Characteristics of A freezing Nanosuspension Drop in Two Schemes Reported by A USST Student of Class 2019

Recently, Miao Yanming, a student of class of 2019 from School of Energy and Power Engineering, USST, published an academic paper in international authoritative journal about physics: Applied Physics Letters (IF: 4.20). The research was supported by Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Qian Xuesen Laboratory and China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center besides USST, the unit of the first author and corresponding author: Zhao Yugang (special-term associate professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, USST).
In this work, we report how the shape of a frozen nanosuspension drop can be altered by simply changing its freezing scheme. Importantly, they show that these distinguished behaviors from freezing a drop of the same chemical composition under the same nucleation temperature may lead to a broader understanding of the solidification and crystallization of complex fluid systems. The phenomenon and the physics involved here can be generally applied to the solidification of other multi-component materials, such as freezing desalination, additive manufacturing, and metallic alloy casting. Miao Yanming has joined in the academic tutor’s team and then spent a lot of spare and vacation time on scientific activities since the second year at USST. Miao also applied for the innovation and entrepreneurship program. He made outstanding contributions of original meanings to experiment measurements, data analysis and model building of the paper.

Link to the paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0084094