Qing Tu, PhD
NUANCE
Northwestern University
Silverman Hall, Rm B562
2170 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3113
Email: qing.tu@northwestern.edu
Educational/Research Background
| 2017-present | Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University |
| 2011-2017 | PhD, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke Engineering M.A., Economics, Duke University |
| 2007-2011 | B.S., Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Peking University |
Research Objective
Develop novel scanning probe microscopy techniques for characterizing nanomechanical, structural, and electromechanical properties of low dimensional and biological functional materials.
Publications and Supported Works
- Linying Li, Nan K Li, Qing Tu, Owen Im, Chia-Kuei Mo, Wei Han, William H. Fuss, Nick Carroll, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Yaroslava G. Yingling, Stefan Zauscher, and Gabriel P. López, “Peptide-based Functional Film: Enhanced Adsorption of Elastin-like Polypeptide Block Copolymer on Silica”, Biomacromoleculeshttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01307
- Kezhao Duǂ, Qing Tuǂ (contributed equally), Xu Zhang, Qiwei Han, Jie Liu, Stefan Zauscher, David Mitzi, “Two-Dimensional Lead(II)-Halide-Based Hybrid Perovskites Templated by Acene Alkylamines: Crystal Structures, Optical Properties and Piezoelectricity”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 56, 9291-9302
- Qing Tu, Hoshin Kim, Thomas Oweida, Zehra Parlak, Yaroslava Yingling, and Stefan Zauscher, “Interfacial Mechanical Properties of Graphene on Self-Assembled Monolayers”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9(11), 10203-10213
- Qing Tu, Bjoern Lange, Zehra Parlak, Joao Marcelo Lopes, Volker Blum and Stefan Zauscher, “Quantitative Subsurface Atomic Structure Fingerprint for 2D Materials and Heterostructures by First-Principles-Calibrated Contact-Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy”, ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (7), pp 6491–6500
- Zehra Parlak, Qing Tu, Stefan Zauscher, “Liquid Contact Resonance AFM: Analytic Models, Experiments, and Limitations”, Nanotechnology, 25, 445703 (2014)
- Stefan Zauscher, Zehra Parlak, Qing Tu, “Mapping the Stiffness of Nanomaterials and Thin Films by Acoustic AFM Techniques”, in: Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties, Bharat Bhushan (ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
- Jianfeng Zang, Seunghwa Ryu, Nicola Pugno, Qiming Wang, Qing Tu, Markus J. Buehler, Xuanhe Zhao, “Multifunctionality and Control of the Crumpling and Unfolding of Large-area Graphene”, Nature Materials 12, 321 (2013)