Granick Research Group

Kaikai Zheng

Welcome to my page! I am the father of two kids, and I'm doing my postdoctoral research in Steve Granick's group. My interest is to understand the heterogeneity of polymers especially under non-equilibrium states.

Trained as a polymer physicist during my PhD study in ICCAS, I have embraced with zest and gratitude the new challenges offered by IBS research in South Korea. During the past four and half years of research, new exciting findings emerged from multiple independent experiments, revealing the physical pictures of shear-induced polymer tube non-linearities, strain-induced local force/stiffness anisotropy and internal ballistic radiative macro-scale non-Fourier heat conduction. 

My research in UMass Amherst focuses on the current heat transfer project, exploring additional interesting non-Fourier heat conduction problems. I hope my efforts will answer fundamental questions and benefit the thermal physics community.