Zhiwei Peng, PhD
Personal Website: https://zhiweipeng.com/
Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept
- zhiwei.peng@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4818
- Address
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12-360 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Active Matter Colloidal Suspensions Rheology Fluid Mechanics Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics Brownian Dynamics Transport Phenomena Continuum Mechanics Surface and Interfacial Science Fluid Dynamics and Transport
About
Zhiwei Peng earned his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prior to joining the University of Alberta, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto.
Research
Research in the Peng group focuses on the development of theoretical machinery and high-performance (e.g., CUDA-enabled) computational libraries to study the micromechanics of soft and active matter. The key aim is to bridge the gap between the micromechanics of constitutive particles and the rich macroscopic phenomena of active matter. Topics of interest include the transport, microrheology, fluctuations, and collective motion of soft and active matter.
Active matter is a novel and exciting class of materials that include suspensions of motile bacteria, molecular motors, and synthetic self-propelled colloids. Potential applications of active matter include catalysis, chemical sensing, self-assembling intelligent materials, and targeted drug delivery.
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Announcements
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Featured Publications
Vhaskar Chakraborty, Pankaj Mishra, Mingfeng Qiu, Zhiwei Peng
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2026 May; 10.1017/jfm.2026.11543
Sarafa A Iyaniwura, Zhiwei Peng
New Journal of Physics. 2025 October; 10.1088/1367-2630/ae05c0
Zhiwei Peng
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2024 October; 10.1017/jfm.2024.856
Zhiwei Peng
The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2024 October; 10.1063/5.0232614
Tingtao Zhou, Xuan Wan, Daniel Zhengyu Huang, Zongyi Li, Zhiwei Peng, Anima Anandkumar, John F. Brady, Paul W. Sternberg, Chiara Daraio
Science Advances. 2024 January; 10.1126/sciadv.adj1741
Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady
The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2022 September; 10.1063/5.0108014
Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady
Journal of Rheology. 2022 September; 10.1122/8.0000504
Zhiwei Peng, Tingtao Zhou, John F. Brady
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022 July; 10.1017/jfm.2022.398
Zhiwei Peng, John F. Brady
Physical Review Fluids. 2020 July; 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.073102
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