Zhi-Feng Huang (bb4595)

356 Physics

Computational and theoretical condensed matter physics

Multiple-scale modeling of structures and dynamics in solid and soft spatiotemporal complex systems; Applications to the study of materials evolution and growth, system elasticity, plasticity, and topological defects, and nonequilibrium phenomena in nanostructure and pattern formation

Theory and modeling of active matter and biological physics

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009

WSU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009

WSU Career Development Chair Award, 2014

Z.-F. Huang, H. Löwen, and A. Voigt, “Defect dynamics in active smectics induced by confining geometry and topology”, Commun. Phys. 5, 294 (2022).
B. Waters and Z.-F. Huang, "Grain rotation and coupled grain boundary motion in two-dimensional binary hexagonal materials", Acta Mater. 225, 117583 (2022).
M. Salvalaglio, A. Voigt, Z.-F. Huang, and K. R. Elder, "Mesoscale defect motion in binary systems: Effects of compositional strain and Cottrell atmospheres", Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185502 (2021).
Z.-F. Huang, A. M. Menzel, and H. Löwen, "Dynamical crystallites of active chiral particles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 218002 (2020).
D. Taha, S. R. Dlamini, S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Z.-F. Huang, "Phase ordering, transformation, and grain growth of two-dimensional binary colloidal crystals: A phase field crystal modeling", Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 095603 (2019).
Z.-L. Wang, Z. R. Liu, and Z.-F. Huang, "Angle-adjustable density field formulation for the modeling of crystalline microstructure", Phys. Rev. B 97, 180102(R) (2018).
D. Taha, S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Z.-F. Huang, "Grain boundary structures and collective dynamics of inversion domains in binary two-dimensional materials", Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255501 (2017).
S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Z.-F. Huang, "Emergence of chirality from isotropic interactions of three length scales", Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205502 (2016).
Z.-F. Huang, "Scaling of alloy interfacial properties under compositional strain", Phys. Rev. E 93, 022803 (2016).
R. Mukherjee, Z.-F. Huang, and B. Nadgorny, "Multiple percolation tunneling staircase in metal-semiconductor nanoparticle composites", Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 173104 (2014).
S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Z.-F. Huang, "Exploring the complex world of two-dimensional ordering with three modes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035501 (2013).
Z.-F. Huang, "Scale-coupling and interface-pinning effects in the phase-field-crystal model", Phys. Rev. E 87, 012401 (2013).
D. J. DeGracia, Z.-F. Huang, and S. Huang, "A nonlinear dynamical theory of cell injury", J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab. 32, 1000 (2012).
X. D. Liu, R. P. Panguluri, Z.-F. Huang, and B. Nadgorny, "Double percolation transition in superconductor-ferromagnet nanocomposites", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035701 (2010).
Z.-F. Huang, K. R. Elder, and N. Provatas, "Phase-field-crystal dynamics for binary systems: Derivation from dynamical density functional theory, amplitude equation formalism, and applications to alloy heterostructures", Phys. Rev. E 82, 021605 (2010).
K. R. Elder, Z.-F. Huang, and N. Provatas, "Amplitude expansion of the binary phase-field-crystal model", Phys. Rev. E 81, 011602 (2010).
Z.-F. Huang and K. R. Elder, "Mesoscopic and microscopic modeling of island formation in strained film epitaxy", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 158701 (2008).