Wang, Zhen-Gang

Committee Member — 136 thesises

• Chen, Amylynn C. — 3D in situ Chemical Synthesis: Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymeric Materials via Vat Photo-polymerization (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ylitalo, Andrew Samuel — A Bubble Is Born: Nucleation and Early Growth of CO₂ Bubbles in Polymer Foams (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ting, Christina Lei — A Novel Method for Studying Nucleated Pathways in Membranes: Development and Applications for Gene Delivery (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balaji Gopal, Chirranjeevi — Ab-Initio and Experimental Techniques for Studying Non-Stoichiometry and Oxygen Transport in Mixed Conducting Oxides (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sierou, Asimina — Accelerated Stokesian Dynamics: Development and Application to Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villafuerte, Fernando Joaquin — Additive Manufacturing of Batteries and IR-Active Microparticles: Polyborane-Based Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries and Additively Manufactured, TiN-Coated Microbridges (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Chih-Kai — An Exploration of Perovskite Materials for Thermochemical Water Splitting (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ignatowich, Michael Joseph — An Investigation of Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bois, Justin S. — Analysis of Interacting Nucleic Acids in Dilute Solutions (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qi, Shuyan — Anisotropic Fluctuations and Kinetics of Order-Order and Order-Disorder Phase Transitions of Diblock Copolymers (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hui, Yue — Applications of Genetically Engineered Bacillus subtilis in Biocatalysis and Functional Materials (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jason — Artificial Intelligence Methods for Enzyme Engineering (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• David, Ralph Leonard Ameri — Associative Polymers as Antimisting Agents and Other Functional Materials via Thiol-ene Coupling (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Youyong — Atomistic Simulation of Macromolecules (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wiggins, Paul Alexander — Biology Beyond Biochemistry:The Mechanics of Life (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, David Dah-wei — Biomechanical Information Transfer: Maximum Caliber, λ Genome Ejection Dynamics, and the Formation of Otoliths in Zebrafish (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramachandran, Karthik — Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds Gain Ductility, Resistance to Hydrolysis, and Radial Strength via a Unique Poly L-lactide Microstructure (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swan, James W. — Colloids in Confined Geometries: Hydrodynamics, Simulation and Rheology (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deng, Wei-Qiao — Computation Aided Design in Molecular Nanotechnology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chu, Johan — Computational Explorations of Life (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Yufeng — Computational Heterogeneous Electrochemistry – From Quantum Mechanics to Machine Learning (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fornace, Mark Evan — Computational Methods for Simulating and Parameterizing Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure Thermodynamics and Kinetics (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alvizo, Oscar — Computational Protein Design Force Field Optimization: A Negative Design Approach (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobson, Daniel Rance — Computational Studies of Dendritic Deposition and Trajectory Phase Coexistence (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Voigt, Christopher Ashby — Computationally Optimizing the Directed Evolution of Proteins (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Kevin — Conformations and Charge Fluctuations in Polyelectrolyte Solutions (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Mu — Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Dense Colloidal Suspensions (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klumpe, Heidi Elizabeth — Context-Dependent, Combinatorial Logic of BMP Signaling (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gupta, Vinay Kumar — Controlling molecular and microstructural alignment in anisotropic polymer systems (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zimmer, Matthew Holden — Cotranslational Pulling Forces Alter Outcomes of Protein Synthesis (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scruggs, Neal Robert — Coupling Polymer Thermodynamics and Viscoelasticity to Liquid Crystalline Order: Self-Assembly and Relaxation Dynamics of Block Copolymers in a Nematic Solvent (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Zachary — Data-Driven Protein Engineering (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hutchens, Shelby Brooke — Deformation Behavior and Mechanical Analysis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube (VACNT) Bundles (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goodpaster, Jason Daniel — Density Functional Theory Embedding for Correlated Wavefunctions (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Endelman, Jeffrey B. — Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Protein Libraries Created by Site-Directed Recombination (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bateman, Orland Christopher Lycurgue — Design and Application of Novel Membrane Materials (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Seong Shik (Steve) — Design Rules for Multi-Electron Systems in Next-Generation Batteries: From Mg Electrode-Electrolyte Interface to Anion Redox Activation in Li-Rich Sulfides (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klein, Channing K. — Development and Exploration of Electrochemical Cascades for Titanium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Han — Development of Targeted, Polymeric Delivery Vehicles for Camptothesin and siRNA Via Boronic Acid-Diol Complexation (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rapp, Peter Butterweck — Diffusion and Molecular Association in Artificial Protein Hydrogels (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Bilin — Dipolar Liquids and Their Mixtures: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties with Field-Theoretic Approaches (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cordova-Figueroa, Ubaldo M. — Directed Motion of Colloidal Particles via Chemical Reactions: Osmotic Propulsion (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Inamdar, Mandar Mukund — Dissipative Nanomechanics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Stephanie Lynn — DNA Mechanics and Transcriptional