Zhengdong Cheng

Assistant Professor

Research Page

Telephone: (979) 845-3413
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: cheng@chemail.tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
202 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1999
M.S., Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China, 1993
B.S., University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1990

Research Interests

Dr. Cheng studies complex fluids. His research focuses on the self-organization of intelligent colloids and anisotropic particles, the fabrication of photonic crystals and integrated photonic circuits, and the application of microfluidics to bio-encapsulation. The techniques developed will be applicable to the modeling of phase transitions and liquid crystal materials, the engineering of nano-composites and semiconductor of light, and a wide range of therapeutic treatments.

Selected Publications

“Uniform Discotic Wax Particle Synthesis by Electrospray Emulsification” A. Mejia, P. He, D. Luo, M. Marquez and Z. Cheng, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 334, 2009, 22-28.

“Generation of monodisperse mesoporous silica microspheres with controllable size and surface morphology via a microfluidic device” I. Lee, Y. Yoo, Z. Cheng and H. Jeong, Advanced Functional Materials, 18, 2009, 4014-4021. (Appeared on the journal cover).

"Temperature dependence of the Oregonator model for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction," S. R. Pullela, D. Cristancho, P. He, K. R. Hall, and Z. Cheng. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 2009, 4236–4243.

"A comparative study of temperature dependence of induction time and oscillatory frequency in polymer-immobilized and free catalyst Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions", S. R. Pullela, J. Shen, M. Marquez and Z, Cheng. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 47, 2009, 847 – 854.

“Measurement of the membrane elasticity of red blood cell with osmotic pressure by optical tweezers” J. Wu, Y. Li, D. Lu, Z. Liu, Z. Cheng, L. He, Cryoletters, 30, 2009, 89-95.


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