张卫兵，男，1983年10月生，博士，教授，博士生导师，德国“洪堡****”，湖南省“湖湘青年英才”，湖南省新世纪121人才工程人选，湖南省普通高校青年骨干教师,长沙理工大学"湖湘****”青年英才I岗人选。目前担任长沙理工大学物理与电子科学学院分管学科建设副院长和柔性电子材料基因工程湖南省重点实验室副主任。2004年和2009年分获湘潭大学学士和博士学位，2009-2011年获洪堡基金资助在德国马普协会Fritz-Haber-Institute理论系和慕尼黑工业大学化学系进行访问研究。2015年开始多次前往香港大学和香港理工大学进行合作研究。2017年入选湖南省“湖湘青年英才“支持计划，2018年获霍英东教育基金会第十六届高等院校青年教师基金项目资助。
研究小组长期从事低维功能材料物性的计算模拟研究，注重方法创新，强调与实验的紧密结合，在新型二维功能材料的预测、强电子关联体系和低维材料生长机制等方面取得了一些有影响力的研究成果。在Nature Commun.和Nano Lett.等国际期刊上发表SCI论文40余篇；被Nature、Science、Nature Nanotechnol.、Adv. Phys.和Phys. Rev. Lett.等国际知名期刊正面引用900余次，担任Nature Commun.、ACS Nano.、Phys.Rev系列、Nanoscale等20余种国际知名期刊审稿人，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、国家自然科学基金青年项目、霍英东教育基金会高等院校青年教师基金项目、湖湘青年英才支持计划、湖南省自然科学基金和湖南省教育厅优秀青年项目等国家及省部级科研项目8项；曾获湖南省自然科学二等奖（排名第二）及宝钢教育基金优秀学生奖等奖项。同时积极开展教育教学改革，主持湖南省学位与研究生教育教学改革研究项目和湖南省高等学校教学改革研究项目各1项。


目前的研究兴趣，包括：
1． 低维磁性材料的磁性机理与量子调控
2． 新兴电子材料与器件物理
3． 高通量计算和基于机器学习的材料设计


研究小组每年招收硕士生2名左右，本科生2-3名。欢迎对材料模拟和计算感兴趣的同学加入我们的研究队伍。联系方式：Email: zhangwb@csust.edu.cn;weibingzhangavh@gmail.com
代表性论文：（标*为通讯作者）
1.Wei-Bing Zhang*, Qian Qu, and Kang Lai, High-Mobility Transport Anisotropy in Few-Layer MoO3and its Origin, ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. 9, 1702(2017) (SCI，影响因子：8.097,一区)
2.Wei-Bing Zhang*, Long-Jun Xiang and Hai-bin Li, Theoretical perspective of energy harvesting properties of atomically thin BiI3, J. Mater. Chem. A 4, 19086(2016) (SCI，影响因子：9.931， 一区)
3. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Qian Qu, Peng Zhu and Chi-Hang Lam*, Robust intrinsic ferromagnetism and half semiconductivity in stable two-dimensional single-layer chromium trihalides. J. Mater. Chem. C, 3, 12457(2015). (SCI，影响因子：5.976，一区)
4. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Zhi-Bo Song and Liu-Ming Dou, The tunable electronic structure and mechanical properties of halogenated silicene: a first-principles study. J. Mater. Chem. C 3, 3087(2015). (SCI，影响因子：5.976，一区)
5. Weiyang Yu*, ChunYao Niu, Zhili Zhu, Xiangfu Wang and Wei-Bing Zhang*, Atomically thin binary V-V compound semiconductor: a first-principles study. J. Mater. Chem. C 4, 6581 (2016). (SCI，影响因子：5.976，一区)
6. Linfeng Fei, Shuijin Lei, Wei-Bing Zhang, Wei Lu, Ziyuan Lin, Chi Hang Lam, Yang Chai*, and Yu Wang*, Direct TEM Observations on Growth Mechanisms of Two-Dimensional MoS2Flakes. Nature Commun. 7, 12206 (2016). (理论负责，SCI, 影响因子:11.329，一区)
7. Ming Xu, Linfeng Fei, Weibing Zhang, Tao Li, Wei Lu, Nian Zhang, Yanqing Lai*, Zhian Zhang, Jing Fang, Kai Zhang, Jie Li, Haitao Huang*, Tailoring Anisotropic Li-Ion Transport Tunnels on Orthogonally Arranged Li-Rich Layered Oxide Nanoplates Toward High-Performance Li-Ion Batteries. Nano Lett. 17, 1670(2017). (理论负责，SCI, 影响因子:13.779，一区)
8. Kang Lai, Chang-Lin Yan, Lin-Qing Gao, and Wei-Bing Zhang*, AI₃ (A=As, Sb) Single Layers and Their vdW Heterostructure for Photocatalysis and Solar Cell Applications. J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 7656(2018). (SCI 二区)
9. Kang Lai, Hongxing Li, Yuan-Kai Xu, Wei-Bing Zhang*, Jiayu Dai, Achieving a direct band gap and high power conversion efficiency in an SbI₃/BiI₃ type-II vdW heterostructure via interlayer compression and electric field application. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 2619(2019). (SCI 二区)
10. Kui Huang, Kang Lai, Chang-Lin Yan, and Wei-Bing Zhang*, Stability and carrier mobility of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 in two-dimensional limit. J. Chem. Phys. 147, 164703 (2017).(SCI 二区)
11. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Chuan Chen, Tuning metal-graphene interaction by non-metal intercalation: a case study of the graphene/oxygen/Ni (111) system. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48, 015308(2015). (SCI 二区)
12. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Chuan Chen, and Ping-Ying Tang, First-principles study for stability and binding mechanism of graphene/Ni(111) interface: Role of vdW interaction. J. Chem. Phys. 141, 044708 (2014). (SCI 二区)
