国家外专千人计划Goran Ungar(翁家然)教授于2013年9月来校工作,组建并领导“软物质与纳米有序研究实验室”科研团队,在软物质分子设计及自组装行为研究方面做出了一系列具有国际影响的科研成果,迄今在顶尖国际学术期刊共发表SCI论文30篇,包括自然(Nature)子刊2篇(Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry)、德国应用化学(Angewandte Chemie) 2篇、美国化学会志(JACS)8篇等,其中有5篇作为封面文章在德国应用化学及美国化学会志等期刊上发表。这些工作是在与国内外著名高校的顶尖研究小组开展的密切合作研究取得的成果,其中包括美国宾夕法尼亚大学、英国谢菲尔德大学、德国Halle大学、日本东京大学、日本东北大学、北京大学、南开大学、西安交通大学、厦门大学、云南大学等。Ungar教授领导下的研究团队,有力推动了我校在软物质材料结构性能等研究领域的发展,在国内的影响力和学术地位得到了显著提高,有效提升了相关学科的学术水平以及我校在国际上的学术影响力。

发表论文清单:
(1)Lu, H., Zeng*, X., Ungar*, G., Dressel, C., Tschierske, C., The solution of the puzzle of smectic-Q: The phase structure and the origin of spontaneous chirality, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2018, 57(11): 2835-2840.
(2)Hou, X., Zhu, G., Ren, L., Huang, Z., Zhang, R., Ungar*, G., Yan*, L., Wang*, W., Mesoscale graphene-like honeycomb mono- and multilayers constructed via self-assembly of coclusters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140(5): 1805-1811.
(3)Cheng, H., Li, Y., Zeng, X., Gao, H., Cheng*, X., Ungar*, G., Trigonal columnar self-assembly of bent phasmid mesogens, Chemical Communications, 2018, 54(2): 156-159.
(4)Zhang, R., Zeng*, X., Ungar, G., Direct AFM observation of individual micelles, tile decorations and tiling rules of a dodecagonal liquid quasicrystal, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 2017, 29(41): 414001.
(5)Chen, Z., Hwang, S., Zeng, X., Roh, J., Jyongsik, Ungar*, G., Solvent diffusion in polymer-embedded hollow nanoparticles studied by in situ small angle X-ray scattering, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19 (32): 21663-21671.
(6)George*, S., Bentham, C., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Gehring*, G., Monte Carlo study of the ordering in a strongly frustrated liquid crystal, Physical Review E, 2017, 95(6):062126
(7)Zhang, R., Ungar*, G., Zeng, X., Shen, Z., Diverse configurations of columnar liquid crystals in cylindrical nano-and micropores, Soft Matter, 2017, 13(22): 4122-4131.
(8)Matsubara, M., Stevenson, W., Yabuki, J., Zeng, X., Dong, H., Kojima, K., Chichibu, S.,Tamada, K., Muramatsu, A.,Ungar*, G.,Kanie*, K.,A low-symmetry cubic mesophase of dendronized CdS nanoparticles and their structure-dependent photoluminescence, CHEM, 2017, 2(6): 860-876.
(9)Stevenson, W. D., Ahmed, Z., Zeng*, X., Welch, C., Ungar, G., Mehl, G. H., Molecular organization in the twist-bend nematic phase by resonant X-ray scattering at the Se K-edge and by SAXS,WAXS and GIXRD, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19(21): 13449-13454.
(10)Yao, X., Cseh, L., Zeng, X., Xue, M., Liu, Y., Ungar*, G.,Body-centred cubic packing of spheres – the ultimate thermotropic assembly mode for highly divergent dendrons, Nanoscale Horizons, 2017, 2(1): 43-49.
(11)Ho, M., Partridge, B., Sun, H., Sahoo, D., Leowanawat, P., Peterca, M., Graf, R., Spiess, H., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Heiney, P., Hsu, C., Percec*, V., Screening libraries of semifluorinated arylene bisimides to discover and predict thermodynamically controlled helical crystallization, ACS Combinatorial Science, 2016, 18(12): 723-739.
(12)Zeng, X., Prehm, M., Ungar*, G., Tschierske*, C., Liu*, F., Formation of a double diamond cubic phase by thermotropic liquid crystalline self-assembly of bundled bolaamphiphiles, Angewandte Chemie-Internaional Edition, 2016, 55(29): 8324-8327.
(13)Yen, M., Chaiprapa, J., Zeng, X., Liu, Y., Cseh, L., Mehl, G., Ungar*, G., Added alkane allows thermal thinning of supramolecular columns by forming superlattice- An X-ray and neutron study, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138(18): 5757-5760.
