Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Wenge Huang, Lei Zhao, Xukun He, Yang Li, C. Patrick Collier, Zheng Zheng, Jiansheng Liu, Dayrl P. Briggs and Jiangtao Cheng, Low-temperature Leidenfrost-like jumping of sessile droplets on microstructured surfaces, Nature Physics, 20, 1274–1281, 2024.
2. Teng Li, Jiali Li, Luyu Bo, Michael R. Brooks, Yingshan Du, Bowen Cai, Zhe Pei,Liang Shen, Chuangchuang Sun, Jiangtao Cheng, Y. Albert Pan, and Zhenhua Tian, Airborne Acoustic Vortex End Effector-Based Contactless,Multi-Mode, Programmable Control of Object Surfing, Advanced Materials Technologies, 9, 2400564, 2024.
3. Teng Li, Jiali Li, Luyu Bo, Hunter Bachman, Bei Fan, Jiangtao Cheng and Zhenhua Tian, Robot-assisted chirality-tunable acoustic vortex tweezers for contactless, multifunctional, 4-DOF object manipulation, Science Advances, 10(21), eadm7698, 2024.
4. Yang Li and Jiangtao Cheng, Modeling liquid droplet impact on a micropillar-arrayed viscoelastic surface via mechanically averaged responses, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 17(1), 2194949, 2023.
5. Wenge Huang, Xukun He, Cong Liu, Xiaojie Li, Yahua Liu, C. Patrick Collier, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Jiansheng Liu and Jiangtao Cheng, Droplet evaporation on hot microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces: Analysis of evaporation from droplet cap and base surfaces,  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 185, 122314, 2022. 
6. Xukun He and Jiangtao Cheng, Evaporation-triggered directional transport of asymmetrically confined droplets, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 604, 550-561, 2021.
7. Meng Zhang, Jiansheng Liu and Jiangtao Cheng, Numerical analysis of low-RI WGM resonators excited by a periodically arranged multilayer dielectric planar waveguide, Optics Communications, 501, 127343, 2021.
8. Junyeob Song, Weifeng Cheng, Meitong Nie, Xukun He, Wonil Nam, Jiangtao Cheng and Wei Zhou, Partial Leidenfrost evaporation-assisted ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in a Janus water droplet on hierarchical plasmonic micro/nanostructures, ACS Nano, 14, 9521–9531, 2020.
   
9. Xukun He, Jiangtao Cheng, C. Patrick Collier, Bernadeta R. Srijanto and Dayrl P. Briggs, Evaporation of squeezed water droplets between two parallel hydrophobic/superhydrophobic surfaces, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 576, 127-138, 2020. 
10. Weifeng Cheng, Jiansheng Liu, Zheng Zheng, Xukun He, Bowen Zheng, Hualiang Zhang, Huachen Cui, Xiaoyu Zheng, Tao Zheng, Bruce E. Gnade and Jiangtao Cheng, Adaptive optical beam steering and tuning system based on electrowetting driven fluidic rotor, Nature: Communications Physics, 3:25, 2020.
11. Xukun He, Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Coalescence-induced swift jumping of nanodroplets on curved surfaces, Langmuir, 35, 9979−9987, 2019. 
12. Meng Zhang, Weifeng Cheng, Zheng Zheng, Jiangtao Cheng and Jiansheng Liu, Meridian whispering gallery modes sensing in a sessile microdroplet on micro/nanostructured superhydrophobic chip surfaces, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 23:106, 2019.  
13. Meng Zhang, Jiansheng Liu, Weifeng Cheng, Jiangtao Cheng and Zheng Zheng, A tunable optical Bragg grating filter based on the droplet sagging effect on a superhydrophobic nanopillar array, Sensors, 19, 3324, 2019.  
14. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Characterizing the bifurcating configuration of hydrogen bonding network in interfacial liquid water and its adhesion on solid surfaces, RSC Advances, 9, 16423-16430, 2019.  
