Basic Information:
Name: Ziren Wang
Department: Department of Applied Physics
Title: Professor
Research Interests: Soft condensed matter physics (experimental)
E-mail: wziren@cqu.edu.cn
Study and work experience:
Chongqing University, Department of Applied Physics, Research Fellow (2015 - )
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012 - 2014)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, PhD (2007 - 2012)
University of Science and Technology of China, B.S. (2003 - 2007)
Research interests:
Soft condensed matter physics (experimental): phase behavior in colloidal model systems, self-assembly phenomena and microstructures.
Scientific Research Projects:
2021 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) No.12074047
2016 National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project No.11604031
2015 Special Project for Basic Research Funds of Central Universities - Major Project of the University
Representative Papers:
[1]. Bo Li, Xiuming Xiao, Shuxia Wang, Weijia Wen, Ziren Wang, Real-space mapping of the two-dimensional phase diagrams in attractive colloidal systems, Physical Review X 9, 031032 (2019).
[2]. Bo Li, Xiuming Xiao, Kai Lou, Shuxiang Wang, Weijia Wen, Ziren Wang, Breakdown of diffusivity–entropy scaling in colloidal glass-forming liquids, Communications Physics 1, 79 (2018).
[3]. Feng Wang, Ziren Wang, Yi Peng, Zhongyu Zheng, Yilong Han, Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals, Soft Matter 14, 2447 (2018).
[4]. Ziren Wang, Feng Wang, Yi Peng, Yilong Han, Direct observation of liquid nucleus growth in colloidal crystals, Nature Communications 6, 6942 (2015).
[5]. Yi Peng, Feng Wang, Ziren Wang, Zexin Zhang, Ahmed. M. Alsayed, Arjun. G. Yodh, Yilong Han, Two-step nucleation mechanism in solid-solid phase transitions, Nature Materials 14, 101 (2015).
[6]. Xiaoguang Ma, Wei Chen, Ziren Wang, Yuan Peng, Yilong Han, Penger Tong, Test of the Universal Scaling Law of Diffusion in Colloidal Monolayers, Physical Review Letters 110, 078302 (2013).
[7]. Ziren Wang, Feng Wang, Yi Peng, Zhongyu Zheng, Yilong Han, Imaging the homogeneous nucleation during the melting of superheated colloidal crystals, Science 338, 87 (2012) (highlighted by Science, Nature Materials and Physics Today).
[8]. Yi Peng, Ziren Wang, Ahmed. M. Alsayed, Arjun. G. Yodh, Yilong Han, Melting of multilayer colloidal crystals confined between two walls，Physical Review E 83, 011404 (2011).
[9]. Ziren Wang, Weikai Qi, Yi Peng, Ahmed. M. Alsayed, Yong Chen, Penger Tong, Yilong Han, Two features at the two-dimensional freezing transitions, Journal of Chemical Physics 134, 034506 (2011).
[10]. Ziren Wang, Ahmed. M. Alsayed, Arjun. G. Yodh, Yilong Han, Two-dimensional freezing criteria for crystallizing colloidal monolayers, Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 154501 (2010) (Featured by Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).
[11]. Yi Peng, Ziren Wang, Ahmed. M. Alsayed, Arjun. G. Yodh, Yilong Han，Melting of colloidal crystal films, Physical Review Letters 104, 205703 (2010) (Physical Review Focus).
[12]. Weikai Qi, Ziren Wang, Yilong Han, Yong Chen, Melting in two-dimensional Yukawa systems: A Brownian dynamics simulation，Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 234508 (2010).
