1.  Photoelectric properties of functional thin films

2.  Preparation and characterization of graphene and other two-dimensional materials

3.  Theoretical simulations of the structural and physical properties of low-dimensional materials

4.  Surface modification and surface engineering of metals

2015.01 – Present     Xi'an Jiaotong University, China          Professor

2010.01 – 2014.12   Xi'an Jiaotong University, China          Associate Professor

2008.07 – 2009.12   Xi'an Jiaotong University, China          Lecturer

2012.03 – Present    Shaanxi Nano-Science & Technology Society          Standing Director

2015.01 – Present    Chinese Vacuum Society          Committee Member

2012.09 – Present    Shaanxi Vacuum Society          Deputy Secretary-General

2013.05 – Present    Surface Engineering Institution CMES          Youth Working Committee Member

2018-2021   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 51771144): 2H-1T phase transition and enhanced electrical/thermal properties due to the atomically continuous interface in two-dimensional transition metal dichalogenides.

2015-2018   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 51471130): Stability of TMD/graphene stacked structure and the strain engineering on the photoelectronic properties

2013-2016   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 51271139): Stress-induced anomalous plastic deformation/phase transformation in grapheme-like two-dimensional crystals and its mechanism

2014-2015   Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No.: 2013JM6002): Thermal and electronic properties across “consecutive interface” of graphene

2014-2016   the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: Elastic strain engineering of two-dimensional crystals

2011-2013   New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No.: NCET-10-0679): Strain effect on thermal/electronic properties and abnormal deformation/phase transition behaviors of graphene

2009-2011   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50901057): Structure stability and strain relaxation of patterned Si/SiGe thin films

2009-2011   Xi’an Applied Materials Innovation Fund Application (Grant No. XA-AM-200904): Microstructural properties and thermodynamic behaviors of metal-induced poly-silicon

2008-2010   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50771078): Investigation on the size effect and energetics of ultra-thin single-crystal materials

2010-2014   Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research and Development (973) (Grant No.: 2010CB631002): Strain/Stress effect on the functional properties of mesoscopic materials and the characterization on the interfaces

2004-2009   Key Project of Chinese National Programs for Fundamental Research and Development (973) (Grant No.: 2004CB619302): Experimental characterization on the properties of mesoscopic materials

2005-2007   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50471035): Surface morphology characterization by wavelet method and its pertinence with interior feature parameters of thin films

2007-2009   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50601020): Microcontent-oxygen damaging behavior on the hardness of nano-complex thin films and its mechanism

2003-2005   National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 50271038): Investigation on the texture of metal thin films and relevant properties

2004-2006   Opening Foundation of Chinese Educational Ministry’s Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Technology and Intelligent Control (Grant No: K04119）: Surface morphology of thin films and its influences on their functional properties

2004.09 – 2008.06   Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China        Ph.D

2001.09 – 2004.07   Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China       M.S.

1997.09 – 2001.07   Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China       B.E.

2019  The second prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award

2018  The 12th Shaanxi Youth Science and Technology Award

2018  The second prize of natural sciences of the Ministry of Education

2017  The first prize of science and technology award in Shaanxi colleges and universities

2013  The third prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award

2009  Excellent doctoral thesis of Xi'an Jiaotong University

2006  The second prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award

2005  The first prize of science and technology award in Shaanxi colleges and universities

Selected Publications

(1)      Fei Ma, Ke-Wei Xu, Paul K. Chu, Surface-induced structural transformation in nanowires, Materials Science & Engineering R, 74 (2013) 173-209.

(2)      Fei Ma, Yunjin Sun, Dayan Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Reversible phase transformation in graphene nano-ribbons: Lattice shearing based mechanism, Acta Materialia, 59 (2011):6783.

(3)      F. Ma^﹡, H. B. Zheng, Y. J. Sun, D. Yang, K. W. Xu, Paul K. Chu, Strain effect on lattice vibration, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity, Applied Physics Letters, 101 (2012) 111904.

