Publications

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

  1. Yang Xu, Zeyu Shen*, Zhitao Liao, Ziqi Wang, Rui Chen, Rundong Ye, Yang Yang, Shiwen Chen, Shihan Zhu, Xinze Wu, Yudi Mao, Huanhuan Cui, Xiuyang Xia, Tingting Li, Zhenguo Wu, Wei Chen, Penger Tong, and Mingjie Zhang* Ordered and disordered interactions coordinately govern material properties and functions of biological condensates submitted (2026)
  2. Xiuyang Xia* Superselectivity as a Receptor-Fluctuation Response submitted (2026) [arXiv]
  3. Yuhan Peng#, Xiuyang Xia#*, Ran Ni* Entropy-driven physical amplification in multivalent biosensing Advanced Science, e77266 (2026) [arXiv] [website]
  4. 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] [Featured by Physics World: DNA as a molecular architect]
  5. 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]
  6. Qionghai Chen#, Xiuyang Xia#, Wanhui Huang, Liqun Zhang, Ran Ni*, Jun Liu* Topological Programmability of Isomerizable Polymers Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048101 (2024) [website]
  7. Xiuyang Xia, Ran Ni* Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118202 (2024) [arXiv] [website]
  8. 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]
  9. 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]
  10. Xiuyang Xia, Ge Zhang*, Yang Jiao, Ran Ni* The Role of Receptor Uniformity in Multivalent Binding JACS Au 3, 1385 (2023) [arXiv] [website]
  11. Xiuyang Xia#, Peilin Rao#, Ran Ni* Entropy driven thermo-gelling vitrimer JACS Au 2, 2359 (2022) [arXiv] [website]
  12. 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]
  13. Qun-Li Lei#, Xiuyang Xia#, Ran Ni*, et al. Entropy-Controlled Crosslinking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers PNAS 117, 27111 (2020) [arXiv] [website]
  14. 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]
  15. 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]
  16. 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]
  17. 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]