(14)Wang, S., Xu, H., Wu, X., Li*, P., Ungar, G., Liu, Y., Shen, J., Tang*, W., Structural, magnetic and electrical transport properties of double perovskite Tb2MnCoO6, Journal of Materials Research, 2016, 31(8): 1038-1045.
(15)Tschierske*, C., Ungar*, G., Mirror symmetry breaking by chirality synchronisation in liquids and liquid crystals of achiral molecules, CHEMPHYSCHEM, 2016, 17(1): 9-26.
(16)Cao*, X., Merlitz, H., Wu, C., Ungar, G., Sommer, J., A theoretical study of dispersion-to-aggregation of nanoparticles in adsorbing polymers using molecular dynamics simulations, Nanoscale, 2016, 8(13): 6964-6968.
(17)Roche, C., Sun, H., Leowanawat, P., Araoka, F., Partridge, B., Peterca, M., Wilson, D., Prendergast, M., Heiney, P., Graf, R., Spiess, H., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Percec*, V., A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality, Nature Chemistry, 2016, 8(1): 80-89.
(18)Soberats, B., Yoshio*, M., Ichikawa, T., Zeng, X., Ohno, H., Ungar*, G., Kato*, T., Ionic switch induced by a rectangular-hexagonal phase transition in benzenammonium columnar liquid crystals Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137(41): 13212-13215.
(19)Cseh, L., Mang, X., Zeng, X., Liu, F., Mehl*, G., Ungar*, G., Siligardil, G., Helically twisted chiral arrays of gold nanoparticles coated with a cholesterol mesogen, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137(40): 12736- 12739.
(20)Poppe, S., Lehmann, A., Scholte, A., Prehm, M., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Tschierske*, C., Zeolite-like liquid crystals, Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 8637.
(21)Wang, S., Li*, P., Zou, Y., Wu, X., Ungar, G., Liu, Y., Shen, J., Tang*, W., Crystal structure and electrical transport properties of polycrystalline TbMn1-xFexO3, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2015, 85: 81-85.
(22)Matsubara, M., Miyazaki, A., Zeng, X., Muramatsu, A., Ungar, G., Kanie*, K., Rheology of thermotropic liquid-crystalline dendron-modified gold nanoparticles, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2015, 617(1): 50-57.
(23)Partridge, B., Leowanawat, P., Aqad E., Imam M., Sun, H., Peterca, M., Heiney, P., Graf, R., Spiess, H., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Percec*, V., Increasing 3D supramolecular order by decreasing molecular order. A comparative study of helical assemblies of dendronized nonchlorinated and tetrachlorinated perylene bisimides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137(15): 5210-5224.
(24)Zhang, R., Zeng, X., Kim, B., Bushby, R., Shin, K., Baker, P., Percec, V., Leowanawat, P., Ungar*, G., Columnar liquid crystals in cylindrical nanoconfinement, ACS Nano, 2015, 9(2): 1759-1766.
(25)Wu, Y., Leowanawat, P., Sun, H., Partridge, B., Peterca, M., Graf, R., Spiess, H., Zeng, X.,Ungar, G.,Hsu, C.,Heiney, P.,Percec, V.,Complex columnar hexagonal polymorphism in supramolecular assemblies of a semifluorinated electron-accepting naphthalene bisimide., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137(2): 807-819.
(26)Dressel, C., Liu, F., Prehm, M., Zeng*, X., Ungar*, G., Tschierske*, C., Dynamic mirror-symmetry breaking in bicontinuous cubic phases, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2014, 53(48): 13115-13120.
(27)Liu*, F., Prehm, M., Zeng, X., Tschierske*, C., Ungar*, G., Skeletal cubic, lamellar, and ribbon phases of bundled thermotropic bolapolyphiles, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136(19): 6846-6849.
(28)Roche, C., Sun, H., Prendergast, M., Leowanawat, P., Partridge, B., Heiney, P., Araoka, F., Graf, R., Spiess, H., Zeng, X., Ungar, G., Percec*, V., Homochiral columns constructed by chiral self-sorting during supramolecular helical- organization of hat-shaped molecules,Journal of the American Chemical Society,2014, 136(19): 7169-7185.
(29)Zhang, R., Zeng, X., Prehm, M., Liu, F., Grimm, S., Geuss, M., Steinhart, M., Tschierske*, C., Ungar*, G., Honeycombs in honeycombs: Complex liquid crystal alumina composite mesostructures, ACS Nano, 2014, 8(5): 4500-4509.
(30)Tomasic, V., Mihelj, T., Zhang, R., Liu, F., Ungar*, G.,Mesomorphism of a new series of catanionic-(1-pentylheptyl)benzenesulfonates., Soft Matter, 2014, 10(39): 7887-7896.