Introduction

Dr. Zhao’s research interests focus on soft condensed matters, including colloidal assembly, soft matter physics, flexible optical materials, photonic structures in biology, etc.

Biographical Information

Dr. Qibin Zhao received his B.S. degree in Materials Science from Shandong University in 2007, M.S degree in Materials Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2010, and Ph. D in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2015. He joined Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2018.10, and before he was working on bridging the gap between university research and industry manufacturing along with the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise and the startups.

Research Interests

Dr. Zhao’s research interests focus on soft condensed matters, including colloidal assembly, soft matter physics, flexible optical materials, photonic structures in biology, etc.

Selected Publications

(1) Qibin Zhao; Andrew Haines; David Snoswell; Christoph Keplinger; Rainer Kaltseis; Siegfried Bauer; Ingrid Graz; Richard Denk; Peter Spahn; Geotz Hellmann; Jeremy Baumberg ; Electric-field-tuned color in photonic crystal elastomers, Applied Physics Letters, 2012, 100: 101902 

(2) Qibin Zhao; Chris E. Finlayson; David. R. E. Snoswell; Andrew Haines; Christian Schafer; Peter Spahn; Goetz P. Hellmann; Andrei V. Petukhov; Lars Herrmann; Pierre Burdet; Paul A. Midgley; Simon Butler; Malcolm Mackley; Qixin Guo; Jeremy J. Baumberg ; Large-scale ordering of nanoparticles using viscoelastic shear processing, Nature Communications, 2016, 7: 11661 

(3) Qibin Zhao; Chris E. Finlayson; Christian Schaefer; Peter Spahn; Markus Gallei; Lars Herrmann; Andrei V. Petukhov; Jeremy J. Baumberg ; Nanoassembly of polydisperse photonic crystals based on binary and ternary opal alloys, Advanced Optical Materials, 2016, 4: 1494-1500

Research Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China (51903155, 52011530182) 

Honors & Awards

Shanghai Rising Star Program Scholar, IAS fellow of Surrey University