(4)      Fei Ma, Tianwei Zhang, Kewei Xu, Paul K. Chu, Conversion of strain state from biaxial to uniaxial in strained silicon, Applied Physics Letters, 98(2011):1907.

(5)      Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Interface-Induced Pseudo-Elastic Behavior in Bi-metal Multilayer Nanowires, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92 (2008): 123103.

(6)      Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Asymmetrical Reorientation of Bi-metallic Core-Shell Nanowires, Nanotechnology, 20(2009):045601.

(7)      Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Surface Stability of Platinum Nanoparticles Surrounded by High-Index Facets，J. Phys. Chem C, 112 (2008): 3247.

(8)      Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Spontaneous reorientation of Bi-metal Multilayer nanowires, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91 (2007): 253114.

(9)      Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Energy Anisotropy of Bimetal Core-Shell Nanorods and Its Effects on Morphology, Nanotechnology, 18 (2007): 445101.

(10)   Fei Ma, Shengli Ma, Kewei Xu and Paul K Chu, Activation Volume and Incipient Plastic Deformation of Uniaxially-Loaded Gold Nanowires at Very High Strain Rates, Nanotechnology, 18 (2007): 455702.

(11)   Gengrong Chang, Fei Ma^﹡, Dayan Ma and Kewei Xu, Multi-band silicon quantum dots embedded in an amorphous matrix of silicon carbide, Nanotechnology, 21 (2010) 465605.

(12)   Y. J. Sun, F. Ma^﹡, Y. H. Huang, T. W. Hu, K. W. Xu, Paul K. Chu, Effects of loading mode and orientation on deformation mechanism of graphene nanoribbons, Applied Physics Letters, 103 (2013) 191906.

(13)   T.W. Hu, F. Ma^﹡, D. Y. Ma, D. Yang, X.T. Liu, K.W. Xu, Evidence of atomically resolved 6×6 buffer layer with long-range order and short-range disorder during formation of graphene on 6H-SiC  thermal decomposition, Applied Physics Letters, 102 (2013) 171910.

(14)   T. W. Hu, D. Y. Ma, F. Ma^﹡, K. W. Xu, Preferred armchair edges of epitaxial grapheme on 6H-SiC(0001) by thermal decomposition, Applied Physics Letters, 101 (2012) 241903.

(15)   Tian-Wei Zhang, Fei Ma^﹡, Wei-Lin Zhang, Da-Yan Ma, Ke-Wei Xu, Paul K. Chu, Diffusion-controlled formation mechanism of dual-phase structure during Al induced crystallization of SiGe, Applied Physics Letters, 100 (2012): 071908.

(16)   J. J. Yang, F. M. Miao, J. Tang, X. Y. Shu, F. Ma^﹡, K. W. Xu, Y. Y. Yang, J. L. Liao, N. Liu, Surface dynamics transition during the growth of compositionally gradeded CrNx films, Applied Physics Letters, 104 (2014): 031602.

(17)   T. W. Hu, X. T. Liu, F. Ma^﹡, D. Y. Ma, K. W. Xu, and P. K. Chu, High-Quality, Single-Layered Epitaxial Graphene Fabricated on 6H-SiC (0001) by Rapid Thermal Annealing in Pb Atmosphere and Mechanism, Nanotechnology 26 (2015) 105708.

(18)   Lizhai Zhang, Qinglong Fang, Yuhong Huang, Kewei Xu, Fei Ma^﹡, Paul K. Chu, Facet-engineered CeO₂/graphene composites for enhanced NO₂ gas-sensing, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5 (2017) 6973-6981.

(19)   Tingwei Hu, Hongwei Bao, Shuai Liu, Xiangtai Liu, Dayan Ma, Fei Ma^﹡, Kewei Xu, Near-free-standing epitaxial graphene on rough SiC substrate by flash annealing at high temperature, Carbon 120 (2017) 219-225.

(20)   Leiwen Gao, Yanhuai Li, Qin Li, Zhongxiao Song, Fei Ma^﹡, Enhanced Resistive Switching Characteristics in Al2O3 Memory Devices by Embedded Ag Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology, 28 (2017) 215201.

