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Rui ZHANG
張銳

PhD in Physics
The City University of New York, 2013

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics

(852) 2358 5734
ruizhang@ust.hk
Room 4460
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ORCID

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Research Interest

Soft condensed matter physics
Complex fluids
Liquid crystals (LCs)
Microfluidics and nanofluidics
Computational fluid dynamics

Publications

All Years 62 2024 8 2023 4 2022 11 2021 10 2020 3 2019 5 2018 21

2024 8

Chiral active particles are sensitive reporters to environmental geometry

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), February 2024, article number 1406
Chan, Chung Wing; Wu, Daihui; Qiao, Kaiyao; Fong, Kin Long; Yang, Zhi Yu; Han, Yilong; Zhang, Rui
Article

Elasticity-controlled jamming criticality in soft composite solids

Nature communications, v. 15, (1), December 2024, article number 1691
Zhao, Yiqiu; Hu, Haitao; Huang, Yulu; Liu, Hanqing; Yan, Caishan; Zhang, Rui; Wang, Yifan; Xu, Qin
Article

Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), January 2024
Zhang, Qing; Wang, Weiqiang; Zhou, Shuang; Zhang, Rui; Bischofberger, Irmgard
Article

Interplay of chemotactic force, Peclet number, and dimensionality dictates the dynamics of auto-chemotactic chiral active droplets

Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 161, (1), July 2024, article number 014904, p. 1-13
Chan, Chung Wing; Yang, Zheng; Gan, Zecheng; Zhang, Rui
Article

Machine eye for defects: Machine learning-based solution to identify and characterize topological defects in textured images of nematic materials

Physical Review Research, v. 6, (1), March 2024, article number 013259
Ren, Haijie; Wang, Weiqiang; Tang, Wentao; Zhang, Rui
Article

Moiré effect enables versatile design of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), February 2024, article number 1655
Wang, Xinyu; Jiang, Jinghua; Chen, Juan; Asilehan, Zhawure; Tang, Wentao; Peng, Chenhui; Zhang, Rui
Article

Symmetry Breaking of Self-Propelled Topological Defects in Thin-Film Active Chiral Nematics

Physical Review Letters, v. 132, (3), January 2024, article number 038301
Wang, Weiqiang; Ren, Haijie; Zhang, Rui
Article

Topology-driven collective dynamics of nematic colloidal entanglement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 121, (37), September 2024, article number e2402395121
Jiang, Jinghua; Akomolafe, Oluwafemi Isaac; Wang, Xinyu; Asilehan, Zhawure; Tang, Wentao; Zhang, Jing; Chen, Zijun; Wang, Ruijie; Ranabhat, Kamal; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui
Article

2023 4

Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids

Nature Physics, v. 19, (1), January 2023, p. 46-51
Xu, Haoran; Huang, Yulu; Zhang, Rui; Wu, Yilin
Article

Collective transport and reconfigurable assembly of nematic colloids by light-driven cooperative molecular reorientations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 120, (16), April 2023, article number e2221718120
Jiang, Jinghua; Wang, Xinyu; Akomolafe, Oluwafemi Isaac; Tang, Wentao; Asilehan, Zhawure; Ranabhat, Kamal; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui
Article

Control of liquid crystals combining surface acoustic waves, nematic flows, and microfluidic confinement

Soft Matter, v. 20, (2), December 2023, p. 397-406
Vasquez-Montoya, Gustavo A.; Emeršič, Tadej; Atzin, Noe; Tavera-Vázquez, Antonio; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Guzman, Orlando; Snezhko, Alexey; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Dendritic Patterns from Shear-Enhanced Anisotropy in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Science Advances, v. 9, (2), January 2023, article number eabq6820
Zhang, Qing; Zhou, Shuang; Zhang, Rui; Bischofberger, Irmgard
Article

2022 11

Active transformations of topological structures in light-driven nematic disclination networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 119, (23), May 2022, article number e2122226119
Jiang, Jinghua; Ranabhat, Kamal; Wang, Xinyu; Rich, Hailey; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui
Article

Capillary Flow Characterizations of Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

Langmuir, v. 38, (7), 8 February 2022, p. 2192-2204
Esmaeili, Mohsen; George, Kyle; Rezvan, Gelareh; Taheri-Qazvini, Nader; Zhang, Rui; Sadati, Monirosadat
Article

Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics

Soft Matter, v. 18, (28), June 2022, p. 5271-5281
Kumar, Nitin; Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven; De Pablo, Juan J.; Gardel, Margaret L.
Article

Director Distortion and Phase Modulation in Deformable Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystal Spheroids

Langmuir, v. 38, (49), December 2022, p. 15272-15281
Norouzi, Sepideh; Zhang, Rui; Munguia-Fernández, Juan G.; De Pablo, Luis; Zhou, Ye; Taheri-Qazvini, Nader; Shapiro, Harrison; Morin, Samuel; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Sadati, Monirosadat; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Electro-Optic Response of Bipolar Nematic Liquid Crystal Confined in Oblate Spheroid

Frontiers in Soft Matter, v. 2, December 2022, article number 1022077
Yang, Chenjing; Chen, Ran; Feng, Leyun; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Dong
Article

