Ziwei Xu ziweixu2014@ujs.edu.cn Contact:+86-18061188601

Research Interests:

Computational Materials

Personal Summary:

· Associate Professor, Jiangsu University, China. 2015/07 – Present · Doctor's degree (Ph.D): 2009-2013 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · M. Sc.: Physics(condensed matter) 2006-2009 Southeast Universtiy, China

Recent Publications:

1.Ziwei Xu#, Lu Qiu, Feng Ding*, The kinetics of chirality assignment in catalytic single-walled carbon nanotube growth and the routes towards selective growth, Chemical Science 2018, 9, 3056. 2.Ziwei Xu#, Ziling Liang, Feng Ding*, Isomerization of sp2-hybridized carbon nanomaterials: structural transformation and topological defects of fullerene, carbon nanotube, and graphene, WIREs: Computational Molecular Science 2017, 7（2）, e1283. 3.Ziwei Xu#, Tianying Yan, Guiwu Liu, Guanjun Qiao, Feng Ding*, Large scale atomistic simulation of single-layer graphene growth on Ni(111) surface: molecular dynamics simulation based on a new generation of carbon–metal potential, Nanoscale 2016, 8, 921. 4.Ziwei Xu#, Tianying Yan*, Feng Ding*, Atomistic simulation of the growth of defect-free carbon nanotubes, Chemical Science 2015, 6, 4704. 5.Ziwei Xu#, Xiuxia Li, Boris I. Yakobson, Feng Ding*, Interaction between graphene layers and mechanism of graphite’s superlubricity and self-retraction, Nanoscale 2013, 5, 6736.