Dr Tim Zhao

Grant-Funded Researcher (A)

School of Physical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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Awards and Achievements

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country
2017	Fellowship	Humboldt Research Fellowship		Germany
2017	Award	IPAS Best Early Career Research Paper for 2016	IPAS/The University of Adelaide	Australia
2016	Scholarship	Early Career Researcher International Conference Travel Scholarship
2015	Invitation	65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2015	Invitation	Science at the Shine Dome
2015	Invitation	7th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates
2014	Award	National Awards for Outstanding Chinese Students Studying Overseas, 2013
2013	Award	Royal Society of New South Wales Scholarships

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2015	Macquarie University	Australia	Ph.D, in Nano-/Bio-photonics
2009	University of Science & Technology of China	China	M.Sc., in Luminescent Nanomaterials
2006	Inner Mongolia University	China	B.Sc., in Applied Physics

Research Interests

Glass Nanomaterials Nanophotonics

Journals

Year	Citation
2022	Huang, W., Wu, T., Xie, C., Rayner, C. K., Priest, C., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., & Zhao, J. (2022). Sensing Intra- and Extra-Cellular Ca2+ in the Islet of Langerhans. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(3), 24 pages. DOI Scopus1
2021	Aburas, M., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Lei, L., Li, M., Zhao, J., Williamson, T., . . . Soebarto, V. (2021). Smart windows - Transmittance tuned thermochromic coatings for dynamic control of building performance. Energy and Buildings, 235, 110717-1-110717-16. DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2021	Han, M., Zhao, J., Fabian, J. M., Evans, S., Mustafa, S., Ruan, Y., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2021). Cytoplasmic delivery of quantum dots via microelectrophoresis technique. Electrophoresis, 42(11), 1247-1254. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2021	Gui, F., Jiang, S., Förster, R., Plidschun, M., Weidlich, S., Zhao, J., & Schmidt, M. A. (2021). Ultralong Tracking of Fast‐Diffusing Nano‐Objects inside Nanofluidic Channel−Enhanced Microstructured Optical Fiber. Advanced Photonics Research, 2(10), 2100032. DOI
2020	Huang, W., Xie, C., Young, R. L., Zhao, J., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Jones, K. L., . . . Wu, T. (2020). Development of innovative tools for investigation of nutrient-gut interaction. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 26(25), 3562-3576. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC1
2020	Kim, J., Jang, B., Gargiulo, J., Bürger, J., Zhao, J., Upendar, S., . . . Schmidt, M. A. (2020). The Optofluidic Light Cage - On-Chip Integrated Spectroscopy Using an Antiresonance Hollow Core Waveguide. Analytical Chemistry, 93(2), 752-760. DOI Scopus5
2020	Huang, W., Wu, T., Shallan, A., Kostecki, R., Rayner, C. K., Priest, C., . . . Zhao, J. (2020). A multiplexed microfluidic platform towards interrogating endocrine function: simultaneous sensing of extracellular Ca²⁺ and hormone. ACS Sensors, 5(2), 490-499. DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2020	Zhao, J. T., Qi, C., Li, G., & Schmidt, M. A. (2020). An improved spectrophotometric method tests the Einstein-Smoluchowski equation: a revisit and update.. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 22(38), 21784-21792. DOI