Local high-density distributions of phospholipids induced by the nucleation and growth of smectic liquid crystals at the interface

Chinese Chemical Letters, v. 33, (8), August 2022, p. 3973-3976
Yang, Chenjing; Chen, LI; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Dong; Arriaga, Laura R.; Weitz, David A.
Article

Logic Operations with Active Topological Defects

Science Advances, v. 8, (8), February 2022, article number eabg9060
Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; de Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Mechanochromic Responses of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets with Nanoscale Periodic Helical Structures Showing Reversible and Tunable Structural Color

ACS Applied Polymer Materials, v. 4, (1), January 2022, p. 463-468
Yang, Chenjing; Wu, Baieng; Ruan, Jian; Zhao, Peng; Shan, Jianzhen; Zhang, Rui; Yoon, Dong Ki; Chen, Dong; Liu, Kai
Article

Structures, Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Topological Defects in Gay-Berne Nematic Liquid Crystals

Soft Matter, v. 19, (3), 30 November 2022, p. 483-496
Huang, Yulu; Wang, Weiqiang; Whitmer, Jonathan K.; Zhang, Rui
Article

The fate of liquid crystal topological defects on chemically patterned surfaces during phase transitions

Soft Matter, v. 18, (32), August 2022, p. 5939-5948
Pawale, Tejal; Yi, Shengzhu; Wang, Xiaowei; Zhang, Rui; Li, Xiao
Article

Topological defect-mediated morphodynamics of active–active interfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 119, (50), December 2022, article number e2122494119
Zhang, De-Qing; Chen, Peng-Cheng; Li, Zhong-Yi; Zhang, Rui; Li, Bo
Article

2021 10

Active motion of multiphase oil droplets: emergent dynamics of squirmers with evolving internal structure

Soft Matter, v. 17, (10), March 2021, p. 2985-2993
Wang, Xin; Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; De pablo, Juan J.; Abbott, Nicholas L.
Article

Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals

Nature Reviews Materials, v. 6, (5), May 2021, p. 437-453
Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; de Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Defect Spirograph: Dynamical Behavior of Defects in Spatially Patterned Active Nematics

Physical Review Letters, v. 126, (22), June 2021, article number 227801
Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Atzin, Noe; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Interplay of Active Stress and Driven Flow in Self-Assembled, Tumbling Active Nematics

Crystals, v. 11, (9), September 2021, article number 1071
Wang, Weiqiang; Zhang, Rui
Article

Machine learning active-nematic hydrodynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 118, (10), March 2021, article number e2016708118
Colen, Jonathan; Han, Ming; Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven A.; Lemma, Linnea M.; Morgan, Link; Ruijgrok, V, Paul; Adkins, Raymond; Bryant, Zev; Dogic, Zvonimir; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.; Vitelli, Vincenzo
Article

Single-Shot Quantitative Polarization Imaging of Complex Birefringent Structure Dynamics

ACS Photonics, v. 8, (12), December 2021, p. 3440-3447
Ge, Baoliang; Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Rui; Lin, Jing-Tang; Tseng, Po-Hang; Chang, Che-Wei; Dong, Chen-Yuan; Zhou, Renjie; Yaqoob, Zahid; Bischofberger, Irmgard; So, Peter T. C.
Article

Spatiotemporal control of liquid crystal structure and dynamics through activity patterning

Nature Materials, v. 20, (6), June 2021, p. 875-882
Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven A.; Ruijgrok, Paul V.; Kumar, Nitin; Mozaffari, Ali; Zemsky, Sasha; Dinner, Aaron R.; Vitelli, Vincenzo; Bryant, Zev; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Structures and topological defects in pressure-driven lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 118, (35), August 2021, article number e2108361118
Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Rui; Ge, Baoliang; Yaqoob, Zahid; So, Peter T. C.; Bischofberger, Irmgard
Article

Transformation between elastic dipoles, quadrupoles, octupoles, and hexadecapoles driven by surfactant self-assembly in nematic emulsion

Science Advances, v. 7, (25), June 2021, article number eabg0377
Senyuk, Bohdan; Mozaffari, Ali; Crust, Kevin; Zhang, Rui; de Pablo, Juan J.; Smalyukh, Ivan I.
Article

Unified description of compressive modulus revealing multiscale mechanics of living cells

Physical Review Research, v. 3, (4), December 2021, article number 043166
Guan, Dongshi; Shen, Yuesheng; Zhang, Rui; Huang, Pingbo; Lai, Pik-Yin; Tong, Penger
Article

2020 3

Direct Observation of Liquid Crystal Droplet Configurational Transitions using Optical Tweezers

Langmuir, v. 36, (25), June 2020, p. 7074-7082
Shechter, Jake; Atzin, Noe; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Strain, Benjamin; Oster, Linda M.; De Pablo, Juan J.; Ross, Jennifer L.
Article

