toshihiko Fujimori, Aaron Morelos-Gomez, Zhen Zhu, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Ryusuke Futamura, Koki Urita, Mauricio Terrones, Takuya Hayashi, Morinobu Endo, Sang Young Hong, Young Chul Choi, David Tomanek and Katsumi Kaneko, Conducting linear chains of sulfur inside carbon nanotubes, Nature Commun. 4, 2162 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
6. Daniele Selli, Igor Baburin, Stefano Leoni, Zhen Zhu, David Tomanek and Gotthard Seifert, Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and quantum transport in the graphene-C(111) diamond surface system, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 25, 435302 (2013).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
7. Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Zhen Zhu, David Teich, Gotthard Seifert, and David Tomanek, Limits of mechanical energy storage and structural changes in twisted carbon nanotube ropes, Phys. Rev. B 88, 245402 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplemental material] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
8. Zhen Zhu, Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Topologically protected conduction state at carbon foam surfaces: An ab-initio study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 026803 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
9. Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Effect of structural defects on the thermal conductivity of graphene: From point to line defects to haeckelites, Phys. Rev. B 89, 125421 (2014).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
10. Han Liu, Adam T. Neal, Zhen Zhu, Zhe Luo, Xianfan Xu, David Tomanek, and Peide D. Ye, Phosphorene: An Unexplored 2D Semiconductor with a High Hole Mobility, ACS Nano 8, 4033 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
11. Zhen Zhu and David Tomek, Semiconducting layered blue phosphorus: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176802 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [Movies] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
12. Jie Guan,*Zhen Zhu,* and David Tomanek, Phase coexistence and metal-insulator transition in few-layer phosphorene: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046804 (2014). (* equal contribution)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
13. Jie Guan, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, High stability of faceted nanotubes and fullerenes of multi-phase layered phosphorus: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 226801 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
14. P. B. Sorokin, A. G. Kvashnin, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Spontaneous graphitization of ultrathin cubic structures: A computational study, Nano Lett., 14, 7126 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
15. Jie Guan, Zhongqi Jin, Zhen Zhu, Chern Chuang, Bih-Yaw Jin, and David Tomanek, Local curvature and stability of two-dimensional systems, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 245403 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
16. Jie Guan,* Zhen Zhu,* and David Tomanek, Tiling Phosphorene, ACS Nano, 8, 12763 (2014). (* equal contribution)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
17. Zhen Zhu, D.-G. Kwon, Y.-K. Kwon, and David Tomanek, Enhancing mechanical toughness of aluminum surfaces by nanoboron implantation: An ab initio study, Chem. Phys. Lett. 620, 25 (2015). (Editor's choice)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
18. Pablo Rivero, Cedric M. Horvath, Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, David Tomanek, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Simulated scanning tunneling microscopy images of few-layer-phosphorus capped by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride monolayers, Phys. Rev. B 91, 115413 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
19. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Strain-induced metal-semiconductor transition in monolayers and bilayers of gray arsenic: A computational study, Phys. Rev. B 91, 161404(R) (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
20. Chern Chuang, Jie Guan, David Witalka, Zhen Zhu, Bih-Yaw Jin, and David Tomanek, Relative Stability and Local Curvature Analysis in Carbon Nanotori, Phys. Rev. B 91, 165433 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
21. Zhen Zhu, Zacharias G. Fthenakis, and David Tomanek, Electronic structure and transport in graphene/haeckelite hybrids: An ab initio study, 2D Mater. 2, 035001 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
22. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, Dan Liu, and David Tomanek, Designing isoelectronic counterparts to layered group V semiconductors, ACS Nano 9, 8284-8290 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
23. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Structural Transition in Layered As1-xPx Compounds: A Computational Study, Nano Lett. 15, 6042-6046 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
24. Luke Shulenberger, Andrew D. Baczewski, Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, The Nature of the Interlayer Interaction in Bulk and Few-Layer Phosphorus, Nano Lett. 15, 8170-8175 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
25. Jie Guan, Dan Liu, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Two-dimensional allotropes of phosphorus carbide: Competition between sp2 and sp3 bonding, Nano Lett. 16, 3247-3252 (2016).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
26. S. Zhang, M. Xie, B. Cai, H. Zhang, Y. Ma, Z. Chen, Z. Zhu, Z. Hu, and H. Zeng, Semiconductor-topological insulator transition of two-dimensional SbAs induced by biaxial tensile strain, Phys. Rev. B 93, 245303 (2016).
27. M. Xie, S. Zhang, B. Cai, Z. Zhu, Y. Zou, and H. Zeng, Two-dimensional BX (X=P, As, Sb) semiconductors with mobilities approaching graphene, Nanoscale 8, 13407 (2016).
