Dr. Zhang’s research interests lie in engineered materials at nanometer scale. The advanced nanomaterials developed in his research including polymer, ceramic and carbon nanomaterials and their nanocomposites have seen a wide range of applications such as energy conversion and storage, optical/gas/bio sensors, photo-catalysis, ballistic protection, and biomedical uses. Since he joined the North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Zhang has published 24 peer-reviewed prestigious journal articles including some top journals in their respective fields like Progress in Polymer Science (Impact Factor 24.558), Nanoenergy (Impact factor 13.120), and Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Impact Factor 9.931), and 5 book chapters, filed 13 invention disclosures and received two U.S. patents with another 3 U.S. and PCT patent applications pending. Dr. Zhang has presented his research 68 times in the form of invited talk, oral presentation, and poster presentation at international, national, regional, and university conferences, symposia, workshops, and seminars. To date Dr. Zhang’s overall publications have been cited over 3,800 times by researchers from more than 40 countries/territories across the world. Dr. Zhang’s research goals are to understand the structural and morphological development at nanometer scale during nanomaterials processing; to design, fabricate, and characterize novel nanomaterials; and to promote nanomaterials’ commercial applications.