Prolate and Oblate Chiral Liquid Crystal Spheroids

Science Advances, v. 6, (28), July 2020, article number eaba6728
Sadati, Monirosadat; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Zhou, Ye; Qazvini, Nader Taheri; Kurtenbach, Khia; Li, Xiao; Bukusoglu, Emre; Zhang, Rui; Abbott, Nicholas L.; Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan Pablo; de Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Structured silicon for revealing transient and integrated signal transductions in microbial systems

Science Advances, v. 6, (7), February 2020, article number eaay2760
Gao, Xiang; Jiang, Yuanwen; Lin, Yiliang; Kim, Kyoung-Ho; Fang, Yin; Yi, Jaeseok; Meng, Lingyuan; Lee, Hoo-Cheol; Lu, Zhiyue; Leddy, Owen; Zhang, Rui; Tu, Qing; Feng, Wei; Nair, Vishnu; Griffin, Philip J.; Shi, Fengyuan; Shekhawat, Gajendra S.; Dinner, Aron R.; Park, Hong-Gyu; Tian, Bozhi
Article

2019 5

Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations

Nature Communications, v. 10, (1), December 2019, article number 1000
Zhou, Ye; Senyuk, Bohdan; Zhang, Rui; Smalyukh, Ivan I.; De pablo, Juan J.
Article

Emergence of Radial Tree of Bend Stripes in Active Nematics

Physical Review X, v. 9, (3), July 2019, article number 031014
Sokolov, Andrey; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Snezhko, Alexey
Article

Extreme risk induced by communities in interdependent networks

Communications Physics, v. 2, (1), 17 June 2019, article number 45
Sun, Jiachen; Zhang, Rui; Li, Feng; Monterola, Christopher; Ma, Xiao; Rozenblat, Céline; Stanley, H. Eugene; Podobnik, Boris; Hu, Yanqing
Article

Publisher Correction: Extreme risk induced by communities in interdependent networks

Communications Physics, v. 2, (1), 1 December 2019, article number 59
Sun, Jiachen; Zhang, Rui; Li, Feng; Monterola, Christopher; Ma, Xiao; Rozenblat, Céline; Stanley, H. Eugene; Podobnik, Boris; Hu, Yanqing
Article

Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids

Science Advances, v. 5, (2), February 2019, article number eaav4283
Emeršič, Tadej; Zhang, Rui; Kos, Žiga; Čopar, Simon; Osterman, Natan; De Pablo, Juan J.; Tkalec, Uros
Article

2018 2

Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 115, (2), January 2018, p. E124-E133
Zhang, Rui; Kumar, Nitin; Ross, Jennifer L.; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals

Science Advances, v. 4, (10), October 2018, article number eaat7779
Kumar, Nitin; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Gardel, Margaret L.
Article

2017 7

Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v. 29, (1), January 2017, article number 014005
Peng, Chenhui; Turiv, Taras; Zhang, Rui; Guo, Yubing; Shiyanovskii, Sergij V.; Wei, Qi-Huo; De Pablo, Juan; Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
Article

Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals

Nature Communications, v. 8, June 2017, article number 15854
Martínez-González, Jose A.; Li, Xiao; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 114, (38), September 2017, p. 10011-10016
Li, Xiao; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo; Zhou, Ye; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Patterned surface anchoring of nematic droplets at miscible liquid-liquid interfaces

Soft Matter, v. 13, (34), September 2017, p. 5714-5723
Wang, Xiaoguang; Zhou, Ye; Kim, Young-Ki; Miller, Daniel S.; Zhang, Rui; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Bukusoglu, Emre; Zhang, Bo; Brown, Thaddeus M.; De Pablo, Jean J.; Abbott, Nicholas L.
Article

Segregation of liquid crystal mixtures in topological defects

Nature Communications, v. 8, April 2017, article number 15064
Rahimi, Mohammad; Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Zhang, Rui; Ramirez-Hernandez, Abelardo; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Jean J.
Article

Spherical nematic shells with a prolate ellipsoidal core

Soft Matter, v. 13, (41), November 2017, p. 7465-7472
Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Melchert, Drew; Guo, Ashley; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Water Flux Induced Reorientation of Liquid Crystals

ACS Central Science, v. 3, (12), December 2017, p. 1345-1349
Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Rahimi, Mohammad; Kurtenbach, Khia; Roux, Benoit; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

2016 6

Controlled deformation of vesicles by flexible structured media

Science Advances, v. 2, (8), August 2016, article number e1600978
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: Morphological states and transitions

Soft Matter, v. 12, (41), September 2016, p. 8595-8605
Li, Xiao; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Liu, Xiaoying; Xie, Helou; Bishop, Camille; Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan P.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Nealey, Paul F.
Article

Dynamic structure of active nematic shells

Nature Communications, v. 7, November 2016, article number 13483
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Rahimi, Mohammad; De Pablo, Jean J.
Article

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of asymmetric flow in nematic liquid crystals with finite anchoring

Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 144, (8), February 2016, article number 084905
Zhang, Rui; Roberts, Tyler; Aranson, Igor S.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Mesoscale structure of chiral nematic shells

Soft Matter, v. 12, (44), September 2016, p. 8983-8989
Zhou, Ye; Guo, Ashley; Zhang, Rui; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Sadati, Monirosadat; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Structural Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets

