研究方向：
-强关联量子材料在电子、光学以及传感领域的应用
-材料新奇物理化学行为的探索、调控
-薄膜材料的合成、外延生长以及微纳器件制备
代表性工作：
- Electrically Controlled Metal-Insulator Heterogeneous Evolution for Infrared Switch and Perfect Absorption, Xuefeng Cao, Jiahui Sun, Yuan Fang, Xurong Qiao, Shenghao Cai, Yuhao Qiu, Xuegang Chen, Yifei Sun, Jijie Huang, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Chenghao Wan, Zhen Zhang, Advanced Science, 2416420 (2025).
- Neuromorphic learning with Mott insulator NiO, Zhen Zhang, Sandip Mondal, Subhasish Mandal, Jason M. Allred, Neda Alsadat Aghamiri, Alireza Fali, Zhan Zhang, Hua Zhou, Hui Cao, Fanny Rodolakis, Jessica L. McChesney, Qi Wang, Yifei Sun, Yohannes Abate, Kaushik Roy, Karin M. Rabe, and Shriram Ramanathan, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 28, 118 (39) 2021.
- Carrier localization in perovskite nickelates from oxygen vacancies, M. Kotiuga, Z. Zhang, J. Li, F. Rodolakis, H. Zhou, R. Sutarto, F. He, Q. Wang, Y. Sun, Y. Wang, N. A. Aghamiri, S. B. Hancock, L. P. Rokhinson, D. P. Landau, Y. Abate, J. W. Freeland, R. Comin, S. Ramanathan, K. M. Rabe, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 116, 44, pp. 21992–21997, 2019.
- Perovskite nickelates as electric-field sensors in salt water, Z. Zhang, D. Schwanz, B. Narayanan, M. Kotiuga, J. A. Dura, M. Cherukara, H. Zhou, J. W. Freeland, J. Li, R. Sutarto, F. He, C. Wu, J. Zhu, Y. Sun, K. Ramadoss, S. S. Nonnenmann, N. Yu, R. Comin, K. M. Rabe, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, S. Ramanathan, Nature, 553, 68–72, 2018.
- Ultrahigh sensitivity of anomalous Hall effect sensor based on Cr-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator thin films, Yan Ni, Z. Zhang, C. Nlebedim and D. Jiles, IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1–4, 2016.
- Nonhysteretic superelasticity of shape memory alloys at the nanoscale, Z. Zhang, X. Ding, J. Sun, T. Suzuki, T. Lookman, K. Otsuka, and X. Ren, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 111, no. 14, p. 145701, 2013.