Dr Hangfeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectric, Tunable dielectrics, Crystal structure, Neutron diffraction, Ceramics
Interests
My research expertise lies in the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced functional ceramics, with a particular focus on ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and tunable dielectric materials. I specialize in structural analysis using X-ray and neutron diffraction, as well as the study of structure–property relationships to optimize material performance. My work combines solid-state chemistry, advanced materials processing techniques, and multi-scale characterization, aimed at developing next-generation materials for energy storage, sensing and wireless communication applications.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Electronics2025
Phase transformation in lead titanate based relaxor ferroelectrics with ultra-high strainZhang H, Li Z, Wang Y, Fortes AD, Saunders TG, Hao Y, Abrahams I, Yan H and Su L
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 16 (1)
18-02-2025
Non-volatile voltage-controlled magnetization in single-phase multiferroic ceramics at room temperatureHu Z, Stenning GBG, Zhang H, Shi Y, Koval V, Hu W, Zhou Z, Jia C, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materiomics, Elsevier vol. 11 (1)
01-01-2025
2024
The effect of configurational entropy and refractory elements on the oxidation behaviour of high entropy carbides containing up to eight refractory elementsWang Y, Wang X, Zhang B, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Ceramics International, Elsevier vol. 50 (23), 51589-51595.
01-12-2024
Establishing room-temperature multiferroic behaviour in bismuth-based perovskitesCao J, Yang B, Smith G, Mahajan A, Zhang H, Lin Y, Yu C, Koval V, Zhang D, Shi Y, Jia C and Viola G
Materials & Design, Elsevier vol. 248
01-12-2024
Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Solid Solutions through Automated Materials Synthesis and CharacterizationOmidvar M, Zhang H, Ihalage AA, Graves Saunders T, Giddens H, Forrester M, Haq S and Hao Y
Nature Communications, Nature Research
02-08-2024
Thermal properties and calcium-magnesium-alumino-silicate (CMAS) interaction of novel γ-phase ytterbium-doped yttrium disilicate (γ-Y1.5Yb0.5Si2O7) environmental barrier coating materialZhang B, Zhang H, Bai M, Du A, Owusu EB, Lynam A, Romero AR, Curry N and Hussain T
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, Springer Nature vol. 7 (2)
01-04-2024
Origin of Polarization in Bismuth Sodium Titanate-Based CeramicsZhang H, Krynski M, Fortes AD, Saunders TG, Palma M, Hao Y, Krok F, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society vol. 146 (8), 5569-5579.
14-02-2024
2023
Carbon deficiency introduced plasticity of rock-salt-structured transition metal carbidesZhang B, Wang Y, Yin J, Zhang H, Csanádi T, Dusza J, Reece MJ, Lin N, Yang X, Liu X, Huang Z and Jiang D
Journal of Material Science and Technology, Elsevier vol. 164, 205-214.
01-11-2023
Microwave tunability in tin substituted barium titanateZhang H, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
17-10-2023
Structure and dielectric properties in Mg/Nb co-substituted bismuth sodium titanateZhang H, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier vol. 969
05-10-2023
Microwave characterization of two Ba 0.6 Sr 0.4 TiO 3 dielectric thin films with out-of-plane and in-plane electrode structuresRuan H, Saunders TG, Giddens H, Zhang H, Ihalage AA, Kolb JF, Blunt M, Haq S, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Springeropen, 1-12.
18-07-2023
Enhanced piezoelectricity in Na and Ce co-doped CaBi 4 Ti 4 O 15 ceramics for high-temperature applicationsHu Z, Koval V, Zhang H, Chen K, Yue Y, Zhang D and Yan H
Journal of Advanced Ceramics, Tsinghua University Press vol. 12 (7), 1331-1344.
01-07-2023
Relaxor ferroelectric behaviour observed in (Ca0.5Sr0.5Ba0.5Pb0.5)Nb2O7 perovskite layered structure ceramicsHu Z, Zhang H, Reece MJ, Viola G and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier vol. 43 (1), 177-182.
