Dr. Xufeng DONG， 

Professor, deputy dean at School of Materials Science and Engineering,Dalian University of Technology

Education

Ph.D. (Disaster Mitigation Engineering), 2008, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

M.E. (Materials Science), 2005, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

B.E. (Materials Science), 2003, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Work Experiences

01/2019-Present, Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

12/2013-12/2019, Associate Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

01/2011-12/2013, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

01/2009-12/2010, Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

Current Research

Smart materials, Electrorheological fluids, Electrorheological elastomers, Magnetorheological fluids, Magnetorheological elastomers, Dielectric elastomers, Carbon nanotube fibers, Soft robotics, Artificial muscles, Biomedical materials, Smart hydrogels, Flexible electronics, Brain-Computer interfaces

Research Grants

1. Project 51478088, National Nature Science Foundation of China, Mechanical model and isolation performance of smart isolator based on electrorheological elastomers. RMB 840,000, 2015.1-2018.12. (Principal Investigator)

2. Project 51108062, National Nature Science Foundation of China, Isolation performance of stiffness tunable isolator based on magnetorheological elastomers. RMB 250,000, 2011.1-2014.12. (Principal Investigator) 

Publications

He has 100+ publications in peer reviewed journals. The total citation is more than 1000. His H-index is 23. Following are 20 representative papers. 

1.        Chenguang Niu, Xufeng Dong*, Min Qi. Enhanced electrorheological properties of elastomers containing TiO2/urea core−shell particles. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces，2015, 7 (44): 24855~24863.

2.        Ning Ma, Xufeng Dong*. Diammonium phosphate modified titanium dioxide suspensions with improved ER efficiency. Smart Materials and Structures, 2015, 24: 065009.

3.        Xufeng Dong, Chenguang Niu, Min Qi*. Enhancement of electrorheological performance of electrorheological elastomers by improving TiO2 particles/silicon rubber interface. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016, 4：6806~6815.

4.        Xufeng Dong*, Shuang Huo, Min Qi. Comparison on electrorheological performance between urea-coated and graphene oxide-wrapped core-shell structured amorphous titania nanoparticles. Smart Materials and Structures, 2016, 25: 015033.

5.        Chenguang Niu, Xufeng Dong*, Min Qi. Damping mechanism and theoretical model of electrorheological elastomers. Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 5409~5420.

6.        Yu Tong, Xufeng Dong*, Min Qi. High performance magnetorheological fluids with flower-like cobalt particles. Smart Materials and Structures, 2017, 26: 025023.

7.        Ning Ma, Ziqi Zhang, Xufeng Dong*, Qi Wang, Chenguang Niu, Baoguo Han. Dynamic viscoelasticity and phenomenological model of electrorheological elastomers. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2017, 134 (41):45407.

8.        Qi Wang, Xufeng Dong, Luyu Li, Jinping Ou*. A nonlinear model of magnetorheological elastomer with wide amplitude range and variable frequencies. Smart Materials and Structures, 2017, 26: 065010.

9.        Qi Wang, Xufeng Dong, Luyu Li, Jinping Ou*. Study on an improved variable stiffness tuned mass damper based on conical magnetorheological elastomer isolators. Smart Materials and Structures, 2017, 26, 105028.

10.    Yu Tong, Xufeng Dong*, Min Qi. Improved tunable range of the field-induced storage modulus by using flower-like particles as the active phase of magnetorheological elastomers. Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 3504.

11.    Qi Wang, Xufeng Dong, Luyu Li, Jinping Ou*. Mechanical modeling for magnetorheological elastomer isolators based on constitutive equations and electromagnetic analysis. Smart Materials and Structures, 2018, 27, 065017.

12.    Yu Tong, Xufeng Dong*, Min Qi. Payne effect and damping properties of flower-like cobalt particles-based magnetorheological elastomers, Composites Communications, 2019, 15:120~128

13.    Wanning Zhu, Xufeng Dong*, Hao Huang and Min Qi. Iron nanoparticles-based magnetorheological fluids: A balance between MR effect and sedimentation stability, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2019, 491:165556

14.    Xufeng Dong*, Ning Ma, Baoguo Han, Pengfei Guo and Yonghu Huang. Improved distribution homogeneity of carbonyl iron particles in magnetorheological elastomers by adding zinc dimethacrylate, Smart Materials and Structures, 2020, 29: 025021

15.    Chenguang Niu, Xufeng Dong, Yuan Lan, Linkai Niu, Xiaoyan Xiong, Bin Zhao and Min Qi. Creep and recovery behaviors of electrorheological elastomers and timeelectric field superposition principle. Smart Mater. Struct. 29 (2020) 025009

16.    Ning Ma, Yiwen Yao, Qi Wang, Chenguang Niu and Xufeng Dong*. Properties and mechanical model of a stiffness tunable viscoelastic damper based on electrorheological elastomers. Smart Materials and Structures. 29 (2020) 045041

17.    Kuiming Liu, Shengming Zhu, Xufeng Dong,* Hao Huang, and Min Qi*. Ionic Liquid-Assisted Anchoring SnO2 Nanoparticles on Carbon Nanotubes as Highly Cyclable Anode of Lithium Ion Batteries. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 1901916 （Cover）

18.    Shengming Zhu, Xufeng Dong, Hao Huang *, Min Qi. Rich nitrogen-doped carbon on carbon nanotubes for high-performance sodium-ion supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources 459 (2020) 228104

19.    Qi Wang, Xufeng Dong, Luyu Li, Qingshan Yang and Jinping Ou. Wind-induced vibration control of a constructing bridge tower with MRE variable stiffness tuned mass damper. Smart Mater. Struct. 29 (2020) 045034

20.    Donglei Liu, Xufeng Dong*, Baoguo Han , Hao Huang , Min Qi. Cellulose nanocrystal/collagen hydrogels reinforced by anisotropic structure: Shear viscoelasticity and related strengthening mechanism. Composites Communications 21 (2020) 100374