Rui Zhang
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1001 S McAllister Ave TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 8301Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentW. P. Carey MBA
W. P. Carey School of Business
Rui Zhang is an associate research scientist managing three lab X-ray instruments, including Xenocs Xeuss 3.0 (GI-)SAXS/WAXS/USAXS/Imaging, STOE STADI P Dual Transmission XRD, and Sigray QuantumLeap H2000 XAS, in the Eyring Materials Center at Arizona State University. Rui received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu, Sichuan, China) in the field of oil and gas reservoir engineering and hydraulic fracturing. Rui received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in the field of unconventional resources. Rui spent about two years as a research associate in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State and about half year as a visiting scholar in the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Rui spent another two years as a postdoctoral research associate in the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Rui mainly focused on fluid-rock interactions and pore structure characterization in unconventional reservoirs at Penn State; mainly focused on fluid-rock/mineral interactions and chemomechanics in geochemical systems at ORNL. After joining ASU as a staff scientist, Rui is open to research collaboration and materials characterization using lab X-ray techniques. Meanwhile, Rui is conducting independent research on understanding chemomechanics and effects of nanopores/grain boundaries in geochemical systems with applications to geothermal energy, unconventional oil and gas, CO2 capture/sequestration, and hydrogen storage. Rui has more than ten years of research experience in doing materials characterization at Penn State, ORNL and ASU with experience of more than thirty beamtimes in national facilities including HFIR, SNS, NCNR, APS, ILL, CHESS and ANSTO.
M.S. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
B.Eng. and M.Eng., Southwest Petroleum University
Fluid-solid interactions
Chemomechanics
Carbon capture and sequestration
Rui Zhang, Paul A. Bosomworth, Juliane Weber, Jan Ilavsky, Si Athena Chen, Alexis Flores-Betancourt, Elliot Paul Gilbert, Jitendra Mata, Mark L. Rivers, Peter J. Eng, and Lawrence M. Anovitz, “The role of annealing and grain boundary controls on the mechanical properties of limestones and marbles” International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 183 (2024): 105926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2024.105926
Rui Zhang, Shimin Liu, Long Fan, Tomasz P. Blach, and Guijie Sang, “Unraveling high-pressure gas storage mechanisms in shale nanopores through SANS” Environmental Science: Nano 8(9) (2021): 2706-2717. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EN00419K
Rui Zhang, Shimin Liu, and Siyang Zheng, “Characterization of nano-to-micron sized respirable coal dust: Particle surface alteration and the health impact” Journal of Hazardous Materials 413 (2021): 125447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125447
Rui Zhang, Shimin Liu, Alfonso San‑Miguel, Ralf Schweins, Sylvie Le Floch, and Vittoria Pischedda, “Nanoscale coal deformation and alteration of porosity and pore orientation under uniaxial compression: An in situ SANS study” Invited manuscript for a special issue of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2021): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02321-x
Rui Zhang, Xiaoxing Wang, Shimin Liu, Lilin He, Chunshan Song, Xiao Jiang, and Tomasz P. Blach, “Discovering inherent characteristics of polyethylenimine-functionalized porous materials for CO2 capture” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11(40) (2019): 36515-36524. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b08496
Rui Zhang, Shimin Liu, Jitendra Bahadur, Derek Elsworth, Yuri Melnichenko, Lilin He, and Yi Wang, “Estimation and modeling of coal pore accessibility using small-angle neutron scattering” Fuel 161 (2015): 323-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.08.067
Co-organizer of a session entitled “Advances in Multiscale Petrophysical Characterizations and Fluid Physics in Rocks and Fine-Grained Geomaterials” in AGU Fall 2024. Washington, D.C. December 9-13, 2024.
Invited talks in 2024 Penn State Climate Consortium, State College, PA. May 13-14, 2024.
Co-organizer of a session entitled “Frontiers in Multi-scale and Multi-approach Characterization of Fine-grained Geo-materials” in AGU Fall 2023. San Francisco, CA. December 11-15, 2023.
Editorial board of section “Geo-Energy” of Energies starting from 2022.
Co-organizer of a session entitled “Multi-scale Geochemical Approaches in CO2 Capture, Conversion, and Sequestration” in ACS Fall 2022. Chicago, IL. August 21-25, 2022.
Invited talk in New Chemistry Driven by Extremes Workshop in Virtual Joint Nanoscience and Neutron Scattering User Meeting, online. August 4, 2021.
Invited talk and discussion in soft matter breakout session of New Science Opportunities with Small and Wide-Angle Neutron Diffractometer/Spectrometer at Second Target Station at SNS/ORNL Workshop, online. February 26, 2021. Contributed to the selection of CENTAUR, a small-/wide-angle scattering instrument.
Co-chair of a session entitled “Morphological Characterization of Porous Materials” in the 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY. July 21, 2019.
Co-chair of a session entitled “Coal, CBM, and Gas Hydrate Geomechanics” in the 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. American Rock Mechanics Association, New York City, NY. June 24, 2019.
Peer reviewer of journals including Chemical Engineering Journal, Environmental Science & Technology, International Journal of Coal Geology, Scientific Reports, Fuel, Energy & Fuels, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, ACS Omega, Minerals, Energies, Water, Geofluids, Review of Scientific Instruments, etc.
Peer reviewer of conference abstracts and papers of the 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. American Rock Mechanics Association.
Peer reviewer of beamtime proposals of CG-2 GP-SANS at HFIR/ORNL in 2021.