Profile
Dr. Long is currently a research fellow in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He received both his bachelor’s degree (2011) and PhD degree (2016) from Mechanical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Dr. Long was on a joint PhD program at UC Berkeley. He received the China National Scholarship twice from the Ministry of Education (2012, 2015) and First Prize of Academic Contribution Award from HUST in 2013. Dr. Long’s research is focused on investigating mechanical, electronic, and chemical properties of nanoscale materials, and exploring their practical applications including fire safety engineering, low power sensors and speakers, and energy storage devices. He has over 20 peer-reviewed papers and 5 patents on these topics. He has been serving as invited reviewer for top journals, such as Advanced Functional Materials, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Nanoscale, 2D Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
Education/Employment
2016.12 ~2019.09
2014.09 ~ 2016.12
2011.09 ~ 2016.12
2007.09 ~ 2011.07
Degree/Job Title
Postdoctoral researcher in Physics
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joint PhD program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
UC Berkeley
Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
Selected Publications
Hu Long, Sally Turner, Aiming Yan, Hongmei Xu, Moonsuk Jang, Carlo Carraro, Roya Maboudian, Alex Zettl, “Plasma Assisted Formation of Metal Oxide Nanofiber Array on Microheater Platform for Low Power Gas Sensing”, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical, 2019, 301: 127067.
Hu Long, Thang Pham, Aiming Yan, Zhen Guo, Hiroya Ishida, Wu Shi, Sally Turner, S. Matt Gilbert, Alex Zettl, “Wafer-Scale On-Chip Synthesis and Field Emission Properties of Vertically Aligned Boron Nitride Based Nanofiber Arrays”, Applied Physics Letters, 2019, 114 (9): 093101.
Hu Long, Anna Harley-Trochimczyk, Leslie Chan, Lunet Luna, Thang Pham, Zirong Tang, Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraro, Marcus A Wosley, Roya Maboudian, “3D MoS2 aerogel for NO2 detection and its tunable sensing behavior”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2017, 4(16): 1700217.
Ameya Rao*, Hu Long*, Anna Harley-Trochimczyk, Thang Pham, Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraro, Roya Maboudian, “In Situ Localized Growth of Metal Oxide Hollow Sphere Array on Microheater Platform for Sensitive, Ultra-Fast Response/Recovery Gas Sensing”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9(3): 2634-2641.
Hu Long, Anna Harley-Trochimczyk, SiYi Cheng, Hao Hu, Won Seok Chi, Carlo Carraro, Tielin Shi, Zirong Tang, Roya Maboudian, “Nanowires Assembled Hierarchical ZnCo2O4 Microstructure integrated with Low Power Microheater for the Detection of Formaldehyde and CO”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8(46): 31764-31771.
Hu Long, Anna Harley-Trochimczyk, Thang Pham, Zirong Tang, Tielin Shi, Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraro, Marcus A Worsley, Roya Maboudian, “High surface area MoS2/graphene hybrid aerogel for ultrasensitive NO2 detection”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26: 5158-5165.
Hu Long, Anna Harley-Trochimczyk, Tianyi He, Thang Pham, Zirong Tang, Tielin Shi, Alex Zettl, William Mickelson, Carlo Carraro, Roya Maboudian, “In-situ Growth of Porous SnO2 Films on Low Power Microheater Platform for Low Temperature CO Detection”, ACS Sensors, 2016, 1: 339-343.
Hu Long, Tielin Shi, Shulan Jiang, Shuang Xi, Rong Chen, Shiyuan Liu, Guanglan Liao, Zirong Tang, “Synthesis of nanowires self-Assembled hierarchical ZnCo2O4 shell/Ni current collector core as binder-free anodes for high-performance Lithium-ion batteries”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2(11): 3741-3748 (inside cover).
Hu Long, Tielin Shi, Hao Hu, Shulan Jiang, Shuang Xi, Zirong Tang, “Growth of Hierarchal Mesoporous NiO Nanosheets on Carbon Cloth as Binder-free Anodes for High-performance Flexible Lithium-ion Batteries”, Nature Scientific Reports, 2014, 4: 7413.
Hu Long, Shuang Xi, Dan Liu, Tielin Shi, Qi Xia, Shiyuan Liu, Zirong Tang, “Tailoring diffraction-induced light distribution toward controllable fabrication of suspended C-MEMS”, Optics Express, 2012, 22(15): 17126-17135.