28. Z. Zhu,* H. Peelaers, and C. G. Van de Walle, Hydrogen intercalation in MoS2, Phys. Rev. B 94, 085426 (2016). (* corresponding author)
29. S. Zhang, S. Guo, Y. Huang, Z. Zhu,* B. Cai, M. Xie, W. Zhou, and H. Zeng*, Two-dimensional SiP: an unexplored direct band-gap semiconductor, 2D Mater. 4, 015030 (2017). (* corresponding author)
30. J. Z. Wang, B. J. Dong, H. Guo, T. Yang, Z. Zhu, G. Hu, R. Saito, and Z. D. Zhang, Stability and electronic properties of two-dimensional indium iodide, Phys. Rev. B in press (2017).
31. S. Zhang, W. Zhou, Y. Ma, J. Ji, B. Cai, S. A. Yang, Z. Zhu, Z. Chen, and H. Zeng, Antimonene Oxides: Emerging Tunable Direct Bandgap Semiconductor and Novel Topological Insulator, Nano Lett. in press (2017).
32. Z. Zhu,* H. Peelaers, and C. G. Van de Walle, Electronic and protonic conduction in LaFeO3, J. Mater. Chem. A, in press (2017).
33. W. Zhou, S. Guo, X. Liu, B. Cai, X. Song, Z. Zhu, S. Zhang, Stability enhancement and electronic tunability of two-dimensional SbIV compounds via surface functionalization, Applied Surface Science, accepted (2017).
Full record on Google Scholar (h-index 16). Total 33 publications, including 1 in Nature Communication, 6 in Phys. Rev. Lett., 5 in Nano. Lett., 3 in ACS Nano, 1 in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1 in J Mater. Chem. A.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Ihsan Boustani, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Search for the largest two-dimensional aggregates of boron: An ab initio study. Phys. Rev. B 83, 193405 (2011).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
2. Zhen Zhu and David Tomanek, Formation and Stability of Cellular Carbon Foam Structures: An Ab Initio Study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 135501 (2012).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
3. Jinying Zhang, Zhen Zhu, Yanquan Feng, Hitoshi Ishiwata, Yasumitsu Miyata, Ryo Kitaura, Jeremy E. P. Dahl, Robert M. K. Carlson, Natalie A. Fokina, Peter R. Schreiner, David Tomanek, and Hisanori Shinohara, Evidence of diamond nanowires formed inside carbon nanotubes from diamantane dicarboxylic acid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 3717 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material: text] [Supplementary material: movie] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
4. Ceren Tayran, Zhen Zhu, Matteo Baldoni, Daniele Selli, Gotthard Seifert, and David Tomanek, Optimizing electronic structure and quantum transport at the graphene-Si(111) interface: An ab-initiodensity-functional study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 176805 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
5. Toshihiko Fujimori, Aaron Morelos-Gomez, Zhen Zhu, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Ryusuke Futamura, Koki Urita, Mauricio Terrones, Takuya Hayashi, Morinobu Endo, Sang Young Hong, Young Chul Choi, David Tomanek and Katsumi Kaneko, Conducting linear chains of sulfur inside carbon nanotubes, Nature Commun. 4, 2162 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
6. Daniele Selli, Igor Baburin, Stefano Leoni, Zhen Zhu, David Tomanek and Gotthard Seifert, Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure and quantum transport in the graphene-C(111) diamond surface system, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 25, 435302 (2013).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
7. Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Zhen Zhu, David Teich, Gotthard Seifert, and David Tomanek, Limits of mechanical energy storage and structural changes in twisted carbon nanotube ropes, Phys. Rev. B 88, 245402 (2013).
[pdf file] [Supplemental material] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
8. Zhen Zhu, Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Topologically protected conduction state at carbon foam surfaces: An ab-initio study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 026803 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
9. Zacharias G. Fthenakis, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Effect of structural defects on the thermal conductivity of graphene: From point to line defects to haeckelites, Phys. Rev. B 89, 125421 (2014).
[pdf file] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
10. Han Liu, Adam T. Neal, Zhen Zhu, Zhe Luo, Xianfan Xu, David Tomanek, and Peide D. Ye, Phosphorene: An Unexplored 2D Semiconductor with a High Hole Mobility, ACS Nano 8, 4033 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
11. Zhen Zhu and David Tomek, Semiconducting layered blue phosphorus: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176802 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [Movies] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
12. Jie Guan,*Zhen Zhu,* and David Tomanek, Phase coexistence and metal-insulator transition in few-layer phosphorene: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046804 (2014). (* equal contribution)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
13. Jie Guan, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, High stability of faceted nanotubes and fullerenes of multi-phase layered phosphorus: A computational study, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 226801 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
14. P. B. Sorokin, A. G. Kvashnin, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Spontaneous graphitization of ultrathin cubic structures: A computational study, Nano Lett., 14, 7126 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
15. Jie Guan, Zhongqi Jin, Zhen Zhu, Chern Chuang, Bih-Yaw Jin, and David Tomanek, Local curvature and stability of two-dimensional systems, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 245403 (2014).
