Publications:

• [7] Haoran Xu* & Yilin Wu (2024). "Self-enhanced mobility enables vortex pattern formation in living matter" Nature 627,553-558. [Link]. [Full Text]. [arXiv].
• [6] Haoran Xu*, Mehrana R Nejad, Julia Mary Yeomans, & Yilin Wu (2023). "Geometrical control of interface patterning underlies active matter invasion" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 120.30:e2219708120. [Link]. [Full Text]. [arXiv].
• [5] Haoran Xu*, Yulu Huang, Rui Zhang, & Yilin Wu (2023). "Autonomous waves and global motion modes in living active solids" Nature Physics 19(1),46-51. [Link]. [Full Text]. [arXiv].
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• [4] Ye Li*, Shiqi Liu*, Yingdan Zhang, Zi Jing Seng, Haoran Xu, Liang Yang, & Yilin Wu (2022). "Self-organized canals enable long range directed material transport in bacterial communities." Elife 11e79780. [Link]. [Full Text] . [bioRxiv].
• [3] Siyu Liu*, Ye Li*, Haoran Xu, Daniel B. Kearns, & Yilin Wu (2022). "Active bulging promotes biofilm formation in a bacterial swarm." (Conditionally Accepted by PNAS) [bioRxiv].
• [2] Yilin Wu & Haoran Xu (2021) Self-organized collective motion in bacterial communities, in Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Physical Biology 18.5:051501 [Link]. [Full Text] .
• [1] Haoran Xu*, Justas Dauparas, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga, Yilin Wu (2019) Self-organization of swimmers drives long-range fluid transport in bacterial colonies. Nature Communications 10, 1792. [Link]. [Full Text]. [arXiv]. [Movie 1]. [Movie 2]. [Movie 3].
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