Jie Yin

A Perspective on Miniature Soft Robotics: Actuation, Fabrication, Control, and Applications

Chi, Y., Zhao, Y., Hong, Y., Li, Y., & Yin, J. (2023, April 26). ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.

A kirigami-enabled electrochromic wearable variable-emittance device for energy-efficient adaptive personal thermoregulation

PNAS NEXUS, 2(6).

A solar/radiative cooling dual-regulation smart window based on shape-morphing kirigami structures

Wang, S., Dong, Y., Li, Y., Ryu, K., Dong, Z., Chen, J., … Long, Y. (2023, July 21). MATERIALS HORIZONS.

Angle-programmed tendril-like trajectories enable a multifunctional gripper with ultradelicacy, ultrastrength, and ultraprecision

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1).

Bio-Inspired, Scalable, and Tri-Mode Stimuli-Chromic Composite for Smart Window Multifunctionality

Ke, Y., Li, N., Liu, Y., Zhu, T., Wang, S., Li, Y., … Long, Y. (2023, September 1). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS.

Caterpillar-inspired soft crawling robot with distributed programmable thermal actuation

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 9(12).

Engineering Dynamic Structural Color Pixels at Microscales by Inhomogeneous Strain-Induced Localized Topographic Change

Ke, Y., Ruan, Q., Li, Y., Wang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, W., … Yang, J. K. W. (2023, June 8). NANO LETTERS.

Spiral-Shape Fast-Moving Soft Robots

Mu, W., Li, M., Chen, E., Yang, Y., Yin, J., Tao, X., … Yin, R. (2023, May 25). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 5.

Bistable and Multistable Actuators for Soft Robots: Structures, Materials, and Functionalities

[Review of ]. ADVANCED MATERIALS, 34(19).

Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1).

On-Demand Solar and Thermal RadiationManagement Based on Switchable Interwoven Surfaces

ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 7(5), 1758–1763.

Self-Sustained Snapping Drives Autonomous Dancing and Motion in Free-Standing Wavy Rings

Zhao, Y., Hong, Y., Qi, F., Chi, Y., Su, H., & Yin, J. (2022, December 27). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 12.

Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient butterfly stroke-like soft swimmer

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(46).

3D Transformable Modular Kirigami Based Programmable Metamaterials

Li, Y., Zhang, Q., Hong, Y., & Yin, J. (2021, July 29). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS.

Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics

Wu, S., Baker, G. L., Yin, J., & Zhu, Y. (2021, December 7). SOFT ROBOTICS.

Geometric mechanics of folded kirigami structures with tunable bandgap

EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, 49.

Metamorphosis of three-dimensional kirigami-inspired reconfigurable and reprogrammable architected matter

MATERIALS TODAY PHYSICS, 21.

Microstructural design for mechanical-optical multifunctionality in the exoskeleton of the flower beetle Torynorrhina flammea

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118(25).

Shape-morphing materials and structures for energy-efficient building envelopes

MATERIALS TODAY ENERGY, 22.

Cephalopod-inspired versatile design based on plasmonic VO2 nanoparticle for energy-efficient mechano-thermochromic windows

NANO ENERGY, 73.

Deciphering, Designing, and Realizing Self-Folding Biomimetic Microstructures Using a Mass-Spring Model and Inkjet-Printed, Self-Folding Hydrogels

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 30(39).

Leveraging Monostable and Bistable Pre-Curved Bilayer Actuators for High-Performance Multitask Soft Robots

ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, 5(9).

Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 6(19).

Adaptive Thermochromic Windows from Active Plasmonic Elastomers

Joule, 3(3), 858–871.

Free‐Standing Buckle‐Delaminated 2D Organic Nanosheets with Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Multifunctionality

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 6(17), 1900561.

Kirigami‐Inspired Stretchable Conjugated Electronics

Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(1), 1900929.

Mechanical properties of stingray tesserae: High-resolution correlative analysis of mineral density and indentation moduli in tessellated cartilage

Acta Biomaterialia, 96, 421–435.

Nanoparticle-Infused UHMWPE Layer as Multifunctional Coating for High-Performance PPTA Single Fibers

Scientific Reports, 9(1).

Programmable active kirigami metasheets with more freedom of actuation

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116(52), 26407–26413.

Smart Windows: Electro-, Thermo-, Mechano-, Photochromics, and Beyond

[Review of ]. ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 9(39).

Smart Windows: Smart Windows: Electro‐, Thermo‐, Mechano‐, Photochromics, and Beyond (Adv. Energy Mater. 39/2019)

Advanced Energy Materials, 9(39), 1970153.

