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Hai-Ping Cheng

Hai-Ping Cheng

Profesor, Physics, University of Florida

Phone: (352) 392-6256

Fax: (352) 392-8722

NPB 2330
PO Box 118435, Gainesville, FL
32611-8435

http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/~cheng

Education:

PhD Northwestern University, 1988

Research Interests:

Particle-surface interaction: electronic and magnetic and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces; Nano-wire and junctions: quantum transport in molecular nano-electronic junctions and spin-dependent tunneling processes; Hydrolysis: Quantum mechanical determination of interaction of water and materials; Superconductivity: Impurities in high Tc materials; Development and implementation of methodologies and algorithms for quantum transport problems, development of models and methods for large-scale quantum and classical molecular dynamics simulations, including interfaces for multi-scale simulations.

Publications List:

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Au Penetration through Alkanethiol Monolayers on the Au(111) Surface, S. Alkis, C, Cao, H.-P. Cheng, J.L. Krause, J. Phys. Chem. C113, 6360 (2009). First-principles simulations of dissociated and molecular H2 adsorption on Pd4-cluster-functionalized carbon nanotubes, C. Chao, Y. He, and H.-P. Cheng, Phy. Rev. B77, 045412 (2008). Chao Cao, Yao He, and Hai-Ping Cheng Fracture, water dissociation, and proton conduction in SiO­­2 nanochains, J. Chem. Phys. 126 211101, (2007). Quantum, classical, and multi-scale simulation of silica-water interaction: molecules, clusters, and extended systems, H.-P. Cheng, L.-L. Wang , M.H. Du, et al., J. Comp. Matr. Des.13, 161-183 (2006). Density functional study of the adsorption of a C60 monolayer on Ag(111) and Au(111) surfaces, Lin-Lin Wang and Hai-Ping Cheng Phys. Rev. B 69, 165417 (2004). Coherent electron transport through an azobenzene molecule: A light driven molecular switch, C. Zhang, M.-H. Du, Hai-Ping Cheng, X.-G. Zhang, A.E. Roitberg, and J.L. Krause, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 158301 (2004). Controlled Deposition, Soft Landing, and Glass Formation in Nanocluster-Surface Collisions, Hai-Ping Cheng and Uzi Landman, Science 260,1304-1307 (1993).