Yong Zhu

Caterpillar-inspired soft crawling robot with distributed programmable thermal actuation

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 9(12).

Ferroelectric Domain Wall Engineering Enables Thermal Modulation in PMN-PT Single Crystals

Negi, A., Kim, H. P., Hua, Z., Timofeeva, A., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., … Liu, J. (2023, April 27). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 4.

Interfacial shear stress transfer between elastoplastic fiber and elastic matrix

JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 173.

Stretchable Organic Transistor Based Pressure Sensor Employing a Porous Elastomer Gate Dielectric

Song, R., Ren, P., Liu, Y., Zhu, Y., Dong, J., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2023, April 28). ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 4.

Anelasticity in thin-shell nanolattices

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 119(38).

Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1).

Curvilinear soft electronics by micromolding of metal nanowires in capillaries

SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(46).

Direct measurement of rate-dependent mode I and mode II traction-separation laws for cohesive zone modeling of laminated glass

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, 279.

Eco-friendly screen printing of silver nanowires for flexible and stretchable electronics

Shukla, D., Liu, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2022, December 20). NANOSCALE.

Evoked Tactile Feedback and Control Scheme on Functional Utility of Prosthetic Hand

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 7(2), 1300–1307.

Highly Sensitive, Stretchable, and Robust Strain Sensor Based on Crack Propagation and Opening

Wu, S., Moody, K., Kollipara, A., & Zhu, Y. (2022, December 22). ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.

Integrating charge mobility, stability and stretchability within conjugated polymer films for stretchable multifunctional sensors

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1).

Mechanical characterization of piezoelectric materials: A perspective on deformation behavior across different microstructural length scales

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 132(12).

Object Recognition via Evoked Sensory Feedback during Control of a Prosthetic Hand

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 7(1), 207–214.

Resembled Tactile Feedback for Object Recognition Using a Prosthetic Hand

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 7(4), 10977–10984.

Silver Nanowire Composite Electrode Enabling Highly Flexible, Robust Organic Photovoltaics

Booth, R. E., Schrickx, H. M., Hanby, G., Liu, Y., Qin, Y., Ade, H., … Brendan T. O'Connor. (2022, June 15). SOLAR RRL, Vol. 6.

Soft electrothermal actuators using silver nanowire heaters (vol 9, pg 3797, 2017)

Yao, S., Cui, J., Cui, Z., & Zhu, Y. (2022, May 5). NANOSCALE, Vol. 14, pp. 6671–6671.

Soft wearable sensors for monitoring symptoms of COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases: a review

[Review of ]. PROGRESS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 4(1).

Surface Wrinkling for Flexible and Stretchable Sensors

Lee, G., Zarei, M., Wei, Q., Zhu, Y., & Lee, S. G. (2022, September 1). SMALL, Vol. 9.

Template‐Free Scalable Fabrication of Linearly Periodic Microstructures by Controlling Ribbing Defects Phenomenon in Forward Roll Coating for Multifunctional Applications

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 9(27), 2201237.

Ultrasoft Porous 3D Conductive Dry Electrodes for Electrophysiological Sensing and Myoelectric Control

Yao, S., Zhou, W., Hinson, R., Dong, P., Wu, S., Ives, J., … Zhu, Y. (2022, May 16). ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 5.

A Biaxially Stretchable and Self-Sensing Textile Heater Using Silver Nanowire Composite

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 13(49), 59085–59091.

Achieving High-Resolution Electrohydrodynamic Printing of Nanowires on Elastomeric Substrates through Surface Modification

ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 3(1), 192–202.

Closed-loop control of a prosthetic finger via evoked proprioceptive information

JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 18(6).

Effect of electrode characteristics on electromyographic activity of the masseter muscle

JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY, 56.

Emerging Wearable Sensors for Plant Health Monitoring

Lee, G., Wei, Q., & Zhu, Y. (2021, October 7). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 10.

Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics

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

Noninvasive and Nonocclusive Blood Pressure Monitoring via a Flexible Piezo-Composite Ultrasonic Sensor

IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 21(3), 2642–2650.

Patterning of Metal Nanowire Networks: Methods and Applications

Huang, Q., & Zhu, Y. (2021, December 17). ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.

Perception of Static Position and Kinesthesia of the Finger using Vibratory Stimulation

2021 10TH INTERNATIONAL IEEE/EMBS CONFERENCE ON NEURAL ENGINEERING (NER), pp. 1087–1090.

Preface-Horacio D. Espinosa

Barthelat, F., Zavattieri, P., & Zhu, Y. (2021, October). EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, Vol. 48.

Printed Strain Sensors for On-Skin Electronics

Li, Y., Liu, Y., Bhuiyan, S. R. A., Zhu, Y., & Yao, S. (2021, November 29). SMALL STRUCTURES.