ACS Nano, v. 10, (7), July 2016, p. 6484-6490
Zhou, Ye; Bukusoglu, E.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; Wang, Xiaoguang; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

2014 3

Multiple hybrid phase transition: Bootstrap percolation on complex networks with communities

EPL (Europhysics Letters), v. 107, (4), August 2014, article number 48001
Wu, Chong; Ji, Shenggong; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Liujun; Chen, Jiawei; Li, Xiaobin; Hu, Yanqing
Article

Multiscale liquid drop impact on wettable and textured surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 26, (8), August 2014, article number 082003
Zhang, Rui; Farokhirad, Samaneh; Lee, Taehun; Koplik, Joel
Article

Velocity slip on curved surfaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 89, (2), February 2014, article number 023005
Chen, Weikang; Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel
Article

2013 2

Nanodrop impact on solid surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 25, (2), February 2013, article number 022003
Koplik, Joel; Zhang, Rui
Article

Percolation of interdependent networks with intersimilarity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 88, (5), November 2013, article number 052805
Hu, Yanqing; Zhou, Dong; Zhang, Rui; Han, Zhangang; Rozenblat, Celine; Havlin, Shlomo
Article

2012 1

Separation of nanoparticles by flow past a patterned substrate

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 85, (2), February 2012, article number 026314
Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel
Article

Article 8

Chiral active particles are sensitive reporters to environmental geometry

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), February 2024, article number 1406
Chan, Chung Wing; Wu, Daihui; Qiao, Kaiyao; Fong, Kin Long; Yang, Zhi Yu; Han, Yilong; Zhang, Rui

Elasticity-controlled jamming criticality in soft composite solids

Nature communications, v. 15, (1), December 2024, article number 1691
Zhao, Yiqiu; Hu, Haitao; Huang, Yulu; Liu, Hanqing; Yan, Caishan; Zhang, Rui; Wang, Yifan; Xu, Qin

Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), January 2024
Zhang, Qing; Wang, Weiqiang; Zhou, Shuang; Zhang, Rui; Bischofberger, Irmgard

Interplay of chemotactic force, Peclet number, and dimensionality dictates the dynamics of auto-chemotactic chiral active droplets

Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 161, (1), July 2024, article number 014904, p. 1-13
Chan, Chung Wing; Yang, Zheng; Gan, Zecheng; Zhang, Rui

Machine eye for defects: Machine learning-based solution to identify and characterize topological defects in textured images of nematic materials

Physical Review Research, v. 6, (1), March 2024, article number 013259
Ren, Haijie; Wang, Weiqiang; Tang, Wentao; Zhang, Rui

Moiré effect enables versatile design of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals

Nature Communications, v. 15, (1), February 2024, article number 1655
Wang, Xinyu; Jiang, Jinghua; Chen, Juan; Asilehan, Zhawure; Tang, Wentao; Peng, Chenhui; Zhang, Rui

Symmetry Breaking of Self-Propelled Topological Defects in Thin-Film Active Chiral Nematics

Physical Review Letters, v. 132, (3), January 2024, article number 038301
Wang, Weiqiang; Ren, Haijie; Zhang, Rui

Topology-driven collective dynamics of nematic colloidal entanglement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 121, (37), September 2024, article number e2402395121
Jiang, Jinghua; Akomolafe, Oluwafemi Isaac; Wang, Xinyu; Asilehan, Zhawure; Tang, Wentao; Zhang, Jing; Chen, Zijun; Wang, Ruijie; Ranabhat, Kamal; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui

Article 4

Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids

Nature Physics, v. 19, (1), January 2023, p. 46-51
Xu, Haoran; Huang, Yulu; Zhang, Rui; Wu, Yilin

Collective transport and reconfigurable assembly of nematic colloids by light-driven cooperative molecular reorientations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 120, (16), April 2023, article number e2221718120
Jiang, Jinghua; Wang, Xinyu; Akomolafe, Oluwafemi Isaac; Tang, Wentao; Asilehan, Zhawure; Ranabhat, Kamal; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui

Control of liquid crystals combining surface acoustic waves, nematic flows, and microfluidic confinement

Soft Matter, v. 20, (2), December 2023, p. 397-406
Vasquez-Montoya, Gustavo A.; Emeršič, Tadej; Atzin, Noe; Tavera-Vázquez, Antonio; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Guzman, Orlando; Snezhko, Alexey; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Dendritic Patterns from Shear-Enhanced Anisotropy in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Science Advances, v. 9, (2), January 2023, article number eabq6820
Zhang, Qing; Zhou, Shuang; Zhang, Rui; Bischofberger, Irmgard

Article 11

Active transformations of topological structures in light-driven nematic disclination networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 119, (23), May 2022, article number e2122226119
Jiang, Jinghua; Ranabhat, Kamal; Wang, Xinyu; Rich, Hailey; Zhang, Rui; Peng, Chenhui

Capillary Flow Characterizations of Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

Langmuir, v. 38, (7), 8 February 2022, p. 2192-2204
Esmaeili, Mohsen; George, Kyle; Rezvan, Gelareh; Taheri-Qazvini, Nader; Zhang, Rui; Sadati, Monirosadat

Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics

Soft Matter, v. 18, (28), June 2022, p. 5271-5281
Kumar, Nitin; Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven; De Pablo, Juan J.; Gardel, Margaret L.

