Prof. Cheng HUANG
College of Energy
Email: chengh@suda.edu.cn
Phone: 13770834375
Office: 225 New Energy Building, Soochow Institute for Energy & Materials InnovationS
Personal Profile
Cheng graduated from Nanjing University with the BS and MS degrees of Polymer Science and Engineering (1997), Materials Physics and Chemistry (1999). He also obtained the MS and Ph.D. degrees of Electrical Engineering (2002) and Materials (Solid-State Science, 2004) from Electrical Engineering Department and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, USA. After studying and working for a long while at NUS/IMRE, PSU/MRI, Bell Labs/Johns Hopkins University, DOE Battelle-PNNL, and Nanjing Tech/IAM, he is now doing some applied basic research and education within a non-profit academic institution of Soochow University concerning imaterials research and technologies for advanced power sources and intelligent transducers.
Research Interests
1)Wearable energy materials and devices, nanocomposite materials physics and chemistry for solid-state electrolyte high-capacity flexible batteries & fuel cells, thin-film high-temperature dielectric energy storage capacitors and 5G energy antenna, and flexible wearable electrical / electrochemical energy conversion & storage materials and devices for compact powers.
2)Flexible hybrid electronic/photoelectronic materials, devices and micro-nano manufacturing for 2D /molecular perovskites and heterostructured optoelectronic materials, molecular /2D and polymeric nanocomposite relaxor ferroelectrics, flexible piezoelectric piezoelectrets / electroacoustic acousto-optic transduction, electrocaloric and optical / IR radiation solid-state cooling, intelligent wearable thin-films, fibers and E-textiles.
Research Projects
1> Polar Electroactive Materials Research & Flexible Devices Featuring Polarization, Energy and Information Exchange Processes: Focusing on the key scientific issues of effective charge recombination or separation, effective energy transfer and conversion in the process of flexible photoelectronic energy conversion / storage materials and devices, and using polarizable molecular and multi-scale design coupled with the electrical polarization modulation and strengthening principle from micro-nano structures, to develop the key technologies of efficient and stable polar energy materials and flexible wearable **art devices.
2> Wearable energy materials and devices, nanocomposite materials physics and chemistry for solid-state electrolyte high-capacity flexible batteries & fuel cells, thin-film high-temperature dielectric energy storage capacitors and 5G energy antenna, and flexible wearable electrical / electrochemical energy conversion & storage materials and devices for compact powers.
1.Cheng Huang, Jie Xiao, Yuyan Shao, Jianming Zheng, Wendy D. Bennett, Dongping Lu, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Mark Engelhard, Liwen Ji, Jiguang Zhang, Xiaolin Li, Gordon L. Graff & Jun Liu, Manipulating surface reactions in lithium-sulphur batteries using hybrid anode structures, Nature Communications 5(3015): 1-7.
2.Cheng Huang, Bo Yuan, Fei Ye, Zhongfan Liu and Wei Huang, Minimum width carbonyl-rich graphene-like nanoribbons for high-rated capacity lithium energy storage, CN/PCT Patent CN201711071986.1.
3.Cheng Huang, Gaoqiang Niu and Wei Huang, Virtual crystalline film based perovskite solar cells with enhanced efficiency and stability, CN/PCT Patent CN106159088A.
4.Cheng Huang and Q.M. Zhang, High-dielectric-constant polymers as high-energy-density (HED) field effect actuator and capacitor materials. SPIE Smart Structures and Materials: Electroactive Polymers Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), 2004, 5385(1): 87-98.
5.https://www.pnnl.gov/nano/ https://www.pnnl.gov/nano/staff/
6.2D dielectric polymer nanocomposites with self-healing and high energy densities: Topological conversion, confinement and precise manipulation of heterojunction, Dielectric and electronic components conference, and International Symposium on the Solid-State Cooling Materials and Devices, Guangzhou, China, 12, 2018.
7.High-temperature thin-film polymer nanocomposite capacitor and piezoelectret films, Electret Materials and Physics Conference, Shenzhen, China, 12, 2019.
8.Effects of materials and microstructure manipulation of compact batteries on fast charge/high power densities and safety enhancement mechani**s, Wiley-Soochow University International Conference on Energy Materials, Suzhou, China, 12, 2018.
