Area of Physics: Granular physics, Synchrotron X-ray imaging
Biographical Sketch:
1995 B.S. Physics Department,Tshinghau University, China
2001 Ph.D. Physics Department, MIT, USA
Selected Publications:
Structural Critical Scattering study of Mg-Doped CuGeO3, Y.J.Wang, V.Kiryukhin, R.J.Birgeneau, T.Masuda, I.Tsukada and K. Uchinokura, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1676 (1999).
Hard X-ray Quantitative Phase Contrast Imaging of Air Assisted Water Spray, Y.J. Wang, K. Fezzaa, J. Wang, K-S Im, W.K. Lee, K. Fezzaa, W.K. Lee, and J. Wang, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 151913 (2006).
A Sagittally Focusing Double-Multilayer Monochromator for Ultrafast X-ray Imaging Applications, Y.J. Wang, S. Narayanan, D.M. Shu, A. Mashayekhi, J. Qian, J.Y. Liu, and J. Wang, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 14, 138 (2007).
Ultrafast Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of High-Speed Liquid Jet Breakup, Y.J. Wang, X. Liu, K.-S. Im, W.-K. Lee, J. Wang, F. Kamel, L.S. Hung, J.R. Winkelman, Nature Physics 4, 306 (2008).
Similarity between primary and secondary liquid jet breakup mechanism, Y.J. Wang, K.-S. Im, K. Fezzaa, Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 154502 (2008).
Ultrafast X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging of the Droplets Coalescence Process, K. Fezzaa, Y.J. Wang*,Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 104501 (2008).
X-ray grating interferometer for biological imaging applications at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Y. Xi, B.Q. Kou, S.H. Sun, J.C. Qi, J.Q. Sun, J. Mohr, M. Borner, J. Zhao, L.X. Xu, T.Q. Xiao, Y.J. Wang*, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 19, 821 (2012).
Similarity of wet granular packings to gels, J.D. Li, Y.X. Cao, C.J. Xia, B.Q. Kou, X.H. Xiao, K. Fezzaa, Y.J. Wang*, Nature Communications 5, 5014 (2014).
The structural origin of the hard-sphere glass transition in granular packing, C.J. Xia, J.D. Li, Y.X. Cao, B.Q. Kou, X.H. Xiao, K. Fezzaa, T.Q. Xiao, Y.J. Wang*, Nature Communications 6, 8409 (2015).
Granular packing as model glass formers (review article), Y.J. Wang*, Chinese Physics B 26, 1 (2017).
Origin of noncubic scaling law in disordered granular packing, C.J. Xia, J.D. Li, B.Q. Kou, Y.X. Cao, Z.F. Li, X.H. Xiao, Y.N. Fu, T.Q. Xiao, L. Hong, J. Zhang, W. Kob, Y.J. Wang*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 238002 (2017).
Dynamical transition of collective motions in dry proteins, Z. Liu, J. Huang, M. Tyagi, H. O'Neill, Q. Zhang, E. Mamontov, N. Jain, Y.J. Wang, J. Zhang, J.C. Smith, L. Hong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048101 (2017).
Experimental studies of vibrational modes in a two-dimensional amorphous solid, L. Zhang, J. Zheng, Y.Q. Wang, L. Zhang, Z.H. Jin, L. Hong, Y.J. Wang, J. Zhang, Nature Communications 8, 67 (2017).
Granular materials flow like complex fluids, B.Q. Kou, Y.X. Cao, J.D. Li, C.J. Xia, Z.F. Li, H.P. Dong, A. Zhang, J. Zhang, W. Kob, Y.J. Wang*, Nature 551, 360 (2017).
Translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities in granular systems, B.Q. Kou, Y.X. Cao, J.D. Li, C.J. Xia, Z.F. Li, H.P. Dong, A. Zhang, J. ZHang, W. Kob, Y.J. Wang*, Phys. Rev. Lett, accepted (2018).
Structural and topological nature of plasticity in sheared granular materials, Y.X. Cao, J.D. Li, B.Q. Kou, C.J. Xia, Z.F. Li, R.C. Chen, H.L. Xie, T.Q. Xiao, W. Kob, L. Hong, J. Zhang, Y.J. Wang*, Nature Communications, accepted (2018).