Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanoscale Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
PhD, Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009
BS, Materials Chemistry, Nanjing University of Aero. & Astro, 2004

Awards and Honors

2015 National Science Foundation – CAREER Award
2014 Army Research Office – Young Investigator Award
2014 RSC Emerging Investigator – Journal of Material Chemistry
2013 NSF EPSCOR First Award
2013 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship

Selected Recent Publications

Wenxiu Gao, Raymond Brennan, Yong Hu, Manfred Wuttig, Guoliang Yuan,* Eckhard Quandt,* and Shenqiang Ren,* Energy Transduction Ferroic Materials, Materials Today, ASAP (2018);
Beibei Xu, Himanshu Chakraborty, Vivek K. Yadav, Zhuolei Zhang, Michael L. Klein and Shenqiang Ren*, Tunable two-dimensional interfacial coupling in molecular heterostructures, Nature Communications, 8, 312 (2017); Nanowerk News Spotlight: http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=47811.php
Zhuolei Zhang, Peng-Fei Li, Yuanyuan Tang, Andrew J. Wilson, Katherine Willets, Manfred Wuttig,* Ren-Gen Xiong,* Shenqiang Ren*, Tunable electroresistance and electro-optic effects of transparent molecular ferroelectrics, Science Advances e1701008 (2017). News Spotlight: http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=47909.php
Beibei Xu, Himanshu Chakraborty, Richard C. Remsing, Michael L. Klein, and Shenqiang Ren*, A free-standing molecular spin-charge converter for ubiquitous magnetic-energy harvesting and sensing, Advanced Materials, 29, 8 (2017)
Zhuolei Zhang and Shenqiang Ren*, Colloidal Excimer Superstructures, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201608845 (2016)
Qilin Dai, Ketan Patel, Greg Donatelli and Shenqiang Ren*, Magnetic nanocrystals towards energy storage concentration cell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 10.1002/anie.201604790R1 (2016)
M. Gong, X. Jin, R. Sakidja and Shenqiang Ren*, Synergistic strain engineering effect of hybrid plasmonic, catalytic and magnetic core-shell nanocrystals, Nano Letters, 15, 8347 (2015)
Wei Qin, Xiaomin Chen, Huashan Li, Maogang Gong, Guoliang Yuan, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Manfred Wuttig and Shenqiang Ren*, Room temperature multiferroicity of charge transfer crystals, ACS Nano, 9, 9373 (2015) Feature on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugM9XVlJtT4, and ACS Nano Podcast.
Wei Qin, Maogang Gong, Xiaomin Chen, Tejas A. Shastry, Ridwan Sakidja, Guoliang Yuan, Mark C. Hersam, Manfred Wuttig and Shenqiang Ren*, Multiferroicity of Carbon-Based Charge Transfer Magnets, Advanced Materials, 27, 734 (2014).
Maogang Gong, Tejas A. Shastry, Yu Xie, Marco Bernardi, Daniel Jasion, Kyle A. Luck, Tobin J. Marks, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Shenqiang Ren*, and Mark C. Hersam*, Polychiral Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Solar Cells, Nano Letters, 14, 5308 (2014).