Hong Tang

Hong Tang

  • Department of Physics

    Research Assistant Professor in Physics

Research Interests

​I am currently working in the field of computational material science. I am particularly interested in 2 dimensional materials, such as graphene and transition metal chalcogenides, etc. We try to develop new efficient computational methods to better describe the band structures and band gaps for those low dimensional materials. We also develop efficient and more accurate methods to calculate the van der Waals interactions in those 2D materials. Moreover, we use many-body perturbation theory, such as GW and Bethe-Salpeter equation, to check our methods, and also use those methods to study optical properties of many technologically important 2D materials and systems.​

Selected Publications

1.  Bimal Neupane, Hong Tang, Niraj K. Nepal, Santosh Adhikari and Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Opening band gaps of low-dimensional materials at the meta-GGA level of density functional approximations, Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 063803, 2021.

2.  Shah Tanvir ur Rahman Chowdhury, Hong Tang, and John P. Perdew, van der Waals corrected density functionals for cylindrical surfaces: Ammonia and nitrogen dioxide adsorbed on a single-walled carbon nanotube, Phys. Rev. B 103, 195410 (2021).

3.   Santosh Adhikari, Niraj K. Nepal, Hong Tang, and Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Describing adsorption of benzene, thiophene, and xenon on coinage metals by using the Zaremba–Kohn theory-based model, J. Chem. Phys. 154, 124705 (2021).

4.  Aaron D. Kaplan, Biswajit Santra, Puskar Bhattarai, Kamal Wagle, Shah Tanvir ur Rahman Chowdhury, Pradeep Bhetwal, Mel Levy, Jie Yu, Hong Tang and John P. Perdew,  Simple hydrogenic estimates for the exchange and correlation energies of atoms and atomic ions,  J. Chem. Phys. 153, 074114 (2020).

5.  Hong Tang, Shah Tanvir ur Rahman Chowdhury, Jianmin Tao, and John P. Perdew, Density functionals combined with van der Waals corrections for graphene adsorbed on layered materials, Physical Review B 101, 195426 (2020).
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6.  Hong Tang, Jianmin Tao , Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and John P. Perdew, A van der Waals Correction to the Physisorption of Graphene on Metal Surfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123(22) 13748-13757.