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
16. Jie Guan,* Zhen Zhu,* and David Tomanek, Tiling Phosphorene, ACS Nano, 8, 12763 (2014). (* equal contribution)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
17. Zhen Zhu, D.-G. Kwon, Y.-K. Kwon, and David Tomanek, Enhancing mechanical toughness of aluminum surfaces by nanoboron implantation: An ab initio study, Chem. Phys. Lett. 620, 25 (2015). (Editor's choice)
[pdf file] [Supplementary Material] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
18. Pablo Rivero, Cedric M. Horvath, Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, David Tomanek, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Simulated scanning tunneling microscopy images of few-layer-phosphorus capped by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride monolayers, Phys. Rev. B 91, 115413 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
19. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Strain-induced metal-semiconductor transition in monolayers and bilayers of gray arsenic: A computational study, Phys. Rev. B 91, 161404(R) (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
20. Chern Chuang, Jie Guan, David Witalka, Zhen Zhu, Bih-Yaw Jin, and David Tomanek, Relative Stability and Local Curvature Analysis in Carbon Nanotori, Phys. Rev. B 91, 165433 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
21. Zhen Zhu, Zacharias G. Fthenakis, and David Tomanek, Electronic structure and transport in graphene/haeckelite hybrids: An ab initio study, 2D Mater. 2, 035001 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
22. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, Dan Liu, and David Tomanek, Designing isoelectronic counterparts to layered group V semiconductors, ACS Nano 9, 8284-8290 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
23. Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, Structural Transition in Layered As1-xPx Compounds: A Computational Study, Nano Lett. 15, 6042-6046 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
24. Luke Shulenberger, Andrew D. Baczewski, Zhen Zhu, Jie Guan, and David Tomanek, The Nature of the Interlayer Interaction in Bulk and Few-Layer Phosphorus, Nano Lett. 15, 8170-8175 (2015).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
25. Jie Guan, Dan Liu, Zhen Zhu, and David Tomanek, Two-dimensional allotropes of phosphorus carbide: Competition between sp2 and sp3 bonding, Nano Lett. 16, 3247-3252 (2016).
[pdf file] [arXiv version] [Publisher's link to the manuscript] [BIBTeX citation]
26. S. Zhang, M. Xie, B. Cai, H. Zhang, Y. Ma, Z. Chen, Z. Zhu, Z. Hu, and H. Zeng, Semiconductor-topological insulator transition of two-dimensional SbAs induced by biaxial tensile strain, Phys. Rev. B 93, 245303 (2016).
27. M. Xie, S. Zhang, B. Cai, Z. Zhu, Y. Zou, and H. Zeng, Two-dimensional BX (X=P, As, Sb) semiconductors with mobilities approaching graphene, Nanoscale 8, 13407 (2016).
28. Z. Zhu,* H. Peelaers, and C. G. Van de Walle, Hydrogen intercalation in MoS2, Phys. Rev. B 94, 085426 (2016). (* corresponding author)
29. S. Zhang, S. Guo, Y. Huang, Z. Zhu,* B. Cai, M. Xie, W. Zhou, and H. Zeng*, Two-dimensional SiP: an unexplored direct band-gap semiconductor, 2D Mater. 4, 015030 (2017). (* corresponding author)
30. J. Z. Wang, B. J. Dong, H. Guo, T. Yang, Z. Zhu, G. Hu, R. Saito, and Z. D. Zhang, Stability and electronic properties of two-dimensional indium iodide, Phys. Rev. B in press (2017).
31. S. Zhang, W. Zhou, Y. Ma, J. Ji, B. Cai, S. A. Yang, Z. Zhu, Z. Chen, and H. Zeng, Antimonene Oxides: Emerging Tunable Direct Bandgap Semiconductor and Novel Topological Insulator, Nano Lett. in press (2017).
32. Z. Zhu,* H. Peelaers, and C. G. Van de Walle, Electronic and protonic conduction in LaFeO3, J. Mater. Chem. A, in press (2017).
33. W. Zhou, S. Guo, X. Liu, B. Cai, X. Song, Z. Zhu, S. Zhang, Stability enhancement and electronic tunability of two-dimensional SbIV compounds via surface functionalization, Applied Surface Science, accepted (2017).