Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

Polymer Physics and Complex Fluids Group

Members

Group picture

Left to right : Chih-Tang Liao, Wei-Ting Yeh, Fan-Tso Chien, Guo-Jun Liao, Yeng-Long Chen, Yu-Hui Lin, Po-Nien Lin, Yi-Fan Wu, Shih-Hao Wang, Wei Chien, Dmytro Luzhbin, Stella Huang, Yu-Lo Wang, Ming-Hong Yu (not pictured)

Principle Investigator

Dr. Yeng-Long Chen

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
  • M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
  • B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1998

Research Interests

  • Polymer physics
  • Computer simulations of bio-macromolecule physics in confinement
  • Microscopic liquid state theory of colloidal and nano- particles
  • Thermodynamics of nanoparticle - polymer mixtures
  • Dynamics of complex fluids

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Senior Researchers

Supriya Roy

    Assistant Professor

Personal page

  • Ph. D., Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
  • M.Sc., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Research Interests

  • Phase transition of strongly confined systems
  • Ion diffusion of Fast Ion Conducting materials

Publications

  • Kartik Sau, Tamio Ikeshoji and Supriya Roy, Role of divalent cation (Ba) substitution in the Li+ ion conductor LiTi 2 (PO 4) 3: a molecular dynamics study, 14471, 22(2020)
  • Supriya Roy and Yeng-Long Chen, Nematic transition and liquid-liquid phase separation in semiflexible polymers–nanoparticle mixtures, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 65(2020)
  • Supriya Roy, Dmytro A Luzhbin and Yeng-Long Chen, Investigation of nematic to smectic phase transition and dynamical properties of strongly confined semiflexible polymers using Langevin dynamics, Soft Matters, 7382, 14 (2018)
  • Supriya Roy and P Padma Kumar, Influence of Cationic ordering on ion transport in NASICONs: Molecular dynamics study, Solid State Ionics, 217, 253(2013)
  • Supriya Roy and P Padma Kumar, Influence of Si/P ordering on Na+ transport in NASICONs, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 4965, 15(2013)
  • Supriya Roy and P Padma Kumar, Framework flexibility of sodium zirconium phosphate: role of disorder, and polyhedral distortions from Monte Carlo investigation, Journal of Material Science, 4946, 47(2012)
  • Supriya Roy and P Padma Kumar, Monte Carlo Investigation of Structural Changes in NZP Skeleton on Alkali Ion Substitution, AIP Conference Proceedings, 113, 1349(2011)

Junior Researchers

An-Jun Liu

  • B.S., Major in Physics, Minor in Computer Science, National Taiwan University

Research Interests

  • Computational physics

Publications

Chih-Tang Liao

  • M.S., Physics, National Chung-Hsing University
  • B.S., Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University

Research Interests

  • Soft matter physics

Publications

  • Pin-Tzu Su, Chih-Tang Liao, Jiunn-Ren Roan, Shao-Hung Wang, Arthur Chiou, Wan-Jr Syu, Bacterial colony from two-dimensional division to three-dimensional development, PLOS ONE 7, 11 (2012)

Rou-Jun Chou

  • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

Research Interests

  • Soft matter physics
  • Polymer physics

Publications

Jyong-Jhih Lin

  • M.S., Physics, National Dong-Hwa University
  • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan Normal University

Research Interests

  • Scientific Computing
  • High Performance Computing (hardware and software)

Yun-Ju Chen

  • M.S., Material Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University
  • B.S., Material Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University

Research Interests

  • Soft matter physics

Publications

  • Chen, Y., Polyacrylate/Graphene Composites Films from Graphene Dispersions Prepared by Solvothermal Method, in National Taiwan University 2020
    • Chen, Y., Su, D., Tsai, F., Polyacrylate/Graphene Composite Films from Graphene Dispersions Prepared by a Solvothermal Method, presented at Material Research Society - Taiwan Conference, Taipei City, 2020

Alumni

Arsen Grigoryan

  • Ph.D, Physics, Yerevan State University, 2006

Current Position

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Medical Center

Research Page

Ben Tan

  • Undergraduate, Columbia University

Wei Chien

  • Postdoc, Forschungszentrum Juelich
  • Ph.D., Physics, National Taiwan University
  • M.S., Physics, National Tsing-Hua University
  • B.S., Physics, National Tsing-Hua University

Research Interests

  • Dynamic phase diagram of deformable particle in flow

Publications

  • Google Scholar

    • Chia-He Lin

    • M.S., Physics, National Taiwan University
    • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

    Research

      Molecular dynamics modeling of gas aggregation on non-hydrophobic surfaces.

