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IAS Senior Fellow
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| Prof Ping SHENG |
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Dr William M. W. Mong Professor of Nanoscience
Department of Physics, HKUST |
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Prof. Ping Sheng received his BS in physics from the California Institute of Technology and PhD in physics from Princeton University. Having worked at Exxon Corporate Research Center for 15 years, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1994, and served as the Head of Department of Physics from 1999 to 2008. He is currently the Dr William M W Mong Chair Professor of Nanoscience at HKUST.
Prof. Sheng’s research is in the area of condensed matter physics. He has pioneered the study of liquid crystal-substrate interaction while at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Laboratory, and established the mechanisms of charging-energy correlated hopping and fluctuation-induced tunneling conduction in disordered materials. While at Exxon, Prof. Sheng’s interest broadened into wave interaction and scattering in disordered systems, and porous media. The study of nanotechnology became his main focus after joining HKUST, where he led the efforts in the discovery of superconducting behavior in ultrathin carbon nanotubes, and the giant electrorheological effect in suspensions of nanoparticles. He is also the inventor of locally resonant sonic materials that can break the mass density law in shielding low frequency sound. More recently, Prof. Sheng and his colleagues resolved the classical problem of moving contact line in two phase immiscible flows, by applying Onsager’s principle of minimum energy dissipation to the derivation of hydrodynamic boundary conditions.
Prof. Sheng has published over 410 refereed journal publications and presented over 290 keynotes or invited talks at international meetings and conferences. He is a member of the Executive Editorial Board of Solid State Communications; as well an editor of the New Journal of Physics. He has served as a division associate editor of Physical Review Letters until 2016, as a national board member of Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, China, and as a member of consulting committees to various universities in China and Taiwan. He also has 28 patents and is the author of a monograph on Wave Scattering, Localization, and Mesoscopic Phenomena (Springer, 2006). He is the visiting Chair Professor of the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, as well as an advisory board member of the Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Member of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials. In 2002, he was awarded Technology Leader of the Year by the Sing Tao Group. He is the 2013 Brillouin Medal winner for his seminal contribution to locally resonant acoustic metamaterials. Prof. Sheng was elected a Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2019 and was elected as Honorary Member and Fellow of the Physical Society of Hong Kong in 2020 for his research achievements and contributions to the scientific community.
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Publications
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Yang, M., Chen, S., Fu, C. and Sheng, P. (2017). Optimal sound-absorbing structures. Mater. Horiz., 4(4), pp.673-680. doi:10.1039/c7mh00129k |
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Pan, J., Zhang, T., Zhang, H., Zhang, B., Dong, Z. and Sheng, P. (2017). Berry Curvature and Nonlocal Transport Characteristics of Antidot Graphene. Physical Review X, 7(3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.7.031043 |
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Ma, G., and Sheng, P. (2016). Acoustic Metamaterials: From Local Resonances to Broad Horizons. Science Advances, 2(2), e1501595. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501595 |
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Ma, G., Fu, C., Wang, G., del Hougne, P., Christensen, J., Lai, Y. and Sheng, P. (2016). Polarization Bandgaps and Fluid-like Elasticity in Fully Solid Elastic Metamaterials. Nature Communications, 7, p.13536. doi:10.1038/ncomms13536 |
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Chen, S., Wang, H., Qian, T., and Sheng, P. (2015) Determining Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions from Equilibrium Fluctuations, Physical Review E, 92(4), 043007. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.043007 |
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Wan, L., Xu, S. X., Liao, M. J., Liu, C. and Sheng, P. (2014). Self-consistent approach to global charge neutrality in electrokinetics: A surface potential trap model. Physical review X, 4(1), 011042-1-25. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011042 |
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Zhang, T., Heid, R., Bohnen, K., Sheng, P., and Chan, C. (2014). Phonon spectrum and electron-phonon coupling in zigzag graphene nanoribbons. Physical Review B, 89(205404), 1-7. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.20540410.1103/PhysRevB.89.205404 |
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Yang, M., Ma, G., Wu, Y., Yang, Z., and Sheng, P. (2014). Homogenization scheme for acoustic metamaterials. Physical Review B, 86(6), 064309-1-12. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.064309 |
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Ma, G., Yang, M., Xiao, S., Yang, Z. and Sheng, P. (2014). Acoustic metasurface with hybrid resonances. Nature Materials. doi: 10.1038/NMAT3994 |
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Zhang, H., Lu, J., Shi, W., Wang, Z., Zhang, T., Sun, M., Zheng, Y., Chen, Q., Wang, N., Lin, J., & Sheng, P. (2013). Large-scale Mesoscopic Transport in Nanostructured Graphene. Physical Review Letters, 110(6). doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.066805 |
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Ma, G., Yang, M., Yang, Z., and Sheng, P. (2013). Low-frequency narrow-band acoustic filter with large orifice. Applied Physics Letters, 103(1), 011903. doi:10.1063/1.4812974 |
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Zhang, T., and Sheng, P. (2013). Superconducting versus semiconducting electronic ground state in chirality-specific double-wall carbon nanotubes. New Journal of Physics, 15, 083021. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/8/083021 |
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Yang, M., Ma, G., Yang, Z., and Sheng, P. (2013). Coupled membranes with doubly negative mass density and bulk modulus. Physical Review Letters, 110(13), 134301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.134301 |
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Wu, J., Wen, W. J., and Sheng, P. (2012). Smart electroresponsive droplets in microfluidics. Soft Matter, 2012(8), 11589-11599. doi:10.1039/c2sm26286 |
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Sun, M., Hou, Z., Zhang, T., Wang, Z., Shi, W., Lortz, R., and Sheng, P. (2012). Dimensional crossover transition in a system of weakly coupled superconducting nanowires. New Journal of Physics, 14, 103018. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103018 |
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| + Engagement in IAS activities / events (Total: 13 records) |
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