15. Aref Vandadi, Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Resistant energy analysis of self-pulling process during dropwise condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces, Nanoscale Advances, 1, 1136-1147, 2019.
16. Yuanyuan Jiang, Congcong Wu, Liurui Li, Kai Wang, Zui Tao, Fan Gao, Weifeng Cheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Xin-Yan Zhao, Shashank Priya and Weiwei Deng, All electrospray printed perovskite solar cells, Nano Energy, 53, 440-448, 2018.  
17. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, The mechanism and universal scaling law of the contact line friction for the Cassie-state droplets on nanostructured ultrahydrophobic surfaces, Nanoscale, 10, 6426-6436, 2018.  
18. Yingji Wu, Changlei Xia, Liping Cai, Sheldon Q. Shi and Jiangtao Cheng, Water-resistant hemp fiber-reinforced composites: In-situ surface protection by polyethylene film, Industrial Crops and Products, 112, 210-216, 2018.  
19. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Analyzing the molecular kinetics of water spreading on hydrophobic surfaces via Molecular Dynamics simulation, Scientific Reports, 7:10880, 2017.  
20. Tingzhen Ming, Wei Yang, Yongjia Wu, Yitian Xiang, Xiaoming Huang, Jiangtao Cheng, Xiaohua Li and Jiyun Zhao, Numerical analysis on the thermal behavior of a segmented thermoelectric generator, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42, 3521-3535, 2017. 
21. Jiangtao Cheng, Intelligent liquid metal robot, International Robotics & Automation Journal, 2(1), 2017.
22. Luoyang Chen, Jiansheng Liu, Jiangtao Cheng, Haitao Liu and Hongwen Zhou, Single step full volumetric reconstruction optical coherence tomography utilizing compressive sensing, Optics Communications, 387, 117-120, 2017. 
23. Changlei Xia, Han Ren, Sheldon Q. Shi, Hualiang Zhang, Jiangtao Cheng, Liping Cai, Kathleen Chen and Hwa-Shen Tan, Natural fiber composites with EMI shielding function fabricated using VARTM and Cu film magnetron sputtering, Applied Surface Science, 362, 335-340, 2016. 
24. Yu Sun, Zheng Zheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Guodong Sun and Guofu Qiao, Highly efficient second harmonic generation in hyperbolic metamaterial slot waveguides with large phase matching tolerance, Optics Express, 23(5), 6370-6378, 2015.  
25. Yu Sun, Zheng Zheng, Jiangtao Cheng and Jianwei Liu, Graphene surface plasmon waveguides incorporating high-index dielectric ridges for single mode transmission, Optics Communications, 328, 124-128, 2014. 
26. Bayaner Arigong, Jiangtao Cheng, Rongguo Zhou, Jun Ding, Yuankun Lin and Hualiang Zhang, Tunable extraordinary THz transmission using liquid metal based devices, Plasmonics,  9(5), 1221-1227, 2014.
27. Jiangtao Cheng, S.-Y. Park and C.-L. Chen, Optofluidic solar concentrators using electrowetting tracking: Concept, design, and characterization, Solar Energy, 89, 152-161, 2013.   (Featured on Renewable Energy Global Innovations and PV Insider and UNT Office of Research and Economic Development.)
28. Yu Sun, Zheng Zheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Jianwei Liu, Jiansheng Liu and Shuna Li, The un-symmetric hybridization of graphene surface plasmons incorporating graphene sheets and nano-ribbons, Applied Physics Letters, 103, 241116, 2013. 
29. Jiangtao Cheng, Aref Vandadi and C.-L. Chen, Condensation heat transfer on two-tier superhydrophobic surfaces, Applied Physics Letters, 101, 131909, 2012. 
30. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Adaptive beam tracking and steering via electrowetting-controlled liquid prism, Applied Physics Letters, 99, 191108, 2011.   
31. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Active thermal management of on-chip hot spots using EWOD-driven droplet microfluidics, Experiments in Fluids, 49(6), 1349-1357, 2010. 
