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Dr Shen Chong

Dr Shen Chong

Associate Investigator

Towards Low Energy Tech - Hardware for Future Computing

Phone:
+64 4 463 0072

Address:
Robinson Research Institute
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 33436
Lower Hutt 5046

Biography

Dr Shen Chong is a Senior Scientist at Robinson Research Institute (VUW) based at Callaghan Innovation, Lower Hutt. He received his PhD in Materials Chemistry from The University of Auckland in 2002 and was awarded a FRST postdoctoral fellowship in the same year.

He spent two years (2007-2009) at the Institute of Material Science, University of Tsukuba, supported by a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship nominated by MoRST.

Research interests

Shen’s main interests are in the study of superconductivity, magnetism, topological phenomena, and surface science.

He is currently working on newly discovered superconductors, which include the iron-pnictides and chalcogenides, Cu-doped bismuth selenide topological-insulator, and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). He has also spent more than a decade developing new organic-inorganic metal oxide layered hybrids together with Professor Jeff Tallon.

He is currently co-managing the MacDiarmid Institute funded high magnetic field magnetic property measurement system (MPMS) and physical property measurement system (PPMS), specialises in magneto-transport, AC-magnetisation, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric power, and heat capacity measurements on the PPMS.

The sheer knowledge and experience Jeff (Tallon) brings to my work is invaluable.

Dr Shen Chong
Dr Shen Chong

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Annual Report

Funding successes - Annual Report 2021

May 9, 2022

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2021. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

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Annual Report

The Warm Up: Probing the Fundamentals of Room Temperature Superconductivity

March 30, 2021

It’s arguably the ‘holy grail’ of solid-state physics - superconductors that operate at or near room temperature.

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Annual Report

Funding successes - Annual Report 2019

May 26, 2020

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2019. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

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News Article

MacDiarmid Institute-led research recieves $4.1 million funding

November 5, 2019

MacDiarmid Institute-led advanced materials and nanotechnology research received $4.1 million funding through the 2019 Marsden Fund.

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Annual Report

Science of Surfaces bootcamp - Annual Report 2018

April 8, 2019

This year 30 MacDiarmid Institute students - chemists and physicists - met up in Wanaka to discuss the science of...

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Interface Magazine

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