Rui Zhang

Associate Research Scientist, Eyring Materials Center

rui.zhang.10@asu.edu

Goldwater Center for Science and Engineering (GWC) B72 TEMPE, AZ 85287
Mail code: 8301

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Rui Zhang is an associate research scientist managing three instruments, including Xenocs SAXS, Stoe XRD and SigRay 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 a 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. Rui has more than nine years of experience in doing materials characterization research at Penn State and ORNL with experience of more than twenty beamtimes in national facilities including HFIR, SNS, NCNR, APS, ILL, CHESS, and ANSTO. After joining ASU as a staff scientist, Rui will be open to characterizing various materials using lab X-ray techniques.

Education

M.S. and Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

B.Eng. and M.Eng., Southwest Petroleum University

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nJJ8gfsAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-5056

Research Interests

Fluid-solid interactions

Chemomechanics

Carbon capture and sequestration

Research Activity

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.