Yiru Zhu

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
University of Cambridge,
27 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge, CB3 0FS

yz630@cam.ac.uk

Education:

• University of Cambridge (UK), Materials Science and Metallurgy, PhD candidate, 2019-Pres. (Supervisor: Prof. Manish Chhowalla and Dr. Robert Hoye)
• Imperial College London (UK), Chemistry, MRes, 2019. (Supervisor: Prof. Saif Haque)
• Wuhan University of Technology (China), Materials Science and Engineering, BEng, 2018. (Supervisor: Prof. Youfa Wang)

Honors & Awards:

• Materials Science Research Scholarship, 2016-2017
• Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of Hubei Province, 2018
• Excellent Extracurricular Training Undergraduate, 2018
• Excellent Undergraduate with Bachelor’s Degree, 2018

Publications:

• Yiru Zhu, Shuwen Zhao, Bin Zhou, Hao Zhu, Youfa Wang. Enhancing upconversion luminescence of LiYF₄:Yb,Er nanocrystals by Cd²⁺ doping and core-shell structure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121, 18909-18916.
• Shuwen Zhao, Donglin Xia, Ruimin Zhao, Hao Zhu, Yiru Zhu, Yuda Xiong, Youfa Wang. Tuning the morphology, luminescence and magnetic properties of hexagonal-phase NaGdF₄:Yb,Er nanocrystals via altering the addition sequence of the precursors. Nanotechnology 2017, 28, 015601-015613.

Patents:

• A theory of doping large-radius ion Cd²⁺ into LiREF₄ upconversion luminescent nanomaterials and the preparation method. (Application number: 201710422565.2, in the stage of being qualified through preliminary examination)

• A theory of synthesizing core-shell structure LiRE¹F₄:Yb,RE²,Cd@LiRE¹F₄ upconversion luminescent nanomaterials and the preparation method. (Application number: 201710422565.9, in the stage of being qualified through preliminary examination)

Conference:

• Poster presentation, “Fabrication and characterisation of hybrid solar cells based on lead-free organic-metal halide perovskite materials”, 2019 EMRS Spring meeting, Nice, France, 2019, May 28.