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Welcome to Zi Chen's Homepage!
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Welcome to Zi Chen's Homepage!
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Zi Chen is a a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Larry A. Taber at Washington University in St. Louis on developmental mechanics. He got his Ph.D. from Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, working with Dr. Mikko P. Haataja and Dr. David J. Srolovitz. , and will start a new position as Being the first in his extended family to go to college, he treasures the opportunities to do research in the area of materials science/mechanics. His research interests range from computational materials science to biomechanics, covering topics such as dislocation dynamics in materials, multi-scale modeling of plastic deformation in crystalline materials, phase transformations in nanomaterials, and self-assembly phenomena in materials at multi-scales. More Recently he have developed an intensive interest in the formation of helices and their chirality, helical growth of plant roots/shoots, morphogenesis in plant and animal development, the rapid motion of plants, and bio-inspired technology. Selected Honors: American Academy of Mechanics Founder's Award, MRS Graduate Student Award (finalist), Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation of China (co-investigator), Sigma Xi GIAR Award and TMS Best Junior Researcher Award.
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Publications
[1] Z. Chen and Z. Guo, Comments on shear-rotation mechanism for martensitic transformations. Progress in Natural Science, 14(2004), 917-921. (Download PDF)
[2] Z. Chen, Q. Liu, Q. Meng and Y. Rong. Structural evolution and stability of mechanically alloyed Fe-Ni nanocrystalline, Journal of Central South University of Technology 12(4):389-392, 2005.(Download PDF)
[3] C. Wen, B. Huang, Z. Chen, Y. Rong. Martensite and its reverse transformation in nanocrystalline bulk Co. Materials Science and Engineering A, 438(2006): 420-426.(Download PDF)
[4] C. Wen, Z. Chen, B. Huang, Y. Rong. Nanocrystallization and magnetic properties of Fe-30wt%Ni alloy by surface mechanical attrition treatment, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 37A (2006), 1413-1421.(Download PDF)
[5] Z. Chen, H. Zheng, Y. Rong and T.Y. Hsu. On the determination of shear angle in martensitic transformations. Materials Science and Engineering A, 457(2007),380-384.(Download PDF)
[6] H. Zheng, Z. Chen and Y. Rong. The Improvement of Calculating γ(fcc)→ε(hcp) Martensitic Transformation Shear Angle, Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 41(2007): 592.
[7] C. Majidi, Z. Chen, D. J. Srolovitz, and M. Haataja, Theory for the Spontaneous Bending of Piezoelectric Nanoribbons: Mechanics, Spontaneous Polarization, and Space Charge Coupling, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 58, 73–85(2010). (Download PDF)
[8] Z. Chen, K. T. Chu, D. J. Srolovitz, J. M. Rickman and M. Haataja, Dislocation climb strengthening in systems with immobile obstacles: Three-dimensional level-set simulation study. Physical Review B 81, 054104 (2010).(Download PDF)
[9] Z. Chen, C. Majidi, D. J. Srolovitz, and M. Haataja, Tunable Helical Ribbons, Applied Physics Letters, 98, 011906 (2011). Highlighted in Applied Physics, Ivy League Week and a Science perspective article. (Download PDF)
[10] Z. Chen, C. Majidi, D. J. Srolovitz, and M. Haataja, Continuum Elasticity Theory Approach for Spontaneous Bending and Helicity of Ribbons Induced by Mechanical Anisotropy, submitted to Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
[11] Zi Chen, Qiaohang Guo, Carmel Majidi, Wenzhe Chen, David. J. Srolovitz, and Mikko Haataja, Bistable Morphing Structures: mechanical and nonlinear geometric effects, submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Highlighted in News at Princeton Featured Story.
[1] Z. Chen and Z. Guo, Comments on shear-rotation mechanism for martensitic transformations. The first National conference on new materials and their applications, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, 2003.
[2] Z. Chen, Q. Liu, Q. Meng and Y. Rong, Structural evolution and stability of mechanically alloyed Fe-Ni nanocrystalline. The Fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, Beijing, 2004.
[3] Z. Chen, K. T. Chu, D. J. Srolovitz, J. M. Rickman and M. Haataja, “Dislocation pinning by solutes and obstacles: A level-set dislocation dynamics study”, TMS Meeting; oral presentation 3/10/2008 (New Orleans, LA).
