Phone (852) 3943 6307
Email xuleixu(at)cuhk.edu.hk
Education and training: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2006-2009
PhD, Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, 2000-2006
BS, Department of Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 1995-2000
Position: 2018-now, Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2015-2018, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2009-2015, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Interest: Soft Condensed Matter Experiment Fluid Mechanics (liquid drop splash, liquid-solid impact, fingering instability)
Complex Fluids (colloidal glass, colloidal crystallization, drying of complex fluids)
Selected Publications: "A universal state and its relaxation mechanisms of long-range interacting polygons
Mechanism of contact between a droplet and an atomically smooth substrate
Probing the role of mobility in the collective motion of nonequilibrium systems
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in an ultrathin air film causes drop splashing on smooth surfaces
Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization
Coalescence of Pickering Emulsion Droplets Induced by an Electric Field
Compressible air entrapment in high-speed drop impacts on solid surfaces
Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems
Drying of complex suspensions
Dynamics of drying in 3D porous media
Towards the zero-surface-tension limit in the granular fingering instability
Drop Splashing on a Dry Smooth Surface
Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization" was reported in the "news and views" in nature physics, 10, 12-13, 2014.
Our research on drop splashing was chosen as one of the twenty-five "Top Physics Stories for 2005", by American Institute of Physics.
It was also reported in the popular and scientific press, including:
New York Times, April 5, 2005; Nature, 435, 1168, 2005; Science, 308, 190, 2005; News(at)Nature.com, Feb. 7, 2005; Scientific American, 292 #6, 36, 2005; Science News, 167, 99, 2005; Discover, 26 #7, 11, 2005; Physics Web, Feb. 1, 2005; Financial Times Deutschland (Financial Times of Germany), April 12, 2005; Chicago Sun-Times, May 4, 2005.
