Faculty Works Featured by Journal Cover

In a work published in Nature Nanotechnology, Pilkyung Moon and collaborators established a robust and versatile technique for band structure engineering of graphene by using an one-dimensional periodic potential.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from Springer Nature Customer Service Centre GmbH: Springer Nature. Yutao Li, Scott Dietrich, Carlos Forsythe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Pilkyung Moon, and Cory R. Dean. "Anisotropic band flattening in graphene with one-dimensional superlattices." Nature Nanotechnology 16, 5 (2021): 525-530. Copyright 2021.

In a work published in Chemical Reviews, John Zenghui Zhang and his collaborators discussed the methods to adjust polar solvation energy to improve the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA calculations and presented their latest applications in drug design and other related research fields.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from American Chemical Society. Ercheng Wang, Huiyong Sun, Junmei Wang, Zhe Wang, Hui Liu, John Z. H. Zhang, and Tingjun Hou, “End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: Strategies and applications in drug design”, Chemical Reviews 119, 16 (2019): 9478–9508. Copyright 2019.

In a work published in Neuron, Xinying Cai, Man Yi Yim and Xiao-Jing Wang located the region of the brain where decisions based on preference are translated into actions. Their findings could potentially improve medical professionals’ ability to treat social and behavioral disorders such as addiction, depression, and schizophrenia.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from Elsevier. Man Yi Yim, Xinying Cai, and Xiao-Jing Wang, “Transforming the choice outcome to an action plan in monkey lateral prefrontal cortex: A neural circuit model”, Neuron 103, 3 (2019): 520-532.e5. Copyright 2019.

In a work published in Science, Pilkyung Moon and collaborators revealed the emergence of a non-periodic quasicrystalline order by the combination of periodic atomic layers. The research findings opened a new field of designer quasicrystals.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from AAAS. Sung Joon Ahn, Pilkyung Moon, Tae-Hoon Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim, Ha-Chul Shin, Eun Hye Kim, Hyun Woo Cha, Se-Jong Kahng, Philip Kim, Mikito Koshino, Yong-Woo Son, Cheol-Woong Yang, and Joung Real Ahn, "Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal" Science 361, 6404 (2018): 782-786. Copyright 2018.

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In a work published in Chemical Science, John Zenghui Zhang and his collaborators advanced ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations using the fragment-based coupled cluster theory, more accurately revealing the structural and dynamical properties of liquid water under ambient conditions.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from Lian-Wen Qi and The Royal Society of Chemistry. Jinfeng Liu, Xiao He, John Z. H. Zhang, and Lian-Wen Qi, “Hydrogen-bond structure dynamics in bulk water: insights from ab initio simulations with coupled cluster theory”, Chemical Science 9, 8 (2018): 2065-2073. Copyright 2018.

In a work published in Soft Matter, Jun Zhang and his collaborators provide a potentially useful method for the delivery of pharmaceuticals during medical treatment by exploring a purely geometric means of biasing the motion of artificial nano-scale swimmers.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from Megan S. Davies Wykes and The Royal Society of Chemistry. Megan S. Davies Wykes, Xiao Zhong, Jiajun Tong, Takuji Adachi, Yanpeng Liu, Leif Ristroph, Michael D. Ward, Michael J. Shelley, and Jun Zhang, "Guiding microscale swimmers using teardrop-shaped posts", Soft Matter 13, 27 (2017): 4681-4688. Copyright 2017.

In a work published in Neuron, Xiao-Jing Wang and his collaborators reported a cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical loop model for inhibitory control. This work suggests potential circuit-based intervention for the inhibitory control deficits associated with neurological disorders.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from Elsevier. Wei Wei, and Xiao-Jing Wang, “Inhibitory Control in the Cortico-Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Loop: Complex Regulation and Interplay with Memory and Decision Processes”, Neuron 92, 5 (2016): 1093-1105. Copyright 2016.

In a work published in Physical Review Letters,  Vladas Sidoravicius and his collaborators find that statistical properties in the random hole-drilling model differ significantly from the classical percolation.  The result of their work challenges the conclusions made decades ago which suggested that the random hole-drilling model follows random percolation behavior. The paper extended the understanding of the percolation models, and attracted attention in the field.

Image reprinted/reproduced and used with permission by/from the American Physical Society. K. J. Schrenk, M. R. Hilário, V. Sidoravicius, N. A. M. Araújo, H. J. Herrmann, M. Thielmann, and A. Teixeira, “Critical fragmentation properties of random drilling: how many holes need to be drilled to collapse a wooden cube?”, Physical Review Letters 116, 5 (2016): 055701. Copyright 2016.