Name: Zexin ZHANG

Posittion: Professor

Tel:0512-65155295

Email: zhangzx@suda.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience

Zexin Zhang received his B.S. from Jilin University in 2000, his M.Sc. from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, and his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, UK in 2007.He joined the faculty of the Soochow University in 2010, following postdoctoral research at LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, USA.Presently he is a professor of materials science, professor of physics at Soochow University.He also holds the Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor position.Hisprimary appointment is at theCollege of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, he is also a faculty member of Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research at Soochow University.He received the Excellent Youth Foundation Awards from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2015.He has been an editorial board member (sub-field: soft matter chemistry and physics) of Scientific Reports since 2013.

Research Interests

Soft Matter Chemistry and Physics.

(1) Design and synthesis of novel colloidal and polymeric materials;

(2) Structure and dynamics of soft matter systems (polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, bacteria and cells etc.);

(3) Application of video microscopy and image analysis in materials science research.

Selected Publication

1. Soft Matter Chemistry: Design and Synthesis of Novel Colloidal and Polymeric Materials

1.S. Du, H. Wang, C. Zhou, W. Wang and Z. Zhang,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020,142, 2213-2217.

2.F. Xu, W. Jing, G. Chen and Z. Zhang,ACS Macro Letters, 2020,10, 9-13.

3.K. Quan, Z. Zhang, H. Chen, X. Ren, Y. Ren, B. W. Peterson, H. C. van der Mei and H. J. Busscher,Small, 2019,15, 1902313.

4.H. Wang, B. Li, A. G. Yodh and Z. Zhang,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016,55, 9952-9955.

2. Soft Matter Physics：Colloidal Glass, Self-assembly of Colloidal and Polymeric Systems, Biophysics

1.Z. X. Zhang, N. Xu, D. T. N. Chen, P. Yunker, A. M. Alsayed, K. B. Aptowicz, P. Habdas, A. J. Liu, S. R. Nagel and A. G. Yodh,Nature, 2009,459, 230-233.

2.Z. X. Zhang, P. J. Yunker, P. Habdas and A. G. Yodh,Phys. Rev. Lett., 2011,107, 208303.

3.Y. Peng, F. Wang, Z. Wang, A. M. Alsayed, Z. Zhang, A. G. Yodh and Y. Han,Nat. Mat., 2015,14, 101-108.

4.X. Liu, H. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. M. Kosterlitz and X. S. Ling,New Journal of Physics, 2020,22, 103066.

3. Applications of Video Microscopy: Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology Research

1.H. Wang and Z. Zhang,Acta Physica Sinica, 2016,65, 178705.

2.Y. Wang, H. Wang and Z. Zhang,Chinese Science Bulletin, 2017,62, 186-193.

3.Y. Yin, H. Chang, H. Jing, Z. Zhang, D. Yan, S. Mann and D. Liang,Soft Matter, 2018,14, 6514-6520.

4.F. Mou, J. Zhang, Z. Wu, S. Du, Z. Zhang, L. Xu and J. Guan,Iscience, 2019,19, 415-419.