Xinpeng Xu
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Physics Program
Physics Program
Office: E505, North Campus
Dr. Xinpeng Xu received his B.S. in physics from the Wuhan University in 2008 and Ph.D. in Nano Science and Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2012. After several years of post-doctor experiences in HKUST, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Technion-Israel, he joined the faculty of science in GTIIT in the fall of 2017 as an associate professor. His main research interests are in the theory of soft matter and biological systems in close collaboration with experiments. In particular, his recent researches focus on the structure, phase behavior and dynamics of systems such as droplets, polymer solutions, polymer gels, active fluids and biological cells, using the approaches of statistical thermodynamics. His works have been published in some top scientific journals: Nature Physics, Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter etc.
- Theory of soft and living matter physics
- Cell-matrix mechanical interactions
- Microscale fluid-structure interactions
- AI for science: deep learning methods for soft matter and biological physics
Haiqin Wang, Tiezheng Qian, and Xinpeng Xu*, Onsager’s variational principle in active soft matter, Soft Matter 17, 3634 – 3653 (2021). 2021 Emerging Investigators collection of Soft Matter.
Xinpeng Xu* and Samuel Safran*, Nonlinearities of biopolymer gels increase the range of force transmission, Phys. Rev. E 92, 032728 (2015).
Shahar Goren, Yoni Koren, Xinpeng Xu*, and Ayelet Lesman*, Elastic Anisotropy Governs the Decay of Cell-induced Displacements, Biophys. J. 118, 1 (2020).
Xinpeng Xu* and Samuel Safran*, Compressive elasticity of polydisperse biopolymer gels, Phys. Rev. E 95, 052415 (2017).
Xiaoyu Yu#, Haiqin Wang#, Fangfu Ye, Qihui Fan*, Xiaochen Wang*, and Xinpeng Xu*, Biphasic curvature-dependence of cell migration inside microcylinders: persistent randomness versus directionality, bioRxiv:2022.522287 (Doi: 10.1101/2022.12.30.522287), Submitted.
Jian Su#, Haiqin Wang#, Zhongyu Yan, and Xinpeng Xu*, Active laminated-plate model for spontaneous bending of Hydra tissue fragments driven by supracellular actomyosin bundles, Communications Physics, 6, 185 (2023).
Chao Jiang, Hong-Yu Luo, Xinpeng Xu, Shuo-Xing Dou, Wei Li, Dongshi Guan, Fangfu Ye, Xiaosong Chen, Ming Guo, Peng-Ye Wang*, and Hui Li*, Switch of cell migration modes orchestrated by changes of three-dimensional lamellipodium structure and intracellular diffusion, Nature Communications (Editor’s highlights), 14, 5166 (2023).
Yongjoo Baek*, Alexandre Solon, Xinpeng Xu, Nikolai Nikola, Yariv Kafri, Generic long-range interactions between passive bodies in an active fluid, Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 058002 (2018).
Xinpeng Xu*, Xingkun Man*, Masao Doi, and David Andelman, Defect Removal by Solvent Vapor Annealing in Thin Films of Lamellar Diblock Copolymers, Macromolecules 52, 9321 (2019).
Yahua Liu#, Lisa Moevius#, Xinpeng Xu, Tiezheng Qian, Julia M. Yeomans*, and Zuankai Wang*, Pancake bouncing on superhydrophobic surfaces, Nat. Phys. 10, 515 (2014).