Current Professional Societies

1. Deputy Director of Sol-gel Committee, Chinese Ceramic Society;

2. Member of the 9^thCouncil of Chinese Ceramic Society;

3. Member of Electroceramics and Device Committee, China Electronic Components Association

Research Areas

1. Fundamental physics of dielectrics and Ferroelectrics;

2. Electrocaloric effect of ferroelectric and relative materials;

3. Dielectric energy storage materials and devices.

Honors

Second Award, Scientific and Technical Award of Building Materials (Fundamental Researches)

Publications

1. Excellent energy storage performance of K_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃- based ferroelectric ceramics under low electric field,Chem Eng J414 (2021) 128769.

2. Large electrocaloric effect near room temperature in lead–free Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃-based ergodic relaxor observed by differential scanning calorimetry,Script Mater171 (2019) 10-15.

3. Large electrocaloric effect in tetragonal perovskite 0.03Bi(Mg_1/2Ti_1/2)O₃- 0.97(0.875Bi_1/2Na_1/2TiO₃- 0.125BaTiO₃) lead-free ferroelectric ceramics,Script Mater162 (2019) 256-260.

4. Giant strain of 0.65% obtained in B-site complex cations (Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)⁴⁺-modified BNT-7BT ceramics,J Alloy Comps782 (2019) 611-618.

5. Thermally-stable large strain in Bi(Mn_0.5Ti_0.5)O₃modified 0.8Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃-0.2Bi_0.5K_0.5TiO₃ceramics,J Eur Ceram Soc39(5) (2019) 1827-1836.

6. Composition-induced phase evolution and high strain response in Ba(Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-modified (Bi_1/2Na_1/2)TiO₃-based lead-free ferroelectrics,RSC Adv8(22) (2018) 12269-12275.

7. Ferroelectric P4mm to relaxor P4bm transition and temperature-insensitive large strains in Bi(Mg_0.5Ti_0.5)O₃-modified tetragonal 0.875Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃-0.125BaTiO₃lead-free ferroelectric ceramics,J Eur Ceram Soc38(4) (2018) 1381-1388.

8. Relaxor to ferroelectric crossover in KBT ceramics by prolonged annealing,J Alloy Comps703 (2017) 448-453.

9. Critical transition of conductance and dielectric relaxation of synthesized fused silica investigated by electrical impedance spectroscopy,J Non-Cryst Solid439 (2016) 15-20.

10. Relaxation mechanism analysis of synthetic fused quartz glass investigated by electrical impedance spectra,Chin Sci Bull59(26) (2014) 3271–3275.

Personal statement

Zhu Mankang, Male, Professor and Doctoral supervisor. His main researches are focused in the dielectric materials and physics, including piezo/ferroelectric materials, electrocaloric materials, and dielectric energy storage materials. He has presided two national natural science foundation projects, scientific development program projects of Beijing Education Committee, and several enterprise-trusted projects. He has published over 60 papers in international academic journals, includingActa Mater,Chem Eng J,Scipta Mater,J Mater Chem C,J Eur Ceram Soc,J Am Ceram Soc,J Alloy Compd,Appl Phys Lett, etc., which have been cited over 3000 times.