Draft:Xiaolin Zheng

Dr. Xiaolin Zheng
Dr. Xiaolin Zheng serves as a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2000, and later obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2006. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Zheng conducted postdoctoral research within the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Zheng is an active member of several professional organizations, including MRS, ACS, and the Combustion Institute. She currently holds the position of senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, a multidisciplinary research institute at Stanford University committed to advancing energy research, education, and innovation.

Teaching:
During the Fall semester of 2023, Dr. Zheng led graduate seminars for Energy Master's and PhD students, in addition to teaching Energy Systems 1: Thermodynamics. Throughout the winter term, Dr. Zheng instructed the Fundamentals of Energy Processes and Hydrogen Economy courses. Presently, in Spring 2024, Dr. Zheng is leading the Thermofields, Energy, and Propulsion Research Seminar. Dr. Zheng has consistently taught these courses for the past four years.

Dr. Zheng currently holds positions as a professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science and Engineering departments, and holds a courtesy professorship in the Materials Science and Engineering department.

Publications:
Dr. Xiaolin Zheng has a total of 140 scientific publications, six being conference proceedings. Recent publications within the year 2023-2024 are listed below:


 * Tailoring the mechanical and combustion performance of B/HTPB composite solid fuel with covalent interfaces COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Jiang, Y., Leem, J., Robinson, A. M., Wu, S., Huynh, A. H., Ka, D., Zhao, R., Xia, Y., Zheng, X. 2024; 245
 * Hyperbolic Polaritonic Rulers Based on van der Waals α-MoO3 Waveguides and Resonators. ACS nano Yu, S. J., Yao, H., Hu, G., Jiang, Y., Zheng, X., Fan, S., Heinz, T. F., Fan, J. A. 2023
 * Synergistic effects of mixing and strain in high entropy spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction. Nature communications Baek, J., Hossain, M. D., Mukherjee, P., Lee, J., Winther, K. T., Leem, J., Jiang, Y., Chueh, W. C., Bajdich, M., Zheng, X. 2023; 14 (1): 5936
 * Exfoliated Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) Nanosheets as Solid Fuels. Nano letters Jiang, Y., Ka, D., Huynh, A. H., Baek, J., Ning, R., Yu, S. J., Zheng, X. 2023
 * Recent advances in defect-engineered molybdenum sulfides for catalytic applications. Materials horizons Zhao, Y., Zheng, X., Gao, P., Li, H. 2023
 * Enhanced H2O2 Upcycling into Hydroxyl Radicals with GO/Ni: FeOOH-Coated Silicon Nanowire Photocatalysts for Wastewater Treatment. Nano letters Ning, R., Kim, S., Sun, E., Jiang, Y., Baek, J., Li, Y., Robinson, A., Vallez, L., Zheng, X. 2023
 * Organic Upgrading through Photoelectrochemical Reactions: Toward Higher Profits. Small methods Liu, T. K., Jang, G. Y., Kim, S., Zhang, K., Zheng, X., Park, J. H. 2023: e2300315
 * Data-Driven Approach to Tailoring Mechanical Properties of a Soft Material ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS Leem, J., Jiang, Y., Robinson, A., Xia, Y., Zheng, X. 2023
 * Machine Learning Assisted Analysis of Electrochemical H2O2 Production ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS Leem, J., Vallez, L., Gill, T., Zheng, X. 2023; 6 (7): 3953-3959
 * Do we need perfect mixing between fuel and oxidizer to maximize the energy release rate of energetic nanocomposites? APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS Wang, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, Y., Kline, D. J., Zheng, X., Zachariah, M. R. 2023; 122 (1)

Awards:
Dr. Xiaolin Zheng has achieved several awards over the years following her post-doctoral work. In 2008, Dr. Zheng was awarded two awards, one was the Young Investigator Program, ONR; the other was the Young Faculty Award, DARPA. Dr. Zheng was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009, with two awards to be later achieved in 2019, the 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant Award and being listed as One of the Pioneers on the TR35 Global List by MIT Technology Review.

Research:
Dr. Xiaolin Zheng leads a research team that created a groundbreaking invention that unlocks the potential within solar power, creating solar cells in the form of flexible plastic stickers-only a tenth of the thickness of plastic wrap. This bendable solar cell produces the same amount of electricity as standard ridged ones and is lighter so it can be easier to install and the expense report reduced. Dr. Zheng predicts peel-and-stick solar cells could one day coat all forms of surfaces in the future to help power solar devices. She envisions people being able to stop by a local corner store and pick up a pack of solar cells the way one would to pick up batteries.