Ass. Res. Liu Xiaoyan         Tel: +86-29-81530727        E-mail: xiaoyanliu@snnu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experiences：

PhD., KTH Royal Institute of Technology, (Sweden), (2015)

Postdoc, DTU, (Denmark), (2015-2018)

Research, Lund University, (Sweden), (2019-2022)

Research Interests：

Polymeric Nanoparticle Interfacial Adsorption;

Functional Surface Materials

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1.The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 22472092, "Endocytosis and Self-assembly of Soft Nanopartilces at Giant Lipid Vesicle", January 2025 - December 2028, RMB 500,000.

2. Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province, Grant No. 2024JC-ZDXM-09, "The Role of Physical Properties of Cell Membranes on Protein Adsorption at Solid Surfaces", January 2024 - December 2026, RMB 200,000.

3. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 21902098, "Thermosensitive Polymers with Tunable LCST− Biomimetic Lubrication", January 2010 - December 2022, RMB 260,000.

Representative Achievements:

1. Qi He, Shuwen Tan, Wenlong Xing, Yao Fu, Yi Lu, Xiaoyan Liu,* and Yu Fang, Elastic Modulus of Ultrathin Films Prepared via Interfacial Polymerization: Asymmetric Behavior and the Effect of Tip Radius, Langmuir, 2026, 42, 7943−7951.

2. Xiaojia Xu, Shuwen Tan, Yao Fu, Wenlong Xing, Yaping Song, Xiaoyan Liu*, and Yu Fang, Formation of Highly Negatively Charged Supported Lipid Bilayers on a Silica Surface: Effects of Ionic Strength and Osmotic Stress, Langmuir, 2025, 41, 2619−2628.

3. Xiaoyan Liu*^#, Shuwen Tan^#, Linda K. Månsson, Linnea Gunnarsson, Jenny Marie Andersson, Hanna Wacklin-Knecht, Jerome J. Crassous, Emma Sparr, Encapsulation of single vesicles and single cells in a crosslinked microgel cage, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2025, 690, 137339.

4. Shuwen Tan, Xiaojia Xu, Ting Zhang, Min Li,  Xiaoyan Liu*, Per M. Claesson, Yu Fang, Emulsion Stabilized by Biocompatible and Stimuli-Responsive Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam)-Based Microgels: Effects of Electrostatic Repulsion and Deformability on Emulsion Stability, Langmuir, 2024, 40, 16946–16958.

5. Xiaoyan Liu*, Thorsten Auth*, Nabanita Hazra, Morten Frendø Ebbesen, Jonathan Brewer, Gerhard Gompper, Jérôme J.Crassous, and Emma Sparr, Wrapping anisotropic microgel particles in lipid membranes: Effects of particle shape and membrane rigidity, PNAS, 2023, 120, e2217534120.