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Representative Publications
“Introduction to Wave Scattering, Localization, and Mesoscopic Phenomena” 2nd Edition, Ping Sheng (Springer, Heidelberger, 2006) 340 pages. Generalized causality constraint based on duality symmetry reveals untapped potential of sound absorption , S. C. Qu, M. Yang, S. B. Huang, S. H. Liu, E. Q. Dong, H. Y. Li, Ping Sheng, I. D. Abrahams, N. X. Fang, Nat. Commun . 16 , 10749 (2025).Zero-Frequency Bandgap Metamaterials: The Mosaic Design Strategy , N. Gao, V. Romero-García, J.-P. Groby and Ping Sheng , Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025 , e08243 (2025).Acoustic Metamaterials: Outlook for the Future , Ping Sheng , Chin. Sci. Bulletin 70 , 1699-1701 (2025).Acoustic Metamaterial Absorbers: The Path to Commercialization , M. Yang and Ping Sheng , App. Phys. Lett . 122 , 260504 (2023).Evolution of Channel Flow and Darcy’s Law beyond the Critical Reynolds Number , X. H. Deng and Ping Sheng , Eur. Phys. J. E 46 , 37 (2023).Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Metal–insulator Transition in Disordered Anti-dot graphene , T. Zhang, H. J. Zhang, J. Pan and Ping Sheng, New J. Phys. 24 , 113027 (2022).“Fundamental Constraints on Broadband Passive Acoustic Treatments in Unidimensional Scattering Problems” , Y. Meng, V. Romero-García1, G. Gabard, J.-P. Groby, C. Bricault, S. Goudé and Ping Sheng, Proc. R. Soc. A 478 , 20220287 (2022).“Electric field-induced Giant Columns of Polarized Water Molecules” , C. Dai, M. J. Liao, X. L. Li, S. Y. Chen, P. Gao and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Res. 4 , 033164 (2022).“Inertial-Amplified Mechanical Resonators for the Mitigation of Ultralow-Frequency Vibrations “, Z. Dong and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Appl. 18 , 014027 (2022). “Underwater Metamaterial Absorber with Impedance-matched Composite” , S. C. Qu, N. Gao, A. Tinel, B. Morvan, V. Romero-García, J.-P. Groby and Ping Sheng, Sci. Adv . 8 , eabm4206 (2022).“Microwave and Acoustic Absorption Metamaterials” , S. C. Qu and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Appl. 17, 047001 (2022).“Manipulation of Low-Frequency Sound with a Tunable Active Metamaterial Panel “, N. Gao, Z. Dong , H. Y. Mak and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Appl. 17, 044037 (2022). “Going Beyond the Causal Limit in Acoustic Absorption “, H. Y. Mak, X. N. Zhang, Z. Dong, S. Miura, T. Iwata and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Appl. 16, 044062 (2021). “Conceptual-based Design of an Ultrabroadband Microwave Metamaterial Absorber “, S. C. Qu, Y. X. Hou and Ping Sheng, PNAS 118 (36) e2110490118 (2021). “Quantum Diffusion of Massive Dirac Fermions Induced by Symmetry Breaking “, T. Zhang, C. S. Tian and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. B 104, 075427 (2021). “ A Focus on Interfaces” , Ping Sheng , Engineering 7 , 552 (2021). “Correlation Hard Gap in Antidot Graphene “, J. Pan, S. S. Yeh, H. J. Zhang, David G. Rees, T. Zhang, B. Zhang, J. J. Lin and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. B 103, 235114 (2021). “Correlation in Thermal Fluctuations Induced by Phase-locked Hydrodynamic Modes “, X. H. Deng, X.P. Wang and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. E 103, 053106 (2021). “Acoustic Metamaterials “, J. Li, X.H. Wen and Ping Sheng, J. Appl. Phys. 129, 171103 (2021). “A Focus on Two Electrokinetics Issues “, C. Dai and Ping Sheng, Micromachines 11, 1028 (2020). “Peierls-type Metal-insulator Transition in Carbon Nanostructures “, B. Zhang, T. Zhang, J. Pan, T. P. Chow, A. M. Aboalsaud, Z. P. Lai and Ping Sheng, Carbon 172, 106-111 (2020). “Minimizing Indoor Sound Energy with Tunable Metamaterial Surfaces “, S.C. Qu and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. Appl. 14, 034060 (2020). “Decomposing Thermal Fluctuations with Hydrodynamic Modes” , X. H. Deng, X. Y. Wei, X. P. Wang and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. E 101, 063104 (2020). “Non-Stokes Drag Coefficient in Single-particle Electrophoresis: New Insights on a Classical Problem “, M. J. Liao, M. T. Wei, S. X. Xu, H. D. Ou-Yang and Ping Sheng, Chin. Phys. B , 28(8), 