Real-time monitoring of plant stresses via chemiresistive profiling of leaf volatiles by a wearable sensor

MATTER, 4(7), 2553–2570.

Recycling of Nanowire Percolation Network for Sustainable Soft Electronics

Liu, Y., Wang, H., & Zhu, Y. (2021, July 26). ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS.

Static and dynamic proprioceptive recognition through vibrotactile stimulation

JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 18(4).

Wearable Bioimpedance Hydration Monitoring System using Conformable AgNW Electrodes

2021 IEEE SENSORS.

Buckle-Delamination-Enabled Stretchable Silver Nanowire Conductors

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 12(37), 41696–41703.

Competition between shear localization and tensile detwinning in twinned nanowires

PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, 4(2).

Facile Approach to Fabricating Stretchable Organic Transistors with Laser-Patterned Ag Nanowire Electrodes

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 12(45), 50675–50683.

Gas-Permeable, Ultrathin, Stretchable Epidermal Electronics with Porous Electrodes

ACS NANO, 14(5), 5798–5805.

In-situ TEM study of dislocation interaction with twin boundary and retraction in twinned metallic nanowires

ACTA MATERIALIA, 196, 304–312.

Microelectromechanical Systems for Nanomechanical Testing: Displacement- and Force-Controlled Tensile Testing with Feedback Control

EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS, 60(7), 1005–1015.

Microelectromechanical Systems for Nanomechanical Testing: Electrostatic Actuation and Capacitive Sensing for High-Strain-Rate Testing

EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS, 60(3), 329–343.

Object Shape and Surface Topology Recognition Using Tactile Feedback Evoked through Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HAPTICS, 13(1), 152–158.

Stretching nanowires on a stretchable substrate: A method towards facile fracture testing and elastic strain engineering

EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, 41.

Electrocardiogram of a Silver Nanowire Based Dry Electrode: Quantitative Comparison With the Standard Ag/AgCl Gel Electrode

IEEE ACCESS, 7, 20789–20800.

Equi-biaxial compressive strain in graphene: Gruneisen parameter and buckling ridges

2D MATERIALS, 6(1).

Evoked Haptic Sensation in the Hand With Concurrent Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 66(10), 2761–2767.

Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic nanowires

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10.

In Situ Nano-thermomechanical Experiment Reveals Brittle to Ductile Transition in Silicon Nanowires

NANO LETTERS, 19(8), 5327–5334.

Interfacial shear stress transfer at nanowire-polymer interfaces with van der Waals interactions and chemical bonding

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 127, 191–207.

Maximum Spread of Droplet Impacting onto Solid Surfaces with Different Wettabilities: Adopting a Rim-Lamella Shape

LANGMUIR, 35(8), 3204–3214.

Multifunctional Electronic Textiles Using Silver Nanowire Composites

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 11(34), 31028–31037.

Nanomaterial‐Enabled Flexible and Stretchable Sensing Systems: Processing, Integration, and Applications

Advanced Materials, 32(15), 1902343.

Printing Conductive Nanomaterials for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: A Review of Materials, Processes, and Applications

[Review of ]. ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, 4(5).

Recent Advances in Micro, Nano, and Cell Mechanics

Zhu, Y., Saif, T., & DelRio, F. W. (2019, March). EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS, Vol. 59, pp. 277–278.

Tailoring the Temperature Coefficient of Resistance of Silver Nanowire Nanocomposites and their Application as Stretchable Temperature Sensors

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 11(19), 17836–17842.

Transition of Deformation Mechanisms in Single-Crystalline Metallic Nanowires

ACS NANO, 13(8), 9082–9090.

A Novel Finger Kinematic Tracking Method Based on Skin-Like Wearable Strain Sensors

IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 18(7), 3010–3015.

Anelastic Behavior in Crystalline Nanowires

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 24(S1), 1908–1909.

Anomalous Tensile Detwinning in Twinned Metallic Nanowires

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 24(S1), 1824–1825.

Atomic Layer Deposition: Conformal Physical Vapor Deposition Assisted by Atomic Layer Deposition and Its Application for Stretchable Conductors (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 22/2018)

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(22), 1870109.

Characterization and Modeling of Catalyst-free Carbon-Assisted Synthesis of ZnO Nanowires

JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, 32, 438–444.

Conformal Physical Vapor Deposition Assisted by Atomic Layer Deposition and Its Application for Stretchable Conductors

ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES, 5(22).

Controlled bending and folding of a bilayer structure consisting of a thin stiff film and a heat shrinkable polymer sheet

SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, 27(5).

Electrohydrodynamic printing of silver nanowires for flexible and stretchable electronics

NANOSCALE, 10(15), 6806–6811.

