Xuehua Zhang

Crystallization of Femtoliter Surface Droplet Arrays Revealed by Synchrotron Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

Brendan Dyett, Lisa Zychowski, Lei Bao, Thomas G Meikle, Shuhua Peng, Haitao Yu, Miaosi Li, Jamie Strachan, Nigel Kirby, Amy Logan, Charlotte E Conn, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2018  |  LANGMUIR

The crystallization of oil droplets is critical in the processing and storage of lipid-based food and pharmaceutical products. Arr..

Growth of nanodroplets on a still microfiber under flow conditions

Haitao Yu, Maaike Rump, Shantanu Maheshwari, Lei Bao, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2018  |  PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Surface droplets in the microscale are of great interest for their relevance in broad droplet-based technologies. Derived from the..

Formation of Multicomponent Surface Nanodroplets by Solvent Exchange

Miaosi Li, Lei Bao, Haito Yu, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C

Multicomponent surface droplets that consist of more than one compound are of great interest for fundamental studies of microwetti..

Formation, growth and applications of femtoliter droplets on a microlens

Lei Lei, Jia Li, Haitao Yu, Lei Bao, Shuhua Peng, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2018  |  PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Formation and growth of femtoliter droplets on surface microstructures are important in many fundamental and practical interfacial..

Efficient photoinduced charge transfer in chemically-linked organic-metal Ag-P3HT nanocomposites

Lin Feng, Ming Chen, Fei Zheng, Meng-Si Niu, Xuehua Zhang, Xiao-Tao Hao

Journal article  |  2016  |  OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS

A novel nanocomposite of P3HT and Ag nanoparticles (Ag-P3HT) has been synthesized by laser ablation. The fluorescence wavelength o..

Super-Soft Hydrogel Particles with Tunable Elasticity in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model

Jiwei Cui, Mattias Bjoernmalm, Kang Liang, Chenglong Xu, James P Best, Xuehua Zhang, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2014  |  ADVANCED MATERIALS

Super-soft PEG hydrogel particles with tunable elasticity are prepared via a mesoporous silica templating method. The deformabilit..

Microwetting of supported graphene on hydrophobic surfaces revealed by polymerized interfacial femtodroplets.

Shuhua Peng, Detlef Lohse, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  Langmuir

Understanding the wettability of graphene is the crucial step toward the design and control of graphene-based surface in contact w..

Interfacial Nanobubbles Are Leaky: Permeability of the Gas/Water Interface

Sean R German, Xi Wu, Hongjie An, Vincent SJ Craig, Tony L Mega, Xuehua Zhang

Journal article  |  2014  |  ACS NANO

Currently there is no widespread agreement on an explanation for the stability of surface nanobubbles. One means by which several ..

Interfacial nanodroplets guided construction of hierarchical Au, Au-Pt, and Au-Pd particles as excellent catalysts

Aijing Ma, Jie Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Bin Zhang, Dayang Wang, Haolan Xu

Journal article  |  2014  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Interfacial nanodroplets were grafted to the surfaces of self-sacrificed template particles in a galvanic reaction system to assis..

Surface Nanobubbles Nucleate Microdroplets

Xuehua Zhang, Henri Lhuissier, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse

Journal article  |  2014  |  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

When a hydrophobic solid is in contact with water, surface nanobubbles often form at the interface. They have a lifetime many orde..