01-01-2023
2022
Antiferroelectric-like Behavior in a Lead-Free Perovskite Layered Structure CeramicZhang H, Fortes AD, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society vol. 61 (50), 20316-20325.
06-12-2022
Deciphering the peculiar hysteresis loops of 0.05Pb(Mn1/3Sb2/3)O3–0.95Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 piezoelectric ceramicsHu Z, Zhang H, Zhu Z, Zeng J, Zhang D, Eriksson M, Viola G and Yan H
Acta Materialia, Elsevier
02-12-2022
Low thermal conductivity in A-site high entropy perovskite relaxor ferroelectricXiong W, Zhang H, Hu Z, Reece MJ and Yan H
Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics vol. 121 (11)
12-09-2022
Ablation behavior of (Hf–Ta–Zr–Nb–Ti)C high‐entropy carbide and (Hf–Ta–Zr–Nb–Ti)C–xSiC compositesWang Y, Yu D, Yin J, Zhang B, Zhang H, Liu X, An Y, Reece MJ and Huang Z
Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 105 (10), 6395-6406.
23-06-2022
Synthesis, microstructure, and mechanical properties of novel high entropy carbonitridesWang Y, Csanádi T, Zhang H, Dusza J and Reece MJ
Acta Materialia, Elsevier vol. 231
01-06-2022
Chemical Solution Deposition of Single‐Phase BiFeO3 Thin Films on Transparent SubstratesWang Y, Zhang M, Yue Y, Zhang H, Mahajan A, Dunn S and Yan H
Solar Rrl, Wiley vol. 6 (7)
01-05-2022
2021
Terahertz Characterization of Lead-Free Dielectrics for Different ApplicationsZhang M, Zhang H, Jiang Q, Gao F, Chen R, Zhang D, Reece MJ, Yang B, Viola G and Yan H
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 13 (45), 53492-53503.
02-11-2021
Characterization of microwave and terahertz dielectric properties of single crystal La2Ti2O7 along one single directionZhang M, Tang Z, Zhang H, Smith G, Jiang Q, Saunders T, Yang B and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society
02-08-2021
Tunable phase transitions in NaNbOZhang L, Yan Z, Chen T, Luo H, Zhang H, Khanom T, Zhang D, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry vol. 9 (12), 4289-4299.
15-03-2021
Investigation of transitions between the M-phases in AgNbO 3 based ceramicsYan Z, Zhang D, Zhou X, Zhang M, Zhang L, Zhang H, Xue G, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry
19-01-2021
Effect of processing on the structures and properties of bismuth sodium titanate compoundsMahajan A, Zhang H, Wu J, Venkata Ramana E, Yu C, Tarakina NV, Reece MJ and Yan H
Journal of Materials Research, Springer, 1-11.
13-01-2021
2020
Perovskite Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based materials for dielectric capacitors with ultrahigh thermal stabilityWu J, Zhang H, Meng N, Koval V, Mahajan A, Gao Z, Zhang D and Yan H
Materials and Design, Elsevier, 109344-109344.
19-11-2020
High Tunability and Low Loss in Layered Perovskite Dielectrics through Intrinsic Elimination of Oxygen VacanciesZhang H, Gidden H, Saunders TG, Liu N, Aurallo-Peters V, Xu X, Palma M, Reece MJ, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
17-11-2020
Low-loss High Entropy Relaxor-like Ferroelectrics with A-site DisorderXiong W, Zhang H, Cao S, Gao F, Svec P, Dusza J, Reece MJ and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
16-11-2020
Structure and dielectric properties of double A-site doped bismuth sodium titanate relaxor ferroelectrics for high power energy storage applicationsZhang H, Yang B, Fortes AD, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry
09-11-2020
Enhanced Hardness in High-Entropy Carbides Through Atomic RandomnessWang Y, Csanádi T, Zhang H, Dusza J, Reece M and Zhang R-Z
Advanced Theory and Simulations, Wiley-Blackwell
13-08-2020
Antimony substituted lanthanum orthoniobate proton conductor – Structure and electronic propertiesMielewczyk‐Gryń A, Wachowski S, Witkowska A, Dzierzgowski K, Skubida W, Świerczek K, Regoutz A, Payne DJ, Hull S, Zhang H, Abrahams I and Gazda M
Journal of The American Ceramic Society, Wiley vol. 103 (11), 6575-6585.
