Areas of research interest

Contrast agents based on nanomaterials; Functional composites; Carbon nanomaterials

Honors and awards

National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China

Research projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China

China Postdoctoral Special Science Foundation

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Selected publications(Journal articles, patents and books)

[1] C.N. He, N.Q. Zhao, C.S. Shi, X.W. Du, J.J. Li, H.P. Li, Q.R. Cui. An approach to obtaining homogeneously dispersed carbon nanotubes in Al powders for preparing reinforced Al-matrix composites. Advanced Materials, 2007, 19 (8): 1128-1132.

[2] C.N. He*, N.Q. Zhao*, F. Tian, One-step solid-phase synthesis of ultrasmall homogeneous face-centered tetragonal FePt nanoparticles encapsulated in thin carbon shells, Journal of Material Chemistry, 2011, in press.

[3] C.N. He, N.Q. Zhao, C.S. Shi, S.Z. Song. Fabrication of aluminum carbide nanowires by a nano-template reaction. Carbon, 2010, 48: 931-938. 

[4] C.N. He, X.W. Du, J. Ding, C.S. Shi, J.J. Li, N.Q. Zhao, L. Cui. Low-temperature CVD synthesis of carbon-encapsulated magnetic Ni nanoparticles with a narrow distribution of diameters. Carbon, 2006, 44 (11): 2330-2333. 

[5] C.N. He, N.Q. Zhao, C.S. Shi, X.W. Du, J.J. Li, L. Cui, F. He. Carbon onion growth enhanced by nitrogen incorporation. Scripta Materialia, 2006, 54 (10): 1739-1743. 

[6] C.N. He*, F. Tian. A carbon nanotube-alumina network structure for fabricating epoxy composites. Scripta Materialia, 2009, 61 (3): 285-288.