个人简历
2000.9-2003.7 清华大学数理基础科学班，学士 2004.1-2006.7 加拿大麦克马斯特大学物理系，硕士 2006.8-2011.9 美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校材料系，博士 2011.10-2013.9 美国西北大学材料系，博士后 2013.10-2018.1 美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校材料系，博士后 2018.3- 华南理工大学软物质高等研究院，教授
研究领域
软物质材料的理论计算与模拟，主要关注：（1）巨分子和超分子系统的多尺度结构与动力学演变；（2）高分子复合材料中的输运过程；（3）软物质中的玻璃化转变现象。
近期论文
1.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Microscopic theory of coupled slow activated dynamics in glass-forming binary mixtures, J. Phys. Chem. B, 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10568 (2018). 2.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Correlated matrix-fluctuation-mediated activated transport of dilute penetrants in glass-forming liquids and suspensions, J. Chem. Phys., 146, 194906 (2017). 3.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, “Statistical mechanical theory of penetrant diffusion in polymer melts and glasses”, Macromolecules, 49, 5727-5739 (2016). 4.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Theory of activated penetrant diffusion in viscous fluids and colloidal suspensions, J. Chem. Phys, 143, 144906 (2015). 5.Joshua M. Dempster, Rui Zhang, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Self-replication with magnetic dipolar colloids, Phys. Rev. E, 92, 042305 (2015). 6.Rui Zhang, Joshua M. Dempster, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Self-replication in colloids with asymmetric interactions, Soft Matter, 10, 1315-1319 (2014). 7.Rui Zhang, David A. Walker, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Accelerated self-replication under non-equilibrium, periodic energy delivery, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 173-177 (2014). 8.Rui Zhang, Prateek K. Jha, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Non-equilibrium ionic assemblies of oppositely charged nanoparticles, Soft Matter, 9, 5042-5051 (2013). 9.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Theory of nonlinear elasticity, stress-induced relaxation, and dynamic yielding in dense fluids of hard nonspherical colloids, J. Chem. Phys., 136, 154902 (2012). 10.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Kinetic arrest, dynamical transitions, and activated relaxation in dense fluids of attractive nonspherical colloids, Phys. Rev. E, 83, 060502(R) (2011). 11.Ryan C. Kramb, Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Charles F. Zukoski, Re-entrant kinetic arrest and elasticity of concentrated suspensions of spherical and nonspherical repulsive and attractive colloids, J. Chem. Phys., 134, 014503 (2011). 12.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Dynamic free energies, cage escape trajectories, and glassy relaxation in dense fluids of uniaxial hard particles, J. Chem. Phys., 133, 104902 (2010). 13.Ryan C. Kramb, Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Charles F. Zukoski, Glass formation and shear elasticity in dense suspensions of repulsive anisotropic particles, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 055702 (2010). 14.Rui Zhang, Kenneth S. Schweizer, Theory of coupled translational-rotational glassy dynamics in dense fluids of uniaxial particles, Phys. Rev. E, 80, 011502 (2009).
