Selected Publications
Preprint:
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Line Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals as Charged Elastic Rods with Negative Twist-Stretch Coupling
Shengzhu Yi*, Hao Chen*, Xinyu Wang, Miao Jiang, Bo Li, Qi-huo Wei# and Rui Zhang#
revision submitted, arXiv.
2024:
Weiqiang Wang, Haijie Ren and Rui Zhang#
Physical Review Letters 132, 038301 (2024).
Chung Wing Chan*, Daihui Wu*, Kaiyao Qiao, Kin Long Fong, Zhiyu Yang, Yilong Han and Rui Zhang#
Nature Communications 15, 1406 (2024), arXiv. Reported by HKUST SSCI Research Newsletter and Departmental News, and featured in “Applied physics and mathematics” by Nature Communications.
Xinyu Wang*, Jinghua Jiang*, Juan Chen*, Asilehan Zhawure, Wentao Tang, Chenhui Peng# and Rui Zhang#
Nature Communications 15, 1655 (2024).
Qing Zhang*#, Weiqiang Wang*, Shuang Zhou, Rui Zhang# and Irmgard Bischofberger#
Nature Communications 15, 7 (2024). Reported by MIT News, and featured in “Applied physics and mathematics” by Nature Communications.
Jinghua Jiang*, Oluwafemi Isaac Akomolafe*, Xinyu Wang*, Zhawure Asilehan, Wentao Tang, Zijun Chen, Jing Zhang, Ruijie Wang, Kamal Ranabhat, Rui Zhang# and Chenhui Peng#
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 121 (37), e2402395121 (2024).
Haijie Ren, Weiqiang Wang, Wentao Tang and Rui Zhang#
Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013259 (2024), arXiv.
Chung Wing Chan, Zheng Yang, Zecheng Gan and Rui Zhang#
J. Chem. Phys.161, 014904 (2024). Selected in 2024 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection.
Wentao Tang, Xiwen Chen and Rui Zhang#
J. Chem. Phys. 161, 194902 (2024). Special Collection "Monte Carlo methods, 70 years after Metropolis et al. (1953)" Story on Kudos.
Yiqiu Zhao, Haitao Hu, Yulu Huang, Hanqing Liu, Caishan Yan, Rui Zhang, Yifan Wang and Qin Xu
Nature Communications 15, 1691 (2024).
Martina Clairand, Ali Mozaffari, Jerôme Hardoüin, Rui Zhang, Claire Doré, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Francesc Sagués, Juan J. de Pablo and Teresa Lopez-Leon
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031049 (2024).
2023:
Yulu Huang, Weiqiang Wang, Jonathan K. Whitmer and Rui Zhang#
Soft Matter 19, 483-496 (2023). Featured in collection "Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Series"
Jinghua Jiang*, Xinyu Wang*, Oluwafemi Issac Akomolafe*, Wentao Tang, Asilehan Zhawure,
Kamal Ranabhat, Rui Zhang# and Chenhui Peng#
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 120 (16) e2221718120 (2023).
Haoran Xu, Yulu Huang, Rui Zhang and Yilin Wu
Nature Physics 19, 46-51 (2023). Reported in Nature News & Views.
Qing Zhang, Shuang Zhou, Rui Zhang and Irmgard Bischofberger
Science Advances 9, eabq6820 (2023).
2022:
Jinghua Jiang*, Kamal Ranabhat*, Xinyu Wang*, Hailey Rich, Rui Zhang# and Chenhui Peng#
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119 (23) e2122226119 (2022).
Rui Zhang#, Ali Mozaffari and Juan J. de Pablo#
Science Advances 8, eabg9060 (2022). Reported in Croucher, UChicago News, EurekAlert, Deeptech(cn), iScientist(cn).
De-Qing Zhang, Peng-Cheng Chen, Zhong-Yi Li, Rui Zhang and Bo Li
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119 (50) e2122494119 (2022).
Mohsen Esmaeili, Kyle George, Gelareh Rezvan, Nader Taheri-Qazvini, Rui Zhang# and Monirosadat Sadati#
Langmuir 38 (7) 2192–2204 (2022). Featured in Cover.
Tejal Pawale*, Shengzhu Yi*, Xiaowei Wang, Rui Zhang# and Xiao Li#
Soft Matter 18, 5939–5948 (2022). Featured in Cover.
Nitin Kumar*, Rui Zhang*, Steven A. Redford*, Juan J. de Pablo and Margaret L. Gardel#
Soft Matter 18, 5271–5281 (2022).
2021:
Rui Zhang*, Steven Redford*, Paul Ruijrok, Nitin Kumar, Ali Mozaffari, Sasha Zemsky, Aaron Dinner, Vincenzo Vitelli, Zev Bryant, Margaret Gardel and Juan J. de Pablo
Nature Materials 20, 875–882 (2021). Reported by UChicago PME News, HKUST News.
Rui Zhang*, Ali Mozaffari* and Juan J. de Pablo
Nature Reviews Materials 6, 437–453 (2021).
Weiqiang Wang and Rui Zhang#
Crystals 11, 1071 (2021), invited article.
Qing Zhang*, Rui Zhang*, Baoliang Ge*, Zahi Yaqoob, Peter T. C. So and Irmgard Bischofberger
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 118 (35) e2108361118 (2021).
Ali Mozaffari*, Rui Zhang*, Noe Atzin and Juan J. de Pablo
Physical Review Letters 126, 227801 (2021).
Prior to HKUST:
Tadej Emersic*, Rui Zhang*, Ziga Kos*, Simon Copar*, Natan Osterman, Juan J. de Pablo and Uros Tkalec
Science Advances 5, eaav4283 (2019).
Andrey Sokolov*, Ali Mozaffari*, Rui Zhang*, Juan J. de Pablo and Alexey Snezhko
Phys. Rev. X 9, 031014 (2019). Reported by UChicago PME News.
Rui Zhang*, Nitin Kumar*, Jennifer Ross, Margaret L. Gardel and Juan J. de Pablo
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 115 (2) E124-E133 (2018).
Nitin Kumar*, Rui Zhang*, Juan J. de Pablo and Margaret L. Gardel
Science Advances 4 (10), eaat7779 (2018).
Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel, Monirosadat Sadati, Rui Zhang, Mohammad Rahimi, Khia Kurtenbach, Benoit Roux and Juan J. de Pablo
ACS Central Science 3 (12), 1345 (2017).
Rui Zhang, Ye Zhou, Mohammad Rahimi and Juan J. de Pablo
Nature Communications 7, 13483 (2016). Reported by UChicago PME News; collected in Nature Research Topic "Active Matter".
Rui Zhang, Ye Zhou, Jose A. Martinez-Gonzalez, Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz, Nicholas L. Abbott and Juan J. de Pablo
Science Advances 2 (8), e1600978 (2016). Reported by UChicago News.
Rui Zhang, Tyler Roberts, Igor Aranson and Juan J. de Pablo
J. Chem. Phys. 144, 084905 (2016).
Rui Zhang, Samaneh Farokhirad, Taehun Lee and Joel Koplik
Phys. Fluids 26, 082003 (2014).
Rui Zhang and Joel Koplik
Phys. Rev. E 85, 026314 (2012). Reported by APS synopsis.