Xikai Jiang, Associate Professor

Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics

Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

No. 15 Beisihuanxi Road, Beijing 100190

Email: xikaij [at] imech.ac.cn

Research Areas

Micro/nanofluids, Interfacial phenomena, Ion/particle transport

Experience

2019.04 -  Present    Chinese Academy of Sciences   Institute of Mechanics          Associate Professor

2015.02 - 2019.03    ANL/UChicago                          MSD/PME                           Postdoc

2010.08 - 2014.12    Clemson University                   Mechanical Engineering      PhD

2006.09 - 2010.06    Huazhong Univ. Sci. Tech.        Engineering Mechanics        BS

Publications

  1. Electrocapillarity-induced hurricane-in-a-tube enables the generation and patterning of liquid metal droplets. Advanced Functional Materials, 2409341, 2024
  2. Single-atom catalysts through pressure-controlled metal diffusion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146(29):19886-19895, 2024
  3. Particulate transport in the low-Reynolds-number fluid confined in a spherical cavity. Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 56(5):1-13, 2024
  4. Manipulation of Contact Angle Hysteresis at Electrified Ionic Liquid-Solid Interfaces. Physical Review Letters, 132(4):044002, 2024
  5. Electric-field-induced ion evaporation from the ionic liquid–vacuum interface. Physics of Fluids, 35(12):122009, 2023 (Editor’s Pick)
  6. Single-particle dynamics in a low-Reynolds-number fluid under spherical confinement. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 969:A15, 2023
  7. Heterogeneous nanostructures cause anomalous diffusion in lipid monolayers. ACS Nano, 16(10):16054-16066, 2022
  8. Motion of a sphere and the suspending low-Reynolds-number fluid confined in a cubic cavity. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 12(4):100352, 2022 (Invited)
  9. Non-monotonic variation of flow strength in nanochannels grafted with end-charged polyelectrolyte layers. RSC Advances, 12(7):4061-4071, 2022
  10. Electric field-driven ion emission from the free surface of room-temperature ionic liquids. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12(1):711-716, 2021
  11. Structure and dynamics of hydrodynamically interacting finite-size Brownian particles in a spherical cavity: spheres and cylinders. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(20):204109, 2020
  12. Shape induced segregation and anomalous particle transport under spherical confinement. Physics of Fluids, 32(5):053307, 2020 (Featured article)
  13. Transport and structure of room-temperature ionic liquids in conical nanopores under external electric fields. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(10):5817-5828, 2020
  14. Hydrodynamic properties of polymers screening the electrokinetic flow: insights from a computational study. Polymers, 11(6):1038, 2019
  15. Evolutionary strategy for inverse charge measurements of dielectric particles. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(23):234302, 2018
  16. SSAGES: Software suite for advanced general ensemble simulations. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(4):044104, 2018 (Editors’ Choice)
  17. Parallel O(N) Stokes' solver towards scalable Brownian dynamics of hydrodynamically interacting objects in general geometries, Journal of Chemical Physics, 146(24):244114, 2017 (Editors’ Choice)
  18. An O(N) and parallel approach to integral problems by a kernel-independent fast multipole method: Application to polarization and magnetization of interacting particles, Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(6):064307, 2016
  19. Current rectification for transport of room-temperature ionic liquids through conical nanopores, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(8):4629-4637, 2016
  20. Water in ionic liquids at electrified interfaces: the anatomy of electrosorption, ACS Nano, 8(11):11685-11694, 2014
  21. Dynamics of electrical double layer formation in room-temperature ionic liquids under constant-current charging conditions, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 26(28):284109, 2014
  22. Electro-induced dewetting and concomitant ionic current avalanche in nanopores, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4(18):3120-3126, 2013
  23. Electrokinetic transport in room-temperature ionic liquids: amplification by short-wavelength hydrodynamics, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(1):1133-1138, 2011