Xi Chen

Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
City University of New York
United States of America

Biography

Education Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2012 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China M.S., Precision Instrumentes in Mechanical Engineering, 2007 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2005 Postdoctoral Research Columbia University, Biological Sciences and Physics, NY, USA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2016

Research Intrest

develops the next generation of sensors, actuators, energy conversion and storage devices by using novel nanostructured and bio-inspired functional materials. His recent work on water-responsive materials and evaporation-driven engines opens up a new field in energy harvesting and provides opportunities towards solving current challenges in sustainable energy, energy storage, clean water, robotics, and medical technologies.

List of Publications
Xi Chen, Stephen Guo, Jinwei Li, Guitao Zhang, Ming Lu et al. (2013) Flexible piezoelectric nanofiber composite membranes as high performance acoustic emission sensors, Sensors and Actuators A 199, 372-378
Xi Chen, L Mahadevan, Adam Driks , Ozgur Sahin (2014) Bacillus spores as building blocks for stimuli-responsive materials and nanogenerators, Nature Nanotechnology 9: 137-141
Xi Chen, Davis Goodnight, Zhenghan Gao, Ahmet-Hamdi Cavusoglu ,et al. (2015) Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators, Nature Communications 6, 7346