3> Flexible electronic/photoelectronic materials, devices and micro-nano manufacturing for 2D /molecular perovskites and heterostructured optoelectronic materials, molecular /2D and polymeric nanocomposite relaxor ferroelectrics, flexible piezoelectric piezoelectrets / electroacoustic acousto-optic transduction, electrocaloric and optical / IR radiation solid-state cooling, intelligent wearable thin-films, fibers, E-textiles and biomedical PPE.
9.High K 2D-heterojunctional polymeric nanopiezocomposite films for wearable solid state cooling, Innovation Forum on Intelligent Wearable Technologies, Shenzhen, China, 12, 2020.
10.Zhang, Shanshan; Yu, Yang; Wu, Jingen; Gao, Xiangyu; Huang, Cheng; Dong, Shuxiang, Enhanced piezoelectric performance of BiScO3-PbTiO3 ceramics modified by 0.03Pb(Sb1/2Nb1/2)O3, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2018, 731: 1140-1145.
11.Q.M. Zhang, Hengfeng Li, Martin Poh, Feng Xia, Z.Y. Cheng, Haisheng Xu and Cheng Huang, An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant, Nature 2002,419 (1):284-287.
12.Cheng Huang, Howard E. Katz, and James E. West, Organic field-effect transistors and unipolar logic gates on charged electrets from spin-on organosilsesquioxane resin, Advanced Functional Materials 2007, 17(1):142-153.
13.Cheng Huang and Q.M. Zhang, Electroactive polymer (EAP) micromirrors and light-valve technology for MOEMS display and imaging systems, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS and Nanotechnology, 2004, 5389: 274-285.
14.http://www.technet.pnnl.gov/sensors Worldwide Electroactive Polymers EAP Newsletter: Cheng Huang, Transformational Polymers and NanoTechnology Program Initiative.
15.Cheng Huang, R. Klein, Feng Xia, H. Li, Q.M. Zhang, F. Bauer and Z.Y. Cheng, Polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene based high performance electroactive polymers, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 2004, 11(2), 299-311.
16.Q.M. Zhang, Cheng Huang, Feng Xia and Ji Su, Electric EAP, in Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles: Reality, Potential, and Challenges (2nd ed. Bar-Cohen Yoseph), Chapter 4, 2004, 89-136.
4>Collaboration with PKU Micro-Nano Robotics Joint Research Center: Wearable & robotic energy and transduction technologies with advanced power sources (compact power) & intelligent transducers, from wearable exoskeleton robot (passive non-powered exoskeleton body armor) to intelligent wearable, implantable, bio-mimetic, and flexible cyborg electronics with compact power, to enhance the human-computer interface (HCI) and human-machine interaction (HMI).
Research Team
iMaterials Research & Technology Group for Advanced Power Sources & Intelligent Transducers
Soochow Institute for Energy & Materials InnovationS
Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials & Wearable Energy Technologies, Jiangsu Province
Key Laboratory for Flexible Optoelectronic Materials / Devices & Manufacturing Technologies, Jiangsu Province
Key Laboratory for Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies, Jiangsu Province (Micro-nano Optics Priority Discipline)
Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Technologies, Ministry of Education, China
Selected Publications
1.Cheng Huang, Q.M. Zhang, Guest Co-editors, MDPI Journal: Coatings, Special Issue: Electroactive Polymer Films, 2018.
2.Cheng Huang, Jie Xiao, Yuyan Shao, Jianming Zheng, Wendy D. Bennett, Dongping Lu, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Mark Engelhard, Liwen Ji, Jiguang Zhang, Xiaolin Li, Gordon L. Graff & Jun Liu, Manipulating surface reactions in lithium-sulphur batteries using hybrid anode structures, Nature Communications 5(3015): 1-7.
3.Cheng Huang, Bo Yuan, Fei Ye, Zhongfan Liu and Wei Huang, Minimum width carbonyl-rich graphene-like nanoribbons for high-rated capacity lithium energy storage, CN/PCT Patent CN201711071986.1.
4.Cheng Huang, Gaoqiang Niu and Wei Huang, Virtual crystalline film based perovskite solar cells with enhanced efficiency and stability, CN/PCT Patent CN106159088A.
