Xiao Cheng Zeng is a scientist in physical chemistry and materials science.

He then pursued postgraduate study in US via CUSPEA program (created by Nobel Laureate in Physics Professor Tsung-Dao Lee), and received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Ohio State University in 1989.

As a computational physical chemist, Zeng has made original contributions to thermodynamics and phase transition of nanoconfined water/ice, and water/surface interaction and wetting; original contributions to gold-cluster science & nanocatalysis; atmospheric reactions; and computational design of low-dimensional materials.

[2] And it was confirmed by two experiments: one by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2009[3] and another by the Peking University in 2020.

(PNAS), 73 in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 30 in Angewandte Chemie/Advanced Materials, 9 in Phys.