Yunlong ZI

Yunlong ZI
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yunlong Zi is an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Zi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2014; his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. Before joining CUHK, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2014-2017. His current research interests focus on high-efficiency mechanical energy harvesting through triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), TENG triggered high-voltage applications, and self-powered systems. His work also contributed to self-aligned growth of III-V semiconductor nanowire arrays for high-performance nano-electronic devices. As the 1st author, his research studies have been published in top-notch journals, including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Nano Energy, and etc. He was honored as the winner of MRS Postdoctoral Award by Materials Research Society in 2017, as the first recipient from Georgia Tech; and was highlighted in Purdue homepage as one of “5 students who are transformation makers”. His current lab webpage: https://zilab.weebly.com/