Xin Cao

Xin Cao is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on soft matter and colloid physics, with an emphasis on experimental studies of colloidal particles in various environments. He has published numerous papers in prestigious journals, including Nature Communications and Nature Physics, exploring topics such as colloidal dynamics, phase behaviors, and interactions in complex systems. Cao has also contributed to research on colloidal diffusion, topological defects, and directional locking in colloidal systems. He is currently recruiting master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs, interested in experimental colloid physics.

Xin Cao is a researcher at Shanghai Jiaotong University specializing in Soft Condensed Matter. Their work explores the dynamics of colloidal systems, including the behavior of colloidal clusters on periodic surfaces, the memory-induced Magnus effect, and nanotribology of colloidal monolayers. Cao's research also investigates the interaction between colloidal particles and surfaces, such as quasicrystalline-patterned surfaces and crystalline interfaces, focusing on phenomena like orientational and directional locking, frictionless nanohighways, and the motion of rollers in viscoelastic fluids. Additionally, they examine the ground-state phase-space structures of two-dimensional spin glasses and apply reinforcement learning to control magnetic colloids for micro-cargo transport.