Chenhui Zhu

Chenhui Zhu received his B.Sc. from the University of Science and Technology of China and Ph. D in Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder before he did his postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. He is currently a Staff Scientist at the Advanced Light Source in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• X-ray scattering and diffraction, grazing-incidence SAXS/WAXS applications in materials science
• In situ, multimodal sample environment development
• Resonant X-ray scattering (with soft and tender X-rays) for bond orientation studies
• Coherent X-ray scattering (XPCS) studies of fluctuations in materials science
• Synchrotron-based automation for sample manipulation and generation in the context of autonomous experiments for data-driven, accelerated materials discovery
• Liquid Crystals, Metal organic framework (MOF)/COFs, Perovskite solar cell, Biomaterials, Self assembly in nanomaterials, Polymers

Selected professional services:

• Chair of the NSLS-II scattering proposal review panel (PRP), 2023-
• Co-chair for the ALS Complex Materials Interface Thrust, 2020-2023
• Discussion leader/panelist at Gordon Research Conference/Seminar, 2023
• Molecular Foundry (LBNL) User Executive Committee member, 2019-2021
• Host of LAAAMP fellows (Light Sources for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Mid-East and Pacific)
• Host of ALS Doctoral and Postdoctoral fellows
• Proposal Review Panel, Small-angle X-ray scattering, APS, Argonne, 2024-

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In Situ Multimodal Sample Environments

1. In-situ Spin Coater for Multimodal Grazing Incidence X-ray Scattering Studies, A. H. Coffey, J. Slack, E. Cornell, L. L. Yang, K. Anderson, K. Wang, L. Dou, C. Zhu, Rev. Sci. Instrum., (2023).

Resonant X-ray Scattering/Bond-Molecular Orientation Ordering

1. “Probing and Controlling Liquid Crystal Helical Nanofilament”, C. Zhu, et al, Nano Letters 15, 3420 (2015).
2. “Resonant Carbon K-Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Helical Molecular Reorientation (Twist Bend Nematic Phase)”, C. Zhu, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 147803 (2016).
3. “Structure of 3-D Nanoscale-pitch Helical Phases: Blue Phases and Twist Bend Nematic”, M. Salamonczyk, et al., Soft Matter,  13, 6694 (2017) (Cover).
4. “Molecular Packing in Double Gyroid Cubic Phases Revealed via Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering“, Y. Cao, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027801 (2020).

Coherent X-ray Scattering and Imaging

1. “Study of Electrode Surface Dynamics Using Coherent Surface X-Ray Scattering“, H. You, et al., Electrochimica Acta, 82, 570 (2012).
2. “Ptychographic X-ray Imaging of Surfaces on Crystal Truncation Rod”, C. Zhu, et al., Applied Physics Letters, 106, 101604 (2015).

Liquid Crystals, Molecular Rotors, Nanoparticle Self-assembly, Metal Organic Framework (MOF/COF),

1. “Topological Ferroelectric Bistability in a Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystal”, C. Zhu, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 9681 (2012);; “Spontaneous Ferroelectric Order in a Bent-Core Smectic Liquid Crystal of Fluid Orthorhombic Layers”, R. A. Reddy, C. Zhu, et al., Science 332, 72 (2011).
2. “Structure of a Monolayer of Molecular Rotors on Aqueous Subphase from Grazing-incidence X-ray Diffraction“, J. Kaleta, et al., PNAS, (2018). DOI: pnas.1712789115
3. “Structural Diversity in Binary Superlattices Self-assembled from Polymer-grafted Nanocrystals”, X. Ye, et al, Nature Communications 6, 11052 (2015).
4. “Ordered and Oriented MOFs on Plasmonic Silver Nanocrystals”, Y. Zhao, et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 2199 (2015);; “Weaving of Organic Threads into a Crystalline Covalent Organic Framework”, Y. Liu, et al.,  Science 351, 365 (2016).