Hong Liang is a Chinese-American surface and interface scientist whose research focuses on structure and properties of nanoparticles and their tribological applications.
[2] Liang's research focuses on materials science, tribology, and nanotechnology, converging in the field of nanotribology, which studies friction, wear, lubrication, and interfaces.
[10] She studied materials science as a graduate student at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where she earned a master's degree in 1987 and completed her Ph.D. in 1992, with Traugott Fischer as her doctoral advisor.
In 2004, she moved to her present position at Texas A&M University,[2] where she was Charles H. Barclay Jr. 45 Faculty Fellow and was named the Oscar S. Wyatt Jr.
Her edited volumes include Mechanical Tribology: Materials, Characterization, and Applications (with George E. Totten, Marcel Dekker, 2004).