Prof. Zhigang LI's Profile

August 19th, 2009
Name: 
Prof. Zhigang LI (PhD, Delaware)
Position: 
Assistant Professor
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Personal Homepage: 
http://ihome.ust.hk/~mezli/
Brief Introduction: 
Professor Li got his B.S. (1996) from Harbin Engineering University, M.Eng. (1999) from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. (2005) from the University of Delaware. He was a post doctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University before joining the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research spans several areas in mechanical engineering, including nanoscience, microfluidics, and nonlinear dynamics/chaos.
Membership: 
ASME, APS, AAAR
Honours and Awards: 
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Scholarship Council, Ministry of Education, China, 2005
COE Fellowship, College of Engineering, University of Delaware, 2001
Siemens Prize, Tsinghua University, 1997
Research Interests: 
Nanoscale fluid and biomolecule transport
Nonlinear dynamics/chaos
Numerical simulations (MD, MC, DPD)
Representative Publications: 

Zhigang Li and Ling Hong, On the Knudsen Transport of Gases in Nanochannels, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 074706 (2007).
Zhigang Li and German Drazer, Separation of Suspended Particles by Arrays of Obstacles in Microfluidic Devices, Physical Review Letters 98, 050602 (2007).
Zhigang Li and German Drazer, Fluid Enhancement of Particle Transport in Nanochannels, Physics of Fluids, 18, 117102 (2006).
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang, Gas-Nanoparticle Scattering: A Molecular View of the Momentum Accommodation Function, Physical Review Letters, 95, 014502 (2005).
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang, Thermophoretic force and velocity of nanoparticles in the free molecule regime, Physical Review E, 70, 021205 (2004).
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang, Drag force, diffusion coefficient, and electric mobility of small particles. II Application, Physical Review E, 68, 061207 (2003).
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang, Drag force, diffusion coefficient, and electric mobility of small particles. I Theory applicable to the free-molecule regime, Physical Review E, 68, 061206 (2003).
Zhigang Li and Daolin Xu, Stability Criterion for Projective Synchronization in Three-Dimensional Chaotic Systems. Physics Letters A, 282, 175 (2001).