5.Cheng Huang and Q.M. Zhang, High-dielectric-constant polymers as high-energy-density (HED) field effect actuator and capacitor materials. SPIE Smart Structures and Materials: Electroactive Polymers Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), 2004, 5385(1): 87-98.
6.Zhang, Shanshan; Yu, Yang; Wu, Jingen; Gao, Xiangyu; Huang, Cheng; Dong, Shuxiang, Enhanced piezoelectric performance of BiScO3-PbTiO3 ceramics modified by 0.03Pb(Sb1/2Nb1/2)O3, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018, 731: 1140-1145.
7.Zhang, Shanshan; Huang, Cheng; Huang Wei, The strategies for flexoelectricity-enhanced elasto-mechanoluminescent nanocomposites and self-powered flexo-phototronics, CN/PCT Patent CN201710481437.5.
8.Q.M. Zhang, Hengfeng Li, Martin Poh, Feng Xia, Z.Y. Cheng, Haisheng Xu and Cheng Huang, An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant, Nature 2002,419 (1):284-287.
9.Cheng Huang, Howard E. Katz, and James E. West, Organic field-effect transistors and unipolar logic gates on charged electrets from spin-on organosilsesquioxane resin, Advanced Functional Materials 2007, 17(1):142-153.
10.Cheng Huang and Q.M. Zhang, Electroactive polymer (EAP) micromirrors and light-valve technology for MOEMS display and imaging systems, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS and Nanotechnology, 2004, 5389: 274-285.
Honors &Awards
Polar photo-electronically active materials and flexible devices (Information sciences, physical electronics)
Jiangsu Distinguished Professor (Energy Optoelectronics)
Jiangsu Innovation Program (Flexible electronic materials and devices)
China Chemical and Physical Power Sources Industry Association - Energy Storage Applications Expert Committee Member (Most cutting-edge technology research award)
Member of the Expert Group of the IEC JWG82 of photovoltaic grid-connected secondary batteries and energy storage for new energy sources
Senior Member of the Standing Committee of the Committee on Key Materials and Technologies for Electronic Components of the Chinese Society of Instrumental Functional Materials
DOE PNNL Key Contributor Awards
Guest co-editor, Coatings - Electroactive Polymer Films; Youth editorial board - LC and Displays.
Course Teaching
(1)Electronic and Electrochemical Capacitors and Batteries (Undergraduate and Master students)
(2)Thin Film Processes and Devices Physics (Master students)
(3)Introduction to New Energy Sciences (Master and Ph.D. students)
(4)Specialty English (Master and Ph.D. students)
(5)World New Energy Strategies and Current Status Lecture Series (Undergraduate students)
(6)Progress on Modern Physical Chemistry and Materials Research Lecture Series (Master students)
(7)Comprehensive Experiment (Undergraduate students)
Recruitment Information
Welcome Ph.D. and Master graduate student candidates as well as undergraduate students with the background of materials science and engineering, chemistry, physics, polymer science, nanomaterials science, electrochemistry, electronics and optoelectronics, dielectric science, and /or biomedical engineering to join our research group, if you are interested in / devoted to new energy science and engineering, and /or flexible electronics.
Welcome postdoctoral fellows and research assistants to collaborate the following research topics:
1. Materials science and engineering, materials physics and chemistry - Wearable energy materials and devices, nanocomposite materials physics and chemistry for solid-state electrolyte high-capacity flexible batteries & fuel cells, thin-film high-temperature dielectric energy storage capacitors and 5G energy antenna, and flexible wearable electrical / electrochemical energy conversion & storage materials and devices for compact powers.
2. Optical engineering, micro-nano optics and opto-electronics - Flexible electronic /photoelectronic materials, devices and micro-nano manufacturing for 2D /molecular perovskites and heterostructured optoelectronic materials, molecular /2D and polymeric nanocomposite relaxor ferroelectrics, flexible piezoelectric piezoelectrets / electroacoustic acousto-optic transduction, electrocaloric and optical / IR radiation solid-state cooling, intelligent wearable thin-films, fibers, E-textiles and biomedical PPE.
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