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  1. Brownian motion of snowman-shaped colloidal particles

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  2. A tale of two forces: simultaneous chemical and acoustic propulsion of bimetallic micromotors

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  3. Two-step nucleation mechanism in solid–solid phase transitions

    Article • Nature Materials, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  4. Encapsulation of Hydrophobic Phthalocyanine with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Lipid Composite Microspheres for Thermo-Responsive Release and Photodynamic Therapy

    Article • Materials, April 2014, MDPI AG

    Gaojian Chen, Professor Zexin Zhang

  5. Revisit to phase diagram of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel suspensions by mechanical spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  6. Rheology of soft colloids across the onset of rigidity: scaling behavior, thermal, and non-thermal responses

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang, Dr Ye Xu

  7. Tunable dual-stimuli response of a microgel composite consisting of reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel microspheres

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bing Yuan, Professor Zexin Zhang

  8. Synthesis of soft colloids with well-controlled softness

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  9. Fabrication of Large Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals via Self-Assembly in an Attractive Force Gradient

    Article • Langmuir, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  10. Syntheses and applications of concave and convex colloids with precisely controlled shapes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  11. Mechanism of two-dimensional crystal formation from soft microgel particles

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr he cheng, Professor Zexin Zhang

  12. Observation and characterization of the vestige of the jamming transition in a thermal three-dimensional system

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  13. Cooperative Rearrangement Regions and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Colloidal Glasses with Attractive Versus Repulsive Interactions

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  14. Measurement of Correlations between Low-Frequency Vibrational Modes and Particle Rearrangements in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Colloidal Glasses

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  15. Phonon Spectra, Nearest Neighbors, and Mechanical Stability of Disordered Colloidal Clusters with Attractive Interactions

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  16. Graphene oxide monolayers as supporting films for high resolution transmission electron microscopy

    Article • Applied Surface Science, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  17. Rotational and translational phonon modes in glasses composed of ellipsoidal particles

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  18. Self-assembly of multilayered functional films based on graphene oxide sheets for controlled release

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  19. Low-Frequency Vibrations of Soft Colloidal Glasses

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  20. Observation of the Disorder-Induced Crystal-to-Glass Transition

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  21. Irreversible Rearrangements, Correlated Domains, and Local Structure in Aging Glasses

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  22. Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition

    Article • Nature, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  23. Effect of suspended clay particles on isotropic–nematic phase transition of liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  24. Fabrication of arrays of silver nanoparticle aggregates by microcontact printing and block copolymer nanoreactors

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  25. Surface-induced Phase Separation of Binary Polymer Blends on the Chemically Patterned Substrate

    Article • Polymer Bulletin, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  26. Water-induced morphology evolution of block copolymer micellar thin films

    Article • Polymer, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  27. Ordered droplet formation by thin polymer film dewetting on a stripe-patterned substrate

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  28. How to form regular polymer microstructures by surface-pattern-directed dewetting

    Article • Surface Science, August 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Zexin Zhang

  29. Patterning thin polymer films by surface-directed dewetting and pattern transfer

    Article • Polymer, June 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Zexin Zhang