PI: 
Dr. Zhidan Zeng '曾徵丹' is a staff scientist at Shanghai Laboratory of HPSTAR. Dr. Zeng earned her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2006, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2011.
Her research interest is using various high pressure techniques to understand the structure and properties of group-14 elements (carbon, silicon, germanium, and related materials) and energy related materials under extreme conditions; synthesis of novel super-hard materials; mechanical properties and deformation of materials. Dr. Zeng has published more than 30 papers in international journals including Nature Communications, Phys. Rev. Letts., PNAS, Advanced Energy Materials, and Nano Energy, etc.
Contact information:
Email: zengzd@hpstar.ac.cn
Phone: +86 (21) 8017-7093
Address: 上海市浦东区蔡伦路1690号6号楼304室，邮编201203
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research(HPSTAR)
1690 Cailun Rd, Bldg 6, Room 304,Pudong, Shanghai 201203, China
Recent publications:
1. Yuanyuan Xuan, Lijie Tan, Benyuan Cheng, Fei Zhang, Xiehang Chen, Mingyuan Ge, Qiaoshi Zeng, Zhidan Zeng*, Pressure-induced phase transitions in nanostructured silicon, J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 27089–27096 (2020).
2. Zhidan Zeng*, Qiaoshi Zeng, Mingyuan Ge, Bin Chen, Hongbo Lou, Xiehang Chen, Jinyuan Yan, Wenge Yang, Ho-kwang Mao, Deren Yang, Wendy L. Mao, Origin of plasticity in nanostructured silicon, Phys. Rev. Letts., 124, 185701 (2020)
3. Lijie Tan, Hongwei Sheng, Benyuan Cheng, Hongbo Lou, Yuanyuan Xuan, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Qiaoshi Zeng, Fang Peng, Zhidan Zeng*, High-pressure tetrahedral amorphous carbon synthesized by compressing glassy carbon at room temperature, J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 5489 (2020).
4. Hongbo Lou, Zhidan Zeng, Fei Zhang, Songyi Chen, Peng Luo, Xiehang Chen, Yang Ren, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Clemens Prescher, Xiaobing Zuo, Jianguo Wen, Weihua Wang, Hongwei Shen, Q.S. Zeng*, Two-way tuning of structural ordering states in a metallic glass, Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-14129-7 (2020)
5. Zhidan Zeng*, Hongwei Sheng, Liuxiang Yang, Hongbo Lou, Lijie Tan, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Qiaoshi Zeng，Structural transition in cold-compressed glassy carbon，Phys. Rev. Mater.，3, 033608 (2019)
6. Lijie Tan, Zhidan Zeng*, Hongbo Lou, Fei Zhang, Xiehang Chen, Songyi Chen, Yuanyuan Xuan, Fang Peng*, Qiaoshi Zeng, Stability of Zirconium Carbide Under High Pressure and High Temperature, J. Phys. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00715 (2019)
7. Zhidan Zeng, Liuxiang Yang, Qiaoshi Zeng*, Hongbo Lou, Hongwei Sheng, Jianguo Wen*, Dean J. Miller, Yue Meng, Wenge Yang, Wendy L. Mao, and Ho-kwang Mao*, Synthesis of quenchable amorphous diamond, Nat. Commun., 8, 322, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00395-w (2017).
8. Qiaoshi Zeng*, Zhidan Zeng, Hongbo Lou, Yoshio Kono, Bo Zhang, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Changyong Park, and Wendy Mao, Pressure-induced elastic anomaly in a polyamorphous metallic glass, Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 221902 (2017).
9. Fei Zhang†, Yuan Wu†, Hongbo Lou†, Zhidan Zeng, Vitali Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Yang Ren, Jinyuan Yan, John S. Okasinski, Yong Liu, Qiaoshi Zeng*, and Zhaoping Lu*, Polymorphism in a high-entropy alloy, Nat. Commun., DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15687 (2017).
10. Zhidan Zeng, Nian Liu, Qiaoshi Zeng, Seok Woo Lee, Wendy L. Mao, and Yi Cui, In situ measurement of lithiation-induced stress in silicon nanoparticles using micro-Raman spectroscopy, Nano Energy, 22, 105 (2016).
11. Qiaoshi Zeng, Yu Lin, Yijin Liu, Zhidan Zeng, Crystal Y. Shi, Bo Zhang, Hongbo Lou, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Yoshio Kono, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Changyong Park, Wenge Yang, Weihua Wang, Hongwei Sheng, Ho-kwang Mao, and Wendy L. Mao, A general 2.5 power law of metallic glasses, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525390113 (2016).
12. Zhidan Zeng*, Qingfeng Zeng, Nian Liu, Artem R. Oganov, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yi Cui, and Wendy L. Mao*, A novel phase of Li15Si4 synthesized under pressure, Adv. Energy Mater., 5, 1500214 (2015).