32. L. An, Z. Zheng, Y.-S. Bian, Z. Li, S. Shi, T. Zhou and Jiangtao Cheng, Dispersion-modified, highly-nonlinear holey fibre with a high index, slot-structure core, Journal of Optics, 12, 115502, 2010.  
33. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Adaptive chip cooling using electrowetting on coplanar control electrodes, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 14(2), 63-74, 2010.
34. Jiangtao Cheng and M. E. Everett, Finite element modeling of slug tests in an aquifer with stratigraphical and structural heterogeneities, Geofluids, 9, 49-62, 2009. 
35. Jiangtao Cheng, R. Brauchler and M. E. Everett, Comparison of early and late travel times of pressure pulses induced by slug tests, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 3(4), 514-529, 2009. 
36. L. An, Z. Zheng, Z. Li, T. Zhou and Jiangtao Cheng, Ultra-wideband, single-polarization, single-mode, high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber, Optics Communications, 282(16), 3266-3269, 2009.
37. L. An, Z. Zheng, Z. Li, T. Zhou and Jiangtao Cheng, Ultrahigh birefringent photonic crystal fiber with ultralow confinement loss using four air holes in the core, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 27(15), 3175-3180, 2009.
38. Jiangtao Cheng, Modeling electrodeposition of charged nanoparticles onto fuel cell coolant flow channel walls, The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics, 44, 87-99, 2008.
39. Y. Hong, D. J. Gochis, Jiangtao Cheng, K. L. Hsu and S. Sorooshian, Evaluation of satellite-based rainfall measurement using NERN gauge network, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8(3), 469-482, 2007. 
40. R. Brauchler, Jiangtao Cheng, P. Dietrich, M. Everett, B. Johnson, R. Liedl and M. Sauter, An inversion strategy for hydraulic tomography: Coupling travel time and amplitude inversion, Journal of Hydrology, 345, 184-198, 2007.
41. Jiangtao Cheng, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, D. D. Nolte and N. Giordano, Linking pressure and saturation through interfacial areas in porous media, Geophysical Research Letters, 31(8), L08502, 2004.
42. Jiangtao Cheng, J. P. Morris, J. Tran, A. Lumsdaine, N. J. Giordano, D. D. Nolte and L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, Single-phase flow in a rock fracture: micro-model experiments and network flow simulation, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 41(4), 687-693, 2004.
43. Jiangtao Cheng and N. Giordano, Fluid flow through nanometer-scale channels, Physical Review E, 65(3): Art. No. 031206, 2002.
44. N. Giordano and Jiangtao Cheng, Microfluid mechanics: progress and opportunities, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 13(15), R271-R295, 2001 (Invited Review).
45. W.-R. Zhao, H.-L. Lu, W.-X. Yu and Jiangtao Cheng, Excitation functions for reactions induced by deuteron in iron, Chinese Journal of Nuclear Physics, 17(2), 163-166, 1995.
46. W.-X. Yu, W.-R. Zhao, Jiangtao Cheng and H.-L. Lu, Cross sections of ¹⁰⁹Ag (n, 2n) ¹⁰⁸Ag^m, ¹⁵¹Eu (n, 2n) ¹⁵⁰Eu^m, ¹⁵⁹Tb (n, 2n) ¹⁵⁸Tb and ¹⁷⁹Hf (n, 2n) ¹⁷⁸Hf^m2 reactions, Chinese Journal of Nuclear Physics, 17(3), 268-270, 1995.
47. W.-R. Zhao, H.-L. Lu, W.-X. Yu and Jiangtao Cheng, Excitation function of ²⁷Al (d, pα) ²⁴Na, Chinese Journal of Nuclear Physics, 17(2), 160-162, 1995.
48. J.-W. Li, H.-L. Lu, C.-F. Rong, W.-R. Zhao, W.-X. Yu, Jiangtao Cheng, W. Mannhart, M. Wagner and H. Vonach, The intercomparison of mass of ²³⁸U fission deposits, Atomic Energy Science and Technology, 27(6), 540-544, 1993.

