Dr Xiangbing Zeng
PhD MSc BSc
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Polymers and Liquid Crystals
+44 114 222 5948
Full contact details
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
葫芦影业
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Xiangbing Zeng was appointed as Lecturer in Polymers and Liquid Crystals in 2003. Formerly a research in the Polymer, Liquid Crystal and Supramolecular Structures Group, he obtained his PhD in 2001.
- Research interests
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Dr Zengs' research areas can be divided into two broad directions: one on polymer physics, in particular the polymer crystallisation process; the other on self-assembly, which covers systems such as supra-molecules, liquid crystals, more recently LC covered nanoparticles.
On the polymer side, he is involved in an eight-institution international collaboration supported under NSF-EPSRC Pire scheme, for developing new materials from natural sources for applications in the sustainable energy industry. On the self-assembly side, a research project on “Liquid quasicrystals and their approximants”, supported by Leverhulme Trust, started in 2013.
Another important aspect of his research on self–organized systems is to develop new nanomaterials for tailored optical and electrical properties. For example, metamaterials by self-assembled gold nanoparticles have been fabricated, by covering them with liquid crystal-forming molecules.
Dr Zeng has ample experience with scattering methods (X-ray and neutron) for characterisation of nanoscale structures, which often involve the use of large scale facilities such as synchrotron radiation sources (e.g. Diamond, ESRF) and neutron sources (ISIS, ILL). Other microscopic (optical, SEM, TEM, AFM) and spectroscopic (FTIR, UV-Vis, Raman etc) methods are employed whenever necessary.
Research impact:
The discovery of the first quasicrystalline structure at nanoscale, which has opened a new field of research published recently in several articles in Science and Nature. The original paper (Nature, 2004, doi:) has been cited over 200 times so far.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- . Soft Matter.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202403156.
- . Macromolecules, 57(4), 1667-1676.
- . Macromolecules, 56(14), 5502-5511.
- . Nature Chemistry, 15(5), 625-632.
- . Giant, 9.
- . Nature Communications, 13(1).
- . Nature Communications, 12(1).
- . Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
- . Nature Communications, 12(1).
- . Advanced Functional Materials, 30(45), 2070298-2070298.
- . Advanced Functional Materials.
- , pb17.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(20), 9525-9536.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 132(7), 2747-2751.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(7), 3296-3300.
- . Chemical Communications, 2020(1), 62-65.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
- . Chemistry – A European Journal, 25(60), 13739-13747.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(40), 15761-15766.
- . Chemistry – A European Journal, 25(60), 13651-13651.
- . Chemical Science, 10(25), 6245-6253.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 131(22), 7453-7457.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(22), 7375-7379.
- . Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 4(2), 396-406.
- . Chemical Communications, 55(29), 4154-4157.
- . Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), 1806078-1806078.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(49), 16941-16947.
- . Advanced Functional Materials, 28(46).
- . Chemical Communications, 54(87), 12306-12309.
- . Soft Matter.
- . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20(39), 25268-25274.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(41), 13478-13487.
- . Chemistry - A European Journal.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 130(11), 2885-2890.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 130(11), 3029-3029.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57(11), 2977-2977.
- . Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 57(11), 2835-2840.
- . Soft Matter, 14(16), 3003-3011.
- . Chemical Communications, 54(2), 156-159.
- . Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(41).
- . Phys Chem Chem Phys, 19(32), 21663-21671.
- . Physical Review E, 95(6).
- . Chem, 2(6), 860-876.
- . Soft Matter, 22(13), 4122-4131.
- . Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 13449-13454.
- . ACS Nano.
- . ACS Combinatorial Science, 18(12), 723-739.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(44), 14798-14807.
- . Nanoscale Horizons, 2(1), 43-49.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 128(29), 8464-8467.
- . Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 55(29), 8324-8327.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(18), 5757-5760.
- . Nature Chemistry, 8(1), 80-89.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(41), 13212-13215.
- . Nature Communications, 6, 8637-8637.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(40), 12736-12739.
- . Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 617(1), 50-57.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(15), 5210-5224.
- . ACS Nano, 9(2), 1759-1766.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(2), 807-819.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(48), 13293-13293.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 126(48), 13331-13336.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 126(48), 13509-13509.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(48), 13115-13120.
- . Journal of Molecular Liquids, 195, 69-72.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(19), 6846-6849.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 136(19), 7169-7185.
- . ACS Nano, 8(5), 4500-4509.
- . Journal of Applied Crystallography, 46(6), 1654-1664.
- . Advanced Materials, 25(14), 1999-2004.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 135(10), 4129-4148.
- . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8642.
- . Langmuir, 28(43), 15350-15361.
- . Nat Commun, 3, 1104.
- . ACS NANO, 6(5), 4382-4391.
- . Interface Focus, 2(5), 669-680.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(33), 13871-13880.
- . Chemistry - A European Journal, 18(8), 2366-2373.
- . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8271.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(22), 11101-11106.
- Simple cubic packing of gold nanoparticles through rational design of their dendrimeric corona. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(2), 808-811.
- Induction of thermotropic bicontinuous cubic phases in liquid-crystalline ammonium and phosphonium salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(5), 2634-2643.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 123(45), 10787-10790.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 133(45), 18479-18494.
- . Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 50(45), 10599-10602.
- . ADV FUNCT MATER, 21(7), 1296-1323.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 133(13), 4906-4916.
- . Science, 331(6022), 1302-1306.
- . Israel Journal of Chemistry, 51(11-12), 1206-1215.
