Dr. Chenhui Peng is a Professor in Department of Physics in USTC since 2022. He got his PhD degree from Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University in Ohio in 2017. Afterwards he did Postdoc work in MIT from 2017 to 2018. Then he was an Assistant Professor in Department of Physics and Materials Science in the University of Memphis from Aug. 2018 to Dec. 2021. His research interest include active soft matter, biophysics, smart materials, colloidal self assembly, microfluidics and their bioengineering applications and his work have been published in Science, Nature Physics, Science Advances, Nature Communications and Advanced Materials etc.
We are recruiting motivated PhD students and Postdocs. Please contact Dr. Chenhui Peng at cpeng2@ustc.edu.cn for more information.
(Representative publications *indicates corresponding author)：
1. Z. Asilehan#, W. Tang#, J. Zhang, Z. Chen, R. Wang, Q. Shi, G. Song, J. Jiang*, R. Zhang*, Chenhui Peng*, Light-driven dancing of nematic colloids in fractional skyrmions and bimerons. Nature Communications 16, 1148 (2025).
2. J. Jiang#, O. Akomolafe#, X. Wang#, Zhawure Asilehan, Wentao Tang, Jing Zhang, Zijun Chen, Ruijie Wang, Kamal Ranabhat, Rui Zhang* and Chenhui Peng*, PNAS, 121, e2402395121 (2024).
3. X. Wang#, J. Jiang#, J. Chen#, Z. Asilehan, W. Tang, Chenhui Peng*, R. Zhang*, Moiré effect enables versatile design of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals. Nature Communications 15, 1655 (2024).
4. J. Jiang#, X. Wang#, O. Akomolafe#, W. Tang, Z. Asilehan, K. Ranabhat, R. Zhang* and Chenhui Peng*, Collective transport and reconfigurable assembly of nematic colloids by light-driven cooperative molecular reorientations, PNAS, 120, e2221718120 (2023)
5. J. Jiang#, K. Ranabhat#, X. Wang#, H. Rich, R. Zhang* and Chenhui Peng*, Active transformations of topological structures in light-driven nematic disclination networks, PNAS, 119, e2122226119 (2022)
6. Chenhui Peng, T. Turiv, Y. Guo, Q.-H. Wei, and O. D. Lavrentovich*, "Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns," Science, 354, 882 (2016).
7. Chenhui Peng, T. Turiv, Y. Guo, S. V. Shiyanovskii, Q.-H. Wei, and O. D. Laverntovich*, "Control of colliodal placement and assembly by modulated molecular orientaion in nematic cells," Science Advances, 2, e1600932 (2016).
8. Chenhui Peng, Y. Guo, T. Turiv, Miao Jiang, Q.-H. Wei, and O. Lavrentovich*, "Patterning of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals by photoalignment with photonic metamasks," Advanced Materials, 29, 1606112 (2017).
9. J. Chen, J. Jiang, J. Weber, V. Gimenez-Pinto*, Chenhui Peng*, Shape Morphing by Topological Patterns and Profiles in Laser-Cut Liquid Crystal Elastomer Kirigami. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 4538 (2023).
10. Juan Chen#, Oluwafemi Isaac Akomolafe#, Netra Prasad Dhakal, Mahesh Pujyam, Omar Skalli, J. Jiang* and Chenhui Peng*, Nematic Templated Complex Nanofiber Structures by Projection Display, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 7230 (2022)
[1]Name of Research Group:Peng Lab
