Ph.D. candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences, UW-Madison
M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University (PKU), China, 2017
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University (PKU), China, 2015
My research focuses on crystal nucleation. Crystal nucleation can influence the microstructure of metals, silicon and silicate glasses, and therefore their physical properties. The nucleation of water is very important for organisms and the hydrological cycle. Nucleation also influences the half-life of amorphous formulation in drug industry. Now, I am studying how a second component influences nucleation in glass-forming molecular liquids so that the nucleation process could be controlled by adding additives. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b01095. I am also interested in the effect of surface on nucleation. We found surface could increase nucleation rate by 11 orders of magnitude. Our goal is to understand and predict the effect of surface on nucleation.