084701 (2019). “Giant Enhancement of Superconductivity in Arrays of Ultrathin Gallium and Zinc Sub-nanowires Embedded in Zeolite “, B. Zhang, J. Lyu, A. Rajan, X. Li, X. Zhang, T. Zhang, Z.Dong, J. Pan, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, R. Lortz, Z. Lai and Ping Sheng, Materials Today Physics , 6, 38-44 (2018). “An Integration Strategy for Acoustic Metamaterials to Achieve Absorption by Design “, M. Yang and Ping Sheng, Appl. Sci ., 8, 1247 (2018). “A Critical Path Approach for Elucidating the Temperature Dependence of Granular Hopping Conduction “, T. C. Wu, J. J. Lin and Ping Sheng, Front. Phys. , 13(5), 137205 (2018). “Shaping Reverberating Sound Fields with an Actively Tunable Metasurface” ,G. C. Ma, X. Y. Fan, Ping Sheng and M. Fink, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , doi: 10.1073/pnas.180117515. “Towards Anti-casual Green’s Function for Three-dimensional Sub-diffraction Focusing” , G. C. Ma, X. Y. Fan, F. Y. Ma, J. de Rosny, Ping Sheng and M. Fink, Nature Physics : doi: 10.1038/s41567-018-0082-3. “High-flux Water Desalination with Interfacial Salt Sieving Effect in Nanoporous Carbon Composite Membranes “, W. Chen, S. Y. Chen T. F. Liang, Q. Zhang, Z. L. Fan, H. Yin, K. W. Huang, X. X. Zhang, Z. P. Lai and Ping Sheng, Nature Nanotechnology : doi: 10.1038/s41565-018-0067-5. “Perspective: Acoustic Metamaterials in Transition” , Y. Wu, M. Yang and Ping Sheng, J. Appl. Phys . 123, 090901 (2018). “Berry Curvature and Nonlocal Transport Characteristics of Antidot Graphene “, J. Pan, T. Zhang, H.J. Zhang, B. Zhang, Z. Dong and Ping Sheng, Phys. Rev. X 7, 031043 (2017). “Sound Absorption Structures: From Porous Media to Acoustic Metamaterials “, M. Yang and Ping Sheng, Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 47, 83-114 (2017). “Optimal Sound-absorbing Structures “, M. Yang, S. Y. Chen, C. X. Fu and Ping Sheng, Mater. Horiz , 4, 673-680 (2017). “Observation of High Tc One Dimensional Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Carbon Nanotube Arrays “, B. Zhang, Y. Liu, Q. H. Chen, Z. P. Lai and Ping Sheng, AIP Advances 7, 025305 (2017). “The Poisson Boltzman Equation and the Charge Separation Phenomenon at the Silica-water Interface: A Holistic Approach “, M. J. Liao, L. Wan, S. X. Xu, C. Lu, and Ping Sheng, Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications 1 , 217-249 (2016). “Acoustic Metamaterials: From Local Resonances to Broad Horizons Science Advances 2: doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501595 (2016). “Theoretical Study of Superconductivity in 4-Angstrom Carbon Nanotube Arrays “Determining Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions from Equilibrium Fluctuations Phys. Rev. E 92, 043007 (2015). “Acoustic Metasurface with Hybrid Resonances Nature Materials 13, 873-878 (2014). “Self-Consistent Approach to Global Charge Neutrality in Electrokinetics : A Surface Potential Trap Model Phys. Rev. X 4, 011042 (2014). “Superconducting versus Semiconducting Electronic Ground State in Chirality-specific Double-wall Carbon Nanotubes New Jounral of Physics 15, 083021 (2013). “Acoustic Metamaterials “Coupled Membranes with Doubly Negative Mass Density and Bulk Modulus Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 134310 (2013). “Large-scale Mesoscopic Transport in Nanostructured Graphene Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 066805 (2013). “Dimensional Crossover Transition in a System of Weakly Coupled Superconducting Nanowires New Journal of Physics 14, 103018 (2012). “Superconductivity in Bundles of Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Scientific Reports 2, 625 (2012). “Dark acoustic metamaterials as super absorbers for low-frequency sound Nat. Commun . 