College of Engineering

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Xiangyang Zhou

Xiangyang Zhou

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Miami
1251 Memorial Drive, EB#223
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Tel/Fax: 1.305.284.3287
xzhou@miami.edu


EDUCATION:

Ph.D. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England 1996

M.S. Institute of Corrosion and Protection of Metals, Academia Sinica, Shenyang, China 1988

B.S. Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 1984

TEACHING:

Materials Science, Dynamics, Mechanical Behaviors of Materials, Mechanical Laboratory

RESEARCH:

Polymer electrolyte fuel cell, solid oxide fuel cell, reforming and hydrogen production, quantum chemistry simulation, molecular dynamic simulation, corrosion simulation, solid-state electrochemical sensors, high temperature corrosion sensors and noise sensors, high temperature pH sensors, high temperature electrochemical measurement systems, high temperature zeta meter, and environmentally induced fracture.   

Materials Science Laboratory

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Xiangyang Zhou, Zhen Chen, Baili Hu, Rajiv Srivastava, “Atomistic Dynamic Simulation of Conduction and Diffusion Processes in Nafion Polymer Electrolyte and Experimental Validation”, Journal of Electrochemical Society, to be published in 3 weeks.

  • Jiahua Han, Xiangyang Zhou, and Hongtan Liu, “Ab initio simulation on the mechanism of proton transport in water”, Journal of Power Sources, to be published in 6 weeks.

  • Xiangyang Zhou, Baili Hu, Zhen Chen, Francisco Delgado, and Rajiv Srivastava, “Non-Precious Metal Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”,  Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 8(11), A616-A618 (2005). October, 2005.

  • Xiangyang Zhou, Jamie Weston, Elena Chalkova, Michael A. Hofmann, Catherine M. Ambler, Harry R. Allcock, and Serguei N. Lvov, “High Temperature Transport Properties of Polyphosphazene Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”, Electrochimica Acta 48 (2003) 2173-2180.

  • X.Y. Zhou, X.J. Wei, M.V. Fedkin, K.H. Strass, and S.N. Lvov, “A Zetameter for microelectrophoresis Studies of the Oxide/Water Interface at Temperatures up to 200ºC”, Review of Scientific Instrument, 74(4) (2003) 2501.

  • M.V. Fedkin, X.Y. Zhou, J. Kubicki, A.V. Bandura, S.N. Lvov, D.J. Wesolowski, M.L. Machesky,  “High temperature microelectrophoresis studies of the rutile/aqueous solution interface”. Langmuir, 19, (2004) 3797-3804.

  • Harindra Vedala, Jun Huang, Xiang Yang Zhou, Gene Kim, Somenath Roy and Won Bong Choi, “Effect of PVA functionalization on hydrophilicity of Y-junction single wall carbon nanotubes”, Applied Surface Science, 252(22), 7987-7992 (2006).

  • X.Y. Zhou, S.N. Lvov, X.J. Wei, G. Benning, and D.D. Macdonald, “Quantitative Evaluation of General Corrosion of Type 304 Stainless Steel in Subcritical and Supercritical Aqueous Solutions via Electrochemical Noise Analysis”, Corrosion Science, 44/4 (2002) pp. 841-860.

  • S.N. Lvov, X. Zhou, G.C. Ulmer, S.M. Ulyanov, L.G. Liane, D.E. Grandstaff, M. Manna, E. Vicenzi, and H.L. Barnes, “Progress on Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Sensors for Hydrogen pH Measurements”, Chemical Geology, 198 (2003) 141-162.