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Overview

Lian Yu is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, pharmaceutical science, organic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Drug Solubility and Delivery Systems
  • Glass Properties and Applications
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions

Lian Yu has published research in several key venues, mainly:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Junguang Yu
  • Xin Yao
  • Yue Gui
  • M. D. Ediger
  • Yuhui Li

Significant recent publications by Lian Yu include:

  • "A general method for cultivating single crystals from melt microdroplets," 2020, Chemical Communications
  • "The Twelfth Solved Structure of ROY: Single Crystals of Y04 Grown from Melt Microdroplets," 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • "Rich polymorphism in nicotinamide revealed by melt crystallization and crystal structure prediction," 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • "Polymorphism of Piroxicam: New Polymorphs by Melt Crystallization and Crystal Structure Prediction," 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • "Surface diffusion in glasses of rod-like molecules posaconazole and itraconazole: effect of interfacial molecular alignment and bulk penetration," 2020, Soft Matter

Best Publications

  • Amorphous pharmaceutical solids: preparation, characterization and stabilization.

    Lian Yu

  • Organic Glasses with Exceptional Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability

    Stephen F. Swallen;Kenneth L. Kearns;Marie K. Mapes;Yong Seol Kim

  • Polymorphism in Molecular Solids: An Extraordinary System of Red, Orange, and Yellow Crystals

    Lian Yu

  • Thermochemistry and Conformational Polymorphism of a Hexamorphic Crystal System

    Lian Yu;Gregory A. Stephenson;Christine A. Mitchell;Charles A. Bunnell

  • Inferring thermodynamic stability relationship of polymorphs from melting data

    Lian Yu

  • Surface self-diffusion of an organic glass.

    L. Zhu;C. W. Brian;S. F. Swallen;P. T. Straus

  • Crystal growth kinetics exhibit a fragility-dependent decoupling from viscosity

    Mark Ediger;Peter Harrowell;Lian Yu

  • Selective nucleation and discovery of organic polymorphs through epitaxy with single crystal substrates.

    Christine A. Mitchell;Lian Yu;Michael D. Ward

  • Cross-Nucleation between ROY Polymorphs

    Shuang Chen;Hanmi Xi;Lian Yu

  • New polymorphs of ROY and new record for coexisting polymorphs of solved structures.

    Shuang Chen;Ilia A Guzei;Lian Yu

  • Solubilities of crystalline drugs in polymers: an improved analytical method and comparison of solubilities of indomethacin and nifedipine in PVP, PVP/VA, and PVAc.

    Ye Sun;Jing Tao;Geoff G.Z. Zhang;Lian Yu

  • Hiking down the Energy Landscape: Progress Toward the Kauzmann Temperature via Vapor Deposition

    Kenneth L. Kearns;Stephen F. Swallen;M. D. Ediger;Tian Wu

  • Physical characterization of polymorphic drugs: an integrated characterization strategy

    Lian Yu;Susan M Reutzel;Gregory A Stephenson

  • Surface crystallization of indomethacin below Tg.

    Tian Wu;Lian Yu

  • Nucleation of One Polymorph by Another

    Lian Yu

  • Influence of substrate temperature on the stability of glasses prepared by vapor deposition.

    Kenneth L. Kearns;Stephen F. Swallen;M. D. Ediger;Tian Wu

  • Solubility of Small-Molecule Crystals in Polymers: d-Mannitol in PVP, Indomethacin in PVP/VA, and Nifedipine in PVP/VA

    Jing Tao;Ye Sun;Geoff G. Z. Zhang;Lian Yu

  • Stable "inverse" sandwich complex with unprecedented organocalcium(I): crystal structures of [(thf)(2)Mg(Br)-C(6)H(2)-2,4,6-Ph(3)] and [(thf)(3)Ca{mu-C(6)H(3)-1,3,5-Ph(3)}Ca(thf)(3)].

    Sven Krieck;Helmar Görls;Lian Yu;Markus Reiher

  • Crystallization and Polymorphism of Conformationally Flexible Molecules: Problems, Patterns, and Strategies

    Lian Yu;and Susan M. Reutzel-Edens;Christine A. Mitchell

  • Surface-enhanced crystallization of amorphous nifedipine.

    Lei Zhu;Letitia Wong;Lian Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Ediger
Mark Ediger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Terry A. Miller
Terry A. Miller The Ohio State University
Lei Zhu
Lei Zhu Case Western Reserve University
Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo New York University
Ranko Richert
Ranko Richert Arizona State University
Stephen R. Byrn
Stephen R. Byrn Purdue University West Lafayette
Thomas F. Kuech
Thomas F. Kuech University of Wisconsin–Madison
George Fytas
George Fytas Max Planck Society

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