• B.Eng., Tsinghua University 1984
• Ph.D., Tsinghua University 1989 (in alliance with Osaka University)

Current Research

• Functionalities and applications of geo-mimetic ceramic materials
• Metal matrix quasicrystal composites with strong interface chemical bonding for advanced applications
• Synthesis, characterization and application of metal nanoplates

Interested topics
 

• Functionalities and applications of geo-mimetic ceramic materials (including apatite-type, perovskite-type, spinel-type, wurtzite-type, anatase-type, olivine-type, and layered-type)
• X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of metals and ceramics

  RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Processing of metals and alloys; Synthesis of geo-mimetic ceramic powders
• Functionalities and applications of geo-mimetic ceramic materials (including apatite-type, perovskite-type, spinel-type, wurtzite-type, anatase-type, olivine-type, and layered-type)
• Applications of polyoxometalates
• X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of metals and ceramics
• Coating and cross-sectional interface structure analysis by TEM/EELS
• Crystal structure / Electronic structure -- property relationships

•    1987–Research Student Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Japan
•    1991 - Teaching award, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
•    1992 - Teaching award, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
•    1993 - Visiting Professorship, Ministry of Education, Gatalunya Autonomous Government, Spain
•    2014 - Guest Professorship, State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
•    2015–Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 

• Associate Professor Jie Lian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
• Study of geo-mimetic apatites for the stabilization of nuclear wastes
• Assistant Professor Fengyuan Lu, Louisiana State University:
• Study of geo-mimetic apatites for the stabilization of nuclear wastes
• Professor Lumin Wang, University of Michigan:
• Study of geo-mimetic apatites for the stabilization of nuclear wastes
• Professor, Michael E. McHenry, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University:
• Structural and magnetic properties oftitanomagnetites
• Dr Zaoli Zhang, Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austria Academy of Sciences:
• HRTEM study of ceramics and quasicrystals
• Professor Adrian Lowe, Australia National University:
• Nanostructured zirconia and high temperature phase transformation
• Dr Evgeny N. Bulanov, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia:
• Crystal structures and properties of synthetic apatites
• Professor Chang Ming Li, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Technologies of Clean Energies, China:
• Nanostructured functional materials
• Professor Tom Wu, Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology:
• Nanostructured functional materials
• Professor Xu Chunxiang, Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, China:
• Structure-property relationship of zinc oxide
• Professor Vadim V. Silberschmidt, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK:
• Polymer based nanocomposites for sports applications
• Professor J. M. Guilemany, University of Barcelona, Spain:
• Microstructure formation of thermal spray coatings
• ProfessorYves Wouters, University of Grenoble, France:
• Behavior of nanocomposite coatings under extreme environments
• Dr AndrásKovács, ForschungszentrumJulich GmbH in the Helmholtz Association, Germany:
• HRTEM study of nanocomposite coatings

Editorships

• Guest editor for Special Issue on Nanotechnology in Singapore 2007, International Journal of Nanotechnology
• Associate editor, International Journal of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Conference Organization

• Scientific Committee Member, Advanced Materials for Sports Technology Symposium, Singapore, Dec. 2014.
• Session chairman: Sixth China International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics, Harbin, China, Aug. 2009.
• Session chairman: The 7th International Conference on Materials Processing for Properties and Performance, Singapore, Nov. 2008.
• Session chairman, Nanodevices and Nanofabrication, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, July 2007.
• Session chairman, The 3rd International Conference on Technological Advances of Thin Films & Surface Coatings, Singapore, Dec. 2006.
• Session chairman, Novel Porous Materials for Emerging Applications, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, July 2005.
• Conference organizer: Novel Ceramic Membranes for Environmental Applications, The 1st International Conference on Materials Processing for Properties and Performance, Singapore, Aug. 2002.
• Organizing Committee Member, Advances in Environmental Materials Symposium, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore 2001.
• Session chairman: 6th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials, Singapore, Nov., 1997.