2020	Jiang, S., Zhao, J., Förster, R., Weidlich, S., Plidschun, M., Kobelke, J., . . . Schmidt, M. A. (2020). Three dimensional spatiotemporal nano-scale position retrieval of the confined diffusion of nano-objects inside optofluidic microstructured fibers.. Nanoscale, 12(5), 3146-3156. DOI Scopus17 WoS10 Europe PMC2
2020	Pan, X., Zhao, J., Qian, G., Zhang, X., Ruan, Y., Abell, A., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2020). Mechanistic insight into the non-hydrolytic sol-gel process of tellurite glass films to attain a high transmission. RSC Advances, 10(4), 2404-2415. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2019	Wei, Y., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., & Zhao, J. (2019). Recent advances in hybrid optical materials: integrating nanoparticles within a glass matrix. Advanced Optical Materials, 7(21), 1900702-1-1900702-34. DOI Scopus47 WoS39
2019	Zhang, R., Liang, L., Meng, Q., Zhao, J., Ta, H. T., Li, L., . . . Xu, Z. P. (2019). Responsive upconversion nanoprobe for background-free hypochlorous acid detection and bioimaging. Small, 15(2), 1803712-1-1803712-11. DOI Scopus45 WoS44 Europe PMC2
2018	Riesen, N., Pan, X., Badek, K., Ruan, Y., Monro, T., Zhao, J., . . . Riesen, H. (2018). Towards rewritable multilevel optical data storage in single nanocrystals. Optics Express, 26(9), 12266-12276. DOI Scopus29 WoS25 Europe PMC2
2017	Son, J., Lee, H., Byeon, J., Zhao, J., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2017). Electro-holographic display using a ZBLAN glass as the image space. Optics Letters, 42(7), 1317-1320. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2017	Ma, C., Xu, X., Wang, F., Zhou, Z., Liu, D., Zhao, J., . . . Jin, D. (2017). Optimal sensitizer concentration in single upconversion nanocrystals. Nano Letters, 17(5), 2858-2864. DOI Scopus123 WoS119 Europe PMC29
2017	Ballato, J., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., Zhao, J., Petit, L., & Troles, J. (2017). Glass and process development for the next generation of optical fibers: A review. Fibers, 5(1), 11-1-11-25. DOI Scopus36
2017	Liu, Y., Lu, Y., Yang, X., Zheng, X., Wen, S., Wang, F., . . . Jin, D. (2017). Amplified stimulated emission in upconversion nanoparticles for super-resolution nanoscopy. Nature, 543(7644), 229-233. DOI Scopus467 WoS449 Europe PMC124
2016	Zheng, X., Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Zhang, Y., Ren, W., Liu, D., . . . Jin, D. (2016). High-precision pinpointing of luminescent targets in encoder-assisted scanning microscopy allowing high-speed quantitative analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 88(2), 1312-1319. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC1
2016	Zheng, X., Zhu, X., Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Feng, W., Jia, G., . . . Jin, D. (2016). High-contrast visualization of upconversion luminescence in mice using time-gating approach. Analytical Chemistry, 88(7), 3449-3454. DOI Scopus67 WoS63 Europe PMC18
2016	Nadort, A., Zhao, J., & Goldys, E. (2016). Lanthanide upconversion luminescence at the nanoscale: fundamentals and optical properties. Nanoscale, 8(27), 13099-13130. DOI Scopus210 WoS207 Europe PMC39
2016	Zhao, J., Zheng, X., Schartner, E., Ionescu, P., Zhang, R., Nguyen, T., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2016). Upconversion nanocrystal-doped glass: a new paradigm for photonic materials. Advanced Optical Materials, 4(10), 1507-1517. DOI Scopus66 WoS63
