Soft matter is a broad field that encompasses a wide range of materials, including polymers, colloids, surfactants, and liquid crystals. These materials are characterized by their flexibility and responsiveness to external stimuli, such as temperature, pressure, and electric fields. Soft matter research has applications in a variety of fields, including materials science, biology, and medicine. Some of the key topics in soft matter research include self-assembly, rheology, and the design of new materials with specific properties.
Research Groups
Yang HUANG
Surface functionalization of energy-related material and studies of its surface-interface effect, High energy density and dendrite-free aqueous battery for distributed energy storage system, High output power thermocell with gel electrolyte for low-grade heat harvesting.
Ping GAO
Polymer, Rheology of polymers, 2D Porous polymer films, Polymer membranes for biomedical, energy, environment and sensors, high-performance polymer fibers, films and composites, Nanocomposites.
Jun WANG
Conducting polymers and nanocomposites, Functional polymer foams and porous materials,Lightweight materials from 3D printing, Polymer upcycling.
Jiaying WU
Photon Energy Conversion, Photophysics, Device Physics, Charge Carrier Dynamics.
Xiakun CHU
Theoretical and computational biophysics, Coarse-grained biomolecular model, Flexible biomolecular structure and function.
Zecheng GAN
Applied math, Computational electromagnetism and hydrodynamics, Computational materials science, Data-driven and machine learning methods.
Chee Keong TAN
Semiconductor materials and devices.
Rongfeng YUAN
Molecular dynamics, Electronic energy transport and conversion, Ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy, Optoelectronic materials.
Xiaoxiao WU
Metamaterials and wave-matter interactions, Functional Metamaterials for EM and acoustic waves, Topological photonic and phononic metamaterials, Terahertz and sub-terahertz photonics.
Peng CHEN
Experimental quantum information science, Quantum few-body system, Quantum optics, Artificial quantum materials, Ultracold physics, Nonlinear optics, Novel microscopy.