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Since Jan 2020, Prof. Yachong Guo becomes a guest professor in the Institute Theory of Polymers at Leibniz institute for polymer research Dresden, Germany. Prof. Yachong Guo is associate professor for biophysics in Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R.China.
Fields of Research
Physics, chemistry and life science crossfield of soft condensate physics
- Biomolecules/nanomaterial interactions with cell membranes
- Non-equilibrium properties of active biosystems
- Liquid liquid phase transitions in biopolymers
- GPU High performance computering in biophysics
- Machine learning inspired material design
Education
06/2008-09/2011 Bachelor in Physics at Nanjing University of Information Sci. & Tech., P.R. China 01/2012-04/2016 PhD in Biophysics at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Selected Publication
Y. Guo, E. Terazzi, R. Seemann, J. B. Fleury, and V. A. Baulin,
Direct proof of spontaneous translocation of lipid-covered hydrophobic nanoparticles through a phospholipid bilayer
Science Advances 2, e1600261 (2016).
Y. Guo, M. Werner, R. Seemann, V. A. Baulin, and J.-B. Fleury,
Tension-Induced Translocation of an Ultrashort Carbon Nanotube through a Phospholipid Bilayer
ACS Nano 12, 12042 (2018).
Y. Guo, M. Werner, W. Li, J.-U. Sommer, and V. A. Baulin,
Shape-Adaptive Single-Chain Nanoparticles Interacting with Lipid Membranes
Macromolecules 52, 9578 (2019).
Y. Guo, M. Werner, J. B. Fleury, and V. A. Baulin
Unexpected cholesterol-induced destabilization of lipid membranes near transmembrane carbon nanotubes
Physical Review Letters Accepted (2020).