2014	Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Zhang, R., Liu, Y., Liu, D., Goldys, E., . . . Jin, D. (2014). Tunable lifetime multiplexing using luminescent nanocrystals. Nature Photonics, 8(1), 33-37. DOI Scopus535 WoS585
2014	Lu, Y., Lu, J., Zhao, J., Cusido, J., Raymo, F., Yuan, J., . . . Jin, D. (2014). On-the-fly decoding luminescence lifetimes in the microsecond region for lanthanide-encoded suspension arrays. Nature Communications, 5(1), 3741-1-3741-8. DOI Scopus116 WoS110 Europe PMC55
2013	Song, Z., Anissimov, Y., Zhao, J., Nechaev, A., Nadort, A., Jin, D., . . . Zvyagin, A. (2013). Background free imaging of upconversion nanoparticle distribution in human skin. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 18(6), 061215-1-061215-10. DOI Scopus39 WoS33 Europe PMC10
2013	Zhao, J., Lu, Z., Yin, Y., McRae, C., Piper, J., Dawes, J., . . . Goldys, E. (2013). Upconversion luminescence with tunable lifetime in NaYF₄:Yb,Er nanocrystals: role of nanocrystal size. Nanoscale, 5(3), 944-952. DOI Scopus286 WoS273 Europe PMC82
2013	Walker, D. A., Britton, J., He, Y. M., Keshani, M. S., Aradhya, S. V., Malkhasyan, V., . . . Kappeler, N. (2013). Thoughts on an education. Nature Nanotechnology, 8(11), 794-796. DOI WoS1 Europe PMC1
2013	Zhao, J., Jin, D., Schartner, E., Lu, Y., Liu, Y., Zvyagin, A., . . . Monro, T. (2013). Single-nanocrystal sensitivity achieved by enhanced upconversion luminescence. Nature Nanotechnology (online), 8(10), 729-734. DOI Scopus492 WoS474 Europe PMC124
2012	Lu, J., Martin, J., Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Yuan, J., Ostrowski, M., . . . Jin, D. (2012). Resolving low-expression cell surface antigens by time-gated orthogonal scanning automated microscopy. Analytical Chemistry, 84(22), 9674-9678. DOI Scopus15 WoS12 Europe PMC7
2011	Deng, W., Sudheendra, L., Zhao, J., Fu, J., Jin, D., Kennedy, I., & Goldys, E. (2011). Upconversion in NaYF₄:Yb, Er nanoparticles amplified by metal nanostructures. Nanotechnology, 22(32), 325604-1-325604-8. DOI Scopus78 WoS70 Europe PMC16
2010	Wei, X. T., Zhao, J. B., Chen, Y. H., Yin, M., & Li, Y. (2010). Quantum cutting downconversion by cooperative energy transfer from Bi <sup>3+</sup> to Yb<sup>3+</sup> in Y<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf> phosphor. Chinese Physics B, 19(7), 5 pages. DOI Scopus35 WoS34
2010	Xiantao, W., Jiangbo, Z., Weiping, Z., Yong, L., & Min, Y. (2010). Cooperative energy transfer in Eu<sup>3+</sup>, Yb<sup>3+</sup> codoped Y<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf> phosphor. Journal of Rare Earths, 28(2), 166-170. DOI Scopus36 WoS35
2010	Li, Y., Wang, C. N., Wei, X. T., Zhao, J. B., Zhang, W. P., & Yin, M. (2010). Synthesis and luminescent properties of nanoscale Gd <inf>2</inf>Si <inf>2</inf>O <inf>7</inf>:Eu <sup>3+</sup> phosphors. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10(3), 2219-2222. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2009	Wang, C., Zhao, J., Li, Y., Zhang, W., & Yin, M. (2009). Influence of dispersant on Y₂O₃: Eu³⁺ powders synthesized by combustion method. Journal of Rare Earths, 27(6), 879-885. DOI Scopus15 WoS13
2009	ZHAO, J., WANG, Z., WANG, C., WEI, X., LI, Y., ZHANG, W., & YIN, M. (2009). Synthesis and luminescent properties of Pr-doped Lu<inf>3</inf>Al<inf>5</inf>O<inf>12</inf> translucent ceramic. Journal of Rare Earths, 27(3), 376-380. DOI Scopus11 WoS7

