Publications

(Red: highlighted, #: Equal Contribution, *: Corresponding authors)

  1. Xiuyang Xia#, Yuhan Peng#, Ran Ni*, Multivalent linkers mediated ultra-sensitive bio-detection, submitted (2025) [arXiv]
  2. Xiuyang Xia#, Yuhan Peng#, Ka Ki Li, Ran Ni*, Designed self-assembly of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents, Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 078101 (2025) [arXiv] [website]
  3. Siyu Wan#, Xiuyang Xia#, Yutong Gao, Heyang Zhang, Zhebin Zhang, Fangyue Wu, Xuesong Wu, Dong Yang, Tongtao Li, Jianfeng Li, Ran Ni, Angang Dong, Curvature-guided depletion stabilizes Kagome superlattices of nanocrystals, Science 387, 978 (2025) [website] [Highlighted by Science: Tessellated with tiny dumbbells]
  4. Qionghai Chen#, Xiuyang Xia#, Wanhui Huang, Liqun Zhang, Ran Ni*, Jun Liu*, Topological Programmability of Isomerizable Polymers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048101 (2024) [website]
  5. Xiuyang Xia, Ran Ni*, Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118202 (2024) [arXiv] [website]
  6. Peilin Rao#, Xiuyang Xia#, Ran Ni*, A bond swap algorithm for simulating dynamically crosslinked polymers, J. Chem. Phys. 160, 061102 (2024) [Editor's Pick] [arXiv] [website]
  7. Haiyang Zhang, Xuan Feng, Xiuyang Xia, Jiao Zhu, Huaguang Wang, Ran Ni*, and Zexin Zhang*, Shape-directed self-assembly of photoresponsive hybrid colloids, Small Methods 12300383 (2023) [website]
  8. Xiuyang Xia, Ge Zhang*, Yang Jiao, Ran Ni*, The Role of Receptor Uniformity in Multivalent Binding, JACS Au 3, 1385 (2023) [arXiv] [website]
  9. Xiuyang Xia#, Peilin Rao#, Ran Ni*, Entropy driven thermo-gelling vitrimer, JACS Au 2, 2359 (2022) [arXiv] [website]
  10. Tongtao Li#, Xiuyang Xia#, Ran Ni*, Angang Dong*, et al., Mismatched ligand density enables ordered assembly of mixed-dimensional, cross-species materials, Sci. Adv. 8, eabq0969 (2022) [website]
  11. Qun-Li Lei#, Xiuyang Xia#, Ran Ni*, et al., Entropy-Controlled Crosslinking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers, PNAS 117, 27111 (2020) [arXiv] [website]
  12. Xiuyang Xia, Hao Hu, Massimo Pica Ciamarra*, Ran Ni*, Linker-mediated self-assembly of mobile DNA coated colloids, Sci. Adv. 6, eaaz6921 (2020) [arXiv] [website]
  13. Guanyi Hou, Xiuyang Xia, Jun Liu, Wencai Wang, Mengjie Dong, Liqun Zhang, Designing superlattice structure via self-assembly of one-component polymer-grafted nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. B 123, 2157 (2019) [website]
  14. Zijian Zheng, Xiuyang Xia, Xianxiang Zeng, Xiu Li, Youping Wu, Jun Liu*, Liqun Zhang*, Theoretical Model of Time–Temperature Superposition Principle of the Self‐Healing Kinetics of Supramolecular Polymer Nanocomposites, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 39, 1800382 (2018) [website]
  15. Zijian Zheng, Guanyi Hou, Xiuyang Xia, Jun Liu*, Mesfin Tsige*, Youping Wu*, Liqun Zhang*, Molecular dynamics simulation study of polymer nanocomposites with controllable dispersion of spherical nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 10146 (2018) [website]