[4] Z. Chen, K. T. Chu, D. J. Srolovitz, J. M. Rickman and M. Haataja, “Dislocation Pinning/Depinning by Impurities and Obstacles: A Level Set Simulation Study”, MRS Fall Meeting; oral presentation 12/5/2008 (Boston, MA).
[5] Z. Chen,
C. Majidi, D. J. Srolovitz,
and M. Haataja. Invited talk at
Solid Mechanics Seminar, Cornell University, 2010.
[7] Z. Chen, C. Majidi, D. J. Srolovitz,
and M. Haataja. TMS meeting
2011(San Diego, CA).
[9] Z. Chen, Q. Guo, C. Majidi, W. Chen, D. J. Srolovitz, and M. Haataja. “Theory for the Spontaneous Bending and Helicity of Ribbons”, The 48th annual meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences, 2011 (Evanston, IL).
[10] Z. Chen, Q. Guo, C. Majidi, W. Chen, D. J. Srolovitz, and M. Haataja. “Theory on bending and twisting of ribbons and multi-stability”,Coupled Processes in Continuum Mechanics Motivated by Biological Phenomena, The 49th meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, 2011 (East Lansing, MI).
[11]
Z. Chen,
Q. Guo, C. Majidi, W. Chen, D. J. Srolovitz,
and M. Haataja.
“Theory on bending and
twisting of ribbons and multi-stability”,Invited
talk, 2011 (Taiwan).
MAE324 Structure and Properties of Materials, Fall 2009
MAE305-MAT301 Mathematics in Engineering I, Fall 2008
MAE502-APC506 Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II, Spring 2007
Ph.D, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Major in Materials Science, Minor in Applied Physics GPA:4.03/4.0
Advisor: Prof. Mikko Haataja Prof. David Srolovitz
M.A in Materials Science, Princeton University
M.S. in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Advisor: Prof. Yonghua Rong
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Advisor: Prof. Yonghua Rong, Prof. Zhenghong Guo
American Academyof Mechanics Founder's Prize, the Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation for the year 2011-2012.
Co-investigator, Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2012-2015
MRS Graduate Student Award (finalist), 2012
Best Presentation Award, MAE Research Day, Princeton University, 2011
Society of Natural Philosophy Travel Grant, 2011
Co-investigator, Grant for Young Investigators, National Science Foundation of China, 2012-2015
NSF Travel Fellowship, 3rd
USNCB Symposium on Frontiers in Biomechanics: Mechanics of Development, 2011
Sigma Xi GIAR(Grant-in-aid of research program) Award, 2011
Second place, Best Junior Researcher Award(including junior postdocs), 140th TMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2011
First place, Best Poster Presentation
Award,
Princeton Research Symposium,
Princeton University, 2010
Dean's Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University, 2009,2011
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Princeton University, 2006-2007
Sayre Graduate Prize, Princeton University, 2006
Cummins Merit Fellowship, Princeton University, 2005-2006
National Excellence Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhou Zhihong Fellowship
Extraodinary Student Award(1st/3000), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Vice President, DCSPU
(Distinguished Citizen Society at Princeton University), Mar 2009 – May 2010.
Chief deputy director,
“Dedicated to Care in Sounds” Benefit Concert, 2009.
Vice President, ACSSPU
(Association of Chinese Students and Scholars), Sep 2007 – Sep 2008.
Chief director, Spring
Festival Gala, 2008; Chief deputy director, Moon Festival Gala, 2007.
Coordinator, PCCF (Princeton
Chinese Christian Fellowship), Sep 2006 – Sep 2008.
Volunteer oral interpreter
at the 14th Congress of International Federation for Heat Treatment
and Surface Engineering in Shanghai, China, 2004.
Volunteer oral interpreter
at the International Travel Resource Expo and the seventh edition of the
DOMOTEXASIA/CHINAFLOOR, 2004.
Dr. Mikko P. Haataja
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton Institute for the
Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
Program in Applied and
Computational Mathematics (PACM)
Princeton University, NJ
08544
609-258-9126
Dr. David J. Srolovitz
Executive director
Institute of High
Performance Computing
Singapore, 138632
+657327902245
Dr. Howard A. Stone
Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering
Princeton Institute for the
Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
Princeton University, NJ
08544
609-258-9493
Dr. Clifford
Brangwynne
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University, NJ 08544
609-258-4528
