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 xingkong星空集团官网 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., xingkong星空集团官网.*, 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. xingkong星空集团官网.*, Sustained Interfacial Powering through Self-Generated Mantle and Siphon of a Gelling xingkong星空集团官网, Nature Communications, 2026, 17, 2566.

3. Guo J., Zhou C., Tan H., Hu J., Hu C., xingkong星空集团官网.*, 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.*, xingkong星空集团官网.*, 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., xingkong星空集团官网.*, Li W.*, Yin X.*, xingkong星空集团官网.*, 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.*, xingkong星空集团官网.*, Capillarity Cascade in Crystalline Micro-Architectures for Voxelated Additive Manufacturing, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025, 6, 102730.

7. xingkong星空集团官网., Li W., xingkong星空集团官网. Q.*, Furcated Droplet Motility on Crystalline Surfaces, Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16, 1106-1112.

8. Li W., xingkong星空集团官网.*, xingkong星空集团官网. Q.*, Photopyroelectric Microfluidics, Science Advances, 2020, 6, 1693.

9. Han X., Li W., Zhao H. B., Li J. Q., xingkong星空集团官网.*, xingkong星空集团官网. Q.*, Slippery Damper of an Overlayer for Arresting and Manipulating Droplets on Nonwetting Surfaces, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 3154.

10. xingkong星空集团官网., Zhu P. A., Tian Y., Zhou X. C., Kong T. T. and xingkong星空集团官网. 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 (xingkong星空集团官网 patent, xingkong星空集团官网 62/329,022).

2. Wang L. Q. (34%), Li W. (33%), and Tang X. (33%) 2021, Loss-Free Liquids Manipulation Platform (xingkong星空集团官网 patent, xingkong星空集团官网 17/577,472).