Director Distortion and Phase Modulation in Deformable Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystal Spheroids

Langmuir, v. 38, (49), December 2022, p. 15272-15281
Norouzi, Sepideh; Zhang, Rui; Munguia-Fernández, Juan G.; De Pablo, Luis; Zhou, Ye; Taheri-Qazvini, Nader; Shapiro, Harrison; Morin, Samuel; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Sadati, Monirosadat; De Pablo, Juan J.

Electro-Optic Response of Bipolar Nematic Liquid Crystal Confined in Oblate Spheroid

Frontiers in Soft Matter, v. 2, December 2022, article number 1022077
Yang, Chenjing; Chen, Ran; Feng, Leyun; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Dong

Local high-density distributions of phospholipids induced by the nucleation and growth of smectic liquid crystals at the interface

Chinese Chemical Letters, v. 33, (8), August 2022, p. 3973-3976
Yang, Chenjing; Chen, LI; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Dong; Arriaga, Laura R.; Weitz, David A.

Logic Operations with Active Topological Defects

Science Advances, v. 8, (8), February 2022, article number eabg9060
Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; de Pablo, Juan J.

Mechanochromic Responses of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets with Nanoscale Periodic Helical Structures Showing Reversible and Tunable Structural Color

ACS Applied Polymer Materials, v. 4, (1), January 2022, p. 463-468
Yang, Chenjing; Wu, Baieng; Ruan, Jian; Zhao, Peng; Shan, Jianzhen; Zhang, Rui; Yoon, Dong Ki; Chen, Dong; Liu, Kai

Structures, Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Topological Defects in Gay-Berne Nematic Liquid Crystals

Soft Matter, v. 19, (3), 30 November 2022, p. 483-496
Huang, Yulu; Wang, Weiqiang; Whitmer, Jonathan K.; Zhang, Rui

The fate of liquid crystal topological defects on chemically patterned surfaces during phase transitions

Soft Matter, v. 18, (32), August 2022, p. 5939-5948
Pawale, Tejal; Yi, Shengzhu; Wang, Xiaowei; Zhang, Rui; Li, Xiao

Topological defect-mediated morphodynamics of active–active interfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 119, (50), December 2022, article number e2122494119
Zhang, De-Qing; Chen, Peng-Cheng; Li, Zhong-Yi; Zhang, Rui; Li, Bo

Article 10

Active motion of multiphase oil droplets: emergent dynamics of squirmers with evolving internal structure

Soft Matter, v. 17, (10), March 2021, p. 2985-2993
Wang, Xin; Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; De pablo, Juan J.; Abbott, Nicholas L.

Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals

Nature Reviews Materials, v. 6, (5), May 2021, p. 437-453
Zhang, Rui; Mozaffari, Ali; de Pablo, Juan J.

Defect Spirograph: Dynamical Behavior of Defects in Spatially Patterned Active Nematics

Physical Review Letters, v. 126, (22), June 2021, article number 227801
Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Atzin, Noe; De Pablo, Juan J.

Interplay of Active Stress and Driven Flow in Self-Assembled, Tumbling Active Nematics

Crystals, v. 11, (9), September 2021, article number 1071
Wang, Weiqiang; Zhang, Rui

Machine learning active-nematic hydrodynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 118, (10), March 2021, article number e2016708118
Colen, Jonathan; Han, Ming; Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven A.; Lemma, Linnea M.; Morgan, Link; Ruijgrok, V, Paul; Adkins, Raymond; Bryant, Zev; Dogic, Zvonimir; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.; Vitelli, Vincenzo

Single-Shot Quantitative Polarization Imaging of Complex Birefringent Structure Dynamics

ACS Photonics, v. 8, (12), December 2021, p. 3440-3447
Ge, Baoliang; Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Rui; Lin, Jing-Tang; Tseng, Po-Hang; Chang, Che-Wei; Dong, Chen-Yuan; Zhou, Renjie; Yaqoob, Zahid; Bischofberger, Irmgard; So, Peter T. C.

Spatiotemporal control of liquid crystal structure and dynamics through activity patterning

Nature Materials, v. 20, (6), June 2021, p. 875-882
Zhang, Rui; Redford, Steven A.; Ruijgrok, Paul V.; Kumar, Nitin; Mozaffari, Ali; Zemsky, Sasha; Dinner, Aaron R.; Vitelli, Vincenzo; Bryant, Zev; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Structures and topological defects in pressure-driven lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 118, (35), August 2021, article number e2108361118
Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Rui; Ge, Baoliang; Yaqoob, Zahid; So, Peter T. C.; Bischofberger, Irmgard

Transformation between elastic dipoles, quadrupoles, octupoles, and hexadecapoles driven by surfactant self-assembly in nematic emulsion

Science Advances, v. 7, (25), June 2021, article number eabg0377
Senyuk, Bohdan; Mozaffari, Ali; Crust, Kevin; Zhang, Rui; de Pablo, Juan J.; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

Unified description of compressive modulus revealing multiscale mechanics of living cells

Physical Review Research, v. 3, (4), December 2021, article number 043166
Guan, Dongshi; Shen, Yuesheng; Zhang, Rui; Huang, Pingbo; Lai, Pik-Yin; Tong, Penger

Article 3

Direct Observation of Liquid Crystal Droplet Configurational Transitions using Optical Tweezers

Langmuir, v. 36, (25), June 2020, p. 7074-7082
Shechter, Jake; Atzin, Noe; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Strain, Benjamin; Oster, Linda M.; De Pablo, Juan J.; Ross, Jennifer L.

