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Emerging Leaders 2024/25 Awards selected by IOP Journal of Physics: Condesed Matter

第十九届北京师范大学青年教师基本功大赛最佳教案奖

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第十九届北京师范大学青年教师基本功大赛二等奖

中国物理年会优秀口头报告奖

国家留学基金委公派留学资助

北京大学优秀博士

北京大学创新奖

北京大学光华奖

代表性论著:

17. Tong Liu, Chongteng Wu, Ziqi Sun, Yongkang Jiang, Tao Zhang, Zhenwei Wu, Maozhi Li, Yuefeng Su*, Gang Sun*, Duanyun Cao*, Temperature-dependent island size-morphology correlation in Smoluchowski ripening from machine-learning molecular dynamics, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2027,289: 287–295 (IF: 16.8  JCR 一区（Top))

16. Zifeng Yuan; Chengjie Xia; Peng Tan; Xun-Li Wang; Gang Sun*; Limei Xu; Kinetic control of chiral helicity in curvature-frustracted crystallization, Science Bulletin, 2026, S2095-9273 (IF: 20.7  JCR 一区（Top))

15. Kun Qiu, Huaze Shen; Gang Sun*; How surface curvature shapes water nanodroplets in air, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2026, 38:295401 (Invited; Editor's Choice; Emerging Leaders 2024/25)  

14. Jiaxing Yuan; Kun Qiu; Gang Sun; Hajime Tanaka; Competing hydrogen-bond orders drives water's anomalous surface tension, Nature Communications, 2026, 17:1498

13. Gang Sun; Hajime Tanaka; The secret role of water's structure near surfaces in ice formation, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (IF: 9.36 JCR 一区，中科院一区（Top）), 2025, 698: 137812 （日本经济新闻报道）

12. Gang Sun; Peter Harrowell; Influence of bond and pinning constraints on configurational restraint in a supercooled liquid, Physical Review E, 2025. 112:035407

11. Gang Sun; Hajime Tanaka; Surface-induced water crystallisation driven by precursors formed in negative pressure regions, Nature Communications, 2024. 15:6083

10. Gang Sun; Jenny Xu; Peter Harrowell; The mechanism of the ultrafastcrystal growth of pure metals from their melts, Nature Materials, 2018.17:881-887.  （Chemistry World News报道）

9. Gang Sun; Alexander Hawken; Peter Harrowell; The displacement fieldassociated with the freezing of a melt and its role in determining crystalgrowth kinetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. 117(7): 3421-3426. 

8. Gang Sun; Limei Xu; Nicolas Giovambatta; Anomalous Features in thePotential Energy Landscape of a Waterlike Monatomic Model with Liquid andGlass Polymorphism, Physical Review Letters, 2018. 120(3): 035701. 

7. Gang Sun; Shibu Saw; Ian Douglass; Peter Harrowell; Structural Originof Enhanced Dynamics at the Surface of a Glassy Alloy, Physical Review Letters,2017. 119(24): 245501. 

6. Gang Sun; Nicolas Giovambattista; Enge Wang; limei Xu; Effects ofsurface structure and solvophilicity on the crystallization of confined liquids, Soft Matter, 2013. 9: 11374-11382. 

5. Gang Sun; Peter Harrowell; How Real are Liquid Groundstates? Ultra-Fast Crystal Growth and the Susceptibility of Energy Minima in Liquids, The Journal of Chemical Physics. 

4. Yizhi Liu; Gang Sun*; Limei Xu*; Glass polyamorphism in gallium: Twoamorphous solid states and their transformation on the potential energylandscape, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021. 154: 134503.  （通讯作者）

3. Yizhi Liu#; Gang Sun#; Ali Eltareb#; Gustavo E Lopez; Nicolas Giovambattista; Limei Xu; Nuclear quantum effects on the thermodynamicresponse functions of a polymorphic waterlike monatomic liquid, Physical Review Research, 2020. 2(1): 013153.  （共同一作）

2. Gang Sun; Limei Xu; Nicolas Giovambattista; Relationship between the potential energy landscape and the dynamic crossover in a water-like monatomicliquid with a liquid-liquid phase transition, The Journal of Chemical Physics,2017. 146(1): 014503.

1. Gang Sun; Ying Wang; Aleksey Lomakin; George B Benedek; H Eugene Stanley; Limei Xu; Sergey V Buldyrev; The phase behavior study of humanantibody solution using multi-scale modeling, The Journal of Chemical Physics,2016. 145(19): 194901.