Short Biography
Tian-Zi Shen is a professor of optics at the School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University. His research interest includes “liquid crystal materials”“two-dimensional nanomaterials”“electron-optical devices”. He has published more than 30 papers in“Nature Materials”“Advanced Materials” “Carbon”“Nano Energy”and other journals. At the same time, he was awarded 10 patents, 3 in U.S. and 7 in South Korea respectively. He had already received two research fundings from government before joining Beihang University. All his degrees were received in South Korea.
Research Area
Liquid crystal technology
Bionic Optical Technology
3D display technology
Courses
Micro/Nano Photonics
Scientific Research Method
Papers & Books
（1）T. Z. Shen, S. H. Hong, and J. K. Song *, "Electro-optical switching of graphene-oxide liquid crystals with an extremely large Kerr coefficient“, Nature Materials, 13 394-399 (2014)
（2）T. Z. Shen, S. H. Hong, J. H. Lee, S. G. Kang, B. Lee, D. Whang*, and J. K. Song*,"Selectivity of Threefold Symmetry in Epitaxial Alignment of Liquid Crystal Molecules on Macro scale Single-Crystal Graphene", Advanced Materials, 30(40), 1802441 (Oct, 2018)
（3）T. Z. Shen, S. H. Hong, Bomi Lee, and J. K. Song* "Bottom-up & top-down manipulations for multi-order photonic crystallinity in a graphene-oxide colloid", NPG Asia Materials Nature (2016)
（4）K. R. Wijewardhana#, T.-Z. Shen #, E. N. Jayaweera, A. Shahzad, and J. K. Song*,"Hybrid nanogenerator and enhancement of water-solid contact electrification using triboelectric chargesupplier", Nano Energy, 52, 402-407, (Oct, 2018)
（5）T.-Z. Shen, S.-H. Hong, and J. K. Song *, "Effect of centrifugal cleaning on the electro-optical response in the preparation of aqueous graphene-oxide dispersions",Carbon, 80, 560-564 (2014).
（6）T. Z. Shen, S. H. Hong, J. K. Guo, and J. K. Song*,"Deterioration and recovery of electro-optical performance of aqueous graphene-oxide liquid-crystal cells after prolonged storage",Carbon, 105, 8-13 (2016)
（7）S.-H. Hong#, T.-Z. Shen#, and J. K. Song *,"Electro-optical characteristics of aqueous graphene-oxide dispersion depending on ion concentration”, Journal of Physical Chemist ry C, 118(45), 26304-26312 (2014).
（8）Priyadharshana,P.A.N.S., T. Z. Shen, S. H. Hong, J.-K. Song, “Widely Tunable GRIN Lenses Using Negative Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Phosphate Nanosheets Colloid.”, Adv. Optical Mater,10, 2102429(2022)
（9）T. Z. Shen, Kurugamage Nuwan Asela Perera, Aurangzeb Rashid Masud, P. A. N. S. Priyadharshana, Joo-Young Park, Qiong-Hua Wang, Seung-Ho Hong, Jang-Kun Song*, A dual-frequency photonic crystal nanocolloid with hue- and brightness-tunable structural colors, Cell Reports Physical Science, 4, 4, 2023.
（10）Yu-Yang Su, Zhao-Qing Wang, Huai-Ke Jia, Fan Chu, Qiong-Hua Wang, T. Z. Shen*. Frequency-dependent electro-optic properties of graphene oxide liquid crystal[J], Carbon, 2025, 120199.