Regulation in the E. coli lac Operon (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Weijun — Dynamics and Shear Alignment Behavior of a Model Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yan, Wen — Dynamics of Chemically Active Suspensions (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Omar, Ahmad Khalid — Dynamics, Mechanics and Stability of Physical Gels (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Joey Dongjin — Effects of Branching on Conformation, Crystallization, and Self-Assembly of Polymers (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoh, Nicholas Jeffrey — Effects of Particle Size Ratio on Single Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Rui — Effects of Self Energy of the Ions on the Double Layer Structure and Properties at the Dielectric Interface (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porubsky, Nicholas James — Enhanced Algorithms for Analysis and Design of Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathways (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McHale, Kevin L. — Feedback Tracking and Correlation Spectroscopy of Fluorescent Nanoparticles and Biomolecules (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Guofeng — First Principles Based Multiscale Modeling of Single Crystal Plasticity: Application to BCC Tantalum (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kannan, Rangaramanujam Mudumbai — Flow-induced alignment in intrinsically anisotropic polymeric materials (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takatori, Sho C. — Forces, Stresses, and the (Thermo?) Dynamics of Active Matter: The Swim Pressure (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fernández-Ballester, Lucia — Formation of Oriented Precursors in Flow-Induced Polymer Crystallization: Experimental Methods and Model Materials (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Preska Steinberg, Asher Raphael — How Polymers Shape the Physicochemical Environment of the Gut (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Zhong-Ren — I. Dynamics of Block Copolymer Nanostructures. II. Polymerizability of Cyclic Olefins and Ring-Closing Metathesis (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yurkovetsky, Yevgeny — I. Statistical mechanics of bubbly liquids. II. Behavior of sheared suspensions of non-Brownian particles (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ye, Benjamin Bobin — Image Charge Effects Near Solid Surfaces (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Porter, Michael Koizumi — Improvement of Microbial Detection and Analysis Techniques in Complex Biological Environments (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tae, Giyoong — In situ Forming Hydrogels Using Self-Assembly of Fluoroalkyl-Ended Poly(ethylene Glycol)s (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Lin — In vitro DNA Mechanics in Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zia, Roseanna Nellie — Individual Particle Motion in Colloids: Microviscosity, Microdiffusivity, and Normal Stresses (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Subramanian, Ganesh — Inertial Effects in Suspension Dynamics (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Cheng-Zhong — Interplay Between Long-Range And Short-Range Interactions In Polymer Self-Assembly And Cell Adhesion (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pirogovsky, Paul Peter — Intramolecular Conflict: Conformation and Self-Assembly of Architecturally Complex Macromolecules in Solution (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ye, Alexandre Z. — Investigations of Metal Oxide Photocathode Protection Layers and Interfacial Charge Transfer Rates on Graphene Electrodes (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsamopoulos, Alexandros — Ion Transport and Rheological Behavior in Polymeric Systems (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Linghui — Ion Transport in Temperature Sensitive Polyelectrolytes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grayson, Robert Wall — Low-Energy Plasma–Surface Interactions at Airless Icy Bodies (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stradley, Steven Hartzel — Materials and Interfaces to Enable Reversible Mg Electrochemistry for Energy Storage Applications (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Row, Hyeongjoo — Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fang, Katharine Yan — Modulating Biophysical Properties of Insulin with Non-Canonical Mutagenesis at Position B28 (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jeongmin — Molecular Simulations of Charge Transport for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kusaka, Isamu — Molecular Theory of Vapor Phase Nucleation (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solares, Santiago de Jesus — Multi-Scale Simulations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy and Density Functional Theory Characterization of Functionalized and Non-Functionalized Silicon Surfaces (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Seola — Multiscale Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Structural Hierarchies in Functional Materials (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kong, Weimeng (Stephanie) — Nanometer-sized Aerosol Particles in the Atmosphere: Measurement, Analysis, and Impact (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walker, Pierre J. — Nature of Electrostatic Interactions in Macromolecular Systems (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Hojin — New Long End-Associative Polymers for Mist Control in I. Aqueous Solutions and II. Hydrocarbon Solvents (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Varner, Samuel L. — Part I: Kinetic Mechanisms and Thermodynamics in Diblock Copolymer Micelles & Part II: Inhomogeneous Thermodynamics of Polar Fluids and Ionic Liquids (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glisman, Alec Gregory — Part I: Multi-Valent Ion Effects on Polyelectrolyte Structure and Thermodynamics & Part II: Hydrodynamic Self-Propulsion (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khair, Aditya Satish — Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions: Applications to Microrheology and Nonequilibrium Depletion Interactions (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosa-Raíces, Jorge Luis — Path Space Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Molecular Simulation (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Webb, Michael Anthony — Path-Integral and Coarse-Graining Strategies for Complex Molecular Phenomena (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Chung Hang Jonathan — Pharmacological Behavior of Systemically Administered Nanoparticles of Defined Properties: Mechanistic Investigations at the Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Levels (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balzer, Christopher James — Polyelectrolytes