Qi-Huo Wei

Qi-Huo Wei is currently a professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and was a faculty member at the Liquid Crystal Institute and Department of Physics in Kent State University in US for 14 years. He was a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt research fellow and the CAREER award of National Science Foundation. Prof. Wei has a broad research interest, covering soft matter physics, active matter, nano-optics, sensors and biomimetics, and has made original contributions in single file diffusion, nanoparticle plasmonic coupling, Brownian motion of low symmetry particles, command of living matter, and photoalignment. He proposed the concept of plasmonic metamasks and invented a photopatterning technique allowing for photopatterning arbitrary designer molecular orientations with ultra-high resolution in single exposure. This technique can find applications in making preprogrammable active matter, liquid crystal elastomers and flat optical elements.