Research Assistant Professor,
Facility Manager - NanoEngineering
Research Core Facility (NERCF)
Mechanical and Materials
Engineering
N213C NANOLincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-1668
wqian2@unl.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Materials Physics and Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China - 2006
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University - 2003
Research Interests
- Production, hybridization, modification, characterization, and device fabrication of graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon spheres and graphite flakes
Recent Publications
- A pilot study on the nanoscale properties of bone tissue near lacunae in fracturing
women
W Qian, R Schmidt, JA Turner, SP Bare, JM Lappe, RR Recker, MP Akhter
Bone Reports 17, 101604 - Investigation of Exfoliated Graphene Flakes and Their Self-Assembly Capabilities to Form
Thin Coating Films
K Hood, S Ahmed, R Schmidt, W Qian, J Jiao
Microscopy and Microanalysis 28 (S1), 920-922 - Structural Analysis of Liquid-Exfoliated Graphene as Building-Blocks for Anti-Corrosion thin
films
W Qian, R Schmidt, JA Turner, K Hood, J Jiao
Microscopy and Microanalysis 28 (S1), 980-982 - Tough and stretchable ionogels by in situ phase separation
Meixiang Wang, Pengyao Zhang, Mohammad Shamsi, Jacob L Thelen, Wen Qian, Vi Khanh Truong, Jinwoo Ma, Jian Hu, Michael D Dickey
Nature Materials 21 (3), 359-365 - Intrinsic Material Properties of Bone Tissue in Fracturing Women
W Qian, J Turner, M Akhter, S Bare, R Recker
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH 37, 85-85 - Integrated analysis of chain orientation induced anisotropy in nanoimprinted PVDF based
copolymers
W Qian, S Sun, TJ Johnson, C Nguyen, S Ducharme, JA Turner
Polymer 239, 124435 - Integrated microscopic analysis of lamellar structure in isotactic polypropylene spherulite
at nanoscale
W Qian, J Kuebler, L Fernandez-Ballester, J Turner
Microscopy and Microanalysis 27 (S1), 230-231 - High-resolution Imaging of Spherulitic Structures in PLLA and PDLA Solvent-cast Films
M Guivier, W Qian, JA Turner, A Esposito
Microscopy and Microanalysis 26 (S2), 2388-2390 - Quantitative nanoscale measurements of the thermomechanical properties of
poly‐ether‐ether‐ketone (PEEK)
W Qian, W Li, C Nguyen, TJ Johnson, JA Turner
Journal of Polymer Science 58 (11), 1544-1552 - Correlation Microanalysis of Localized Molecular Structure and Nano-mechanical Property of
PVDF Based Copolymer
W Qian, S Sun, C Nguyen, S Ducharme, JA Turner
Microscopy and Microanalysis 25 (S2), 2090-2091 - Puncture-resistant hydrogel: placing molecular complexes along phase boundaries
Xueqi Zhao, Meixiang Wang, Yongmei Chen, Ziguang Chen, Tao Suo, Wen Qian, Jian Hu, Xiaoping Song, Wai-Ning Mei, Renat Sabirianov, Li Tan
ACS applied materials & interfaces 11 (21), 19421-19428 - Complementary Microscopy Techniques Applied for Characterizing the Localized Nanoscale
Structure of Poly (Vinylidene Fluoride)
W Qian, S Sun, C Nguyen, W Li, S Ducharme, JA Turner
Microscopy and Microanalysis 24 (S1), 2040-2041 - Palladium and gold nanoparticles on carbon supports as highly efficient catalysts for
effective removal of trichloroethylene
Kavita Meduri, Candice Stauffer, Wen Qian, Otto Zietz, Andrew Barnum, Graham O’Brien Johnson, Dimin Fan, Weixiao Ji, Changwen Zhang, Paul Tratnyek, Jun Jiao
Journal of Materials Research 33 (16), 2404-2413 - Focused electron-beam-induced deposition for fabrication of highly durable and sensitive
metallic AFM-IR probes
W Qian, S Sun, J Song, C Nguyen, S Ducharme, JA Turner
Nanotechnology 29 (33), 335702 - Localized characterization of poly (vinylidene-fluoride trifluoroethylene) thin film
structure via AFM-IR spectroscopy
D Li, W Qian, J Song
Adv Tissue Eng Regen Med Open Access 4 (2), 446-447 - Electron-Beam-Induced Deposition of Carbon Nanorod via Spot Mode as Highly Stable and
Sensitive AFM Probe Tip
W Qian, C Nguyen, JA Turner, D Liu
Microscopy and Microanalysis 23 (S1), 1736-1737