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Wenge Huang and Jiangtao Cheng, Capillary Wave Generation on the Surface of Boiling Water Droplet on Hot Micro-Structured Superhydrophobic Substrate, The 16th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2022), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 8-10, 2022.
2. Xukun He, Wenge Huang and Jiangtao Cheng, Electrowetting-Controlled Liquid Prism Heliostat for Building Natural Daylighting, The 16th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2022), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 8-10, 2022.
3. Lei Zhao, Yang Li and Jiangtao Cheng, Concave Bending of Contact Line of a Sessile Water Droplet Due to Molecular Polarization and Surface Trapping, The 16th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2022), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 8-10, 2022.
4. Yang Li and Jiangtao Cheng, Modeling Liquid Droplet Impact and Splash on a Micropillar-Arrayed Viscoelastic Surface, The 16th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2022), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 8-10, 2022.
5. Xukun He and Jiangtao Cheng, Self-driven transport of liquid droplets in V-shaped grooves due to asymmetric evaporation, ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Virtual Conference (IMECE2021), November 1-5, 2021.
6. Wenge Huang, Xukun He and Jiangtao Cheng, Thermal circuit analysis of droplet evaporation on hot microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces, ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Virtual Conference (IMECE2021), November 1-5, 2021.
7. Junyeob Song, Weifeng Cheng, Meitong Nie, Xukun He, Wonil Nam, Jiangtao Cheng and Wei Zhou, Leidenfrost evaporation-assisted ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference (FiO/LS2020), Washington, D.C., September 13-17, 2020.
8. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Concave bending of three phase contact line due to polarization and surface trapping, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM2020), Orlando, FL, July 13-15, 2020.
9. Meng Zhang, Jiansheng Liu, Weifeng Cheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Hongwen Zhou, Xinxuan Ma and Yuhang Wan, A tunable optical filter based on the electrowetting controlled sagging effect of a liquid droplet on a waveguide Bragg grating formed superhydrophobic substrate, Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference (FiO/LS2019), Washington, D.C., September 15-19, 2019.
10. Meng Zhang, Jiansheng Liu, Weifeng Cheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Hongwen Zhou, Qing Wu, and Zheng Zheng, A tunable optical filter based on the electrowetting controlled sagging effect of a liquid droplet on a superhydrophobic substrate embedding a waveguide Bragg grating, IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM2019), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, July 8-10, 2019.
11. Meng Zhang, Jiansheng Liu, Weifeng Cheng, Jiangtao Cheng, Hongwen Zhou, Haitao Liu, Jie Chen, Qing Wu, Yuhang Wan and Zheng Zheng, Mode and sensing properties of the deformed micro-droplet, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO2018), San Jose, California,         May 13-18, 2018.
12. Jiangtao Cheng, Resistant energy analysis of dropwise condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces with hierarchical roughness, Proceedings of the ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM2017), Waikoloa, Hawaii, July 30-August 3, 2017.
13. Aref Vandadi, Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Energy analysis of condensate growth on superhydrophobic surfaces with hierarchical roughness, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2017), Portoroz, Slovenia, July 17-19, 2017. (Best Paper Award)
14. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Contact line dynamics of water droplets spreading on nano-structured teflon surfaces in dropwise condensation, Proceedings of the ASME 2017 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (ASME-HT2017), Bellevue, Washington, July 09-12, 2017.
15. Jiangtao Cheng and Lei Zhao, Electrowetting-controlled optofluidic window shelter for building natural daylighting, Proceedings of Light, Energy and the Environment Congress, Leipzig, Germany, November 14-17, 2016.
16. Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng, Molecular dynamics study of contact line dynamics of water droplets on PTFE surfaces, Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2016), Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016.
