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Jihong Ma

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

PRONOUNS She/her/hers

Jihong.Ma@uvm.edu
Jihong Ma
Jihong.Ma@uvm.edu
Pronouns She/her/hers
Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017)
  • B.Sc., Engineering Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University (2012)
Affiliated Department(s)
  • Department of Physics
  • Materials Science Program

BIO

Jihong Ma joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ¶¶̉ờ½̀½ in August 2020. Dr. Ma obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2017, and her B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on computational heat transport in nanomaterials. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, studying topological metamaterials from 2017 to 2019, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences on soft matter simulations.

Dr. Ma has published her work in many top journals in her field, including Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Small, Small Science, Carbon, Communications Physics, APL Materials, and Physical Review Applied. At ¶¶̉ờ½̀½, Dr. Ma is working on the structure-property relationship of materials at multiple scales (from nano- to macro-) via a combination of theoretical analysis, numerical simulations, and experimental characterizations. Her current active research projects include investigations of self-healing polymers, polymeric membranes for carbon capture, organic electronics, quantum dots, dynamics of phononic crystals, and nanoscale thermal and electrical transport. She has received funding as a PI or Co-PI from various sources, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation. She was an Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow in 2023.

Courses

• ME 6990: Advanced Heat Transfer
• ME 2110: Materials Engineering

Publications

Awards and Achievements

  • U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship (2023)
  • National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Fellowship (2022 - 2024)
  • University of Vermont Early EXtra Promotion of REsearch and Scholarly Success Grant Award (2020 -2021)
  • APS Division of Materials Physics Post-doctoral Travel Award (2020)
  • APS Division of Computational Physics Travel Award (2020)
  • Albert Swanson Memorial Fellowship Award (2016–2017)
  • 2017 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Poster Finalist (2017)
  • APS Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Student Travel Honorable Mention Award (2016)
  • Mechanical Engineering Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2015-2016)
  • Mechanical Engineering Department Fellowship (2012-2013)
  • Mathematical Contest in Modeling Honorable Mention Award (2012)
  • The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling Honorable Mention Award (2011)
  • Siyuan Scholarship (2008-2012)

Area(s) of expertise

Condensed matter theories, waves, atomistic simulations

Bio

Jihong Ma joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ¶¶̉ờ½̀½ in August 2020. Dr. Ma obtained her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2017, and her B.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) in 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on computational heat transport in nanomaterials. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, studying topological metamaterials from 2017 to 2019, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences on soft matter simulations.

Dr. Ma has published her work in many top journals in her field, including Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Small, Small Science, Carbon, Communications Physics, APL Materials, and Physical Review Applied. At ¶¶̉ờ½̀½, Dr. Ma is working on the structure-property relationship of materials at multiple scales (from nano- to macro-) via a combination of theoretical analysis, numerical simulations, and experimental characterizations. Her current active research projects include investigations of self-healing polymers, polymeric membranes for carbon capture, organic electronics, quantum dots, dynamics of phononic crystals, and nanoscale thermal and electrical transport. She has received funding as a PI or Co-PI from various sources, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation. She was an Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow in 2023.

Courses

• ME 6990: Advanced Heat Transfer
• ME 2110: Materials Engineering

Publications

Awards and Achievements

  • U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship (2023)
  • National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Fellowship (2022 - 2024)
  • University of Vermont Early EXtra Promotion of REsearch and Scholarly Success Grant Award (2020 -2021)
  • APS Division of Materials Physics Post-doctoral Travel Award (2020)
  • APS Division of Computational Physics Travel Award (2020)
  • Albert Swanson Memorial Fellowship Award (2016–2017)
  • 2017 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Poster Finalist (2017)
  • APS Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Student Travel Honorable Mention Award (2016)
  • Mechanical Engineering Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2015-2016)
  • Mechanical Engineering Department Fellowship (2012-2013)
  • Mathematical Contest in Modeling Honorable Mention Award (2012)
  • The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling Honorable Mention Award (2011)
  • Siyuan Scholarship (2008-2012)

