Chengjie Xia

Soft matter and granular physics: packing structures and phase transitions

Imaging techniques: X-ray CT, MRI

2024

1.    Shuaike Wang, Zhaoyang Ding, Shaoyan Wang, Bingwen Hu, E Wu, Chengjie Xia* and Mengdi Chen*, Approaching effective differential centrifugal fractionation by combining image analysis with analytical ultracentrifugation, Langmuir, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03161

2.    Yi Xing, Ye Yuan, Shuyang Zhang, Zhikun Zeng, Xu Zheng, Chengjie Xia* and Yujie Wang*, Origin of the critical state in sheared granular materials, Nat. Phys, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02353-4

2023

1.    Yunhao Ding, Jing Yang, Chenyang Wang, Zhichao Zhao, Jianqi Li, Bingwen Hu and Chengjie Xia*, Structural transformation between a nematic loose packing and a randomly stacked close packing of granular disks, Phys. Rev. Lett., 131, 098202 (2023) (Editor's Suggestion) (Featured in Physics)

2022

1.    Zhikun Zeng, Shuyang Zhang, Xu Zheng, Chengjie Xia, Walter Kob, Ye Yuan* and Yujie Wang*, Equivalence of fluctuation-dissipation and Edwards' temperature in cyclically sheared granular systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 129, 228004 (2022) (Editor's Suggestion)

2.    Yunhao Ding, Jing Yang, Yao Ou, Yu Zhao, Jianqi Li, Bingwen Hu and Chengjie Xia*, Structural evolution of granular cubes packing during shear-induced ordering, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 34, 224003 (2022)

3.     Yunhao Ding, Dianjinfeng Gong, Jing Yang, Zhen Xu, Zhichao Wang, Jianqi Li, Bingwen Hu and Chengjie Xia*, Cubatic structural transformation of granular cylinders packing, Soft Matter, 18, 726 (2022) (On front cover)

4.     Yang Jing, Gong Dianjinfeng, Wang Xiaoxue, Wang Zhichao, Li Jianqi, Hu Bingwen and Xia Chengjie*, Three-dimensional clogging structures of granular spheres near hopper orifice, Chin. Phys. B, 31, 014501 (2022) (Editor's Suggestion)

2021

1.     Zhen Xu, Jing Yang, Yunhao Ding, Yu Zhao, Jianqi Li, Bingwen Hu and Chengjie Xia*, Packing and void structures of octahedral, dodecahedral and icosahedral granular particles, Granular Matter, 23, 88 (2021)

2.     Ye Yuan, Yi Xing, Jie Zheng, Zhifeng Li, Houfei Yuan, Shuyang Zhang, Zhikun Zeng, Chengjie Xia, Hua Tong, Walter Kob, Jie Zhang and Yujie Wang*, Experimental test of the Edwards Volume Ensemble for tapped granular packings,  Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 018002 (2021) (Editor's Suggestion) (Featured in Physics)

3.     Yinfei Chen, Ming Yuan, Zhichao Wang, Yu Zhao, Jianqi Li, Bingwen Hu and Chengjie Xia*, Structural characterization and statistical properties of jammed soft ellipsoid packing, Soft Matter, 17, 2963 (2021)

Before 2019

1.       Binquan Kou, Yixin Cao, Jindong Li, Chengjie Xia, Zhifeng Li, Haipeng Dong, Ang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Walter Kob and Yujie Wang,Translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities in granular systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., 121, 018002 (2018)

2.       Yixin Cao, Jindong Li, Binquan Kou, Chengjie Xia, Zhifeng Li, Rongchang chen, Honglan Xie, Tiqiao Xiao, Walter Kob, Liang Hong, Jie Zhang and Yujie Wang,Structural and topological nature of plasticity in sheared granular materials, Nat. Commun., 9, 2911 (2018)

3.       Binquan Kou, Yixin Cao, Jindong Li, Chengjie Xia, Zhifeng Li, Haipeng Dong, Ang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Walter Kob* and Yujie Wang*, Granular materials flow like complex fluids, Nature, 551, 360 (2018)

4.       Chengjie Xia, Jindong Li, Binquan Kou, Yixin Cao, Zhifeng Li, Xianghui Xiao, Yanan Fu, Tiqiao Xiao, Liang Hong, Jie Zhang, Walter Kob and Yujie Wang*, Origin of noncubic scaling law in disordered granular packing, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 238002 (2017)

5.       Chengjie Xia, Jindong Li, Yixin Cao, Binquan Kou, Xianghui Xiao, Kamel Fezzaa, Tiqiao Xiao and Yujie Wang*, The structural origin of the hard-sphere glass transition in granular packing, Nat. Commun., 6, 8409 (2015)

6.       Chengjie Xia, Kuan Zhu, Yixin Cao, Haohua Sun, Bingquan Kou and Yujie Wang*, X-ray tomography study of the random packing structure of ellipsoids, Soft Matter, 10, 990 (2014)

7.       Chengjie Xia, Yixin Cao, Binquan Kou, Jindong Li, Yujie Wang*, Xianghui Xiao and Kamel Fezzaa, Angularly anisotropic correlation in granular packing, Phys. Rev. E, 90, 062201 (2014)

8.       Xiaodan Zhang, Chengjie Xia, Xianghui Xia and Yujie Wang, Fast synchrontron X-ray tomography study of the packing structures of rods with different aspect ratios, Chin. Phys. B, 24, 044501 (2014)

9.       Jindong Li, Yixin Cao, Chengjie Xia, Binquan Kou, Xianghui Xiao, Kamel Fezzaa and Yujie Wang, Similarity of wet granular packing to gels, Nat. Commun., 5, 5014 (2014)