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Dapeng Cao (曹达鹏)

Professor
College of Chemical Engineering
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029,China

Postdoc, Chemical Engineering, 2005, University of California, Riverside

Ph. D, Chemical Engineering, 2002, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

M. S., Chemical Engineering, 1999, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

B.S. Applied Mathematics (Major),1996, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

B.E. Computer Application(Minor),1996, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Tel: +86-10-64443254
Fax: +86-10-64427616
Email: caodp@mail.buct.edu.cn and cao_dp@hotmail.com and caodp@buct.cn

Awards and Honors:

The Second Prize (Natural Science) of Scientific and Technical Awards of Ministry of Education of China (2007)
New Century Excellent Talents from Ministry of Education of China (2006)
  The Frist Prize (Fundamental Research) of Scientific and Technical Awards of Beijing Municipal Government (2002) 
Nominee for the National Excellent Ph D Dissertations (2004)
  The BASF Award for excellent Ph. D student (2001)
The second prize of National Mathematical Modeling competition for undergraduates (1995). 

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Research Activities:

  1. Design and molecular modeling of porous nanomaterials for hydrogen storage (including graphitic carbon inverse opal and silicon nanotubes etc.)

  2. Experiment and molecular simulation of adsorption and diffusion of fluids in porous nanomaterials (including activated carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, MCM-41, layered pillared materials)

  3. Study on mechanism of self-assembly of diblock copolymers in substrates   

  4. Experimental and theoretical studies on nanoparticle/copolymer nanocomposites

  5. Molecular simulation of properties of polyelectrolytes-DNA complexs

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Selected Publications:

  1.   Dapeng Cao and J. Wu, Molecular simulation of novel carbonaceous materials for hydrogen storage, Nano Letters, 2004, 4(8), 1489-1492. Also Highlighted in DOE (USA) report: Opportunities for Discovery: Theory and Computation in Basic Energy Sciences (January 2005).

       

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  1. J. Lan, D. Cheng, Dapeng Cao*, W. Wang, Silicon nanotubes as a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: From first-principle calculation to GCMC simulations, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2008, 112, 5598. Also featured in Nanowerk website ( http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5382.php)

            

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  1. L. Cheng, Dapeng Cao*, Understanding self-assembly of rod-coil copolymer in nanoslits, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2008, 128, 074902. Also appeared in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology( March 3, 2008)

         

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  1. R. Ni, Dapeng Cao *, W. Wang, Release of lysozyme from the branched polyelectrolyte- lysozyme complexations, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008, 112, 4393

       

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  1. Dapeng Cao* and J. Wu, Density functional theory for a primitive model of nanoparticle-copolymer mixtures. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2007, 126, 144912

        

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  1. L. Cheng, Dapeng Cao*, A hybrid approach for microscopic properties and self-assembly of dendrimers between two hard walls. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111(36), 10775 

 

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  1. D. Cheng, X. Liu, Dapeng Cao*, W. Wang, S. Huang, Surface segregation of Ag-Cu-Au trimetallic clusters, Nanotechnology, 2007, 18(47), 475702.

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  1. R. Ni, Dapeng Cao* and W. Wang, Nanopattern of the Inner Surface of Carbon Nanotubes for Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles: A Multistep Monte Carlo Method, Journal Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111(32), 11802.

           

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  1. Dapeng Cao and J. Wu, Surface-induced lamellar-lamellar phase transition in ultrathin films of block copolymers, Journal of Chemical Physics, 2005, 122, 194703.

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  1. Dapeng Cao, J. Wu, Self-diffusion of methane in single-walled nanotubes at sub- and supercritical conditions, Langmuir, 2004, 20 (9), 3759-3765 

           

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  1. Dapeng Cao*, X. Zhang, J. Chen, W. Wang and J. Yun, Optimization of single-walled carbon nanotube arrays for methane storage at room temperature, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2003, 107(48), 13286-13292. 

        

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  1. Dapeng Cao* and W. Wang, Grand canonical Monte Carlo Simulation for determination of optimum parameters for adsorption supercritical methane in layered pillared pores, Journal of Colloid Interface Science, 2002, 254 (1), 1-7

      

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