• X. H. Zhong, M. Y. Han, Z. L. Dong, T. J. White, W. Knoll, “Composition-tunable ZnXCd1-XSe nanocrystals with high luminescence and stability”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125 (2003), 8589-8594.
• Z. L. Dong, K. A. Khor, C. H. Quek, T. J. White and P. Chaeng, “TEM and STEM analysis on heat-treated and in vitro plasma-sprayed hydroxyapatite /Ti-6Al-4V composite coatings”, Biomaterials, 24 (2003), 97-105.
• Z. L. Dong, T. J. White, “Calcium-lead fluoro-vanadinite apatites: I Disequilibrium structure”, Acta Crystallographica B, 60 (2) (2004), 138-145.
• Z. L. Dong, T. J. White, “Calcium-lead fluoro-vanadinite apatites: II Equilibrium structure”, Acta Crystallographica B, 60 (2) (2004), 146-154.
• C. X. Xu, X. W. Sun, Z. L. Dong and M. B. Yu, “Zinc oxide nanodisk”, Applied Physics Letters, 85 (2004), 3878-3880.
• Z. L. Dong, T. J. White, K. Sun, L. M. Wang, R. C. Ewing, “Electron irradiation induced transformation of (Pb5Ca5)(VO4)6F2 apatite to CaVO3 perovskite”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 88 (1) (2005), 184-190.
• B. H. Liu, J. Ding, Z. L Dong, C. B. Boothroyd, J. H. Yin, J. B. Yi, “Microstructural evolution and its influence on the magnetic properties of CoFe2O4 powders during mechanical milling”, Physical Review B, 74 (2006), 184427-1 - 10.
• Y. Yang, X. W. Sun, B. K. Tay, J. X. Wang, Z. L. Dong, H. M. Fan, “Twinned Zn2TiO4 spinel nanowires using ZnO nanowires as a template”, Advanced Materials, 19 (2007), 1839-1844.
• L. Z. Zhang, W. Gu, Z. L. Dong, X. Liu, B. Li, “Phase transformation of a rare-earth Anderson polyoxometalate at low temperature”, CrystEngComm, 10 (2008), 1318-1320.
• Z. L. Dong, “X-ray diffraction, Rietveld crystal structure refinement and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of nano-structured materials”, Handbook of Nanoceramics and Their Based Nanodevices, Vol. 3, p 303-336 American Scientific Publishers, 2009.
• Y. Q. Shen, A. Tok, Z. L. Dong, “Synthesis and crystal structure characterization of silicate apatite Sr2Y8(SiO4)6O2”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 93 (2010), 1176-1182.
• Y. X. Tang, Z. Chen, Z. L. Dong, “In situ formation of large-scale Ag/AgCl nanoparticles on layered titanate honeycomb by gas phase reaction for visible light degradation of phenol solution”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2011, 106, p577-585.
• S. Y. Zhang, E. Ye, S. H. Liu, S. H. Lim, S. Y. Tee, Z. L. Dong. M. Y. Han, “Temperature and chemical bonding-directed self-assembly of cobalt phosphide nanowires in reaction solutions into vertical and horizontal alignments”, Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, p4369-4375.
• A. Soni, Y. Shen, M. Yin, Y. Zhao, L. Yu, X. Hu, Z. L. Dong, K. K. Khor, M. Dresselhaus, Q. Xiong, “Interface Driven Energy Filtering of Thermoelectric Power in Spark Plasma Sintered Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 Nanoplatelet Composites”, Nano Letters, 2012, 12, p 4305-10.
• Z. Li, M. Bosman, Z. Yang, P. Ren, L. Wang, L. Cao, X. Yu, C. Ke, M. B. H. Breese, A. Rusydi, W. Zhu, Z. L. Dong, and Y. L. Foo, “Interface and Surface Cation Stoichiometry Modified by Oxygen Vacancies in Epitaxial Manganite Films”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22, p 4312-21.
• Y. Tang, Z. Jiang, G. Xing, A. Li, P. D. Kanhere, Y. Zhang, T. C. Sum, S. Li, X. Chen, Z. L. Dong, Z. Chen, “Efficient Ag@AgCl cubic cages photocatalyst profited from ultrafast Plasmon induced electron transfer process” Advanced Functional Materials, 2013, 23, p 2932-2940.
• F. Lu, Y. Shen, X. Sun, Z. L. Dong, R. C. Ewing, J. Lian, “Size Dependence of Radiation-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization of Synthetic Nanostructured CePO4 Monazite”, Acta Materialia, 2013. 61, p 2984- 2992.
• Z. L. Jiang, Y. X. Tang, Q. L. Tay, Y. Y. Zhang, O. I. Malyi, D. P. Wang, J. Y. Deng, Y. K. Lai, H. F. Zhou, X. D. Chen, Z. L. Dong, Z. Chen, “Understanding the Role of Nanostructures for Efficient Hydrogen Generation on Immobilized Photocatalysts”, Advanced Energy Materials, 2013, 3, p 1368-1380.
• Z. P. Li, X. Guo, H. B. Lu, Z. L. Zhang, D. S. Song, S. B. Cheng, M. Bosman, J. Zhu, Z. L. Dong, W. G. Zhu, “An Epitaxial Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction on Silicon”, Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, p7185–7189.
• L. Yao, S. K. Lua, L. Z. Zhang, R. Wang, Z. L. Dong, “Dye removal by surfactant encapsulated polyoxometalates”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2014, 280, p428-435.
• R. T. Li, Z. L. Dong, V. K. Murugan, Z. L. Zhang, K. A. Khor, “Microstructure characterization of Al–Cr–Fe quasicrystals sintered using spark plasma sintering”, Materials Characterization, 2015, 110, 264–271.
• E. N. Bulanov, J. X. Wang, A. V. Knyazev, T. White, M. E. Manyakina, T. Baikie, A. N. Lapshin, and Z. L. Dong, “Structure and Thermal Expansion of Calcium−Thorium Apatite, [Ca4]F[Ca2Th4]T[(SiO4)6]O2”, Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 11356−11361.
• J. X. Wang, F. X. Wei, S. M. Lim, E. J. Liu, C. Guet, T. White, and Z. L. Dong, “Synthesis and Crystal Structure Characterization of Oxysilicate Apatites for Stabilization of Sr and Rare-Earth Elements”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2016, 99 (5), 1761–1768.
• L. Yao, L. Z. Zhang, R. Wang, S. R. Chou, Z. L. Dong, “A new integrated approach for dye removal from wastewater by polyoxometalates functionalized membranes”, Journal of Hazardous Materials 2016, 301, 462–470.

F.         BOOK CHAPTERS

• Z. L. Dong, “X-ray diffraction, Rietveld crystal structure refinement and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of nano-structured materials”, Handbook of Nanoceramics and Their Based Nanodevices, Vol. 3, p 303-336. American Scientific Publishers 2009, ISBN: 1-58883-117-5.
• L. B. Kong, Y. Z. Huang, T. S. Zhang, W. X. Que, J. Zhang, Z. L. Dong, D. Y. Tang and S. Li,  “Processing and Applications of Transparent Ceramics”, Lightest Metals: Science and Technology from Lithium to Calcium, p343-370, Wiley, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-118-70328-1.

G.        BOOK

• L. B. Kong, Huang, Y.Z., Que, W.X., Zhang, T.S., Li, S., Zhang, J., Dong, Z.L., Tang, D.Y., Transparent Ceramics, Springer, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-319-18955-0.