Zhenhua Tian, Ph.D.

Dr. Tian received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of South Carolina. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Duke University.

• Acoustics & Vibrations
• Acoustic Tweezers & Levitation
• Structural Health Monitoring & Nondestructive Evaluation
• Smart Materials & Structures

Undergraduate Courses

• ASE 3243 Aerospace Structural Analysis II

Graduate Courses

• EM 8203 Applied Elasticity

• Z. Tian, C. Shen, J. Li, E. Reit, H. Bachman, J. Socolar, S.A. Cummer, T.J. Huang, “Dispersion Tuning and Route Reconfiguration of Acoustic Waves in Valley Topological Phononic Crystals,” Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 762.
• Tian, S. Yang, P.-H. Huang, Z. Wang, P. Zhang, Y. Gu, H. Bachman, C. Chen, M. Wu, Y. Xie, T.J. Huang, “Wavenumber-spiral acoustic tweezers for dynamic and reconfigurable manipulation of particles and cells,” Science Advances, 2019, 5: eaau6062.
• N. Belling, L.K. Heidenreich, Z. Tian, A.M. Mendoza, T.-T. Chiou, Y. Gong, N.Y. Chen, T.D. Young, N. Wattanatorn, J.H. Park, L. Scarabelli, N. Chiang, J. Takahashi, S.G. Young, A.Z. Stieg, S. De Oliveira, T.J. Huang, P.S. Weiss, and S.J. Jonas, “Acoustofluidic Sonoporation for Gene Delivery to Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2020,117(20): 10976-10982.
• Tian, C. Shen, J. Li, E. Reit, Y. Gu, H. Fu, S.A. Cummer, T.J. Huang, “Programmable acoustic metasurfaces,” Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 29: 1808489.
• L. Zhang, Z. Tian, H. Bachman, P. Zhang, T.J. Huang, “A cell-phone-based acoustofluidic platform for quantitative point-of-care testing,” ACS Nano, 2020, 14: 3159-3169.
• Kang, Z. Tian, S. Yang, W. Yu, H. Zhu, H. Bachman, S. Zhao, P. Zhang, Z. Wang, R. Zhong, T.J. Huang, “Acoustic tweezers based on circular, slanted-finger interdigital transducers for dynamic manipulation of micro-objects,” Lab on a Chip, 2020, 20: 987-994.
• P. Zhang, J. Lata, C. Chen, J. Mai, F. Guo, Z. Tian, L. Ren, Z. Mao, P.-H. Huang, P. Li, S. Yang, T. J. Huang, “Digital acoustofluidics enables contactless and programmable liquid handling,” Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 2928.
• Zhang, C. Chen, X. Su, J. Mai, Y. Gu, Z. Tian, H. Zhu, Z. Zhong, H. Fu, S. Yang, K. Chakrabarty, and T.J. Huang, “Acoustic Streaming Vortices Enable Contactless, Digital Control of Droplets,” Science Advances, 2020.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, “Elastic phased diffraction gratings for manipulation of ultrasonic guided waves in solids,” Physical Review Applied, 2019, 11: 024052.
• Z. Tian, S. Howden, Z. Ma, W. Xiao, L. Yu, “Pulsed laser-scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (PL-SLDV) phased arrays for damage detection in aluminum plates,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019, 121, 158-170.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, X. Sun, B. Lin, “Damage localization with fiber Bragg grating Lamb wave sensing through adaptive phased array imaging,” Structural Health Monitoring, 2019, 18: 334-344.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, “Wavefront modulation and controlling for Lamb waves using surface bonded slice lenses,” Journal of Applied Physics, 2017, 234902.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, C.A.C. Leckey, “Rapid guided wave delamination detection and quantification in composites using global-local sensing,” Smart Materials and Structures, 2016, 085042.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, C.A.C. Leckey, J. Seebo, “Guided wave imaging for detection and evaluation of impact induced delamination in composites,” Smart Materials and Structures, 2015, 24: 105019.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, C.A.C. Leckey, “Delamination detection and quantification on laminated composite structures with Lamb waves and wavenumber analysis,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2015, 26: 1726-1738.
• Z. Tian, L. Yu, “Lamb wave frequency-wavenumber analysis and decomposition,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2014, 25: 1107-1123.

• ASME