研究兴趣
低维系统物质和能量的非平衡定向输运 , 生物非线性中的噪声效应 , 低维系统热传导
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活性软物质的非平衡输运：自驱动粒子(胶体颗粒）的集体运动，定向输运，相分离，混合颗粒的分离以及微纳马达的输运。
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随机过程和布朗运动：布朗粒子的扩散和定向输运，布朗马达和分子马达，随机热力学性质，以及非平衡统计理论。
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低维材料热传导: 研究低维材料（碳纳米管, 石墨稀）, 热流非平衡定向输运的特性, 正常和反常热传导, 负微分热阻, 热整流效应等等。
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理论生物物理: 生物非线性中的噪声效应, 光合作用过程的量子输运, 量子马达。
发表论文（2010年至今)：(*通讯作者)
- Ya-feng He*, Bao-quan Ai*, Chao-xing Dai, Chao Song, Rui-qi Wang, Wen-tao Sun, Fu-heng Liu, Yan Feng*, Experimental Demonstration of a Dusty Plasma Ratchet Rectification and Its Reversal, Physical Review Letters 124 (2020) 075001.
- Yuhui Luo, Chunhua Zeng*, Bao-quan Ai*, Strong-chaos-caused negative mobility in a periodic substrate potential, Phys. Rev. E (2020).
- Fu-jun Lin, Jing-Jing Liao, Bao-quan Ai*, Separation and alignment of chiral active particles in a rotational magnetic field, Journal of Chemical Physics 152(2020)224903.
- Bao-quan Ai, Bu-yun Zhou, Xiao-miao Zhang, Binary mixtures of active and passive particles on a sphere, Soft Matter 16(2020) 4710.
- Wei-jing Zhu, Teng-chao Li, Wei-rong Zhong, Bao-quan Ai*, Rectification and separation of mixtures of active and passive particles driven by temperature difference, Journal of Chemical Physics 152(2020)184903.
- Jian-Chun Wu*, Tian-Wen Dong, Gui-Wen Jiang, Meng An*, Bao-quan Ai*, Particle separation induced by triangle obstacles in a straight channel, Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (2020)034901.
- Bao-quan Ai, Wei-jing Zhu, Jing-jing Liao, Collective transport of polar active particles on the surface of a corrugated tube, New Journal of Physics 21(2019)034901.
- Bao-quan Ai, Jia-jian Li, Zhu-qin Li, J. Xiong, Y. F. He, Rectification of chiral active particles driven by transversal temperature difference, Journal of Chemical Physics 150(2019)184905.
- Bao-quan Ai, Fan-hua Meng, Yu-ling He, Xiao-miao Zhang, Flow and clogging of particles in shaking random obstacles, Soft Matter 15(2019)3443.
- Jing-jing Liao,Xiao-qun Huang,and Bao-quan Ai*, Current reversals of active particles in the time-oscillating potentials, Soft Matter 14(2018)7850.
- Wei-jing Zhu, W. R. Zhong, J. W. Xiong, and Bao-quan Ai*, Transport of particles driven by the traveling obstacle arrays, Journal of Chemical Physics 149(2018)174906.
- Bao-quan Ai, Wei-jing Zhu, Ya-feng He, and Wei-rong Zhong, Giant negative mobility of inertial particles caused by the periodic potential in steady laminar flows, Journal of Chemical Physics 149(2018)164903.
- Jing-jing Liao, Wei-Jing Zhu, and Bao-quan Ai*, Transport and diffusion of paramagnetic ellipsoidal particles in a rotating magnetic field, Phys. Rev. E 97(2018)062151.
- Bao-quan Ai, Zhi-gang Shao, and Wei-rong Zhong, Mixing and demixing of binary mixtures of polar chiral active particles, Soft Matter 14(2018)4388.
- Jing-jing Liao, Xiao-qun Huang, and Bao-quan Ai*, Transport of the moving barrier driven by chiral active particles, Journal of Chemical Physics 148 (2018)094902.
- Bao-quan Ai, Transport and diffusion properties of Brownian particles powered by a rotating wheel, Phys. Rev. E 96(2017)012131.
- Bao-quan Ai and Feng-guo Li, Transport of underdamped active particles in ratchet potentials, Soft Matter 13(2017)2536.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, and Weirong Zhong, Effects of hydrodynamic interactions on rectified transport of self-propelled particles, Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017) 012116.
- Ya-li Ou, Shi-cai Lu, Cai-tian Hu, and Bao-quan Ai*, Bidirectional negative differential thermal resistance in three-segment Frenkel-Kontorova lattices, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 28 (2016)495301 (IOPSELECT).
- Bao-quan Ai, Ratchet transport powered by chiral active particles, Scientific Reports 6(2016)18740.
- Bao-quan Ai and Shi-Liang Zhu, Quantum scattering model of energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, Laser Physics Letters 12 (2015) 125201.
- Qun Chen and Bao-quan Ai*, Sorting of chiral active particles driven by rotary obstacles,Journal of Chemical Physics 143 (2015)104113.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong, Chirality separation of mixed chiral microswimmers in a periodic channel, Soft Matter 11(2015)3852.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, and Wei-rong Zhong, Entropic Ratchet transport of interacting active Brownian particles, Journal of Chemical Physics 141(2014)194111.