13. Weiyang Yu, Zhili Zhu, Shengli Zhang, Xiaolin Cai, Xiangfu Wang, Chun-Yao Niu*, and Wei-Bing Zhang*, Tunable electronic properties of GeSe/phosphorene heterostructure from first-principles study. Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 103104 (2016). (SCI, 影响因子：3.142，二区)
14. Kang Lai, Wei-Bing Zhang*, Fa Zhou, Fan Zeng and Bi-Yu Tang*, Bending rigidity of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers from first-principles. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 185301(2016). (SCI, 二区)
15. Qian Qu, Wei-Bing Zhang*, Kui Huang, and Huai-Min Chen, Electronic structure, optical properties and band edges of layered MoO3: A first-principles investigation，Comp. Mater. Sci. 130,242(2017). (SCI, 三区)
16. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Shuguang Chen, and Kai Zeng, Tuning the Crystal Shape of Materials by Chemical Potential: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study for NiSe2, RSC Adv., 4, 13395(2014). (SCI 三区)
17. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Jie Li, Xin-Hai Liu, and Bi-Yu Tang*, Electronic Structure and Thermodynamic Properties of Millerite NiS from First Principles: Complex Fermi Surface and Large Thermal Expansion Coefficient, Comp. Mater. Sci. 83, 412(2014). (SCI 三区)
18. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Chuan Chen, and Shun-Ying Zhang， Equilibrium Crystal Shape of Ni From First Principles, J. Phys. Chem. C 17, 21274(2013) .( SCI 二区)
19. Wei-Bing Zhang*, Jie Li, and Bi-Yu Tang, Role of electronic correlation in high-low temperature phase transition of hexagonal Nickel Sulfide: A comparative Density Functional Theory study with and without correction for on-site Coulomb interaction, J.Chem.Phys. 138,244703(2013).( SCI 二区)
20. Wei-Bing ZHANG*, Chuan CHEN, and Hai-Qing XIE，A Comparative Density-Functional Theory Investigation of Oxygen Adsorption on Stepped Ni Surfaces 3(hkl)×(111) [hkl=(111); (100); (110)]: Role of Terrace Orientation, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 82 ,074709(2013). (SCI 三区)
21. Wei-Bing Zhang and Bi-Yu Tang, Surface Adsorption Phase Diagram of O/Ni(110) system: An ab inito atomistic thermodynamics investigation, Appl.Phys.Lett. 94, 091901 (2009). (SCI,二区)
22. Wei-Bing Zhang and Bi-Yu Tang, Stability of MgO(111) Polar Surface: Effect of the Environment, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 3327(2008).( SCI 二区)
23. Wei-Bing Zhang and Bi-Yu Tang, Stability of the Polar NiO(111) surface, J.Chem.Phys. 128, 124703 (2008). (SCI 二区)
24. Wei-Bing Zhang, Xiao-Bing Xiao, Wei-Yang Yu, Na Wang, and Bi-Yu Tang, Electronic structure and Fermi surface character of LaNiPO from first principles, Phys. Rev.B 7, 214513 (2008) . Selected as Phys.Rev.B Kaleidoscope Images. (SCI 二区)
25. Wei-Bing Zhang, Yu-Lin Hu, Ke-Li Han, and Bi-Yu Tang, Pressure Dependence of Exchange Interactions in NiO, Phys.Rev. B 74，054421(2006). (SCI 二区)
26. Wei-Bing Zhang, Yu-Lin Hu, Ke-Li Han, and Bi-Yu Tang, Structural Distortion and Electronic Properties of NiO under High Pressure : An ab initio GGA+ U Study. J.Phys.:Condens.Matter 18 ,9691(2006). (SCI 三区)
27. Wei-Bing Zhang and Bi-Yu Tang, First-principles studies of the oxygen adsorption on unreconstructed and reconstructed Ni (110) surfaces, Surf.Sci. 603, 1002(2009). SCI
28. Wei-Bing Zhang, Yong-He Deng, Yu-Lin Hu, Ke-Li Han and Bi-Yu Tang，Structural distortion of B1-structured MnO and FeO,Solid State Commun.142 , 6 (2007). SCI
29. Wei-Bing Zhang, Na Yu, Wei-Yang Yu and Bi-Yu Tang, Stability and Magnetism of Vacancy in NiO:A GGA+U Study, Eur. Phys. J. B 64, 153 (2008). SCI
30. Zeng Fan, Zhang Wei-Bing *, and Tang Bi-Yu*, Electronic structures and elastic properties of monolayer and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M = Mo, W; X = O, S, Se, Te): A comparative first-principles study, Chin. Phys. B 24, 097103(2015). SCI