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Zhiwei Peng
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Latest papers
Mean first passage time of chiral active Brownian particles.
Soft matter · 2026 · senior author
Macrotransport of active particles in periodic channels and fields: Rectification and dispersion.
The Journal of chemical physics · 2024 · first author
2 publications.
01
Mean first passage time of chiral active Brownian particles.
Iyaniwura SA, Qiu M, Peng Z
Soft matter2026Senior author
02
Macrotransport of active particles in periodic channels and fields: Rectification and dispersion.
Peng Z
The Journal of chemical physics2024First author
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