软物质物理（Soft Matter Physics）是研究介于传统固体与液体之间的一类复杂可变物质体系的科学分支。典型的软物质包括高分子、胶体、液晶、泡沫、乳液、凝胶以及生物组织等。他们的共同特征是：结构柔软、能量尺度低、易受外界条件影响。它们的微观结构和宏观性质往往在外力、温度、浓度或界面张力等因素作用下发生显著变化。本团队的研究聚焦该体系下的新现象、新物理、新机制。

目前团队成员7人，包括1位美国工程院外籍院士、1位国家级青年人才、2位教授和3位副教授组成，团队负责人满兴坤教授。发表了PRL10余篇，Nature Com. 2篇，Physics Reports综述1篇等多篇SCI论文。主持多项国家自然科学基金，包含重点项目，中以国际合作项目等。在牛津大学出版社出版软物质物理教科书《Soft Matter Physics》。土井正男教授予2014年获得德国洪堡研究奖，以及2016年当选美国工程院外籍院士。成员受邀担任《Chinese Chemical Letters》（中国化学快报）、《Advanced Physics Research》、《Macromolecular Theory and Simulations》编委会委员。

研究方向：

• 高分子溶胀动力学

• 高分子动态密度泛函理论

• 高分子网络的粘弹行为

• 界面/微纳流动、流固耦合

• 低雷诺数体系流体力学

• 细胞物理与活性物质

• 微生物流体力学

代表性成果：

1. Z. C. Jiang, L. Tao, X. Y. Yang, M. Doi, Y. Xu*, and X. K. Man*, Uniform Deposition of Particles in Large Scale by Drying of Binary Droplets, Small, 2501549 (2025).

2. P. Liu, C. Huang, Y. Guo, Y. Zhai, H. Wu, Q. Jiang, H. Zhao, W. Wang, X. K. Man*, L. C. Gao*, and L. Jiang, Ionic-Nanotube Array Membrane Generating Ultrahigh Osmotic Energy Conversion, Adv. Mater. 2506913 (2025).

3. K. H. Zhang, Y. Z. Ren, S. H. Qi*, and Y. Jiang*, Identifying Memory Effects in Short-Time Dynamics of Polymer Systems by Machine Learning, Macromolecules, 58, 11465 (2025)

4. D. Wei^#, S. Hu^#, T. Tang, Y. Yang, F. Meng*, and Y. Peng*, Confinement Reduces Surface Accumulation of Swimming Bacteria, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 188401 (2025)

5. S. Hu* and F. Meng*, Multiflagellate Swimming Controlled by Hydrodynamic Interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 204002 (2024).

6. C. H. Huang, K. C. Bai, Y. Y. Zhu, D. Andelman, and X. K. Man*, Design and Fabrication of Nano-Particles with Customized Properties using Self-Assembly of Block-Copolymers, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2408311 (2024).

7. P. H. Lyu, Z. Y. Ding, M. Doi*, and X. K. Man*, A Unified Model for Non-Fickian Diffusion and Anomalous Swelling of Glassy Polymer Gels, ACS Macro Lett. 13, 484-488 (2024).

8. Z. C. Zhang, V. Bertin, M. H. Essink, H. Zhang, N. Fares, Z. Shen, T. Bickel, T. Salez, and A. Maali, Unsteady drag force on an immersed sphere oscillating near a wall, J. Fluid Mech. 977, A21 (2023).

9. Z. Y. Ding, P. H. Lyu, A. Shi, X. K. Man*, and M. Doi*, Diffusio-Mechanical Theory of Gel Bending Induced by Liquid Penetration, Macromolecules 55, 7092-7099 (2022).

10. X. X. Chen, D. Yan*, and S. H. Qi*, Swelling and Mechanical Response of Regular Irreversible Polymer Networks with Different Topological Microstructures, Macromolecules, 55, 8685 (2022)

11. G. Xu, T. Huang, Y. Han, and Y. Chen*. Morphologies and dynamics of the free surfaces of crystals composed of active particles, Soft Matter 18, 8830 (2022).

12. C. H. Huang, R. Podgornik, and X. K. Man*, Selective Adsorption of Confined Polymers: Self-Consistent Field Theory Studies, Macromolecules 54, 9602-9608 (2021).

13. C. H. Huang, Y. Y. Zhu, and X. K. Man*, Block copolymer thin films, Physics Reports 932, 1-36 (2021).

14. Z. C. Zhang, Y. Wang, Y. Amarouchene, R. Boisgard, H. Kellay, A. Würger, and A. Maali, Near-Field Probe of Thermal Fluctuations of a Hemispherical Bubble Surface, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174503 (2021).

15. S. Hu, J. Chu, M. J. Shelley*, and J. Zhang*, Levy Walks and Path Chaos in the Dispersal of Elongated Structures Moving across Cellular Vortical Flows, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074503 (2021).

16. X. K. Man*, and M. Doi*, Swelling dynamics of a disk-shaped gel, Macromolecules 54, 4626-4632 (2021).

17. T. Huang, Y. Han, and Y. Chen*, Melting and solid-solid transitions of two-dimensional crystals composed of Janus spheres, Soft Matter 16, 3015 (2020).

18. Z. C. Zhang, V. Bertin, M. Arshad, E. Raphaël, T. Salez, and A. Maali, Direct Measurement of the Elastohydrodynamic Lift Force at the Nanoscale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054502 (2020).

19. X. K. Man*, and M. Doi*, Vapor-Induced Motion of Liquid Droplets on an Inert Substrate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044502 (2017).

20. X. K. Man, and M. Doi*, Ring to Mountain Transition in Deposition Pattern of Drying Droplets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066101 (2016).