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Room 210, Building No.2, Science and Technology Park (Wu Shan campus)
zhouj2@scut.edu.cn
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Jiajia Zhou received his BSc in physics from Peking University in 2002. He then went to Canada and finished his PhD in physics from McMaster University in 2010, under the supervision of Prof. An-Chang Shi. He was a postdoctoral researcher from 2011 to 2015 at Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany under the supervision of Prof. Friederike Schmid. He joined Beihang University as an Associate Professor in 2015. He is now a Professor in School of Emergent Soft Matter at South China University of Technology. His research focuses on theory and computer simulations on the dynamics of soft matter systems.
Our group aims to use modelling to aid the design of soft matter materials, with a special interest in the dynamical process. To this end, we build theoretical models, conduct numerical calculations, and perform computer simulations. We focus on:
(1) investigating the underlying mechanism;
(2) learning from the nature. Armed with these knowledge, we hope to provide rational design principles for chemical components, experimental protocols, mesoscopic structures, etc., to achieve better/controllable material properties.
“Excluded volume of slide rings in single-chain polyrotaxane” Jinyuan Mao, Xiang-Meng Jia*, Guojie Zhang, and Jiajia Zhou* Macromolecules 57, 3841 (2024)
“Pumping small molecules selectively through an energy-assisted assembling process at nonequilibrium states”Huimin Fu†, Nengjie Cao†, Wang Zeng, Min Liao, Shenglin Yao, Jiajia Zhou*, and Wei Zhang* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 3323 (2024)
“Anomalous segmental dynamics of supercooled polyrotaxane melts: A computer simulation study”Xiang-Meng Jia and Jiajia Zhou* J. Chem. Phys. 159, 244901 (2023)
“Capillary filling of polymer chains in nanopores”Jianwei Zhang, Jinyu Lei, Wenzhang Tian, Guangzhao Zhang, George Floudas, and Jiajia Zhou* Macromolecules 56, 2258 (2023)
“Enormous-stiffness-changing polymer networks by glass transition mediated microphase separation” Lie Chen, Cong Zhao, Jin Huang, Jiajia Zhou*, and Mingjie Liu* Nat. Commun. 13, 6821 (2022)
“Capillary rising in a tube with corners” Chen Zhao, Jiajia Zhou*, and Masao Doi Langmuir 38, 5779 (2022)
“Interphase in polymer nanocomposite”Jin Huang, Jiajia Zhou*, and Mingjie Liu* JACS Au 2, 280 (2022)
“Wetting dynamics in an angular channel”Chen Zhao, Tian Yu, Jiajia Zhou*, and Masao Doi Langmuir 37, 11276 (2021)
“Ultrahigh energy-dissipation elastomers by precisely tailoring the relaxation of confined polymer fluids”Jin Huang, Yichao Xu, Shuanhu Qi, Jiajia Zhou*, Wei Shi, Tianyi Zhao, and Mingjie Liu* Nat. Commun. 12, 3610 (2021)
“Wetting equilibrium in a rectangular channel”Tian Yu, Qicheng Sun, Chen Zhao, Jiajia Zhou*, and Masao Doi Soft Matter 17, 3594 (2021)
Undergraduate courses:
Elementary Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Methods in Soft Matter
Graduate courses:
Understanding Constitutive Equations