XU Lei
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Education:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2006-2009
- PhD, Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, 2006
- BS, Department of Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2000
Position:
- 2009-now, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Interests:
- Soft Condensed Matter Experiment
- Fluid Mechanics (liquid drop splash, liquid-solid impact, fingering instability)
- Complex Fluids (colloidal glass, colloidal crystallization, drying of complex fluids)
Selected Publications:
- P. Tan, N. Xu, A. Schofield and L. Xu, "Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095501 (2012).
- L. Xu, "Instability development of a viscous liquid drop impacting a smooth substrate", Phys. Rev. E 82, 025303 (2010).
- L. Xu, A. Berges, P. Lu, A. Studart, H. Oki, A. Schofield, S. Davis and D. Weitz, "Drying of complex suspensions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 128303 (2010). Highlighted as Editors' suggestions.
- L. Xu, S. Davis, A. Schofield and D. Weitz, "Dynamics of drying in 3D porous media", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094502 (2008).
- X. Cheng, L. Xu, A. Patterson, H. M. Jaeger and S. R. Nagel, "Toward the zero surface tension limit in the granular fingering instability", Nature Physics 4, 234 (2008).
- L. Xu, "Liquid drop splashing on smooth, rough, and textured surfaces", Phys. Rev. E 75, 056316 (2007).
Press:
- Our research on drop splashing was chosen as one of the twenty-five "Top Physics Stories for 2005", by American Institute of Physics.
It was also reported in the popular and scientific press, including:
New York Times, April 5, 2005; Nature, 435, 1168, 2005; Science, 308, 190, 2005; News@Nature.com, Feb. 7, 2005; Scientific American, 292 #6, 36, 2005; Science News, 167, 99, 2005; Discover, 26 #7, 11, 2005; Physics Web, Feb. 1, 2005; Financial Times Deutschland (Financial Times of Germany), April 12, 2005; Chicago Sun-Times, May 4, 2005. - Our paper "Drying of complex suspensions" published in Phys. Rev. Lett. was chosen as an editors' suggestion and highlighted in the Physics Synopses of APS.
