Zhiqiang Mao

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Professor, Eberly College of Science
Professor, Physics

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Recent Publications

Anomalous Crystallinity and Magnetism in Chemically Disordered Coherent Heterostructures

Almishal, S. S. I., Ayyagari, S. V. G., Pearre, A., Kezer, P., Furst, M., Rost, C. M., Yan, B., Alem, N., Charlton, T., Mao, Z., Heron, J. T. & Maria, J. P., Aug 21 2026, In: Advanced Materials. 38, 47, e73998.

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Dimensional band engineering in asymmetrical van der Waals heterostructures

Clark, O. J., Azhar, A., Chambers, B. A., McEwen, D., Vu, T. H. Y., Bhuiyan, M. T. H., Belosludov, R. V., Bostwick, A., Jozwiak, C., Rotenberg, E., Lee, S. H., Mao, Z., Balakrishnan, G., Mazzola, F., Harmer, S. L., Fuhrer, M. S., Bahramy, M. S. & Edmonds, M. T., Mar 2 2026, In: Newton. 2, 3, 100401.

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Disorder Scattering Induced Large Room Temperature Nonlinear Anomalous Hall Effect in a Semiconductor CdGeAs2

Lee, S. H., Iwaya, T., Nakayama, K., Lim, T. Y., Min, L., He, J., Wang, Y., Gopalan, V., Xie, Z., Pan, X. C., Chen, Y. P., Chang, T. R., Lin, H., Fu, L., Segawa, K., Sato, T. & Mao, Z., Feb 2 2026, In: Advanced Materials. 38, 7, e14217.

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Evidence of spin-valley coupling in Dirac material BaMnBi2probed by quantum Hall effect and nonlinear Hall effect

Mali, S., Guan, Y., Min, L., Graf, D. & Mao, Z., Jan 21 2026, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 38, 2

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Probing hidden symmetry via nonlinear transport in an altermagnet candidate Ca3Ru2O7

Mali, S., Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Sarker, S., Chen, Y., Li, Z., Zhu, J., Liu, Y., Gopalan, V., Yan, B. & Mao, Z., Dec 2026, In: Nature communications. 17, 1, 3074.

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High-entropy design of transition metal oxide semiconductors with ultra-low thermal conductivity

Robinson, R. A., Karimzadeh Sabet, T., Marques dos Santos Vieira, F., Almishal, S. S. I., Ayyagari, S. V. G., Katzbaer, R., Di Gianluca, G., Sarker, S., Trinidad-Pérez, P. R., Barber, J. P., Gelin, S., Lee, S. H., Hodges, J., Schaak, R. E., Gopalan, V., Alem, N., Rost, C. M., Crespi, V. H., Maria, J. P. & Dabo, I. & 1 others, Mao, Z., Dec 2026, In: Communications Materials. 7, 1, 198.

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High Entropy Wide-Bandgap Borates with Broadband Luminescence and Large Nonlinear Optical properties

Sarker, S., Wang, Y., Sun, Y., Benyacko, C., Almishal, S. S. I., Zhou, T., Zhang, Z., Nag, J., Sarkar, H., Shallenberger, J., Yennawar, H., Yang, Y., Maria, J. P., Mao, Z. & Gopalan, V., Apr 30 2026, In: Advanced Functional Materials. 36, 35, e25925.

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Tailorable multiferroic tunnel junctions from all-van der Waals multilayer stacking

Xie, T., Wang, Q., Zhang, H., Acharya, K., Chen, J., Liu, C., Song, Z., Deitemyer, S. A., Arachchige, H. S., Tan, Q., May, A. F., Lee, S. H., Susner, M. A., Mao, Z., McGuire, M. A., Ling, X., Mandrus, D., Zhang, X., Gong, S. J. & Paudel, T. R. & 3 others, Ramesh, R., Tsymbal, E. Y. & Gong, C., Mar 2026, In: Nature nanotechnology. 21, 3, p. 366-373 8 p.

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Scanning tunneling microscopy study of room-temperature functional behavior of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators

Altfeder, I., Walko, R. C., Lee, S. H., Balatsky, A. V., Davydov, A. V. & Mao, Z., Nov 15 2025, In: Physica B: Condensed Matter. 717, 417614.

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Reactive flash sintering and characterization of bulk high entropy nitrides

Das, S., Drozd, V., Durygin, A., Sozal, M. S. I., Li, W., Bai, X., Ding, Y., Guan, Y., Mao, Z., Cinibulk, M. & Cheng, Z., May 2025, In: Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 45, 5, 117157.

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Discovery of a layered multiferroic compound Cu1−xMn1+ySiTe3 with strong magnetoelectric coupling

De, C., Liu, Y., Ayyagari, S. V. G., Zheng, B., Kelley, K. P., Hazra, S., He, J., Pawledzio, S., Mali, S., Guchhait, S., Yoshida, S., Guan, Y., Lee, S. H., Sretenovic, M., Ke, X., Wang, L., Engelhard, M. H., Du, Y., Xie, W. & Wang, X. & 5 others, Crespi, V. H., Alem, N., Gopalan, V., Zhang, Q. & Mao, Z., Jan 3 2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 1, eadp9379.

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Enhanced magnetic phase contrast at step edges of CrTe2 flakes

Dhull, N., Noah, A., Abezgauz, N., Rickhaus, P., Lu, Z., Lee, S. H., Wang, Y., Mao, Z., Lin, W., Lu, T. M., Anahory, Y. & Wang, G. C., Dec 2025, In: Physical Review B. 112, 22, p. 1-13 13 p., 224404.

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Double-Crucible Vertical Bridgman Technique for Stoichiometry-Controlled Chalcogenide Crystal Growth

Guan, Y., Yoshida, S., Obando-Guevara, J., Mondal, S., Lee, S. H., Pfau, H. & Mao, Z., Nov 5 2025, In: Crystal Growth and Design. 25, 21, p. 9333-9342 10 p.

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Single-Crystal Growth and Characterization of High-Entropy Phosphides ASiP2

Iwabuchi, Y., Xu, M., Xie, W., Oyon, S. A., Henry, J., Gopalan, V. & Mao, Z., Aug 11 2025, In: Inorganic chemistry. 64, 31, p. 15905-15913 9 p.

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Tip-Induced Etching and Vacancy Island Evolution on 2H-TaS2Revealed by STM

Kong, D., Peckham, R., Burns, K., Mao, Z., Lee, S. H., Hachtel, J. A., Gai, Z., Harrison, I. & Reinke, P., Oct 23 2025, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129, 42, p. 19166-19176 11 p.

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