Rui ZHANG
张锐
PhD in Physics
The City University of New York, 2013

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics



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Research Interest

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



Publications

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All Years 39 2022 0 2021 10 2020 3 2019 5 2018 1 2017 8 2016 12

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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, 28 January 2020
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
Emer?i?, Tadej; Zhang, Rui; Kos, ?iga; ?opar, Simon; Osterman, Natan; De Pablo, Juan J.; Tkalec, Uros Article

2018 1

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 8

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
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
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


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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


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Article 3

Direct Observation of Liquid Crystal Droplet Configurational Transitions using Optical Tweezers
Langmuir, 28 January 2020
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


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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
Emer?i?, Tadej; Zhang, Rui; Kos, ?iga; ?opar, Simon; Osterman, Natan; De Pablo, Juan J.; Tkalec, Uros


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Article 1

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.


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Article 8

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.
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.
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.


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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.


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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


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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


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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


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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


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2021-22 Winter 0 2021-22 Fall 3 2020-21 Summer 1 2020-21 Spring 2 2020-21 Winter 0 2020-21 Fall 3

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MSDM5001 Introduction to Computational and Modeling Tools
PHYS2080 Physics Seminar and Tutorial I
PHYS4050 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics


UROP1100D Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1


PHYS5310 Statistical Mechanics I
SCIE4500 IRE Research Project II


MSDM5001 Introduction to Computational and Modeling Tools
SCIE3500 IRE Research Project I
SCIE4500 IRE Research Project II


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Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision From January 2019 to December 2022 (As of 30 January 2022)

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Current RPGs

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Doctor of Philosophy YI, Shengzhu
Physics( 2021 - )

HUANG, Yulu
Physics( 2020 - )

WANG, Weiqiang
Physics( 2020 - )

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Master of Philosophy CHAN, Chung Wing
Physics( 2021 - )









ProjectsFrom January 2020 to December 2022

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All Projects 2

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No Projects.
Computational Study of Viscoelastic Active Matter


黏弹性活物质的计算研究 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)


2022 -




Multi scale study of chiral active matter


手性活性物质的多尺度研究 Leading


RGC - Early Career Scheme


Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Rui (Lead)


2020 -