- . CHEM COMMUN, 47(24), 6885-6887.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(31), 12197-12219.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(20), 7872-7881.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 122(39), 7156-7159.
- Arranging nanoparticle superlattices with liquid crystals. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 240.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 132(32), 11288-11305.
- . ADV FUNCT MATER, 20(6), 914-920.
- . Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 247.
- . SOFT MATTER, 6(21), 5390-5396.
- . Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 525, 212-218.
- . Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 49(39), 7002-7005.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 131(47), 17500-17521.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 121(42), 7977-7980.
- . Langmuir, 25(18), 11067-11072.
- . Advanced Materials, 21(17), NA-NA.
- . ADV MATER, 21(17), 1746-+.
- . Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 48(42), 7837-7840.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 130(45), 14922-+.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 120(47), 9203-9206.
- . Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, 64(a1), C31-C32.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 130(30), 9666-9667.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 120(32), 6169-6172.
- . Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(32), 5862-5862.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 120(32), 5946-5946.
- . CHEM MATER, 20(14), 4729-4738.
- . AIP Conference Proceedings, 989, 68.
- . ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, 47(32), 6080-6083.
- . ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, 47(47), 9063-9066.
- . J MATER CHEM, 18(25), 2953-2961.
- . CHEM COMMUN(33), 3861-3863.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 119(42), 8118-8121.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 119(41), 8002-8005.
- Semicrystalline and superlattice structures in linear and branched oligomers. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 234.
- . J Am Chem Soc, 129(31), 9578-9579.
- . MACROMOLECULES, 40(16), 5750-5758.
- . J Phys Chem B, 111(19), 5174-5179.
- . ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, 46(41), 7856-7859.
- . ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, 46(42), 7972-7975.
- . PHILOS MAG, 86(6-8), 1093-1103.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 127(47), 16578-16591.
- . MACROMOLECULES, 38(17), 7201-7204.
- . SOFT MATTER, 1(2), 95-106.
- . Nat Mater, 4(7), 562-567.
- Liquid crystalline networks composed of pentagonal, square, and triangular cylinders. SCIENCE, 307(5706), 96-99.
- . Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 9(6), 384-389.
- . Faraday Discuss, 128, 363-378.
- . Angewandte Chemie, 116(35), 4721-4725.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 126(28), 8608-8609.
- . J AM CHEM SOC, 126(19), 6078-6094.
- . J PHYS CHEM B, 108(10), 3130-3139.
- . Nature, 428(6979), 157-160.
- . ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, 43(35), 4621-4625.
- . MACROMOLECULES, 36(13), 4686-4688.
- . Phys Rev Lett, 90(15), 155508.
- . Science, 299(5610), 1208-1211.
- . MACROMOLECULES, 35(20), 7730-7741.
- Triple layer superlattice in binary mixtures of very long n-alkanes: a study by SAXS. POLYMER, 43(5), 1657-1666.
- . Chem Rev, 101(12), 4157-4188.
- . MACROMOLECULES, 34(20), 6945-6954.
- . Phys Rev Lett, 86(21), 4875-4878.
- Integer, noninteger, and mixed integer forms in long-chain n-alkanes.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 218, U630-U630.
- Crystalline bilayers in the very long chain n-alkanoic acid C191H383COOH. MACROMOLECULES, 32(10), 3543-3545.
- Structure and formation of noninteger and integer folded-chain crystals of linear and branched monodisperse ethylene oligomers. MACROMOLECULES, 31(6), 1875-1879.
- . Macromolecules.
- . Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
- . Angewandte Chemie.
- . Chemical Communications.
- . Angewandte Chemie.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
- . Macromolecules.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- . Synchrotron Radiation News, 1-9.
- . Macromolecules.
- . Liquid Crystals, 1-12.
- . Macromolecules.
- . Molecular Physics, e1902586-e1902586.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8(16), 5389-5398.
- . Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8(3), 1041-1047.
- . Chemical Science, 11(35), 9713-9713.
- . Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 4(2), 342-347.
- . ChemInform, 33(15), no-no.
- The statistics of the ordering of chiral ribbons on a honeycomb lattice.
Chapters
- , Series in Soft Condensed Matter (pp. 209-253). WORLD SCIENTIFIC
- (pp. 1-74). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Conference proceedings papers
- Why are biological systems homochiral?. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 252
- Mechanisms for supramolecular helical polymerization into crystalline arrays of chiral columns. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 252
- Thermodynamically controlled crystallization of self-organizing supramolecular assemblies. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 252
- Deracemization of supramolecular assemblies in bulk crystal state. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 252
- Liquid-crystalline organic-inorganic hybrid dendrimer with a CdS nano-core: The self-organized structure-dependent photoluminescence behavior. 22nd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2016 and 19th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, PRES 2016, Vol. 2 (pp 795-796)
- Self-assembly and self-repairing of complex helical columns based on dendronized perylene bisimides. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 244
- Dendronized perylene bisimides: Soft-crystal structure key to high charge mobility. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 244
- Dendrimeric liquid quasicrystal.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 228 (pp U500-U500)
- . Journal of Macromolecular Science - Physics, Vol. 42 B(3-4 SPEC.) (pp 915-927)
- . JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE-PHYSICS, Vol. B41(4-6) (pp 1305-1320)
- Non-integer and mixed integer forms in long n-alkanes observed by real-time LAM spectroscopy and SAXS. POLYMER, Vol. 41(25) (pp 8775-8780)
- Lamellar structure of non-integer folded and extended long-chain n-alkanes by small-angle X-ray diffraction. POLYMER, Vol. 39(19) (pp 4523-4533)
Preprints