Publications

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

  1. Xiuyang Xia* Superselectivity as a Receptor-Fluctuation Response arXiv:2607.29599 (2026) [arXiv]
  2. Yuhan Peng#, Xiuyang Xia#*, Ran Ni* Entropy-driven physical amplification in multivalent biosensing Advanced Science, e77266 (2026) [arXiv] [website]
  3. 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]
  4. 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]
  5. Qionghai Chen#, Xiuyang Xia#, Wanhui Huang, Liqun Zhang, Ran Ni*, Jun Liu* Topological Programmability of Isomerizable Polymers Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048101 (2024) [website]
  6. Xiuyang Xia, Ran Ni* Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118202 (2024) [arXiv] [website]
  7. 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]
  8. 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]
  9. Xiuyang Xia, Ge Zhang*, Yang Jiao, Ran Ni* The Role of Receptor Uniformity in Multivalent Binding JACS Au 3, 1385 (2023) [arXiv] [website]
  10. Xiuyang Xia#, Peilin Rao#, Ran Ni* Entropy driven thermo-gelling vitrimer JACS Au 2, 2359 (2022) [arXiv] [website]
  11. 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]
  12. Qun-Li Lei#, Xiuyang Xia#, Ran Ni*, et al. Entropy-Controlled Crosslinking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers PNAS 117, 27111 (2020) [arXiv] [website]
  13. 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]
  14. 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]
  15. 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]
  16. 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]