Assistant Professor
Office: 208 Fluor Daniel Building
Phone: (864) 656-7170
Fax: (864) 656-4435
Email: zmeng@clemson.edu
Zhaoxu Meng joined the Department in 2019 following appointments as a CHiMaD (Center for Hierarchical Materials Design) Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. His research aims to advance the design and development of high-performance materials in different engineering disciplines by drawing inspiration from nature. The main focus of the work is establishing computational models at multiple length and time scales with emphasis on advanced manufacturing processes/materials.
Website
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Education
Ph.D. (2018), Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
B.S. (2013), Engineering Mechanics, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Research interests
Bioinspired structural materials and interfaces, multiscale modeling, mechanics of nanocomposites and composites
Selected Publications
- Yang*, Z. Meng†, “Porous Nanoparticles Overcome the Conventional Stiffness-Damping Tradeoff in Polymer Nanocomposites,” npj Soft Matter, 1 (1), 7 (2025).
- Yang*, H. Wang*, L. Lou†, Z. Meng†, “A Review of Chitosan-based Electrospun Nanofibers for Food Packaging: From Fabrication to Function and Modeling Insights,” Nanomaterials, 15(16), 1274 (2025).
- Chen*, Z. Yang*, L. Dai*, Z. Meng†, “Impact of Graphene Oxide Arrangement on the Mechanical and Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites,” International Journal of the Mechanical Sciences, 297-298, 110351 (2025).
- Yang*, D. Gordon, Y. Chen*, H. Li, Y. Wu, Z. Meng†, “Understanding the Effects of Mineralization and Structure of Tendon-Bone Insertion Using Mesoscale Computational Modeling,” Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 160, 106735 (2024).
- Yang*, C. Chiang*, Z. Meng†, “Investigation of Dynamic Impact Responses of Layered Polymer-Graphene Nanocomposite Films Using Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” Carbon, 203, 202-210 (2023).
- Yang*, P. Niksiar†, Z. Meng†, “Identifying Structure-Property Relationships of Micro-Architectured Porous Scaffolds through 3D Printing and Finite Element Analyses,” Computational Materials Science, 202, 110987, (2022).
- Giuntoli, N. Hansoge, A. van Beek, Meng†, W. Chen†, S. Keten†, “Systematic Coarse-Graining of Epoxy Resins with Machine Learning-Informed Energy Renormalization,” npj Computational Materials, 7, 168 (2021).
- Chiang*, J. Breslin*, S. Weeks*, Z. Meng†, “Dynamic Mechanical Behaviors of Nacre-inspired Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites Depending on Internal Structures,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 49, 101451 (2021).
(† corresponding author, * Meng group students)