- Jian-chun Wu and Bao-quan Ai*, Two-dimensional sub-wavelength atom localization in an electromagnetically induced transparency atomic system, Europhysics Letters 107(2014)14002.
- Bao-quan Ai and Jian-chun Wu, Transport of active ellipsoidal particles in ratchet potentials, Journal of Chemical Physics 140(2014)094103.
- Wei-rong Zhong, Zhi-Cheng Xu, Dong-qin Zheng and Bao-Quan Ai*, Thermal conductivity of graphene in noble gaseous environments, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104(2014)081914.
- Zhi-gang Shao, Bao-quan Ai, Wei-rong Zhong, The effect of defects on negative differential thermal resistance in symmetric graphene nanoribbons, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104(2014)013106.
- Ai Bao-quan, Chen Qiu-yan, He Ya-feng , Li Feng-guo, Wei-rong Zhong, Rectification and diffusion of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional corrugated channel, Phys. Rev. E 88(2013)062129.
- Bao-quan Ai and Jian-chun Wu, Transport of finite size particles in confined narrow channels: diffusion, coherence, and particle separation, Journal of Chemical Physics 139(2013)034114.
- Feng-guo Li and Bao-quan Ai*, Current control in a two-dimensional channel with nonstraight midline and varying width. Phys. Rev. E 87(2013)062128.
- Ya-feng He, Bao-quan Ai, Fu-cheng Liu, Interaction of multiarmed spirals in bistable media, Phys. Rev. E 87(2013)052913.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Feng-guo Li, and Wei-rong Zhong, Hydrodynamically enforced entropic Brownian pump, Journal of Chemical Physics 138(2013)154107.
- Bao-quan Ai, Meng An, and Wei-rong Zhong, Nonlinear thermal conductance in single-wall carbon nanotubes: Negative differential thermal resistance, Journal of Chemical Physics 138 (2013)034708.
- Bao-quan Ai and Shi-Liang Zhu, Complex quantum network model of energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes, Phys. Rev. E86 (2012) 061917.
- Bao-quan Ai, Zhi-gang Shao, Wei-rong Zhong, Rectified Brownian transport in corrugated channels: fractional Brownian motion and Levy flights, Journal of Chemical Physics 137 (2012)174101.
- Bao-quan Ai, Wei-rong Zhong, Bambi Hu, Dimension dependence of negative differential thermal resistance in graphene nanoribbons, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116(2012)13810.
- Bao-quan Ai, Wei-rong Zhong, and Bambi Hu, Double negative differential thermal resistance induced by the nonlinear on-site potentials, Phys. Rev. E 83(2011)052102.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, and Wei-rong Zhong, Particle diode: Rectification of interacting Brownian ratchets, Phys. Rev. E 83(2011)051106.
- Bao-quan Ai and Bambi Hu, Heat conduction in deformable Frenkel-Kontoroval lattices: Thermal conductivity and negative differential thermal resistance, Phys. Rev. E 83(2011)011131.
- Wei-rong Zhong, Mao-ping Zhang, Bao-quan Ai*, Bambi Hu, Anomalous negative differential thermal resistance in a momentum-conserving lattice, Phys. Rev. E 84(2011)031130.
- Wei-rong Zhong, Mao-ping Zhang, Bao-quan Ai*, and Dong-qin Zhen, Chirality and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene: a molecular dynamics study, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98(2011)113107.
- Wei-rong Zhong, Wei-hao, Huang, Xi-rong Dong, and Bao-quan Ai*, Thermal rectification in thickness-asymmetric graphene nanoribbons, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99(2011)193104.
- Wei-Rong Zhong, Mao-Ping Zhang, Dong-Qin Zheng, and Bao-quan Ai*, Thermal conductivity of deformed carbon nanotubes, Journal of Applied Physics, 109(2011)074317.
- Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, and Wei-rong Zhong, Transport in periodic potentials induced by fractional Gaussian noise, Phys. Rev. E 82(2010)061102.
- Bao-quan Ai, Da-hai He and Bambi Hu, Heat conduction in Frenkel-Kontoroval lattices: Thermal pumping and resonance, Phys. Rev. E 81(2010) 031124.
- Ya-feng He and Bao-quan Ai*, Enhancement of the longitudinal transport by a weakly transversal drive, Phys. Rev. E 81(2010)021110.
- Dahai He, Bao-quan Ai, H. K. Chan, and Bambi Hu, Heat conduction in the nonlinear response regime: Scaling, boundary jumps, and negative differential thermal resistance, Phys. Rev. E 81(2010)041131.
- Bao-quan Ai and Ya-feng He, Directed transport driven by Levy flights coexisting with subdiffusion, Journal of Chemical Physics 132(2010)094504.
- Ya-feng He and Bao-quan Ai and Bambi Hu, Transformation between dense and sparse spirals in symmetrically bistable media, Journal of Chemical Physics 132(2010)184516.
- Ya-feng He and Bao-quan Ai, Time-delayed-feedback control of pattern formation in symmetrical bistable media, Journal of Chemical Physics 133(2010)114507.