    Dmytro Luzhbin

    • Permanent staff member at the Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
    • Ph.D., Physics, Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

    Research Interests

    • Superconductivity
    • Dense polymer thin films
    • Computational physics

    Publications

    Eddie Kwan

    • Undergraduate, University of Michigan

    Sung, En-Cheng

    • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 2008

    Research Interests

    • Electrostatic

    Contact

    Fan-Tso Chien

      Teacher
    • Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2011
    • M.S., National Tsing Hua University, 2001
    • B.S., National Tsing Hua University, 1999

    Research Interests

    • Nucleosome dynamics
    • Epigenetic regulation
    • Single molecule force spectroscopy
    • DNA and Chromatin Biology

    Publications

  • Google Scholar

    Fan-Wei Wang

      Ph.D. U. Michigan candidate
    • M.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
    • B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
    • B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Research Interests

    • Fluid Physics

    Publications

    Guo-Jun Liao

    • Ph.D. candidate, Physics, TU Berlin
    • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

    Research Interests

    • Active Matter
    • Entropically-induced DNA condensation

    Hsueh Ching

      TSMC Engineer
    • Ph.D., Physics, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
    • M.S., Physics, National Central University, 2008

    Current Position

    • Ph.D. candidate, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

    Hui-Shun Kuan

      Postdoc at MPI
    • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado
    • B.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 2008

    Research Interests

    • Polymer physics

    Contact

    Jen-Fang Chang

    • M.S., MSE, National Taiwan University, 2005

    Research Interests

    • Polymer physics

    Contact

    Jennifer Kreft Pearce

      Associate Professor, Roger Williams University
    • Ph.D, Physics, The University of Texas, Austin, 2006

    Experience

    • Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Tyler

    Contact

    Lilin Wang

    • Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, 2007

    Current Position

    • Senior Engineer

    Po-Keng Lin

    • Ph.D, Physics, National Taiwan University, 2008

    Research Interests

    • Nanofluids
    • Biophysics
    • Single molecules physics

    Publications

    Contact

    Po-Nien Lin

    • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech
    • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Current Position

    Kevin Shen

    • Postdoc., Chemical Engineering, UCSB
    • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Caltech
    • B.S., Yale University

    Research Interests

    • Polymer Physics
    • Soft Matter Physics

    Shih-Hao Wang

      TSMC Engineer
    • Ph.D., Physics, National Taiwan University
    • B.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University

    Research Interests

    • Polymer physics
    • Field theory
    • Viscoelastic flow with polymer solutions
    • Cell and membrane physics
    • Self-aseembly of soft matter

    Publications

      Ivo Stachiv

        Research Fellow, Czech Academy of Sciences
      • Ph.D, Applied Mechaics, National Taiwan University, 2009

      Research Interests

      • Fluid mechanics
      • Vibration and control

      Publications

      Tzyy-Shyang Lin

      • Ph.D. candidate, Chemical Engineering, MIT
      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

      Research Interests

      • Polymer Physics

      Google Scholar

      Chia-Wei Hsu

        Assistant Professor, USC
      • Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University
      • B.S. Physics, Wesleyan University

      Personal Page

      Google Scholar

      Wen-Yu Huang

      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

      Wei-Ting Yeh

        TSMC Engineer
      • Ph.D., Physics, Nagoya University
      • M.S., Physics, National Central University

      Yi Chiang

        Teacher
      • M.S., Physics, National Taiwan University
      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

      Research

        Multiscale modeling of how structured particles transit through a constricted channel

      Yi-Fan Wu

      • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University
      • M.S., Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Sci. & Tech.
      • B.S., Physics, Soochow University

      Research Interests

      • Simulation of Shear-induced Droplets Deformation

      Yider Lin

      • Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas - Austin
      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 2007

      Current Position

      • PhD candidate, UT Austin

      Yu-Hui Lin

      • Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Tech
      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 2013

      Current Position

      • Research Assistant

      Publications

      • Yeng-Long Chen*, Yu-Hui Lin, Jen-Fang Chang, Po-Keng Lin, Dynamics and Conformation of Semiflexible Polymers in Strong Quasi-1D and -2D Confinement Macromolecules, (accepted)

      Yi-Xian Chen

      • M.S., Physics, National Taiwan University
      • B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University

      Research

        Lipid bilayer molecular dynamics simulation Nanobubble on hydrophobic surface MD simulation

      Others