Prolate and Oblate Chiral Liquid Crystal Spheroids

Science Advances, v. 6, (28), July 2020, article number eaba6728
Sadati, Monirosadat; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Zhou, Ye; Qazvini, Nader Taheri; Kurtenbach, Khia; Li, Xiao; Bukusoglu, Emre; Zhang, Rui; Abbott, Nicholas L.; Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan Pablo; de Pablo, Juan J.

Structured silicon for revealing transient and integrated signal transductions in microbial systems

Science Advances, v. 6, (7), February 2020, article number eaay2760
Gao, Xiang; Jiang, Yuanwen; Lin, Yiliang; Kim, Kyoung-Ho; Fang, Yin; Yi, Jaeseok; Meng, Lingyuan; Lee, Hoo-Cheol; Lu, Zhiyue; Leddy, Owen; Zhang, Rui; Tu, Qing; Feng, Wei; Nair, Vishnu; Griffin, Philip J.; Shi, Fengyuan; Shekhawat, Gajendra S.; Dinner, Aron R.; Park, Hong-Gyu; Tian, Bozhi

Article 5

Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations

Nature Communications, v. 10, (1), December 2019, article number 1000
Zhou, Ye; Senyuk, Bohdan; Zhang, Rui; Smalyukh, Ivan I.; De pablo, Juan J.

Emergence of Radial Tree of Bend Stripes in Active Nematics

Physical Review X, v. 9, (3), July 2019, article number 031014
Sokolov, Andrey; Mozaffari, Ali; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Snezhko, Alexey

Extreme risk induced by communities in interdependent networks

Communications Physics, v. 2, (1), 17 June 2019, article number 45
Sun, Jiachen; Zhang, Rui; Li, Feng; Monterola, Christopher; Ma, Xiao; Rozenblat, Céline; Stanley, H. Eugene; Podobnik, Boris; Hu, Yanqing

Publisher Correction: Extreme risk induced by communities in interdependent networks

Communications Physics, v. 2, (1), 1 December 2019, article number 59
Sun, Jiachen; Zhang, Rui; Li, Feng; Monterola, Christopher; Ma, Xiao; Rozenblat, Céline; Stanley, H. Eugene; Podobnik, Boris; Hu, Yanqing

Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids

Science Advances, v. 5, (2), February 2019, article number eaav4283
Emeršič, Tadej; Zhang, Rui; Kos, Žiga; Čopar, Simon; Osterman, Natan; De Pablo, Juan J.; Tkalec, Uros

Article 2

Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 115, (2), January 2018, p. E124-E133
Zhang, Rui; Kumar, Nitin; Ross, Jennifer L.; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals

Science Advances, v. 4, (10), October 2018, article number eaat7779
Kumar, Nitin; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Gardel, Margaret L.

Article 7

Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v. 29, (1), January 2017, article number 014005
Peng, Chenhui; Turiv, Taras; Zhang, Rui; Guo, Yubing; Shiyanovskii, Sergij V.; Wei, Qi-Huo; De Pablo, Juan; Lavrentovich, Oleg D.

Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals

Nature Communications, v. 8, June 2017, article number 15854
Martínez-González, Jose A.; Li, Xiao; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 114, (38), September 2017, p. 10011-10016
Li, Xiao; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo; Zhou, Ye; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Patterned surface anchoring of nematic droplets at miscible liquid-liquid interfaces

Soft Matter, v. 13, (34), September 2017, p. 5714-5723
Wang, Xiaoguang; Zhou, Ye; Kim, Young-Ki; Miller, Daniel S.; Zhang, Rui; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Bukusoglu, Emre; Zhang, Bo; Brown, Thaddeus M.; De Pablo, Jean J.; Abbott, Nicholas L.

Segregation of liquid crystal mixtures in topological defects

Nature Communications, v. 8, April 2017, article number 15064
Rahimi, Mohammad; Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Zhang, Rui; Ramirez-Hernandez, Abelardo; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Jean J.

Spherical nematic shells with a prolate ellipsoidal core

Soft Matter, v. 13, (41), November 2017, p. 7465-7472
Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Melchert, Drew; Guo, Ashley; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.

Water Flux Induced Reorientation of Liquid Crystals

ACS Central Science, v. 3, (12), December 2017, p. 1345-1349
Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Rahimi, Mohammad; Kurtenbach, Khia; Roux, Benoit; De Pablo, Juan J.