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2019	Jiang, S., Zhao, J., Weidlich, S., Plidschun, M., & Schmidt, M. A. (2019). Three dimensional particle tracking in microstructured graded index fiber. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers Vol. Part F140-CLEO_Europe 2019.
2019	Han, M., Mustafa, S., Ruan, Y., Wiederman, S., Zhao, J., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., & Fabian, J. (2019). Intracellular delivery of nanoparticles via microelectrophoresis technique (Conference Presentation). In Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Probes for Biomedical Applications XI. SPIE. DOI
2019	Jiang, S., Zhao, J., Weidlich, S., Plidschun, M., & Schmidt, M. A. (2019). Three dimensional particle tracking in microstructured graded index fiber. In 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019. IEEE. DOI
2018	Riesen, N., Pan, X., Badek, K., Ruan, Y., Monro, T., Zhao, J., . . . Riesen, H. (2018). Rewritable multilevel optical data storage in BaFCl nanocrystals. In R. Katayama, & Y. Takashima (Eds.), Optical Data Storage 2018: Industrial Optical Devices and Systems Vol. 10757 (pp. 1075704-1-1075704-6). San Diego, CA: SPIE. DOI
2016	Zhao, J., Zheng, X., Schartner, E., Ionescu, P., Zhang, R., Nguyen, T., . . . Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2016). Upconversion nanocrystals doped glass: A new paradigm for integrated optical glass. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers Vol. Part F3-ACOFT 2016 (pp. 1-2). online: OSA. DOI
2013	Zhao, J., Lu, Z., Yin, Y., Zhang, L., McKay, A., McRae, C., . . . Dawes, J. M. (2013). Characterisation of upconversion nanoparticles for imaging. In Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP. OSA. DOI
2013	Schartner, E., Jin, D., Zhao, J., & Monro, T. (2013). Sensitive detection of NaYF₄: Yb/Tm nanoparticles using suspended core microstructured optical fibers. In W. J. Parak, M. Osinski, & K. Yamamoto (Eds.), Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VIII Vol. 8595 (pp. 0 pages). Online: SPIE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2013	Zhao, J., Lu, Z., Yin, Y., Zhang, L., McKay, A., McRae, C., . . . Dawes, J. (2013). Characterisation of upconversion nanoparticles for imaging. In Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP.
2012	Wang, H., Zhao, J., & Yu, Y. (2012). A Novel Tunable Semiconductor Laser Based on a Sampled Grating Reflector and an Interleaved Sampled Grating Reflector. In 2011 ASIA COMMUNICATIONS AND PHOTONICS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION (ACP) (pp. 7 pages). Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA: IEEE. DOI WoS1
2011	Zhao, J., Piper, J., Dawes, J., Jin, D., & Goldys, E. (2011). Mechanisms of size-dependent lifetime quenching in luminescent upconverting colloidal NaYF4:Yb, Er nanocrystals. In 2011 Int. Quantum Electron. Conf., IQEC 2011 and Conf. Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011 Incorporating the Australasian Conf. Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and the Australian Conf. (pp. 384-386). online: Optical Society of America. DOI Scopus1
2011	Jin, D., Lu, Y., Zhao, J., Deng, W., Lu, J., & Piper, J. (2011). Advances in lanthanide bioprobes and high-throughput background-free biophotonics sensing. In 2011 Int. Quantum Electron. Conf., IQEC 2011 and Conf. Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011 Incorporating the Australasian Conf. Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and the Australian Conf. (pp. 80-82). online: Optical Society of America. DOI

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019	Co-Supervisor	Human gut-pancreas chip - a novel in vitro model for diabetes study	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Weikun Huang

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2017 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Mechanistic Studies of Tellurite-Based Glasses for Enhancing Visible Transparency and Ionic Conductivity	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Xuanzhao Pan
2017 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	A microfluidic sensing system for simultaneous monitoring of extracellular Ca(II) and insulin secretion	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Weikun Huang
2015 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Tellurite Glass Film for Enhanced Emission and Collection Efficiency of NV Centre in Nanodiamond	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Xuanzhao Pan
2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Noble metal nanoparticles in glass: A universal pathway towards light modulation	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Yunle Wei

Committee Memberships

Date Role Committee Institution Country

2014 - ongoing Member Asia Nano Forum Young Leaders Committee

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2014 - ongoing	Member	Asia Nano Forum Young Leaders Committee

Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (A)
Email: tim.zhao@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134380
Campus: North Terrace
Building: The Braggs
Org Unit: School of Physical Sciences

Dr Tim Zhao

Awards and Achievements

Education

Research Interests

Journals

Conference Papers

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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