Dr. Xi SHEN Assistant Professor

Location PQ511
Phone 3400 2485
mail xi.shen@polyu.edu.hk








Biography BEng (Tongji); PhD (HKUST)
Area of Specialization
Polymer nanocomposites containing graphene and other low-dimensional nanofillers;
Rational design and synthesis of nanocomposites in the form of 1D fibers, 2D films, 3D aerogels;
Mechanical and functional properties, e.g., electrical and thermal conductivities, of nanocomposites
Nanocomposites for electrical and thermal energy regulation: Dielectrics, strain/temperature sensors, thermal dissipation/insulation, solar-thermal conversion;
Molecular dynamics / mechanics simulation
Short Description
Dr. Shen received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015. Before joining HKPolyU, he was a Research Assistant Professor at HKUST. Dr. Shen was also an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW GmbH) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, from 2017 to 2018. Dr. Shen was the recipients of numerous awards, including Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2011-2015), Humboldt Research Fellowship (2017-2018), Best Oral Presentation Award (ACCM-9, 2014), Tsai Award (ICCM-20, 2015), and Editor's Top Reviewer Award (Composites Part A, 2020).
Research Projects
“Multiscale engineering of three- dimensional graphene/polymer composites for highly-efficient solar thermal energy applications”, July 2020 - June 2023,General Research Fund (16200720)
“Boron nitride nanosheets/polymer composite aerogels with super thermal insulation and high solar reflectance for energy-efficient building applications”, Feb2020 - July 2021,Innovation and Technology Fund (ITS/012/19)
“BN/graphene hybrid polymer composites for thermal management and high-temperature dielectric applications”, July 2017 – Dec 2020,General Research Fund (16205517)
Teaching Activities
AAE3002 Aircraft Structures and Materials
AAE4002 Capstone Project
Opening Positions
We have PhD/RA/Postdoc positions in multifunctional nanocomposites. Please send your CVs with a list of publication to Dr. Shen if you are interested.

Selected Publications
Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=jcewpCIAAAAJ&hl=en
Xi Shen, Qingbin Zheng, Jang-Kyo Kim. Rational design of two-dimensional nanofillers for polymer nanocomposites toward multifunctional applications. Progress in Materials Science, 2021, 115, 100708.
Jeng-Hun Lee, Haomin Chen, Eunyoung Kim, Heng Zhang, Ke Wu, Hongming Zhang, Xi Shen*, Qingbin Zheng, Jinglei Yang, Seokwoo Jeon, Jang-Kyo Kim*. Flexible temperature sensors made of aligned electrospun carbon nanofiber films with outstanding sensitivity and selectivity towards temperature. Mater. Horizons, 2021, 8, 1488.
Eunyoung Kim, Hongming Zhang, Jeng-Hun Lee, Haomin Chen, Heng Zhang, Muhammad Humza Javed, Xi Shen*, Jang-Kyo Kim*. MXene/polyurethane auxetic composite foam for electromagnetic interference shielding and impact attenuation. Composites Part A, 2021, 147, 106430.
Jing Guo, Hongfei Bao, Yanqiu Zhang, Xi Shen*, Jang-Kyo Kim, Jun Ma and Lu Shao*. Unravelling Intercalation-regulated Nanoconfinement for Durably Ultrafast Sieving Graphene Oxide Membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 2021, 619, 118791.
Fengmei Guo, Xi Shen*, Jiaming Zhou, Dan Liu, Qingbin Zheng, Jinglei Yang, Baohua Jia, Alan KT Lau, Jang‐Kyo Kim*. Highly Thermally Conductive Dielectric Nanocomposites with Synergistic Alignments of Graphene and Boron Nitride Nanosheets. Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30, 1910826.
Xi Shen, Jang-Kyo Kim. 3D graphene and boron nitride structures for nanocomposites with tailored thermal conductivities: recent advances and perspectives. Functional Composites and Structures, 2020, 2, 022001.
Xi Shen, Jang-Kyo Kim. Building 3D Architecture in 2D Thin Film for Effective EMI Shielding. Matter 2019, 1, 796-798.
Xi Shen, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, Xu Liu, Yan-Bing He, Qingbin Zheng, Quan-Hong Yang, Feiyu Kang and Jang-Kyo Kim. A Three-Dimensional Multilayer Graphene Web for Polymer Nanocomposites with Exceptional Transport Properties and Fracture Resistance. Materials Horizons, 2018, 5, 275-284.
Xi Shen, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, Xu Liu, Yan-Bing He and Jang-Kyo Kim. Multilayer Graphene Enables Higher Efficiency in Improving Thermal Conductivities of Graphene/Epoxy Composites, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 3585-3593.
Xi Shen, Xiuyi Lin, Nariman Yousefi, Jingjing Jia, Jang-Kyo Kim. Wrinkling in graphene sheets and graphene oxide papers, Carbon, 2014, 66, 84-92.