Publications

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Preprints

Observation of a backward sliding for rollers on surfaces in viscoelastic fluid

Chengyu He^☭, Yateng Qiao^☭, Yu Cao, Boqi Liu, Zijie Qu^c, Gaojin Li^c, Xin Cao^c, under review, [PDF]

Hydrodynamic Interaction and Geometric Memory Effect Drive Directed Swimming of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii near Periodic Microstructures

Chunhe Li, Hongyi Bian, Zixiang Lin, Yi Man, Zijie Qu^c, under review, [PDF]

Bacterial Turbulence in Shear Thinning Fluid

Hongyi Bian, Chunhe Li, Jin Zhu, Zijie Qu^c, under review, [PDF]

Published Articles

2025

Hydrodynamic interaction leads to the accumulation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii near a solid-liquid interface

Chunhe Li, Hongyi Bian, Yateng Qiao, Jin Zhu, Zijie Qu^c

Physical Review E 111 (5) (Editor’s Suggestion)

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Facile Synthesis of Silicone Oil-Based Ferrofluid: Toward Smart Materials and Soft Robots

Leilei Chen^☭, Hengao Yu^☭, Jilan Yang, Jinzhuo Shi, Chunhe Li, Zijie Qu, Wendong Wang^c

ACS nano 19 (9)

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Propulsion contribution from individual filament in a flagellar bundle

Jin Zhu^☭, Yateng Qiao^☭, Lingchun Yan, Yan Zeng, Yibo Wu, Hongyi Bian, Yidi Huang, Yuxin Ye, Yingyue Huang, Russell Ching Wei Hii, Yinuo Teng, Yunlong Guo, Gaojin Li^c, Zijie Qu^c

Applied Physics Letters 126 (7)

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2022

Measuring the viscoelastic behavior of dilute polymer solutions using high-speed statistical particle microrheology

Zijie Qu^c, Xiongfeng Yi, Kenneth S Breuer

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation 89

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2021

Persistent fluid flows defined by active matter boundaries

Zijie Qu^c, Dominik Schildknecht^c, Shahriar Shadkhoo, Enrique Amaya, Jialong Jiang, Heun Jin Lee, David Larios, Fan Yang, Rob Phillips, Matt Thomson^c

Communications Physics 4 (1)

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2020

Effects of shear-thinning viscosity and viscoelastic stresses on flagellated bacteria motility

Zijie Qu^c, Kenneth S Breuer

Physical Review Fluids 5 (7) (Editor’s Suggestion)

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2019

Controlling organization and forces in active matter through optically defined boundaries

Tyler D Ross^c, Heun Jin Lee, Zijie Qu, Rachel A Banks, Rob Phillips, Matt Thomson^c

Nature 572 (7768)

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2018

Changes in the flagellar bundling time account for variations in swimming behavior of flagellated bacteria in viscous media

Zijie Qu^c, Fatma Zeynep Temel, Rene Henderikx, Kenneth S Breuer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (8)

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