Tu, Qing

Educational Background

- Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques
- Interfaces of Low-Dimensional Materials and Thin Films
- Structure-Property Relationship of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites
- Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Materials
- Mechanics of Soft and Biological Materials

American Vacuum Society (AVS) Electronic Materials & Photonics Division (EMPD) Postdoctoral Travel Award, 2019
Professional Development Travel Grant, Northwestern University, 2018
Outstanding Dissertation Award of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke University, 2017
NSF Research Triangle MRSEC Fellowship
AVS 60th Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant, 2013

Qing Tu, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Costas Stoumpos, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Gajendra S. Shekhawat,* Vinayak P. Dravid,* “Probing Strain-Induced Band Gap Modulation in 2D Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites”, ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4(3), 796 – 802
Qing Tu, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Poya Yasaei, Costas Stoumpos, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Gajendra S. Shekhawat,* Vinayak P. Dravid,* “Stretching and Breaking of Ultrathin 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites”, ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (10), 10347 – 10354
Qing Tu, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Shiqiang Hao, Christopher Wolverton, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Gajendra S. Shekhawat,* and Vinayak P. Dravid,* “Out-of-Plane Mechanical Properties of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites by Nanoindentation”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10 (26), 22167 – 22173
Kezhao Duǂ, Qing Tuǂ (ǂ: equal contribution), Xu Zhang, Qiwei Han, Jie Liu, Stefan Zauscher, David Mitzi,* “Two-Dimensional Lead(II)-Halide-Based Hybrid Perovskites Templated by Acene Alkylamines: Crystal Structures, Optical Properties and Piezoelectricity”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 56, 9291-9302
Qing Tuǂ, Bjoern Langeǂ(ǂ: equal contribution), Zehra Parlak, Joao Marcelo Lopes, Volker Blum* and Stefan Zauscher,* “Quantitative Subsurface Atomic Structure Fingerprint for 2D Materials and Heterostructures by First-Principles-Calibrated Contact-Resonance Atomic Force Microscopy”, ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (7), pp 6491–6500