Integrated tip enhanced Raman microscopy and atomic force microscopy imaging
Nanoscale chemical and biochemical imaging via quantitative electric force microscopy
Functionalized carbon nanotubes for biochemical sensing
Nanomechanical characterization of single living cell in fluid by scanning probe microscopy
Technique development for scanning probe microscopy (e.g., quantitative electric force microscopy)
Nanomechanical characterization on materials by atomic force microscopy and nanoindentations
Electromechanical characterization at the Nanoscale by piezoresponse force microscopy
Selected Publications
Zhao MH, Sharma V, Wei HY, Birge RR, Stuart JA, Papadimitrakopoulos F, and Huey BD. Ultra sharp and high aspect ratio carbon nanotube AFM probes for enhanced surface potential imaging. Nanotechnology, 19, 235704, 2008.
Zhao MH, Srinivasan C, Burgess DJ, and Huey BD. Rate and depth dependent nanomechanical behavior of individual living Chinese Hamster ovary cells probed by atomic force microscopy. Journal of Materials Research, 21: 2906-1912, 2006.
Zhao MH, Wang ZL, and Mao SX. Piezoelectric characterization of individual zinc oxide nanobelt probed by piezoresponse force microscope. Nano Letters, 4: 587-590, 2004.
Zhao MH, Slaughter WS, Li M, and Mao SX. Materials-length-scale-controlled nanoindentation size effects due to strain-gradient plasticity. Acta Materialia, 51: 4461-4469, 2003.
Zhao MH and Huey BD. Manipulations of biological structures and molecules under scanning probe microscopy. Chapter 100 in the text titled Bottom-up Nanofabrication, American Scientific Publishers, 2007. (an invited review book chapter)