Article 6

Controlled deformation of vesicles by flexible structured media

Science Advances, v. 2, (8), August 2016, article number e1600978
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: Morphological states and transitions

Soft Matter, v. 12, (41), September 2016, p. 8595-8605
Li, Xiao; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Liu, Xiaoying; Xie, Helou; Bishop, Camille; Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan P.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Nealey, Paul F.

Dynamic structure of active nematic shells

Nature Communications, v. 7, November 2016, article number 13483
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Rahimi, Mohammad; De Pablo, Jean J.

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of asymmetric flow in nematic liquid crystals with finite anchoring

Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 144, (8), February 2016, article number 084905
Zhang, Rui; Roberts, Tyler; Aranson, Igor S.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Mesoscale structure of chiral nematic shells

Soft Matter, v. 12, (44), September 2016, p. 8983-8989
Zhou, Ye; Guo, Ashley; Zhang, Rui; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Sadati, Monirosadat; De Pablo, Juan J.

Structural Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets

ACS Nano, v. 10, (7), July 2016, p. 6484-6490
Zhou, Ye; Bukusoglu, E.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; Wang, Xiaoguang; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.

Article 3

Multiple hybrid phase transition: Bootstrap percolation on complex networks with communities

EPL (Europhysics Letters), v. 107, (4), August 2014, article number 48001
Wu, Chong; Ji, Shenggong; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Liujun; Chen, Jiawei; Li, Xiaobin; Hu, Yanqing

Multiscale liquid drop impact on wettable and textured surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 26, (8), August 2014, article number 082003
Zhang, Rui; Farokhirad, Samaneh; Lee, Taehun; Koplik, Joel

Velocity slip on curved surfaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 89, (2), February 2014, article number 023005
Chen, Weikang; Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel

Article 2

Nanodrop impact on solid surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 25, (2), February 2013, article number 022003
Koplik, Joel; Zhang, Rui

Percolation of interdependent networks with intersimilarity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 88, (5), November 2013, article number 052805
Hu, Yanqing; Zhou, Dong; Zhang, Rui; Han, Zhangang; Rozenblat, Celine; Havlin, Shlomo

Article 1

Separation of nanoparticles by flow past a patterned substrate

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 85, (2), February 2012, article number 026314
Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel

2018 2

Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 115, (2), January 2018, p. E124-E133
Zhang, Rui; Kumar, Nitin; Ross, Jennifer L.; Gardel, Margaret L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals

Science Advances, v. 4, (10), October 2018, article number eaat7779
Kumar, Nitin; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Gardel, Margaret L.
Article

2017 7

Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v. 29, (1), January 2017, article number 014005
Peng, Chenhui; Turiv, Taras; Zhang, Rui; Guo, Yubing; Shiyanovskii, Sergij V.; Wei, Qi-Huo; De Pablo, Juan; Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
Article

Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals

Nature Communications, v. 8, June 2017, article number 15854
Martínez-González, Jose A.; Li, Xiao; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 114, (38), September 2017, p. 10011-10016
Li, Xiao; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Ramírez-Hernández, Abelardo; Zhou, Ye; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Nealey, Paul F.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Patterned surface anchoring of nematic droplets at miscible liquid-liquid interfaces

Soft Matter, v. 13, (34), September 2017, p. 5714-5723
Wang, Xiaoguang; Zhou, Ye; Kim, Young-Ki; Miller, Daniel S.; Zhang, Rui; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Bukusoglu, Emre; Zhang, Bo; Brown, Thaddeus M.; De Pablo, Jean J.; Abbott, Nicholas L.
Article

Segregation of liquid crystal mixtures in topological defects

Nature Communications, v. 8, April 2017, article number 15064
Rahimi, Mohammad; Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Zhang, Rui; Ramirez-Hernandez, Abelardo; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Jean J.
Article

Spherical nematic shells with a prolate ellipsoidal core

Soft Matter, v. 13, (41), November 2017, p. 7465-7472
Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhou, Ye; Melchert, Drew; Guo, Ashley; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Water Flux Induced Reorientation of Liquid Crystals

ACS Central Science, v. 3, (12), December 2017, p. 1345-1349
Ramezani-Dakhel, Hadi; Sadati, Monirosadat; Zhang, Rui; Rahimi, Mohammad; Kurtenbach, Khia; Roux, Benoit; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

2016 6

Controlled deformation of vesicles by flexible structured media

Science Advances, v. 2, (8), August 2016, article number e1600978
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Hernández-Ortiz, Juan P.; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: Morphological states and transitions

Soft Matter, v. 12, (41), September 2016, p. 8595-8605
Li, Xiao; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, Jose A.; Liu, Xiaoying; Xie, Helou; Bishop, Camille; Hernandez-Ortiz, Juan P.; Zhang, Rui; De Pablo, Juan J.; Nealey, Paul F.
Article

Dynamic structure of active nematic shells

Nature Communications, v. 7, November 2016, article number 13483
Zhang, Rui; Zhou, Ye; Rahimi, Mohammad; De Pablo, Jean J.
Article

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of asymmetric flow in nematic liquid crystals with finite anchoring

Journal of Chemical Physics, v. 144, (8), February 2016, article number 084905
Zhang, Rui; Roberts, Tyler; Aranson, Igor S.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Mesoscale structure of chiral nematic shells

