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● The overlooked role of grain boundary thickness in shaping mechanical properties of solid material 2025

 

National Science Review highlight

EurekaAlert: English, EurekaAlert: Chinese


● Virtual melting in shear-induced crystal-crystal transition, 2025

 

Physics World


● Polymorphic crystalline layer at the crystallization front, 2024

 

synopsis in APS Physics


● 固体材料中的三个盲点问题 2023

 

Chinese


● Pre-solid-solid transition, 2023

 

EurekaAlert: English, EurekaAlert: Chinese


● Generalization of Hall-Petch and inverse Hall-Petch behaviors, 2023

 

EurekaAlert: English, EurekaAlert: Chinese


● Glass surface premelting, 2023

 

Macromolecule technology (Chinese)
China Polymer Web (Chinese)


● 如何区分多晶与玻璃态


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● Surface premelting, 2016

 

physorg, eurekalert, chemeurope ,

azoMaterials, sciencedaily

 

highlight: Phase transitions, Dimensionality matters, Nature Physics

 

● Solid-solid transition, 2015

physorg, sciencedaily, esciencenews, eurekalert_AAAS

News and Views Crystal–crystal transitions: Mediated by a liquid, by  Eduardo Sanz
& Chantal Valeriani,
Nature Materials, 14, 15–16 (2015).

 

● Melting of superheated crystal, 2012

Prospective: Melting colloidal crystals from the inside out, by Eric Weeks, Science, 338, 55 (2012)

Research highlight: Defect-less melting, Nature Materials, 11, 910 (2012)

Temperature-sensitive colloids show off an elusive melting mechanism, December 2012, page 20, Physics Today

Tiny spheres simulate crystal melting, physicsworld.com

www.wissenschaft-aktuell.de (German)

A French magazine: La Recherche

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● Glass of colloidal ellipsoids, 2011

Physics Viewpoint

 

● Our group is reported by www.SoftMatterWorld.org:   Newsletter June 2011 research@HKUST_2019, page 8-12.

 

● Thin films melting, 2010

Physical Review Focus

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● 2D crystal freezing, 2010

Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research

 

● Geometrical frustration in buckled colloidal crystals, 2008

News and Views The eternal triangle, by Mark Harris, Nature, 456, 886-887 (2008)

ScienceDaily,

 

● The Brownian motion of a single ellipsoid, 2006

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ScienceDaily

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