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Xiangjun Xing 

Title: Professor
Email: xxing@sjtu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-21-5474-7384
Address: 525, Pao Yue-Kong Library
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Area of Physics: Statistical physics, soft condensed matter theory
 
Research Interests:
(1) Elasticity of complex elastomeric materials
(2) Liquid Crystals and Membranes
(3) Statistical Mechanics of charged systems
(4) Generalized elasticity theory
(5) Topological Defects
 
Biographical Sketch:
2010 -            Professor, Institute of Natural Sciences, and Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
2005 - 2010   Assistant professor, Physics department, Syracuse University.
2003 - 2005   Post-doctoral research associate, Physics department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1998 - 2003   Ph. D. Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Advisor: Leo Radzihovsky
1993 - 1996   M.Sc. Physics, Nanjing University, China, Advisor: Jin-Quan Chen
1989 - 1993   B.Sc. Mathematics, Nanjing University, China.
 
Selected Publications:
1.         Phenomenological Theory of Isotropic-Genesis Nematic Elastomers
       Bing-Sui Lu, Fangfu Ye, Xiangjun Xing, Paul M. Goldbart,
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 257803 (2012).
2.         Morphology of Nematic and Smectic Vesicles
       Xiangjun Xing, Homin Shin, M. J. Bowick, Z Yao., L. Jia, M- H Li
       Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073 (2012).
3.         Topological Defects in Spherical Nematics
       Homin Shin, Mark J. Bowick and Xiangjun Xing
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037802 (2008).
4.        Topology of Smectic Order on Compact Substrates
       Xiangjun Xing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147801 (2008).
5.        Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity
       X. Xing, L. Radzihovsky and P. M. Goldbart
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075502 (2007).
       Featured by Physical Review Focus, 20 February 2007.
6.        Scaling of Entropic Shear Rigidity
       X. Xing, S. Mukhopadhyay, P. M. Goldbart
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 225701 (2004).
7.         Universal Elasticity and Fluctuations of Nematic Gels
       X. Xing and L. Radzihovsky
       Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 168301 (2003).