Prof. Jizhai Cui
Fudan University, Department of Materials Science
Email: jzcui@fudan.edu.cn
Office: Room 419, Advanced Materials Building, Jiangwan Campus
Education and Work Experience
2020.10 - present, Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, China
2016.8-2020.8, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2011.8-2016.6, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2014.6-2014.8, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
2007.8-2011.6, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Research Interests
Intelligent micro/nanorobots and microsystems
Nanomagnetism and its device applications
Ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials
Honors and Awards
2017-2019 Marie Curie Co-fund “PSI-Fellow” Postdoctoral Fellowship
Representative Publications
Jizhai Cui#*, Tian-Yun Huang#*, Zhaochu Luo, Paolo Testa, Hongri Gu, Xiang-Zhong Chen, Bradley J Nelson, Laura J Heyderman, Nanomagnetic encoding of shape-morphing micromachines, Nature, 575, 7781 (2019)
Paolo Testa*, Robert W. Style, Jizhai Cui, Claire Donnelly, Elena V. Borisova, Peter M. Derlet, Eric R. Dufresne*, Laura J. Heyderman*, Magnetically Addressable Shape-Memory and Stiffening in a Composite Elastomer, Advanced Materials, 31, 1900561 (2019)
Zhaochu Luo*, Trong Phuong Dao, Ales Hrabec, Jaianth Vijayakumar, Armin Kleibert, Manuel Baumgartner, Eugenie Kirk, Jizhai Cui, Tatiana Savchenko, Gunasheel Krishnaswamy, Laura J Heyderman*, Pietro Gambardella*, Chirally coupled nanomagnets, Science, 363, 1435 (2019)
Sebastian Gliga*, Gino Hrkac, Claire Donnelly, Jonathan Büchi, Armin Kleibert, Jizhai Cui, Alan Farhan, Eugenie Kirk, Rajesh V Chopdekar, Yusuke Masaki, Nicholas S Bingham, Andreas Scholl, Robert L Stamps, Laura J Heyderman, Emergent dynamic chirality in a thermally driven artificial spin ratchet, Nature Materials, 16, 1106 (2017)
Jizhai Cui, Scott M. Keller, Cheng-yen Liang, Gregory P. Carman, Christopher S. Lynch*, Nanoscale Magnetic Ratchets Based on Shape Anisotropy, Nanotechnology, 28, 08LT01 (2017)
Jizhai Cui, Cheng-Yen Liang, Elizabeth A. Paisley, Abdon Sepulveda, Jon F. Ihlefeld, Gregory P. Carman, Christopher S. Lynch*, Generation of localized strain in a thin film piezoelectric to control individual magnetoelectric heterostructures, Applied Physics Letters, 107, 092903 (2015)
Jizhai Cui, Joshua L. Hockel, Paul K. Nordeen, David M. Pisani, Gregory P. Carman, Christopher S. Lynch*, Giant electric-field-induced magnetic anisotropy reorientation with patterned electrodes on a Ni thin film/lead zirconate titanate heterostructure, Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 17C711 (2014)
Jizhai Cui, Joshua L. Hockel, Paul K. Nordeen, David M. Pisani, Cheng-yen Liang, Gregory P. Carman, Christopher S. Lynch*, A method to control magnetism in individual strain-mediated magnetoelectric islands, Applied Physics Letters, 103, 232905 (2013)