RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Peng-Wei Zhu’s research interests include

• Flow-induced morphologies of functional and engineering materials, nanocomposites, and nanoparticles
• Complex and functional systems hierarchically assembled by nanoscale materials
• Molecular interactions, conformational transitions, and complex dynamics in hierarchical materials
• Biologically related soft matters

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peng-Wei Zhu, Jason Tung, Andrew Phillips, and Graham Edward, Morphological Development of Flow-Oriented Isotactic Polypropylene in the Presence of a Nucleating Agent, Macromolecules 39, 1821 (2006)

Peng-Wei Zhu, Andrew Phillips, Jason Tung, and Graham Edward, Orientation Distribution of Sheared Isotactic Polypropylene Plates through Thickness in the Presence of Sodium Benzoate, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 104908 (2005).

Peng-Wei Zhu and Graham Edward, Distribution of Shish-Kebab Structure of Isotactic Polypropylene under Shear in the Presence of Nucleating Agent, Macromolecules 37, 2658 (2004).

Peng-Wei Zhu, J. W. White, and J. E. Epperson, Scaled Structure in Late Stages of Microphase Separation of Binary Paraffin Mixtures, Phys. Rev. E62, 8234 (2000).

Peng-Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Surfactant-Assisted Entanglement of Interfacial Polymer Chains, Phys. Rev. E61, 2859 (2000).

Peng-Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Effects of Heating Rate on Nanoparticle Formation of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and Poly(ethylene glycol) Block Copolymer Microgels, Langmuir 16, 8543 (2000).

Peng-Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Longer Time Kinetics of Collapse Transition of Polymer-Surfactant Complexes at Interfaces near to Collapse Temperatures, Phys. Rev. E61, 6866 (2000).

Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Aggregation of Block Copolymer Microgels of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and Poly(ethylene glycol), Macromolecules 32, 2068 (1999).

Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Effects of Thermal History on the Dynamics of Relaxation of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Adsorbed at Latex Interfaces in Water, Phys. Rev. E57, 3101 (1998).
Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Conformational Transition of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Chains Loopyly Absorbed at Surfaces of Poly(N-terbutylacrylamide) Latex Particles in Water, J. Phys. Chem. 101, 3155 (1997).

Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, The Longer Time Collapse Kinetics of Interfacial Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in Water, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 6492 (1997).

Peng Wei Zhu and John W. White, Small Angle X-ray Scattering of an Ordering Aggregation, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 9169 (1996).

Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Effects of Anionic Surfactant on the Coil-to-Globule Transition of Interfacial Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), Langmuir 12, 5992 (1996).

Peng Wei Zhu and Don Napper, Studies of Aggregation Kinetics of Polystyrene Latexes Sterically by Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), Phys. Rev. E50, 1360 (1994).

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