Tang, Ming - Rice University - Department of Materials Science & NanoEngineering

个人简介

Dr. Tang is an assistant professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His Ph.D. thesis study was conducted at MIT under the supervision of Dr. Craig Carter and Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where he received an outstanding thesis award for his dissertation “Thermodynamic and Morphological Transitions in Crystalline and Soft Materials Interfaces”. He launched his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he was first a Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow and then Staff Scientist. At LLNL he led projects on mesoscale modeling of lithium-ion battery electrode materials and was also active in research on materials microstructural evolution under extreme radiation conditions. After four and half years with LLNL, he moved to the industrial sector and became a Materials & Corrosion Research Engineer at Shell Technology Center Houston, where he focused on applying materials science and novel technologies to solve practical materials & corrosion problems in the oil & gas industry. He formally joined the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice in 2014.

研究领域

Dr. Tang’s group is interested in materials phenomena at mesoscale, which bridge between atomistic building blocks and macroscopic properties. The focus of his research is two-fold: 1) advance novel mesoscale modeling techniques such as the phase-field method to enable more faithful and efficient simulation of structural or functional materials over ever increasing length and time scales, and 2) combine simulation (relying heavily on parallel computation), theory and experiment to explain and predict the thermodynamic stability and kinetic evolution of mesoscale-level structures under different stimuli (thermal, electrochemical, radiational, etc.), and apply obtained insights to tailor microstructural features for improved performance. Current research topics include electrochemically driven phase transformations in energy storage materials such as lithium-ion batteries, grain boundary complexion transitions, microstructural evolution in extreme environment and self-assembly kinetics in soft matter systems.

近期论文

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“Chemically Derived Kirigami of WSe2”, L. Cai, M. J. Shearer, Y. Zhao, Z. Hu, F. Wang, Y. Zhang, K. W. Eliceiri, R. J. Hamers, W. Yan, S. Wei, M. Tang, and S. Jin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b03399 “Mesoscopic Phase Transition Kinetics in Secondary Particles of Electrode-Active Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries”, K. Xiang, K. Yang, W. C. Carter, M. Tang, Y.-M. Chiang, Chemistry of Materials 30, 4216 (2018). “Non-uniform Stress-free Strains in a Spherically Symmetrical Nano- sized Particle and Its Applications to Lithium-ion Batteries”, Q. Meng, L. Wu, D. O. Welch, M. Tang, Y. Zhu, Scientific Reports 8, 4936 (2018). Wang, X.; Zeng, W.; Hong, L.; Wu, W.; Yang, H.; Wang, F.; Duan, H.; Tang, M.; Jiang, H., “Mitigating lithium dendrite growth in lithium-metal batteries by electroplating on soft substrates”, Nature Energy 3, 227 (2018). L. Hong, L. Li, Y.-K. Chen-Wiegart, J. Wang, F. Wang, K. Xiang, L. Gan, W. Li, F. Meng, J. Wang, Y.-M. Chiang, S. Jin, M. Tang, “2D Li Diffusion Behavior and Probable Hybrid Phase Transformation Kinetics in Olivine Lithium Iron Phosphate”, Nature Communications 8, 1194 (2017). Liu, B. Ludwig, Y. Liu, Z. Zheng, F. Wang, M. Tang, J. Wang, J. Wang, H. Pan, Y. Wang,“Scalable Dry Printing Manufacturing to Enable Long Life and High Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Advanced Materials Technology 2, 1700106 (2017). K. Xiang, W. Xing, D. B. Ravnsbæk, L. Hong, M. Tang, Z. Li, K. M. Wiaderek, O. J. Borkiewicz, K. W. Chapman, P. J. Chupas, Y.-M. Chiang, “Accommodating High Transformation Strains in Battery Electrodes via Formation of Nanoscale Intermediate Phases: Operando Investigation of Olivine NaFePO4”, Nano Letters 17, 1696 (2017).