Wee-Liat Ong (E 2015)

(he/him)

About

Wee-Liat Ong received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, where he studied nanoscale heat transfer focusing on organic-inorganic nanostructured materials using both experimental and simulation techniques. He received several faculty/departmental awards at CMU, including the Steinbrenner, the Northrop-Grumman, and the Bushnell graduate fellowships. Before becoming an Associate Professor at Zhejiang University - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ZJU-UIUC) joint institute, he was a joint post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University working with chemists to characterize novel hybrid materials.

First Author Publications during PhD

Ong, WL., Majumdar, S., Malen, J.A., and McGaughey, A.J.H. (2014). Coupling of Organic and Inorganic Vibrational States and Their Thermal Transport in Nanocrystal Arrays. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(14), 7288-7295. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp4120157

Ong, WL., O’Brien, E., Dougherty, P. et al. (2017). Orientational order controls crystalline and amorphous thermal transport in superatomic crystals. Nature Mater, 16, 83–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4739

Ong, WL., Rupich, S., Talapin, D. et al. (2013) Surface chemistry mediates thermal transport in three-dimensional nanocrystal arrays. Nature Mater, 12, 410–415. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3596