Structure-mechanical property relations of skin-core regions of poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) single fiber

Scientific Reports, 9, 740.

Constrained droplet base in condensed water on carbon nanoparticle coating for delayed freezing

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 24, 38–46.

Design of Multifunctional Soft Doming Actuator for Soft Machines

Advanced Materials Technologies, 3(7), 1800069.

Developing an advanced daylight model for building energy tool to simulate dynamic shading device

Solar Energy, 163, 140–149.

Highly efficient fog harvesting on superhydrophobic microfibers through droplet oscillation and sweeping

Soft Matter, 14(41), 8276–8283.

Kirigami-Inspired Nanoconfined Polymer Conducting Nanosheets with 2000% Stretchability

Advanced Materials, 30(20), 1706390.

Small degree of anisotropic wetting on self-similar hierarchical wrinkled surfaces

Soft Matter, 14(9), 1517–1529.

Spontaneous buckling-driven periodic delamination of thin films on soft substrates under large compression

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 118, 40–57.

Switchable Adhesion Actuator for Amphibious Climbing Soft Robot

Soft Robotics, 5(5), 592–600.

Cuts Guided Deterministic Buckling in Arrays of Soft Parallel Plates for Multifunctionality

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(34), 29345–29354.

Design of cut unit geometry in hierarchical kirigami-based auxetic metamaterials for high stretchability and compressibility

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 12, 77–85.

Non-additive impacts of covalent cross-linking on the viscoelastic nanomechanics of ionic polyelectrolyte complexes

RSC Advances, 7(84), 53334–53345.

Origami and kirigami inspired self-folding for programming three-dimensional shape shifting of polymer sheets with light

Extreme Mechanics Letters, 11, 111–120.

Self-similar Hierarchical Wrinkles as a Potential Multifunctional Smart Window with Simultaneously Tunable Transparency, Structural Color, and Droplet Transport

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(31), 26510–26517.

Spontaneous Periodic Delamination of Thin Films To Form Crack-Free Metal and Silicon Ribbons with High Stretchability

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(51), 44938–44947.

Nanomechanics of layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte complexes: a manifestation of ionic cross-links and fixed charges

Soft Matter, 12(4), 1158–1169.

Programmable Kiri-Kirigami Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, 29(10), 1604262.

Controlled Crumpling of Graphene Oxide Films for Tunable Optical Transmittance

Advanced Materials, 27(21), 3256–3265.

Design of Hierarchically Cut Hinges for Highly Stretchable and Reconfigurable Metamaterials with Enhanced Strength

Advanced Materials, 27(44), 7181–7190.

Elastoplastic Inverse Opals as Power-Free Mechanochromic Sensors for Force Recording

Advanced Functional Materials, 25(38), 6041–6049.

Unique wrinkles as identity tags

Nature, 520(7546), 164–165.

Biaxially Mechanical Tuning of 2-D Reversible and Irreversible Surface Topologies through Simultaneous and Sequential Wrinkling

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6(4), 2850–2857.

Design of Ordered Wrinkled Patterns with Dynamically Tuned Properties

Physics Procedia, 46, 40–45.

Collective Mechanical Behavior of Multilayer Colloidal Arrays of Hollow Nanoparticles

Langmuir, 28(13), 5580–5588.

Deterministic Order in Surface Micro-Topologies through Sequential Wrinkling

Advanced Materials, 24(40), 5441–5446.

Mechanical Self-Assembly in Nature

In Mechanical Self-Assembly (pp. 1–8).

Mechanical Self-Assembly on Curved Substrates

In Mechanical Self-Assembly (pp. 171–199).

Mechanical Self-Assembly vs. Morphogenesis

In Mechanical Self-Assembly (pp. 9–23).

Tunable stimulus-responsive friction mechanisms of polyelectrolyte films and tube forests

Soft Matter, 8(33), 8642.

Mechanics of Nanoindentation on a Monolayer of Colloidal Hollow Nanoparticles

Langmuir, 27(17), 10492–10500.

Buckling patterns of thin films on curved compliant substrates with applications to morphogenesis and three-dimensional micro-fabrication

Soft Matter, 6(22), 5667.

Mechanical modeling of a wrinkled fingertip immersed in water

Acta Biomaterialia, 6(4), 1487–1496.

Anisotropic buckling patterns in spheroidal film/substrate systems and their implications in some natural and biological systems

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57(9), 1470–1484.

Mechanical self-assembly fabrication of gears

Soft Matter, 5(18), 3469.

Stress-driven buckling patterns in spheroidal core/shell structures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(49), 19132–19135.