Areas of Expertise

Condensed matter theories, waves, atomistic simulations

Publications

Book

  • Ma, J.*, DumitricĂ£, T., Nano-scale Heat Transfer in Nanostructures, Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology 2018, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73882-6.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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  • Boriwaye, T.; Ma, J.*, Effect of Grain Boundaries on Thermal Transport in Bi-Layer Graphene Nanoribbons, APL Materials – Special Topic: Emerging Leaders in Materials Science, 2024, 12(12), 121112.
  • Guzelturk, B.*; Portner J.; Ondry, J.; Ghanbarzadeh, S.; Tarantola, M.; Jeong, A.; Field, T.; Chandler, A. M.; Wieman, E.; Hopper, T.; Watkins, N.; Yue, J.; Cheng, X.; Lin, M.-F.; Luo, D.; Kramer, P. L.; Shen, X.; Reid, A. H.; Borkiewicz, O.; Ruett, U.; Zhang, X.; Lindenberg, A. M.; Ma, J.*; Schaller, R.*; Talapin, D. V.*; Cotts, B. L.*, Ultrafast symmetry control in photoexcited quantum dots, Advanced Materials, 2024, 2414196.
  • Rajabpoor Alisepahi, A.; Ma, J.*, In-Gap Edge and Domain-Wall States in Largely Perturbed Phononic Su–Schrieffer–Heeger Lattices. Crystals – Special Issue: Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals, 2024, 14(1), 102 (Invited).
  • Rajabpoor Alisepahi, A.; Sarkar, S.; Sun, K; Ma, J.*, Breakdown of Conventional Winding Number Calculation in One-Dimensional Lattices with Interactions Beyond Nearest Neighbors, Communications Physics (Editor’s Highlight) 2023, 6, 334.
  • Ma, J.*, Phonon Engineering of Micro- and Nanophononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials: A Review. Small Science 2023, 3, 2200052 (Invited).
  • Joubaneh, E.F.; Ma, J.*, Symmetry Effect on the Dynamic Behaviors of Sandwich Beams with Periodic Face Sheets. Composite Structures 2022, 289,115406.
  • Ma, J.; Carrillo, J.-M.; Do, C.; Chen, W.-R.; Falus, P.; Shen, Z.; Hong, K.; Sumpter, B. G.; Wang, Y., Spatial Correlations of Entangled Polymer Dynamics. Physical Review E 2021, 104, 024503.
  • Shen, Z.; Ma, J.; Carrillo, J.-M.; Chen, W.-R.; Sumpter, B. G.; Wang, Y., Spatiotemporal Mapping of Mesoscopic Liquid Dynamics, Physical Review E, 2021, 103, 022609.
  • Zhou, D.; Ma, J.; Sun, K.; Gonella, S.; Mao, X., Switchable phonon diodes using nonlinear topological Maxwell lattices, Physical Review B 2020, 101, 104106.
  • Ma, J.; Sun, K.; Gonella, S., Valley Hall In-Plane Edge States as Building Blocks for Elastodynamics Logic Circuits. Physical Review Applied 2019, 12, 044015.
  • Ma, J.; Zhou, D.; Sun, K.; Mao, X.; Gonella, S., Edge Modes and Asymmetric Wave Transport in Topological Lattices: Experimental Characterization at Finite Frequencies. Physical Review Letters 2018, 121, 094301.
  • Xu, H.; Ma, J.; DumitricĂ£, T., Smooth Sliding and Superlubricity in the Nanofriction of Collapsed Carbon Nanotubes. Carbon 2018, 134, 531.
  • Ma, J.; Xu, H.; DumitricĂ£, T., Collapsed Carbon Nanotubes as Building Blocks for High-Performance Thermal Materials. Physical Review Materials 2017, 1, 056001.
  • Ma, J.; Ni, Y.; DumitricĂ£, T., Nanowires with Dislocations for Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Communication) 2016, 18, 9888.
  • Ma, J.; Dasmahapatra, A.; Kroll, P.; Meletis, E.; DumitricĂ£, T., Compositional and Structural Atomistic Study of the Amorphous Si-B-N Networks of Interest for High-Performance Coatings. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016, 120, 24346.
  • Wang, C.G.; Liu, Y.P.; Ma, J.; DumitricĂ£, T.; Wadee, M.K.; Tan, H.F., Buckling behavior of carbon nanotubes under bending: from ripple to kink. Carbon 2016, 102, 224.
  • Ma, J.; Ni, Y.; Volz, S.; DumitricĂ£, T., Thermal Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Under Pure Bending. Physical Review Applied 2015, 3, 024014.
  • Xiong, S.; Ma, J.; Volz, S.; DumitricĂ£, T., Thermally-Active Screw Dislocation in Si Nanowires and Nanotubes. Small (Communications) 2014, 10, 1756.