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50
Citations
15661
World Ranking
10071
National Ranking
2830

Overview

Yanlei Yu is affiliated with Fudan University in China and has made significant contributions to research in engineering and materials science. Their work spans various subfields, including mechanical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include advanced materials and mechanics, liquid crystal research advancements, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, polymer composites and self-healing, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, micro and nano robotics, and synthesis and properties of polymers.

Yanlei Yu has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • Langmuir
  • Chinese Journal of Polymer Science

Selected recent papers by Yanlei Yu include:

  • "Geminate labels programmed by two-tone microdroplets combining structural and fluorescent color," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Advanced functional polymer materials," 2020, Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Liquid Crystal Soft Actuators and Robots toward Mixed Reality," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Ultralarge Contraction Directed by Light-Driven Unlocking of Prestored Strain Energy in Linear Liquid Crystal Polymer Fibers," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Soft Actuators of Liquid Crystal Polymers Fueled by Light from Ultraviolet to Near Infrared," 2021, Advanced Optical Materials

Yanlei Yu frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Lang Qin
  • Jia Wei
  • Chongyu Zhu
  • Xiaojun Liu
  • Bo Peng

Their research primarily addresses topics in advanced mechanics and materials, with a strong emphasis on liquid crystal polymers, functional polymers, and materials for sensors and energy harvesting. The work integrates both fundamental studies and applied research, particularly in the development of soft actuators, polymer fibers, and multifunctional labels.

Best Publications

  • Photomechanics: directed bending of a polymer film by light.

    Yanlei Yu;Makoto Nakano;Tomiki Ikeda

  • Photomechanics of liquid-crystalline elastomers and other polymers.

    Tomiki Ikeda;Jun-ichi Mamiya;Yanlei Yu

  • Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

    Jiu-an Lv;Yuyun Liu;Jia Wei;Erqiang Chen

  • Photomobile polymer materials: towards light-driven plastic motors.

    Munenori Yamada;Mizuho Kondo;Jun-ichi Mamiya;Yanlei Yu

  • Anisotropic Bending and Unbending Behavior of Azobenzene Liquid‐Crystalline Gels by Light Exposure

    Tomiki Ikeda;Makoto Nakano;Yanlei Yu;Osamu Tsutsumi

  • Photodeformable Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Crystal Polymers and Soft Actuators.

    Xinlei Pang;Jiu‐an Lv;Chongyu Zhu;Lang Qin

  • Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

    Munenori Yamada;Mizuho Kondo;Ryo Miyasato;Yumiko Naka

  • How Does the Initial Alignment of Mesogens Affect the Photoinduced Bending Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers?

    Mizuho Kondo;Yanlei Yu;Tomiki Ikeda

  • NIR-Light-Induced Deformation of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystal Polymers Using Upconversion Nanophosphors

    Wei Wu;Liming Yao;Tianshe Yang;Ruoyuan Yin

  • Soft Actuators Based on Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

    Yanlei Yu;Tomiki Ikeda

  • Three-Dimensional Photomobility of Crosslinked Azobenzene Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Fibers

    Taiki Yoshino;Mizuho Kondo;Jun-ichi Mamiya;Motoi Kinoshita

  • Effect of Cross-linking Density on Photoinduced Bending Behavior of Oriented Liquid-Crystalline Network Films Containing Azobenzene

    Yanlei Yu;Makoto Nakano;Atsushi Shishido;and Takeshi Shiono

  • Fully plastic microrobots which manipulate objects using only visible light

    Futao Cheng;Ruoyuan Yin;Yuanyuan Zhang;Chu-Chun Yen

  • Humidity- and Photo-Induced Mechanical Actuation of Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymers.

    Yuyun Liu;Bo Xu;Shengtong Sun;Jia Wei

  • Red-light-controllable liquid-crystal soft actuators via low-power excited upconversion based on triplet-triplet annihilation.

    Zhen Jiang;Ming Xu;Fuyou Li;Yanlei Yu

  • Photomechanical Effects of Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers Containing Azobenzene Chromophores

    Yanlei Yu;Taketo Maeda;Jun-ichi Mamiya;Tomiki Ikeda

  • Geminate labels programmed by two-tone microdroplets combining structural and fluorescent color.

    Lang Qin;Xiaojun Liu;Kunyun He;Guodong Yu

  • Alignment modulation of azobenzene-containing liquid crystal systems by photochemical reactions

    Yanlei Yu;Yanlei Yu;Tomiki Ikeda

  • Advanced functional polymer materials

    Kaojin Wang;Kamran Amin;Zesheng An;Zhengxu Cai

  • Photoinduced Deformation of Crosslinked Liquid‐Crystalline Polymer Film Oriented by a Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet

    Wei Wang;Xuemei Sun;Wei Wu;Huisheng Peng

  • Piecewise Phototuning of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures.

    Lang Qin;Wei Gu;Jia Wei;Yanlei Yu

  • Can sunlight drive the photoinduced bending of polymer films

    Ruoyuan Yin;Wanxian Xu;Mizuho Kondo;Chu-Chun Yen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomiki Ikeda
Tomiki Ikeda Chuo University
Christopher J. Barrett
Christopher J. Barrett McGill University
Xiao Zhang
Xiao Zhang Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Lei Jiang
Lei Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fuyou Li
Fuyou Li Fudan University
Wei Wang
Wei Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Huisheng Peng
Huisheng Peng Fudan University
Xuemei Sun
Xuemei Sun Fudan University
Ivan I. Smalyukh
Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado Boulder
Ben Zhong Tang
Ben Zhong Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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