Zhengdong Cheng

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Tel: 979 845-3413
Fax: 979-845-6446
Email: cheng@chemail.tamu.edu
Web: che.tamu.edu/orgs/groups/Cheng

Department Website

EDUCATION

1999 - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Ph.D. in Condensed matter physics

1993 - Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China - M.S. in Experimental Particle Physics

1990 - University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China - B.S. in Modern Physics

WORK EXPERIENCE

08/04-present Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Department, College Station, Texas Assistant Professor 11/04-present Texas A&M University, the Professional Program in Biotechnology, College Station, Texas Faculty of Biotechnology 01/06-present Texas A&M University, Materials Science and Engineering Program, College Station, Texas Faculty of MSEN 11/02-08/04 Harvard University, Physics Department and DEAS, Cambridge, Massachusetts Postdoctoral fellow, Microfluidics, Dave Weitz research group 08/01-11/02 DiCon Fiber Optics, Inc., San Francisco, California Principal Investigator of photonic crystals research & development 06/00-08/01 ExxonMobil Research & Engineer Co., Clinton, New Jersey Postdoctoral fellow, Complex Fluids and Heavy Oil (Supervisor: Thomas G. Masson) 11/98-05/00 Princeton University, Physics Department & Princeton Materials Institute, New Jersey Chief Scientist, Colloidal Crystallization in Microgravity, NASA Project (with Prof. W.B. Russel) 09/93-05/98 Princeton University, Physics Department & Princeton Materials Institute, New Jersey Research Assistant, Colloidal Crystallization and Glass Transition (with Prof. Paul M. Chaikin) 06/90-06/93 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China Research Scientist, t and Charm Quark Physics  06/86-06/90 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Research Assistant, Proton-Proton Collision Physics  8/04-present - Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Department, College Station, Texas - Assistant Professor, Ph.D. advisor 11/04-present - Texas A&M University, the Professional Program in Biotechnology, College Station, Texas - Faculty of Biotechnology, MS advisor 01/06-present - Texas A&M University, Materials Science and Engineering Program, College Station, Texas - Faculty of MSEN, Ph.D. advisor 08/01-11/02 - DiCon Fiber Optics, Inc., San Francisco, California - Director, Complex fluids laboratory Princeton Material Institute, Princeton, New Jersey 01/00-09/00 - Mentor, Experimental colloidal physics project 08/97 - Instructor, Colloidal Disorder-order Transition with Space Shuttle STS-95 Crew 09/97- 12/97 - Mentor, Graduate General Experimental Examinations program  05/96- 08/96 - Supervisor, undergraduate summer internship program Dept. of Physics, Princeton University, New Jersey 02/95- 06/95 - Teaching Assistant of undergraduate class “Introduction to Sub-atomic Physics” 09/94-01/95 - Teaching Assistant of undergraduate class “Quantum Physics”

PUBLICATIONS

(5) “Photorefractive filament array formed in PDMs by fs pulse laser”, G. Feng, Z. cheng, Q. Zhu. J. Chen, N. Sun, X. Zhang, SPIE Proceeding, Photorefractive fiber and crystal devices: materials, optical properties, and applications XI, 31 July-1 August, 2005, San Diego, California, USA (6) “Electric control of droplets in microfluidic devices”, D.R. Link, E.D. Graslasn-Mongrain, A. Duri, F. Sarrazin, Z. Cheng, G. Cristobal, M. Marquez, D.A. Weitz, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 45, 2006, 2556 (7) “Dynamics of Drop Production in Hydrodynamic Flow Focusing Microfluidic Devices: Periodic Behaviors and Chaos”, Z. Cheng, Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, July 20-23, 2006, Orlando, Florida (8) “Melting kinetics of thermally responsive microgel crystals”, S. Tang, Z. Hu, B. Zhou, Z. Cheng, J. Wu, M. Marquez, Macromolecules 40, 2007, 9544 (9) “A Ternary Phase Diagram for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Induced Mechanical Oscillation of intelligent PNIPAM colloids” J. Shen, S. Pullela, M. Marquez, Z. Cheng, J. Phys. Chem. A., 111, 2007, 12081 (10) “Nucleation Rate Measurement of Colloidal Crystallization using Microfluidic Emulsion Droplets” T.Y. Gong, J.Y. Shen, Z.B. Hu, M. Marquez, and Z. Cheng, Langmuir, 23, 2007, 2919 (11) “Cell encapsulation using Hydrodynamic Flow Focusing Microfluidics Devices” D. Luo, S. Pullela, M. Marquez, Z. Cheng, Biomaterials, 1, 2007, 034102 (12) "Controlled production of emulsion drops using an electric field in a flow-focusing microfluidic device" H. Kim, D. Luo, D. Link, D. A. Weitz, M. Marquez, Z. Cheng, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 2007, 133106 (13) “The structure-properties relation of Polyurethane obtained from renewable resources” M.F. Valero, J.E. Pulido, A. Ramírez, Z. Cheng, Latin American journal of polymers, 8, 2007, 203. (14) “Drug Discovery-Advances in Microfluidics” P. He, J. Shen, Z. Cheng, Drug Discovery 2007, Touch Briefings, London, 2007. (15) “Thermosensitive Hard Spheres” M. Clements, S. Pullela, J. Shen, T. Gong, Z. Cheng, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 317, 2008, 96 (16) “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, (in press). (17) “Preparation and properties of polyurethanes based on Castor oil chemically modified with Yucca startch glycoside” M. F. Valero, J.E. Pulido, J.C. Hernandez, J.A. Posada, A. Ramirez and Z. Cheng, J. Elastomers and Plastics, (in Press) (18) “Uniform Discotic Wax Particle Synthesis by Electrospray Emulsification” A. Mejia, P. He, D. Luo, M. Marquez and Z. Cheng, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 2008 (in press). (19) “Shape transformation of emulsions by surfactants-assisted surface freezing” A. Mejia, P. He, M. Netemeyer, D. Luo, M Marquez and Z. Cheng, Nature, to be submitted. (20) "Discotic Colloids: An emerging frontier in Colloidal and Interface Science", P. He and Z. Cheng, CACS (Chinese American Chemical Society) communications (To be published in spring 2009)

PATENTS

Asphatene Aggregation in Petroleum Oil Mixtures Determined by Small Angle Light Scattering with T.G. Mason et al., ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company Formation and Control of Fluidic Species with D.R. Link, G. Cristobal, D.A. Weitz, M. Marquez, Harvard University