Evoked haptic sensations in the hand via non-invasive proximal nerve stimulation

JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 15(4).

Gravure Printing of Water-based Silver Nanowire ink on Plastic Substrate for Flexible Electronics

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 8.

Modeling of Catalyst-free Growth Process of ZnO Nanowires

Procedia Manufacturing, 26, 349–358.

Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare

[Review of ]. ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS, 7(1).

Origami/Kirigami-Guided Morphing of Composite Sheets

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 28(44).

Shape Morphing: Origami/Kirigami-Guided Morphing of Composite Sheets (Adv. Funct. Mater. 44/2018)

Advanced Functional Materials, 28(44), 1870314.

A Wearable Hydration Sensor with Conformal Nanowire Electrodes

Advanced Healthcare Materials, 6(6), 1601159.

A review on mechanics and mechanical properties of 2D materials-Graphene and beyond

[Review of ]. EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, 13, 42–77.

Anomalous Tensile Detwinning in Twinned Nanowires

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 19(25).

Compact, Highly Efficient, and Fully Flexible Circularly Polarized Antenna Enabled by Silver Nanowires for Wireless Body-Area Networks

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, 11(4), 920–932.

Controlling the self-folding of a polymer sheet using a local heater: the effect of the polymer-heater interface

SOFT MATTER, 13(21), 3863–3870.

Hydration Sensing: A Wearable Hydration Sensor with Conformal Nanowire Electrodes (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 6/2017)

Advanced Healthcare Materials, 6(6).

Hypoxia and H2O2 Dual-Sensitive Vesicles for Enhanced Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery

NANO LETTERS, 17(2), 733–739.

Large-Area Nanolattice Film with Enhanced Modulus, Hardness, and Energy Dissipation

Scientific Reports, 7(1).

Mechanics of Crystalline Nanowires: An Experimental Perspective

[Review of ]. APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS, 69(1).

Piezoelectric Floating Element Shear Stress Sensor for the Wind Tunnel Flow Measurement

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, 64(9), 7304–7312.

Pop-up assembly of 3D structures actuated by heat shrinkable polymers

SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, 26(12).

Soft electrothermal actuators using silver nanowire heaters

NANOSCALE, 9(11), 3797–3805.

Thrombin-responsive transcutaneous patch for auto-anticoagulant regulation

Advanced Materials, 29(4).

Ultrasound-triggered noninvasive regulation of blood glucose levels using microgels integrated with insulin nanocapsules

Nano Research, 10(4), 1393–1402.

A piezoelectric shear stress sensor

SENSORS AND SMART STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGIES FOR CIVIL, MECHANICAL, AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS 2016, Vol. 9803.

Bringing PLOS Genetics Editors to Preprint Servers

Barsh, G. S., Bergman, C. M., Brown, C. D., Singh, N. D., & Copenhaver, G. P. (2016, December). PLOS GENETICS, Vol. 12.

Editorial for the focus issue on "Nanomechanics'' in Extreme Mechanics Letters

Zhu, Y., Gianola, D., & Zhu, T. (2016, September). EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, Vol. 8, pp. 125–126.

Elastic drug delivery: could treatments be triggered by patient movement?

NANOMEDICINE, Vol. 11, pp. 323–325.

Evolution of Irradiation-Induced Vacancy Defects in Boron Nitride Nanotubes

SMALL, 12(6), 818–824.

Helical coil buckling mechanism for a stiff nanowire on an elastomeric substrate

JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS, 95, 25–43.

In Situ Nanomechanical Testing of Crystalline Nanowires in Electron Microscopes

[Review of ]. JOM, 68(1), 84–93.

Low-Power Wearable Systems for Continuous Monitoring of Environment and Health for Chronic Respiratory Disease

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 20(5), 1251–1264.

Mechanical Force-Triggered Drug Delivery

[Review of ]. CHEMICAL REVIEWS, 116(19), 12536–12563.

Mechanism of the Transition From In-Plane Buckling to Helical Buckling for a Stiff Nanowire on an Elastomeric Substrate

JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 83(4).

Nanomaterial-Enabled Dry Electrodes for Electrophysiological Sensing: A Review

[Review of ]. JOM, 68(4), 1145–1155.

On the size-dependent elasticity of penta-twinned silver nanowires

EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, 8, 177–183.

Silver nanowire based wearable sensors for multimodal sensing

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Substrate Effects on Growth of MoS2 Film by Laser Physical Vapor Deposition on Sapphire, Si and Graphene (on Cu)

Journal of Electronic Materials, 46(2), 1010–1021.

Thrombin-Responsive Transcutaneous Patch for Auto-Anticoagulant Regulation

Advanced Materials, 29(4), 1604043.