Near Solid Surfaces (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yan, Yushan — Preparation of zeolite ZSM-5 membranes (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dooling, Lawrence Joseph — Programming Molecular Association and Viscoelastic Behavior in Protein Hydrogels (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pack, Daniel W. — Protein Targeting to Metal-Chelating Lipid Monolayers: Toward New Materials Inspired by Nature (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoo, Tae Hyeon — Proteins of Novel Composition: Synthesis, Evolution, Dynamics (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Giurumescu, Claudiu Adrian — Quantitative Insights into Developmental Signals and Phenotypes in C. elegans (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Benedicto, Alto D. — Rational Approaches to Regulating Polymer Properties in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Ho-Il — Redox Kinetics of Nonstoichiometric Oxides (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner, Ryan Matthew — Reshaping Elastomers with Light: First Principles Model of Diffusion-Induced Deformation (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Yapeng — Resistance is Futile: Physical Science, Systems Biology and Single-Cell Analysis to Understanding the Plastic and Heterogeneous Nature of Melanoma and Their Role in Non-Genetic Drug Resistance (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lhota, Red C. — Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kempe, Michael David — Rheology and Dynamics of Side-Group Liquid Crystalline Polymers in Nematic Solvents (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedman, Andrew Collin — Scalable Fabrication of Micro-Architected Water Filtering Membranes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olsen, Adam Paul — Scanning Activity Gravimetric Analysis (SAGA) of Aqueous Polyethylene Oxide (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Bin — Sec-facilitated Protein Translocation and Membrane Integration (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Verduzco, Rafael — Self-Assembled Liquid Crystal Polymer Gels (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spakowitz, Andrew James — Semiflexible Polymers: Fundamental Theory and Applications in DNA Packaging (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burkholder, Eric William — Single Particle Motion in Active Matter (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martin, Jeremy Isaac — Statistical Mechanics of End-Attached Polymer Interfaces (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romero, Philip Anthony — Statistical Models of the Protein Fitness Landscape: Applications to Protein Evolution and Engineering (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gorin, Gennady — Stochastic Foundations for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ifkovits, Zachary Philip — Strategies for Enabling Stable and Efficient (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gu, Xun Wendy — Strength, Deformation and Fracture in Metallic Nanostructures (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Wei — Structure, Dynamics, and Properties of Artificial Protein Hydrogels Assembled Through Coiled-Coil Domains (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Jonathan Edward — Structures, Energetics and Reactions of Hydrocarbons on Nickel (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Neng E. — Studies in dynamics (1995, Master's thesis)
• Carpen, Ileana Cristina — Studies of Suspension Behavior: I. Instabilities of Non-Brownian Suspensions. II. Microrheology of Colloidal Suspensions (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morris, Jeffrey Franklin — Suspensions: microstructure, diffusion, and inhomogeneous flow (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glisman, Alec Gregory — Swimming in Potential Flow (2022, Master's thesis)
• Wei, Ming-Hsin — Synthesis and Potency of Long End-Associative Polymers for Mist Control (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Alice B. — Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Polymers: Molecular Architecture and Materials Design (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shnek, Deborah Rebecca — Targeting of Proteins and Protein Analogs to Metal-Chelating Lipid Vesicles (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Ziyi — Temperature Dependence of Gas Physisorption Energy: Experimental and Computational Studies of Krypton on Porous Carbon (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Helms, Phillip Laurence — Tensor Network Methods for Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swaroop, Manuj — The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grayson, Paul Daniel — The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baxter-Drayton, Yvette Valencia — The Dynamics of Flocculated Dispersions (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumaraswamy, Guruswamy — The effect of flow history on the crystallization of semicrystalline polymers (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kjeldbjerg, Camilla Maria — The Effects of Confinement in Active Matter: the Casimir Effect, Partitioning, and Hindered Diffusion (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schulman, Rebecca Beth — The Self-Replication and Evolution of DNA Crystals (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witman, Jennifer Elisabeth — The T-Shaped Anisotropic Molecule Model: A Unique Perspective on the Glass Transition and Gelation in Low Valence, Directional, Network Forming Liquids (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bruch, Dorian Wayne — Theoretical Modeling of Interactions Between Electrolytes and Surfaces (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Yun-Hua — Theory of Dynamical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Dots (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abrecht, David Gregory — Thermodynamic Properties of Organometallic Dihydrogen Complexes for Hydrogen Storage Applications (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peng, Zhiwei — Transport and Microrheology of Active Colloids (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Quine, Cullen Mackenzie — Tunability of Gas Adsorption Enthalpies in Carbonaceous Materials for Energy-Related Applications (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Connie Yuan-Ying — Understanding Co-Translational Protein Targeting and Lithium Dendrite Formation through Free Energy Simulations and Coarse-Grained Models (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kozlowski, Mark Tybalt — Use of Recombinant Self-Associating Proteins for Altering Cellular Fate and Behavior (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rubin, Susan Felicia — Viscoelasticity and dynamics of alignment in side-group liquid crystalline polymers (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))