Rate My Professor Lianxi Zheng

Professor Lianxi Zheng is a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Khalifa University. He received his BEng degree in Electronic Engineering from Southeast University in China and his PhD in Physics from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining Khalifa University, he served as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Research Scientist at CNT Technologies Inc., and an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University.

Professor Zheng conducts research in the interdisciplinary fields of materials science and nanotechnologies, with a focus on low-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications in areas such as energy harvesting and storage devices, photocatalysis, smart sensors, nano-electronics, nano-composites, e-textiles, and artificial muscles. He has received two Nano 50 Awards from NASA, licensed three US patents, and authored more than 150 papers published in high-impact journals including Nature Materials, Materials Today, Advanced Materials, and Physical Review Letters.