个人简历

2007年至2012年于上海交通大学获得学士、硕士和博士学位。2012年至2015年在美国加州理工学院从事博士后研究。2015年至2018年在美国光合成联合研究中心（加州理工分部）任研究科学家。2018年11月加入苏州大学功能纳米与软物质研究院，被聘为教授、博士生导师

研究领域

主要从事理论化学与能源催化交叉领域的理论研究，即开发理论模拟计算方法并将其应用于能源相关的重要电化学反应其中包括反应机理研究、材料性质预测和先进功能材料的设计。例如，应用第一性原理显式溶剂模拟，研究固液界面结构和化学反应；应用统计热力学方法计算电化学反应的自由能位垒；利用多尺度模拟方法，对一系列重要的电化学反应机理进行了研究，其中包括二氧化碳电还原、氧气电还原和氢气电还原等。

近期论文

Cheng T; Fortunelli A; Goddard WA*;Reaction Intermediates During Operando Electrocatalysis Identified from Full Solvent Quantum Mechanics Molecular Dynamics, PNAS. 2019, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1821709116
Cheng T; Jaramillo-Botero A; An Q; Ilyin DV; Naserifar S; Goddard WA*; “First Principles Based Multiscale Atomistic Methods for Input into First Principles Non-equilibrium Transport Across Interfaces”, PNAS, 2018, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1800035115
Cheng T; Wang L; Boris MV; Goddard WA*;“Explanation of Dramatic pH-Dependence of Hydrogen Binding on Noble Metal Electrode: Greatly Weakened Water Adsorption at High pH.”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 7787-7790.
Cheng T; Xiao H; Goddard WA*; “Nature of the Active Sites for CO Reduction on Copper Nanoparticles; Suggestions for Optimizing Performance”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11642-11645.
Cheng T; Xiao H; Goddard WA*; “Full Atomistic Reaction Mechanism with Kinetics for CO Reduction on Cu (100) from ab initio Molecular Dynamics Free-energy Calculations at 298 K.” PNAS, 2017, 114, 1795-1800.
Cheng T; Xiao H; Goddard WA*; “Reaction Mechanisms for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO and Formate on the Cu(100) Surface at 298 K from Quantum Mechanics Free Energy Calculations with Explicit Water” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 13802-13805.
Cheng T; Goddard WA*; Goddard WA*; Jaramillo-Botero A*; Sun H*; “Adaptive Accelerated ReaxFF Reactive Dynamics with Validation from Simulating Hydrogen Combustion”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 9434-9442.
Sun K#; Cheng T#; Wu LN; Hu YF; Zhou JG; Maclennan A; Jiang ZH; Gao YZ; Goddard WA*; Wang ZJ*; “Ultrahigh Mass Activity for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Enabled by Gold-iron Core-shell Nanoparticles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 15608–15611. (#equal contribution)
Lum YW#; Cheng T#; Goddard WA*; Ager JW*; “Electrochemical CO Reduction Builds Solvent Water into Oxygenate Products”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 9337-9340. (#equal contribution)
Li MF; Zhao ZP; Cheng T; Fortunelli A; Chen CY; Yu R; Zhang QH; Gu L; Merinov B; Lin ZY; Zhu EB; Yu T; Jia QY; Guo JH; Zhang L; Goddard WA*; Huang Y*; Duan XF*; “Ultrafine Jagged Platinum Nanowires Enable Ultrahigh Mass Activity for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”, Science, 2016, 8, 3317-3320.
Lipke MC; Cheng T; Wu YL; Arslan H; Xiao H; Wasielewski MR; Goddard WA; Stoddart JF*; “Size-Matched Radical Multivalency”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 3986-3998.
Cheng CY; Cheng T; Xiao H; Krzyaniak MD; Wang YP; McGonigal PR; Frasconi M; Barnes JC; Fahrenbach AC; Wasielewski MR; Goddard WA; Stoddart JF*; “Influence of Constitution and Charge on Radical Pairing Interactions in Trisradical Tricationic Complexes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 8288-8300.