Feng Research

Zhenxing Feng Associate Professor School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering     216D Johnson Hall 105 SW 26th Street Oregon State University Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA Email: zhenxing.feng@oregonstate.edu Office: +1-541-737-0508 Fax: +1-541-737-4600

Biography

Zhenxing Feng received his B.S. degree in Physics with honors from Peking University, Beijing, China in 2004. He obtained M.S. in Physics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2006, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA in 2011. Then he spent two years at Electrochemical Energy Lab of Mechanical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his postdoctoral trainings from 2011 to 2013. After working in Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) and Chemical Science and Engineering Division of Argonne National Lab for nearly 3 years (2013-2016) in advanced battery research, he moved to Oregon State University (OSU) as an Assistant Professor in School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering and promoted to the Associate Professor in 2021. He also holds a joint position in Materials Science program of OSU.

A description of Feng group research can be found here and here. His full CV can be found here.

Research Interests and Expertises 

I am interested in finding design principles of various materials for energy harvesting, conversion and storage applications. My expertises include the following

1. Thin film epitaxial growth using sputtering, pulsed laser deposition (PLD), etc.
2. Powder and nano-materials syntehsis using solid state methods, wet-chemical methods, etc.
3. Electrochemical tests for energy devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrocatalysts, batteries, etc.
4. Advanced synchrotron X-ray characterizations including

• Surface X-ray diffraction: crystal truncation rod (CTR), X-ray reflectivity (XRR), coherent Bragg rod analysis (COBRA), X-ray standing wave (XSW), grazing-incidence small/wide angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS/GIWAXS), etc.
• General X-ray diffraction: powder X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function (PDF), small/wide angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS), etc.
• X-ray spectroscopy: X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), inelastic X-ray scattering, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), etc.
• X-ray imaging: X-ray reflection interface microscopy (XRIM), transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM), X-ray fluorescence imaging, etc.

Award

2017-2019         Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2017                  Callahan Faculty Scholar in Chemical Engineering