Jiang Jinghua is currently a specially appointed researcher and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Dr. Jiang graduated in August 2018 from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, USA, the birthplace of liquid crystal research. In 2022, she joined the Department of Physics at USTC through a talent recruitment program. Dr. Jiang has long been engaged in the study of the optical, electrical, and mechanical properties of active soft matter, particularly liquid crystal materials and devices. She has accumulated extensive experience in the self-assembly of active soft matter, cell-interface interactions, and the superstructure self-assembly of soft materials. She has published 18 SCI papers, with 15 papers as the first or corresponding (including co-corresponding) author in international journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, Advanced Healthcare Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Intelligent Systems, and Physical Review Applied. She has frequently participated in academic exchanges both domestically and internationally and has served as a reviewer for journals including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Optics Express, and Physical Review Applied.
Representative Works(# indicates co-first author, * indicates corresponding author)
2024
1. Xinyu Wang#, Jinghua Jiang#, Juan Chen#, Zhawure Asilehan, Wentao Tang, Chenhui Peng* & Rui Zhang*, Moiré effect enables versatile design of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals, Nature Communications, 15, 1655 (2024).
2023
1. Jinghua Jiang, X. Wang, O. Akomolafe, W. Tang, Z. Asilehan, K. Ranabhat, R. Zhang and Chenhui Peng*, Collective transport and reconfigurable assembly of nematic colloids by light-driven cooperative molecular reorientations, PNAS, 120, e2221718120 (2023)
2. Juan Chen#; Jinghua Jiang#; Jada Weber; Vianney Gimenez-Pinto*; Chenhui Peng* ; Shape Morphing by Topological Patterns and Profiles in Laser-Cut Liquid Crystal Elastomer Kirigami, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15(3): 4538-4548
2022
1. Jinghua Jiang, K. Ranabhat, X. Wang, H. Rich, R. Zhang* and Chenhui Peng*, Active transformations of topological structures in light-driven nematic disclination networks, PNAS, 119, e2122226119 (2022).
2. Juan Chen, Oluwafemi Isaac Akomolafe, Netra Prasad Dhakal, Mahesh Pujyam, Omar Skalli, Jinghua Jiang* and Chenhui Peng*, Nematic Templated Complex Nanofiber Structures by Projection Display, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 7230, (2022)
3. Juan Chen, A. Johnson, J. Weber, Oluwafemi Isaac Akomolafe, Jinghua Jiang* and Chenhui Peng*, Programmable Light-driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Kirigami with Controlled Molecular Orientations, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2100233, (2022)
2021
1. Juan Chen, Oluwafemi Isaac Akomolafe, Jinghua Jiang* and Chenhui Peng*, Light-actuated Liquid Crystal Elastomer Prepared by Projection Display, Materials 14, 7245, (2021)
2020
1. Jinghua Jiang, Netra Prasad Dhakal, Yubing Guo, Christian Andre, Lauren Thompson, Omar Skalli and Chenhui Peng*, Controlled Dynamics of Neural Tumor Cells by Templated Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 9, 2000487 (2020)
2. N. Dhakal#, Jinghua Jiang#, Yubing Guo and Chenhui Peng*, Self-assembly of Aqueous Soft Matter Patterned by Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks for Controlling Dynamics of Bacteria, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 13680 (2020)
3. N. Dhakal#, Jinghua Jiang#, Yubing Guo and Chenhui Peng*, Photo-Patterning DNA Structures with Topological Defects and Arbitrary Patterns through Multiple Length Scales, Physical Review Applied, 13,014026, (2020)
2019
1. Jinghua Jiang, Deng-Ke Yang*, Self-Assembly of Liquid-Crystal Droplets in Cells With Patterned Indium Tin Oxide, Physical Review Applied, 11 (4), 044075, (2019)
2017
1. Jinghua Jiang, Deng-Ke Yang*, Chirality differentiation by diffusion in chiral nematic liquid crystals, Physical Review Applied 7, 014014, (2017)
2. Jinghua Jiang, G. McGraw, R. Ma, J Brown, Deng-Ke Yang*, Selective scattering polymer dispersed liquid crystal film for light enhancement of organic light emitting diode, Optics Express 25 (4), 3327-3335, (2017)
3. Jinghua Jiang, Deng-Ke Yang*, Bipolar to toroidal configuration transition in liquid crystal droplets, Liquid Crystals, 45, 102, (2017)
4. Jinghua Jiang, G. McGraw, R. Ma, J. Brown, Deng-Ke Yang*, Selective Scattering of PDLC film and Its Application in OLED, SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, 48 (1), 727-730, (2017)
Educational Background
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Kent State University, USA
Work Experience
2022 - Present
Specially Appointed Researcher, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
2018 - 2022
Research Associate, Department of Physics and Materials Science, the University of Memphis, USA
Research Directions
Primary research areas include but are not limited to:
Programmable soft robotics
Programmable superstructure self-assembly
Programmable and controllable cell/tissue movement
New materials and applications of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (PDLC)
Biological applications of cholesteric liquid crystals
Alma Mater: Kent State University, USA
Affiliation: School of Physical Sciences
Discipline: Physics