Soft Matter, v. 12, (44), September 2016, p. 8983-8989
Zhou, Ye; Guo, Ashley; Zhang, Rui; Armas-Perez, Julio C.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Sadati, Monirosadat; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

Structural Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets

ACS Nano, v. 10, (7), July 2016, p. 6484-6490
Zhou, Ye; Bukusoglu, E.; Martínez-González, Jose A.; Rahimi, Mohammad; Roberts, Tyler F.; Zhang, Rui; Wang, Xiaoguang; Abbott, Nicholas L.; De Pablo, Juan J.
Article

2014 3

Multiple hybrid phase transition: Bootstrap percolation on complex networks with communities

EPL (Europhysics Letters), v. 107, (4), August 2014, article number 48001
Wu, Chong; Ji, Shenggong; Zhang, Rui; Chen, Liujun; Chen, Jiawei; Li, Xiaobin; Hu, Yanqing
Article

Multiscale liquid drop impact on wettable and textured surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 26, (8), August 2014, article number 082003
Zhang, Rui; Farokhirad, Samaneh; Lee, Taehun; Koplik, Joel
Article

Velocity slip on curved surfaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 89, (2), February 2014, article number 023005
Chen, Weikang; Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel
Article

2013 2

Nanodrop impact on solid surfaces

Physics of Fluids, v. 25, (2), February 2013, article number 022003
Koplik, Joel; Zhang, Rui
Article

Percolation of interdependent networks with intersimilarity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 88, (5), November 2013, article number 052805
Hu, Yanqing; Zhou, Dong; Zhang, Rui; Han, Zhangang; Rozenblat, Celine; Havlin, Shlomo
Article

2012 1

Separation of nanoparticles by flow past a patterned substrate

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, v. 85, (2), February 2012, article number 026314
Zhang, Rui; Koplik, Joel
Article

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Fall 4 2023-24 Summer 1 2023-24 Spring 5 2023-24 Winter 0 2023-24 Fall 8 2022-23 Summer 2

MSDM5001	Introduction to Computational and Modeling Tools
MSDM6771	Data-Driven Modeling Seminars and Tutorials
PHYS1101	Introductory Physics
UROP1100N	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

UROP1000

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

MSDM6771	Data-Driven Modeling Seminars and Tutorials
MSDM6980	Computational Modeling and Simulation Project
PHYS4291	Capstone Research
PHYS5310	Statistical Mechanics I
SCIE1500	Guided Study on Research I

MSDM5001	Introduction to Computational and Modeling Tools
MSDM6771	Data-Driven Modeling Seminars and Tutorials
PHYS2080	Physics Seminar and Tutorial I
PHYS4050	Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
PHYS4291	Capstone Research
UROP1100K	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1
UROP2100K	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2
UROP3200	Undergraduate Research Opportunities with Mini-conference Experience

UROP1000	Undergraduate Research Opportunities
UROP2100J	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 2

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Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

CHENG, Chun Hei
Physics
MA, Yu
Physics
CHEN, Xiwen
Physics
YU, Keming
Physics
MOU, Zeyang
Physics
REN, Haijie
Physics
TANG, Wentao
Physics
YANG, Zheng (co-supervision)
Individualized Interdisciplinary Program (Advanced Materials)
YI, Shengzhu
Physics

Master of Philosophy

ZHANG, Jiusi
Physics

Graduated RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

HUANG, Yulu
Physics( Completed in 2024 )
WANG, Weiqiang
Physics( Completed in 2024 )

Master of Philosophy

CHAN, Chung Wing
Physics( Completed in 2023 )

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

All Projects 6 Leading Projects 4 Participating Projects 2

Investigation of emergent patterns and elastic waves in active soft solids

活性軟固體的新型斑圖和彈性波的研究 Leading

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC)
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)
2024 -
Living Active Protein Materials for Axon Regeneration

用於軸突再生的活體蛋白材料 Participating

RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
SUN Fei (Lead)

LIU Kai

WU Angela Ruohao

ZHANG Rui
2024 -
Design Paradigm of Multiphase Soft Composite Materials with Emergent Mechanical Properties

設計具有湧現力學特性的多相軟物質復合材料 Participating

RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
XU Qin (Lead)

SU Haibin

ZHANG Rui
2023 -
Computational Study of Viscoelastic Active Matter

黏彈性活物質的計算研究 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)
2022 -
computational design of multi physics coupled three-dimensional liquid crystal elastomers

多物理場耦合的三維液晶彈性體的計算設計 Leading

Guangdong Natural Science Foundation
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)
2022 -
Multi scale study of chiral active matter

手性活性物質的多尺度研究 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)
2020 - 2023

Research Interest

Publications

2024 8

2023 4

2022 11

2021 10

2020 3

2019 5

2018 2

2017 7

2016 6

2014 3

2013 2

2012 1

Article 8

Article 4

Article 11

Article 10

Article 3

Article 5

Article 2

Article 7

Article 6

Article 3

Article 2

Article 1

2018 2

2017 7

2016 6

2014 3

2013 2

2012 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

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