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Dr. Toafang Zeng Assistant Professor North Carolina State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 3180a Broughton Hall Box 7910 Raleigh, N.C. 27695 Phone: 919.515.5298 Fax: 919.515.7968 Email: tzeng2@eos.ncsu.edu

Education

Research Interests

Synthesis of nanoengineered structural materials: engineering materials with enhanced mechanical strength and with low thermal conductivity; functional composite materials with built-in sensors; Synthesis and fabrication of power generators and solid propellants; Heat transfer in composite materials at multi-scale size; Fluid dynamics/gas kinetics and chemical kinetics in rarefied fluids/gases and/or at high temperature

Selected Publications

• Mosher, B.P., and Zeng, T., “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Organic Inorganic Nanocomposite Coatings,” MRS Proceedings, volume 788 , pp. L8.43.1-8, 2004.
  
  
• Lawson, B.L. Mosher, B.P., and Zeng, T., “Synthesis and Thermal Conductivity of Nanocomposite Silicon Aerogels,” International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Paper No. IMECE2003-41308 , 2003. Submitted to Nano Letters .
  
  
• Mosher, B.P., and Zeng, T., “Hydrogen generation by catalyzed electrolysis,” Submitted to International Journal of Hydrogen Energy .
  
  
• Zeng, T., “Heat Transfer in Micro-Channel Heat Exchanger using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo,” International Mechanical Engineering & Exposition Congress, Paper No. IMECE 2003-41401, Also Submitted for Journal Publication.
  
  
• Zeng, T. and Liu, W., “Phonon heat conduction in micro and nano core-shell structures with cylindrical and spherical geometries,” J. of Applied Physics, vol. 93, vol. 93, pp.4163-4168, 2003.