3, 756 (2012). “Electrorheological Fluids: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Microfluidics Applications Rev. Fluid Mech 44, 143-174 (2012). “Superconductivity in 4-Angstrom Carbon Nanotube Arrays–A Short Review Nanoscale 4, 21-41 (2012). “Crossover from Peierls distortion to one-dimensional superconductivity in arrays of (5,0) carbon nanotubes Phys. Rev. B 84, 245449 (2011). “Hybrid Elastic Solids Nature Materials 10, 620-624 (2011). “Graphene Magnetoresistance Device in van der Pauw Geometry Nano Lett. 11, (7), 2973-2977 (2011). “Maximum efficiency of the electro-osmotic pump Phys. Rev. E 83, 066303 (2011). “Observation of the Meissner state in superconducting arrays of 4-Angstrom carbon nanotubes Phys. Rev. B 83, 184512 (2011). “1D goes 2D: A Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in superconducting arrays of 4-Angstrom carbon nanotubes Phys. Status Solidi B 247, Nos. 11-12, 2968-2973 (2010). “Giant Electrorheological Effect: A Microscopic Mechanism Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 046001 (2010). “Superconducting Resistive Transition in Coupled Arrays of 4-Angstrom Carbon Nanotubes Phys. Rev. B 81, 174530 (2010). “Nanoscale Interfacial Phenomena in Complex Fluids Solid State Communications 150, 967-1039 (2010). “Transformation Optics and Metamaterials Nature Materials 9, 387-396 (2010). “Superconducting Characteristics of 4-Angstrom Carbon Nanotube-zeolite Composite Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 7299-7303 (2009). “Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterial with Negative Dynamic Mass Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 204301 (2008). “Electrorheological Fluid Dynamics Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194503 (2008). “Three-dimensional Metallic Fractals and Their Photonic Crystal Characteristics Phys. Rev. B 77, 125113 (2008). “Electrorheological Fluids: Structures and Mechanisms Soft Matter 4, 200-210 (2008). “Waves on the Horizon Science 313, 1399-1400 (2006). “A Variational Approach to Moving Contact Line Hydrodynamics Journal of Fluid Mechanics 564, 333-360 (2006). “Hybrid Approach to High-Frequency Microfluidic Mixing Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 044501-044504 (2006). “Effective Mass Density of Fluid-Solid Composites Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024301-024304 (2006). “Power-Law Slip Profile of the Moving Contact Line in Two-Phase Immiscible Flows Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 , 094501-094504 (2004). “Focusing of Sound in a 3D Phononic Crystal Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 024301-024304 (2004). “Dielectric Electrorheological Fluids: Theory and Experiment Adv. Phys. 52, 343-383 (2003). “Liquid Crystal Orientation Transition on Microtextured Substrates Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 215501-215504 (2003). “Molecular Scale Contact Line Hydrodynamics of Immiscible Flows Phys. Rev. E 68, 016306 (2003). “The Giant Electrorheological Effect in Suspensions of Nanoparticles Nature Materials 2, 727-730 (2003). “Subwavelength Photonic Band Gaps from Planar Fractals Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 223901-223904 (2002). “Ultrasound Tunneling through 3D Phononic Crystals Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 104301-104304 (2002). “Superconductivity in 4-Angstrom Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Science 292, 2462-2465 (2001). “Locally Resonant Sonic Materials Science 289, 1734-1736 (2000). “Field Induced Structural Transition in Mesocrystallites Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4248-4251 (1999). “New Electrorheological Fluid: Theory and Experiment Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2987 (1997). “Group Velocity in Strongly Scattering Media Science 271, 634 (1996). “Frequency Dependent Electrorheological Properties: Origin and Bounds Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2499 (1996). “Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition: An Extended Mean Field Theory Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1271 (1993). “Heat Conductivity of Amorphous Solids: Simulation Results on Model Structures Science 253, 539 (1991). “Theory of Acoustic Excitations in Colloidal Suspensions Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1240 (1991). “Effective-Medium Theory of Sedimentary Rocks Phys. Rev. B 41, 4507 (1990). “Minimum Wave Localization Length in a One-Dimensional Random Medium Phys. 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Total number of publications: 490
Total citations (as of July 2026): 44,719
h index: 94
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