Zhang Min

    Ph.D., 2006, Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

    M.E., 2002, Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric and Power University, Beijing, China

    B.E., 1998, Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

Jan. 2012 – present: Associate Professor, Division of Advanced Manufacturing, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

Apr. 2012 – Jun. 2012: Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Jan. 2009 – Dec. 2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Oct. 2006 – Dec. 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2006: Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

Editorial Board Member, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014 – present

Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Senior Member

Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Senior Member

MEMS Technologies and Applications (graduate course), Spring. (Instructor)

Micro/Nano Fabrication Technologies (graduate course), Fall. (Instructor)

MEMS and Its Application (graduate course), Fall. (Instructor)

Microsensors, Spring. (Instructor)

MEMS, Flexible sensors & actuators, tactile sensing, soft robotics

Dr. Zhang's research primarily focuses on Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS). Long-term research aims to investigate the fundamental electrical and mechanical properties of new materials for MEMS/NEMS and low-cost micro/nanomanufacturing approaches. Present research efforts are non-silicon micro-fabrication processes and flexible tactile sensors for the application of robotic smart hand.

1.    Mengmeng Li, Jiaming Liang, Min Zhang*, Ultra-Sensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on Microstructured Electrode. Sensors, 2020, 20, s20020371.

2.    R. U. R. Sagar, B. Shabbir, S. M. Hasnain, N. Mahmood, M. H. Zeb, B.N. Shivananju, T. Ahmed, I. Qasim, M. Imran Malik, Q. Khan, K. Shehzad, A. Younis , Q. Bao, M. Zhang*. Large magnetotransport properties in mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures of graphene foam. Carbon, 2020, 159, 648-655.

3.    Rizwan Ur Rehman Sagar, Usman Khan, Massimiliano Galluzzi, Sehrish Aslam, Adeela Nairan, Tauseef Anwar, Waqas Ahmad, Min Zhang*, and Tongxiang Liang*. Transfer-Free Growth of Bi2O2Se on Silicon Dioxide via Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2020 2 (7), 2123-2131.

4.    Yichuan Wu, Justin K. Yim, Jiaming Liang, Zhichun Shao, Mingjing Qi, Junwen Zhong,* Zihao Luo, Xiaojun Yan, Min Zhang,* Xiaohao Wang, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full, Liwei Lin*, Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot, Science Robotics, 2019,4, eaax1594.

5.    Xin Li, Rizwan Ur Rehman Sagar, Lunchao Zhong, Yixin Liu, Dandan Hui, Min Zhang*. Nonsaturating negative magnetoresistance in laser-induced graphene. Materials Letters 2019, 248, 43–47.

6.    Jiaming Liang, Yichuan Wu, Huiwen Kan, Renxiao Xu, Zhichun Shao, Wenying Qiu, Tao Jiang, Mingjing Qi, Min Zhang*, Liwei Lin, Xiaohao Wang, Soft thin sheet kirigami vacuum powered pneumatic actuator for wearable robotics. The 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, (Transducers 2019), June 23-27, 2019, Berlin, Gemany.

7.    Rizwan Ur Rehman Sagar Khurram Shehzad Ayaz Ali, Florian J. Stadler, Qasim Khan, Jingjing Zhao, Xiaohao Wang and Min Zhang*. Defect-induced, temperature-independent, tunable Magnetoresistance of partially fluorinated graphene foam, Carbon, 2019, 143, 179-188.

8.    Yichuan Wu, Ilbey karakurt, Levent Beker, Yoshihiro Kubota, Renxiao Xu, Kong Yin Ho, Shilong Zhao, junwen zhong, Min Zhang*, Xiaohao Wang, Liwei Lin. Piezoresistive Stretchable Strain Sensors with Human Machine Interface Demonstrations. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 2018,279,46-52.

9.    Yichuan Wu, Levent Beker, Ilbey Karakurt, Weihua Cai, Jacqueline Elwood, Xiaoqian Li, Junwen Zhong, Min Zhang*, Xiaohao Wang*, and Liwei Lin*. High resolution flexible strain sensors for biological signal measurements. Transducers 2017, June 18-22, 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.