Xin Tang is an Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). His research focuses on interfacial and micro/nanoscale flows, where interfaces often become the dominant regulators of motion and transport. As characteristic length scales decrease, capillarity, wettability, interfacial stresses, and coupled thermal, electrical, and concentration fields are greatly amplified, governing transports across biology, advanced manufacturing, energy systems, and miniaturized technologies. His group seeks to uncover how these interfacial effects generate motion, regulate transport, and organize matter, with particular interests in droplet and bubble dynamics, interfacial transport, microfluidics, and pattern formation. These physical principles are further explored in biomedical engineering, microrobotics, and advanced manufacturing. His work has appeared in journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He has served as principal investigator on multiple projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation.
Publications:
1. Guo Y., Guo J., Tang X.*, Crossflow air purification across kirigami-structured menisci, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2026, 7, 103455.
2. Zhou C., Liu C., Shi R., Liang H., Tan H., Zhuang K., Guo J. Tang X.*, Sustained Interfacial Powering through Self-Generated Mantle and Siphon of a Gelling Droplet, Nature Communications, 2026, 17, 2566.
3. Guo J., Zhou C., Tan H., Hu J., Hu C., Tang X.*, Ultraclean Self‐Assembly on Micro‐Bubble Lattice, Small, 2026, 22, e13748.
4. Cui X., Liu Y., Qiu X., Liu M., Cheng B., Zhou Y., Xue C., Zhang S.*, Tang X.*, Tang Q.* Photo-Gated Corona Microfluidics. Advanced Science, 2026, e76884.
5. Deng Q., Zhu H., Zhao Z., Li H., Yang L., Wu X., Zhang Y., Yu P., Tang X.*, Li W.*, Yin X.*, Wang L.*, Linear Magnet with Fluid-Solid-Switchable Cells for Flexible Devices, Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 1-11.
6. Tan H., Zhou C., Zhuang K. Liu C., Liang H., Wang Z., Cheng X.*, Tang X.*, Capillarity Cascade in Crystalline Micro-Architectures for Voxelated Additive Manufacturing, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025, 6, 102730.
7. Tang X., Li W., Wang L. Q.*, Furcated Droplet Motility on Crystalline Surfaces, Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16, 1106-1112.
8. Li W., Tang X.*, Wang L. Q.*, Photopyroelectric Microfluidics, Science Advances, 2020, 6, 1693.
9. Han X., Li W., Zhao H. B., Li J. Q., Tang X.*, Wang L. Q.*, Slippery Damper of an Overlayer for Arresting and Manipulating Droplets on Nonwetting Surfaces, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 3154.
10. Tang X., Zhu P. A., Tian Y., Zhou X. C., Kong T. T. and Wang L. Q.*, Mechano-Regulated Surface for Manipulating Liquid Droplets, Nature Communications, 2017, 8, 14831.
Patents:
1. Wang L. Q. (50%) and Tang X. (50%) 2016, Method for Rapid and Precise Manipulation of a Tiny Volume of Liquid Droplets (US patent, US 62/329,022).
2. Wang L. Q. (34%), Li W. (33%), and Tang X. (33%) 2021, Loss-Free Liquids Manipulation Platform (US patent, US 17/577,472).
