Chaoying Ni
Associate Professor
cni@udel.edu
p: 831-2318
f: 831-4545
017 Spencer Laboratory

Affiliated Centers
W.M. Keck Advanced Microscopy Facility

Research Interests

Dr. Ni`s research focuses on transmission electron microscopy in materials science; in situ electron microscopy and characterization; nanotubes and fibers; functionalized nanostructures and meso-phases, multilayers and coherent growths.

Selected peer-reviewed journal publications:

Xing Chen, Karl M. Unruh, Chaoying Ni, Bakhtyar Ali, Zaicheng Sun, Qi Lu, Joseph Deitzel, and John Q. Xiao, Fabrication, Formation Mechanism, and Magnetic Properties of Metal Oxide Manotubes via Electrospinning and Thermal Treatment, J. Phys. Chem. C , 2011 , 115 (2), pp 373-378

Wanfeng Li, Alex Gabay, Chaoying Ni, and George Hadjipanayis , Indium Substituted PrCo5 Sintered Magnet: a Microstructure View. Journal of Applied Physics , 107(6), 2010, 063307-4

G. Hassnain Jaffari, Abdullah Ceylan, C. Ni, and S. Ismat Shah, Enhancement of surface spin disorder in hollow NiFe2O4 nanoparticles , J. Appl. Phys. 107 , 2010, 013910-7

Wenyan Yin, Jing Su, Minghua Cao, Chaoying Ni, Changwen Hu, Bingqing Wei , In2O3 Nanorod Bundles Derived from Novel Precursor and In2O3 Nanoaggregates: Controllable Synthesis, Characterization and Property Studies, J. Phys. Chem. C , 2010 , 114 (1), pp 65-73

Xiaowang Lu, Xiazhang Li, Feng Chen, Chaoying Ni, Zhigang Chen, Hydrothermal Synthesis Of Prism-like Mesocrystal CeO 2 , Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2009, 476 (1-2), 958-962

X. Li, F. Chen, X. Lu, C. Ni, Z. Chen, Modified-EISA synthesis of mesoporous high surface area CeO 2 and catalytic property for CO oxidation, Journal of Rare Earths, 27(6), 2009 , 943 - 947

Chaoying Ni, Xiazhang Li, Zhigang Chen, Hui-Yin Harry Li, Xinqiao Jia, Ismat Shah and John Q. Xiao, Oriented polycrystalline mesoporous CeO2 with enhanced pore integrity, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2008, 115, 247-252

W.G. Wang, C. Ni, A. Rumaiz, Y. Wang, X. Fan, T. Moriyama, R. Cao, Q.Y. Wen, H.W. Zhang, and John Q. Xiao, Real-time evolution of tunneling magnetoresistance during annealing in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2008, 92, 152501

Lingyu Li, Christopher Y. Li, Chaoying Ni, Lixia Rong, Benjamin Hsiao, Structure and crystallization behavior of Nylon 66/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites at low carbon nanotube contents, Polymer, 2007, 48 (12), 3452-3460

J. Thiel, L. Pakstis, S. Buzby, M. Raffi, C. Ni, D. J. Pochan, and S. Ismat Shah, Antibacterial Properties of Silver doped Titania, Small, 2007, 3(5), 799-803

Chaoying Ni, Zhanping Zhang, Matthew Wells, Thomas P. Beebe, Jr., Laurent Pirolli, Lucila P. Mendez De Leo , and Andrew V. Teplyakov , Effect of film thickness and the presence of surface fluorine on the structure of a thin barrier film deposited from tetrakis-(dimethylamino)-titanium onto a Si(100)-2x1 substrate, Thin Solid Films, 2007, 515(5) , 3030-3039

W.G. Wang, C. Ni, T. Moriyama, J. Wan, E. Nowak, and John Q. Xiao, Spin polarized transport in hybrid (Zn,Cr)Te/ Al2O3/Co Magnetic Tunnel Junctions, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2006, 88, 222501

Ozge Aksin, Hayati Turkmen, Levent Artok, Bekir Cetinkaya, Chaoying Ni, Orhan Buyukgungor and Erhan Ozkal, Effect of immobilization on catalytic characteristics of saturated Pd-N-heterocyclic carbenes in Mizoroki-Heck reactions, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2006, 691, 3027-3036

Linyou Cao, Lee Laim, Chaoying Ni, Bahram Nabet, Jonathan E. Spanier, Diamond-Hexagonal Semiconductor Nanocones with Controllable Apex Angle, JACS, (Communication), 2005, 127(40), 13782-13783

Chaoying Ni , Puthusserickal A. Hassan, Eric W. Kaler , Structural Characteristics and Growth of Pentagonal Silver Nanorods Prepared by a Surfactant Method , Langmuir , 2005, 21, 3334-3337

Yuwen Zhao, Chaoying Ni, David Kruczynski, Xiaokai Zhang, and John Q. Xiao, Exchange-coupled Magnetic Soft FeNi-SiO2 Nanocomposite, J. Phys. Chem. B, (Letter), 2004, 108(12), 3691-3693

W. Li, C. Ni, H. Lin, S. I. Shah, and C.-P. Huang, Size dependence of thermal stability in TiO2 nanoparticles, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 96, 11, 2004, 6663-6668