A review of microelectromechanical systems for nanoscale mechanical characterization

[Review of ]. JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING, 25(9).

Cohesive-Shear-Lag Modeling of Interfacial Stress Transfer Between a Monolayer Graphene and a Polymer Substrate

JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 82(3).

Design and operation of silver nanowire based flexible and stretchable touch sensors

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, 30(1), 79–85.

Flexible Technologies for Self-Powered Wearable Health and Environmental Sensing

PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, 103(4), 665–681.

Large anelasticity and associated energy dissipation in single-crystalline nanowires

Nature Nanotechnology, 10(8), 687–691.

Measuring graphene adhesion using atomic force microscopy with a microsphere tip

NANOSCALE, 7(24), 10760–10766.

Nanomaterial-Enabled Stretchable Conductors: Strategies, Materials and Devices

[Review of ]. ADVANCED MATERIALS, 27(9), 1480–1511.

Recoverable plasticity in penta-twinned metallic nanowires governed by dislocation nucleation and retraction

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 6.

Silver nanowire strain sensors for wearable body motion tracking

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Strain Hardening and Size Effect in Five-fold Twinned Ag Nanowires

NANO LETTERS, 15(6), 4037–4044.

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomer Films Containing Therapeutic Depots

ACS NANO, 9(9), 9407–9415.

Stretchable Conductors: Nanomaterial-Enabled Stretchable Conductors: Strategies, Materials and Devices (Adv. Mater. 9/2015)

Advanced Materials, 27(9), 1479–1479.

Testing, Measurement, and Characterization of Nanomaterials

JOURNAL OF NANOMATERIALS, Vol. 2015.

Wearable silver nanowire dry electrodes for electrophysiological sensing

RSC Advances, 5(15), 11627–11632.

Interfacial sliding and buckling of monolayer graphene on a stretchable substrate

Advanced Functional Materials, 24(3), 396–402.

Mechanical Properties of Silicon Carbide Nanowires: Effect of Size-Dependent Defect Density

NANO LETTERS, 14(2), 754–758.

Novel wearable EMG sensors based on nanowire technology

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1674–1677.

Stretchable and Reversibly Deformable Radio Frequency Antennas Based on Silver Nanowires

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 6(6), 4248–4253.

Surface-Energy-Assisted Perfect Transfer of Centimeter-Scale Mono layer and Few-Layer MoS2 Films onto Arbitrary Substrates

ACS NANO, 8(11), 11522–11528.

Wearable multifunctional sensors using printed stretchable conductors made of silver nanowires

NANOSCALE, 6(4), 2345–2352.

A microelectromechanical system for thermomechanical testing of nanostructures

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 103(26).

Fabrication of Functional Nanowire Devices on Unconventional Substrates Using Strain-Release Assembly

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 5(2), 256–261.

Stress relaxation in carbon nanotube-based fibers for load-bearing applications

CARBON, 52, 347–355.

Temperature control in thermal microactuators with applications to in-situ nanomechanical testing

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 102(1).

Temperature-dependent material properties of Z-shaped MEMS thermal actuators made of single crystalline silicon

JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING, 23(12).

Thermal Output Observations from Fe-Ni-Cr Metal Foil Strain Gages

In Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 (pp. 379–387).

A new electrothermal microactuator with Z-shaped beams: Design and operation

Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2010, vol 12, 77–81.

Buckling of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Stretchable Conductors: A New Manufacturing Strategy

Advanced Materials, 24(8), 1073–1077.

Highly Conductive and Stretchable Silver Nanowire Conductors

ADVANCED MATERIALS, 24(37), 5117–5122.

Measuring True Young's Modulus of a Cantilevered Nanowire: Effect of Clamping on Resonance Frequency

Small, 8(16), 2571–2576.

Size effects on elasticity, yielding, and fracture of silver nanowires: In situ experiments

PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 85(4).

Wavy Ribbons of Carbon Nanotubes for Stretchable Conductors

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 22(6), 1279–1283.

Z-Shaped MEMS Thermal Actuators: Piezoresistive Self-Sensing and Preliminary Results for Feedback Control

JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, 21(3), 596–604.

Controlled 3D Buckling of Silicon Nanowires for Stretchable Electronics

ACS NANO, 5(1), 672–678.

Static Friction between Silicon Nanowires and Elastomeric Substrates

ACS NANO, 5(9), 7404–7410.

Strain-Release Assembly of Nanowires on Stretchable Substrates

ACS NANO, 5(2), 1556–1563.

An electrothermal microactuator with Z-shaped beams

JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING, 20(8).

Friction and Shear Strength at the Nanowire-Substrate Interfaces

NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS, 5(2), 291–295.