19-07-2020
Interactive human–machine learning framework for modelling of ferroelectric–dielectric compositesLiu N, Ihalage A, Zhang H, Giddens H, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry
09-07-2020
Polar nano-clusters in nominally paraelectric ceramics demonstrating high microwave tunability for wireless communicationZhang H, Giddens H, Yue Y, Xu X, Araullo-Peters V, Koval V, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
19-04-2020
Terahertz Probing Irreversible Phase Transitions Related to Polar Clusters in Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3‐Based FerroelectricWu J, Sun W, Meng N, Zhang H, Koval V, Zhang Y, Donnan R, Yang B, Zhang D and Yan H
Advanced Electronic Materials, Wiley, 1901373-1901373.
16-02-2020
The crystallization, thermodynamic and thermoelectric properties of vast off-stoichiometric Sn–Se crystalsLiu M, Zhang J, Xu J, Hu B, Sun K, Yang Y, Wang J, Du B and Zhang H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 8 (19), 6422-6434.
01-01-2020
2019
Isolation of a ferroelectric intermediate phase in antiferroelectric dense sodium niobate ceramicsZhang H, Yang B, Yan H and Abrahams I
Acta Materialia, Elsevier Bv vol. 179, 255-261.
22-08-2019
Crystal structure and improved thermoelectric performance of iron stabilized cubic Cu 3 SbS 3 compoundDu B, Zhang R, Liu M, Chen K, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 7 (2), 394-404.
01-01-2019
2018
Crystal structure and electrical properties of textured BaCao J, Koval V, Zhang H, Lin Y, Wu J, Meng N, Li Y, Li Z, Zhang H and Yan H
Journal of The European Ceramic Society
10-12-2018
Perovskite SrWu J, Mahajan A, Riekehr L, Zhang H, Yang B, Meng N, Zhang Z and Yan H
Nano Energy vol. 50, 723-732.
06-06-2018
BiLi Z, Tao K, Ma J, Gao Z, Koval V, Jiang C, Viola G, Zhang H, Mahajan A, Cao J, Cain M, Abrahams I, Nan C, Jia C and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 6 (11), 2733-2740.
19-02-2018
2017
Magnéli phase titanium suboxides by Flash Spark Plasma SinteringYu M, Saunders T, Grasso S, Mahajan A, Zhang H and Reece MJ
Scripta Materialia vol. 146, 241-245.
08-12-2017
Phase transitions in bismuth-modified silver niobate ceramics for high power energy storageTian Y, Jin L, Zhang H, Xu Z, Wei X, Viola G, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 (33), 17525-17531.
31-07-2017
Topochemical transformation of two-dimensional single crystalline NaJiang C, Zhang D, Zhou K, Yan H, Zhang H and Abrahams I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 (30), 15780-15788.
13-07-2017
Effect of Phase Transitions on Thermal Depoling in Lead-Free
0.94(Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3)−0.06(BaTiO3) Based PiezoelectricsMAHAJAN A, Zhang H, Wu J, Ramana EV, Reece M and Yan H
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American Chemical Society
20-02-2017
2016
High energy density in silver niobate ceramicsTian Y, Jin L, Zhang H, Xu Z, Wei X, Politova ED, Stefanovich SY, Tarakina NV, Abrahams I and Yan H
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 4 (44), 17279-17287.
17-08-2016
Lead free Bi3TaTiO9 ferroelectric ceramics with high Curie pointSun Y, Li Z, Zhang H, Yu C, Viola G, Fu S, Koval V and Yan H
Materials Letters, Elsevier vol. 175, 79-81.
04-04-2016
2015
Incorporation of Ag nanowires in CuWO4 for improved visible light-induced photoanode performanceZhang H, Yilmaz P, Ansari JO, Khan FF, Binions R, Krause S and Dunn S
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 3 (18), 9638-9644.
26-03-2015