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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Shu Yang is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and materials science, focusing on the development and application of advanced materials and mechanics.

The primary fields of study for Shu Yang include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Main subfields within these areas reflect a diverse research portfolio:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Their work addresses several key research topics, notably:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Shu Yang has contributed extensively to scholarly literature, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Repeatable and Reprogrammable Shape Morphing from Photoresponsive Gold Nanorod/Liquid Crystal Elastomers," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Bioinspired, Omnidirectional, and Hypersensitive Flexible Strain Sensors," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Multi-functional liquid crystal elastomer composites," 2022, Applied Physics Reviews
  • "Twisting for soft intelligent autonomous robot in unstructured environments," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Broadband and pixelated camouflage in inflating chiral nematic liquid crystalline elastomers," 2021, Nature Materials

The most frequent venues where Shu Yang publishes include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Science Advances

Frequent collaborators associated with Shu Yang's research include:

  • Yuchen Wang
  • So Hee Nah
  • Yuchong Gao
  • Yinding Chi
  • Kunyu Wang

In recognition of their contributions, Shu Yang was awarded the title of Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Thickness-independent capacitance of vertically aligned liquid-crystalline MXenes.

    Yu Xia;Tyler S. Mathis;Meng-Qiang Zhao;Meng-Qiang Zhao;Babak Anasori

  • Harnessing Surface Wrinkle Patterns in Soft Matter

    Shu Yang;Krishnacharya Khare;Pei-Chun Lin

  • From rolling ball to complete wetting: the dynamic tuning of liquids on nanostructured surfaces

    Tom N Krupenkin;J Ashley Taylor;Tobias M Schneider;Shu Yang

  • Temperature-Controlled Assembly and Release from Polymer Vesicles of Poly(ethylene oxide)-block- poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

    Shuhui Qin;Yan Geng;Dennis E. Discher;Shu Yang

  • A robust smart window: reversibly switching from high transparency to angle-independent structural color display.

    Dengteng Ge;Elaine Lee;Lili Yang;Yigil Cho

  • Tunable liquid microlens

    Timofei Nikita Kroupenkine;Shu Yang

  • Fabrication of All-Water-Based Self-Repairing Superhydrophobic Coatings Based on UV-Responsive Microcapsules

    Kunlin Chen;Shuxue Zhou;Shu Yang;Limin Wu

  • Swelling‐Induced Surface Patterns in Hydrogels with Gradient Crosslinking Density

    Murat Guvendiren;Shu Yang;Jason A. Burdick

  • Engineering the shape and structure of materials by fractal cut

    Yigil Cho;Joong-Ho Shin;Avelino Costa;Tae Ann Kim

  • Fabricating complex three-dimensional nanostructures with high-resolution conformable phase masks

    Seokwoo Jeon;Jang Ung Park;Ray Cirelli;Shu Yang;Shu Yang

  • Transparent, superhydrophobic surfaces from one-step spin coating of hydrophobic nanoparticles.

    Lebo Xu;Raghuraman G. Karunakaran;Jia Guo;Shu Yang

  • Self-assembly of nanostructures towards transparent, superhydrophobic surfaces

    Yudi Rahmawan;Lebo Xu;Shu Yang

  • Universal inverse design of surfaces with thin nematic elastomer sheets.

    Hillel Aharoni;Yu Xia;Xinyue Zhang;Randall D. Kamien

  • Programmable Kiri-Kirigami Metamaterials.

    Yichao Tang;Gaojian Lin;Shu Yang;Yun Kyu Yi

  • Stability of high-aspect-ratio micropillar arrays against adhesive and capillary forces.

    Dinesh Chandra;Shu Yang

  • Chemical Aspects of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

    Jun Hyuk Moon;Shu Yang

  • Replica Molding of High-Aspect-Ratio Polymeric Nanopillar Arrays with High Fidelity

    Ying Zhang;Chi-Wei Lo,†,§;and J. Ashley Taylor;Shu Yang

  • Highly Transparent Superhydrophobic Surfaces from the Coassembly of Nanoparticles (≤100 nm)

    Raghuraman G. Karunakaran;Cheng-Hsin Lu;Zanhe Zhang;Shu Yang

  • Mechanically tunable dry adhesive from wrinkled elastomers

    Pei-Chun Lin;Pei-Chun Lin;Shilpi Vajpayee;Anand Jagota;Chung-Yuen Hui

  • Spontaneous formation of one-dimensional ripples in transit to highly ordered two-dimensional herringbone structures through sequential and unequal biaxial mechanical stretching

    Pei-Chun Lin;Shu Yang

  • Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals.

    Apiradee Honglawan;Daniel A. Beller;Marcello Cavallaro;Randall D. Kamien

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen J. Stebe
Kathleen J. Stebe University of Pennsylvania
Jun Hyuk Moon
Jun Hyuk Moon Korea University
Joanna Aizenberg
Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University
Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
Russell J. Composto
Russell J. Composto University of Pennsylvania
Elsa Reichmanis
Elsa Reichmanis Lehigh University
John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers Northwestern University
Christopher K. Ober
Christopher K. Ober Cornell University
Anand Jagota
Anand Jagota Lehigh University
Seung-Man Yang
Seung-Man Yang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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