17. Jiangtao Cheng and H. F. Wu, Electrowetting-controlled dual liquid prism for adaptive beam steering, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2016), Costa del Sol, Spain, July 11-13, 2016. (Best Paper Award)
18. Aref Vandadi and Jiangtao Cheng, Superhydrophobic surfaces with double roughness in nanoscale promoting continuous dropwise condensation, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2016), Costa del Sol, Spain, July 11-13, 2016.
19. L.-Y. Chen, Jiangtao Cheng, M. Zhang, Z. Zheng, H.-L. Jin, H.-T. Liu, H.-W. Zhou and J.-S. Liu,  A novel approach for on-chip detection of analyte by incorporating structurally compatible optical waveguides with electrowetting-on-dielectric platform, CLEO_QELS-2016-JW2A.7, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO2016), San Jose, California, June 5-10, 2016.
20. N. Sadeghpour, S. N. Touhdeshki and Jiangtao Cheng,  Contact line friction analysis of water droplets on micro\nano-scale rough structures, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2014), Orlando, Florida, July 14-16, 2014. (Best Paper Award)
21. R.-G. Zhou, B. Arigong, Y.-K. Lin, Jiangtao Cheng and H.-L. Zhang, Design and modeling of liquid metal based devices with tunable THz transmission, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, July 6-12, 2014.
22. R.-G. Zhou, Jiangtao Cheng, Y.-K. Lin and H.-L. Zhang, Tunable THz wave transmission using liquid metal based devices, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8624, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications VI, 86241C, San Francisco, California, March 27, 2013.
23. S.-Y. Park, Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Microfluidic tunable liquid prisms for solar beam steering and concentration, Proceedings of the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, ES2013-18039, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 14-19, 2013.
24. Jiangtao Cheng, A. Vandadi and C.-L. Chen, Condensation heat transfer on two-tier superhydrophobic surfaces, Proceedings of ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2012), Houston, Texas, November 9-15, 2012.
25. Jiangtao Cheng, S.-Y. Park and C.-L. Chen, Optofluidic solar concentrators using electrowetting tracking, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, HT2012-58008,    Puerto Rico, July 8-12, 2012.
26. S.-Y. Park, Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Active hot spot cooling controlled by single-sided electrowetting-on-dielectric (SEWOD), Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, HT2012-58111, Puerto Rico, July 8-12, 2012.
27. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Spot cooling using electrowetting-controlled thin film heat transfer, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 3-6, 2012.
28. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Active chip cooling using electrowetting with site-specific treatments, Proceedings of the 42nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, 3316, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30, 2011.
29. Xin Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Wei Li, Jinsong Zhu, Tao Zhou, and Jiangtao Cheng, On-chip plasmonic nano-slits array to alleviate the mass transport limitation in microfluidic biosensors, Frontiers in Optics 2010, Rochester, New York, October 24–28, 2010.
30. L. An, Z. Zheng, Z. Li, T. Zhou and Jiangtao Cheng, Dispersion-flattened holey fiber with an ultra-small mode area using a high index slot structure, The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), Baltimore, Maryland, May 31- June 5, 2009.
31. Jiangtao Cheng and C.-L. Chen, Adaptive chip cooling using electrowetting, Proceedings of the ECI International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, Whistler, Canada, September 21-26, 2008.
32. Jiangtao Cheng, Modeling electrodeposition of charged nanoparticles onto fuel cell coolant flow channel walls, Proceedings of the COMSOL Users Conference, 191-197, Cambridge, MA,      October 22-24, 2006.
33. Jiangtao Cheng, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte and N. Giordano, Micro-model studies of multiphase flow in porous media, Proceedings of the 5th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium and the 17th Tunnelling Association of Canada Conference: NARMS-TAC 2002 Toronto, Canada, 553-559,      July 7-10, 2002.
34. J. P. Morris, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, N. J. Giordano, Jiangtao Cheng, J. Tran and A. Lumsdaine, Fracture geometry and relative permeabilities: application to multiphase flow through coal, Proceedings of the 1999 Coalbed Methane Symposium, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9943, 377-387, May 1999.