(21)   Yan Li, Fei Ma^﹡, Size and Strain Tunable Band Alignment of Black-Blue Phosphorene Lateral Heterostructure, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (2017) 12466-12472.

(22)   Qinglong Fang, Yuhong Huang, Yaping Miao, Kewei Xu, Yan Li, and Fei Ma^﹡, Interfacial Defect Engineering on Electronic States of Two-Dimensional AlN/MoS2 Heterostructure, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121 (2017) 6605-6613.

(23)   Shuai Liu, Nan Peng, Yu Bai, Huiyan Xu, D. Y. Ma, Fei Ma^﹡ and Kewei Xu, General solvothermal approach to synthesize telluride nanotubes for thermoelectric applications, Dalton Transactions, 46 (2017) 4174-4178.

(24)   Shuai Liu, Nan Peng, Chongjian Zhou, Yu Bai, Shuang Tang, Dayan Ma, Fei Ma^﹡, and Kewei Xu, Fabrication of of Bi₂Te_3−xSe_x nanowires with tunable chemical compositions and enhanced thermoelectric properties, Nanotechnology 28 (2017) 085601.

(25)   Ziqiang Xu, Man Li, Xia Li, Xiangmei Liu, Fei Ma, Shuilin Wu, K.W.K. Yeung, Yong Han, Paul K. Chu, Antibacterial Activity of Silver Doped Titanate Nanowires on Ti Implants, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8 (2016) 16584.

(26)   Q. Zhao, T. Wang, Y. Miao, F. Ma^﹡, Y. Xie, X. Ma, Y. Gu, J. Li, J. He, B. Chen, S. Xi, L. Xu, H. Zhen, Z. Yin, J. Li, J. Ren W. Jie, Thickness-induced structural phase transformation of layered gallium telluride, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 (2016) 18719-18726.

(27)   Xiangtai Liu, Tingwei Hu, Yaping Miao, Dayan Ma, Zhi Yang, Fei Ma^﹡, Kewei Xu, Paul K. Chu, Substitutional doping of Ag into epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC substrates during thermal decomposition, Carbon 104 (2016) 233-240.

(28)   Hui Zhang, Ping Zong, Mi Chen, Hong Jin, Yu Bai, Shiwei Li, Fei Ma^﹡, Hui Xu, and Kun Lian, In Situ Synthesis of Multilayer Carbon Matrix Decorated with Copper Particles: Enhancing the Performance of Si as Anode for Li-Ion Batteries, ACS Nano, 13 (2019) 3054-3062.

(29)   Yan Li, Wenting Wu and Fei Ma^﹡, Blue phosphorene/graphene heterostructure as a promising anode for lithium-ion batteries: a first principles study with vibrational analysis techniques, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7 (2019) 611-620.

(30)   Guanjun Chen, Zhengfei Dai, Lan Sun, Long Zhang, Shuai Liu, Hongwei Bao, Jinglei Bi, Shengchun Yang and Fei Ma^﹡, Synergistic effects of platinum–cerium carbonate hydroxides–reduced graphene oxide on enhanced durability for methanol electro-oxidation, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7 (2019) 6562-6571.

(1) Ma Fei, Zhang Lizhai, Xu Kewei, Preparation of Nano- CeO₂/ graphene Composites for High sensitivity Gas sensors, ZL 2016 10829211.5.

(2) Ma Fei, Liu Weixia, Gao Leiwen, TiOx/Al2O3/TiOx sandwich laminated resistive random access memory film and its preparation method, ZL2016 10446071.3.

(3) Ma Fei, Zhang Long, Sun Lan, Xu Kewei, A N-doped graphene N-rGO composite structure and preparation method of nanosheet cluster MoSe₂, ZL 2016 10149983.4.

(4) Ma Fei, Lian Lu, Xu Kewei, Ma Dayan, One setup and fabrication method for stress measurement by graphene based thin films, ZL 2013 1 0549065.7.