Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng*. “Characterizing the Bifurcating Configuration of Hydrogen Bonds at Water-Gold Interface” Under revision.
Aref Vandadi†, Lei Zhao† and Jiangtao Cheng*. “Resistant Energy Analysis of Self-Pulling Process during Dropwise Condensation on Superhydrophobic Surfaces” Nanoscale Advances (2019). (Co-first-author)
Lei Zhao, and Jiangtao Cheng*. “Mechanism and Universal Scaling Law of the Contact Line Friction for the Cassie-state Droplets on Nanostructured Ultrahydrophobic Surfaces.” Nanoscale 10, no. 14 (2018): 6426-6436.
Lei Zhao and Jiangtao Cheng*. “Analyzing the Molecular Kinetics of Water Spreading on Hydrophobic Surfaces via Molecular Dynamics Simulation.” Scientific Reports 7, no. 1 (2017): 10880.
Lei Zhao†, Jian Li†, Francine Battaglia*, and Zhen He*. “Computational investigation of the flow field contribution to improve electricity generation in granular activated carbon-assisted microbial fuel cells.” Journal of Power Sources 333 (2016): 83-87.
Lei Zhao†, Jian Li†, Francine Battaglia*, and Zhen He*. “Investigation of multiphysics in tubular microbial fuel cells by coupled computational fluid dynamics with multi-order Butler–Volmer reactions.” Chemical Engineering Journal 296 (2016): 377-385.
Robert Picardi, Lei Zhao, and Francine Battaglia. "On the Ideal Grid Resolution for Two-Dimensional Eulerian Modeling of Gas–Liquid Flows." Journal of Fluids Engineering 138, no. 11 (2016): 114503.