Physicist, X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Lab, 2014-present

Assistant Physicist, X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Lab, 2009-2014

Post doctorate, X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Lab, 2007-2009

Z. Jiang, J. He, S. A. Deshmukh, P. Kanjanaboos, G Kamath., Y. Wang, S. Sankaranarayanan, J. Wang, H. M. Jaeger, and X.-M. Lin, Subnanometre ligand-shell asymmetry leads to Janus-like nanoparticle membranes. Nature Mater. 14, 912 (2015).

S. K. Sinha, Z. Jiang, L. B. Lurio, Review: X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Surfaces and Thin Films. Adv. Mater. 26, 7764 (2014).

J. Kao, S.-J. Jeong, Z. Jiang, D.-H. Lee, K. Aissou, C. A. Ross, T. P. Russell, T. Xu, Direct 3-D Nanoparticle Assemblies in Thin Films via Topographically Patterned Surfaces. Adv. Mater. 26, 2777 (2014).

S. Xiong, D. R. Dunphy, D. C. Wilkinson,  Z. Jiang, J. Strzalka, J. Wang, Y. Su, J. J. de Pabloc, C. J. Brinker. Revealing the Interfacial Self-Assembly Pathway of Large-Scale, Highly-Ordered, Nanoparticle/Polymer Monolayer Arrays at an Air/Water Interface. Nano Lett. 13, 1041 (2013).

T. Sun, Z. Jiang, J. Strzalka, L. Ocola, J. Wang. Three-Dimensional Coherent X-ray Surface Scattering Imaging near Total External Reflection. Nature Photonics 6, 588 (2012)

C. M. Evans, S. Narayanan, Z. Jiang, J. M. Torkelson. Modulus, Confinement, and Temperature Effects on Surface Capillary Wave Dynamics in Bilayer Polymer Films Near the Glass Transition.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 38302. (2012)

J. Kao, P. Bai, V. P. Chuang, Z. Jiang, P. Ericus, T. Xu. Nanoparticle. Nanoparticle Assemblies in Thin Films of Supramolecular Nanocomposites. Nano Lett. 12, 2610 (2012)

J. Jiang, O. V. Lima, Y. Pei, Z. Jiang, Z. Chen, C. Yu, J. Wang, X. C. Zeng, E. Forsythe, L. Tan. Self-Assembled Nanolayers of Conjugated Silane with π−π Interlocking. ACS Nano 4, 3773 (2010)

Z. Jiang, X.-M. Lin, M. Sprung, S. Narayanan, J. Wang. Capturing the crystalline phase of two-dimensional nanocrystal superlattices in action. Nano Lett. 10, 799-803 (2010).

S. Prasad, Z. Jiang, M. Sprung, S. K. Sinha, A. Dhinojwala. Effect of Surface Freezing on Meniscus Relaxation in Side Chain Comb Polymers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 137801 (2010)

Z. Jiang, et al., Entanglement Effects in Capillary Waves on Liquid Polymer Films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 246104 (2008)

S. Prasad, Z. Jiang, S. K. Sinha, A. Dhinojwala. Partial Crystallinity in Alkyl Side Chain Polymers Dictates Surface Freezing. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 065505 (2008)

M. K. Mukhopadhyay, X. Jiao, L. B. Lurio, Z. Jiang, J. Stark, M. Sprung, S. Narayanan, A. R. Sandy, S. K. Sinha. Thickness Induced Structural Changes in Polystyrene Films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115501 (2008)

Z. Jiang, et al., Evidence of viscoelastic effects in surface capillary waves of ultra-thin molten polymer films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 227801 (2007)

My research interests focus on the structure, kinetics and dynamics at the surfaces and interfaces of polymers, biomembranes and their nanocomposites with nanoparticles. I mainly use x-ray techniques such as x-ray diffraction and grazing-incidence scattering. I am also interested in modeling and theoretical development for x-ray scattering data analysis. Current research projects include: liquid polymer surface dynamics, polymer nanofiber structures, lipid biomembrane structures and dynamics, interfacial assembly of nanoparticles and diblock copolymers.

Ph.D. Physics, University of California San Diego, 2007

B.S. Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001

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