Xiaoxia Li, Huang Fang, Krongtum Sankaewtong, Minhuan Li, Yanshuang Chen, Jiping Huang, Ran Ni, Hajime Tanaka, and P. Tan “Phase Reentrances and Solid Deformations in Confined Colloidal Crystals” Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018202 (2024).

M.Y. Zhan,Y.S. Chen, Z.H. Jiang, N. Xu and P. Tan “Multiple Scenarios of Low-Temperature Nucleation in Simple Liquids.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178201 (2023).

Y.S. Chen, Z.F. Ye, K.X. Wang, J.P. Huang, H. Tong, Y.L. Jin, K. Chen, Hajime Tanaka and P. Tan “Visualizing slow internal relaxations in a two-dimensional glassy system.” Nature Physics (2023).

M.H. Li, Z.Y. Yue, Y.S. Chen, H. Tong, L. Xu, L.M. Xu, Hajime Tanaka and P. Tan “Revealing thermally-activated nucleation pathways of diffusionless solid-to-solid transition.” Nature Communications 12, 4042 (2021).

Q. Gao, J.D. Ai, S.X. Tang, M.H. Li, Y.S. Chen, J.P. Huang, H. Tong, L. Xu, L.M. Xu, Hajime Tanaka and P. Tan “Fast crystal growth at ultra-low temperatures.” Nature Materials 20, 1431–1439 (2021).

Y.S. Chen, Z.W. Yao, S.X. Tang, H. Tong, Taiki Yanagishima, Hajime Tanaka and P. Tan “Morphology selection kinetics of crystallization in a sphere.” Nature Physics 17, 121-127 (2021).

C.C. Zhou, H.C. Shen, H. Tong, N. Xu and P. Tan “Coupling between Particle Shape and Long-Range Interaction in the High-Density Regime.” Chin. Phys. Let 37, 8 (2020).

M.H. Li, Y.S. Chen, Hajime Tanaka, and P. Tan “Revealing roles of competing local structural orderings in crystallization of polymorphic systems.” Science Advances 6, 27 (2020).

H.C.Shen, H. Tong, P. Tan and L. Xu “A universal state and its relaxation mechanisms of long-range interacting polygons.” Nature Communications 10, 1737 (2019).

H. Tong, H. Hu, P. Tan, N. Xu and Hajime Tanaka, “Revealing Inherent Structural Characteristics of Jammed Particulate Packings.” Physical Review Letters 122, 215502 (2019).

M.J. Zu, P. Tan and N. Xu, “Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles.” Nature Communications 8, 2089 (2017).

H.C.Shen, P. Tan* and L. Xu*, “Probing the role of mobility in the collective motion of nonequilibrium systems.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 048302 (2016). (Editor’s suggestion.)

Y Liu, P Tan*, L Xu*, “Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in an ultrathin air film causes drop splashing on smooth surfaces.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (11), 3280-3284 (2015).

P.Tan, N. Xu and L. Xu, “Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization.” Nature Physics 10, 73-79 (2014).
This paper is highlighted in “News and Views” in Nature Physics, 10,12-23 (2014).

Q. Jin, P. Tan, Andrew B. Schofield and L. Xu, “Eliminating cracking during drying.” Eur. Phys. J. E 36, 28 (2013).

Y. Liu, P. Tan and L. Xu, “Compressible air entrapment in high-speed drop impacts on solid surfaces.” J. Fluid Mech. 716, R9 (2013).

G. Chen, P. Tan*, S. Y. Chen, J. P. Huang, W. J. Wen and L. Xu*, “Coalescence of Pickering emulsion droplets induced by an electric field.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 064502 (2013).

P. Tan, N. Xu, A. B. Schofield and L. Xu, “Understanding the low-frequency quasi-localized modes in disordered colloidal systems.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095501 (2012).

P. Tan and L. Xu, “Some typical self-organization phenomena in soft condensed matter physics.” 物理(Physics) 41(1), 2012.

P. Tan, J. P. Huang , D. K. Liu, W. J. Tian and L. W. Zhou, “Colloidal electrostatic interactions between TiO2 particles modified by thin salt solution layers.” Soft Matter 6, 4800-4806 (2010).

P. Tan, W. J. Tian, X. F. Wu, J. Y. Huang, L. W. Zhou and J. P. Huang, “Saturated orientational polarization of polar molecules in giant electrorheological fluids.” J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 9092–9097 (2009).

P. Tan, W. J. Tian, J. P. Huang and L. W. Zhou, “On the Lorentz local electric field in soft-matter systems.” J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 5412–5417 (2009).

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