“Science Questions,
Nature answers”
Yang Yang, Ph.D.
Making friends with soft robots
Area-1: Soft Robotics
Dr. Yang’s research primarily centers around soft robotics, with a particular emphasis on combustion-enabled soft robots, magnetical phase change robots, and bioinspired soft robots. From the application perspective, his soft robots have demonstrated potential in underwater and biomedical applications.
“Fast, flexible, and accurate motion!”
Area-2: Mechanical Sciences
Understanding and characterizing the compliant motions of flexible materials is not only of great importance but also presents significant challenges. Dr. Yang possesses exceptional skills in modeling multi-physics phenomena, encompassing fluid dynamics, large deformations, and magnetic behaviors.
“Under control!”
Area-3: Material Sciences
Dr. Yang’s current material research primarily centers around magnetically induced meltable materials (MIMMs). These materials offer reversible elastomer-fluid transitions and hold immense potential for multifunctional soft robots, including self-healing, self-assembly, and self-reconfiguration capabilities.
“Change my phase!”
Nature Communications Accepted
Congratulations to our research article entitled “Regrafting Submillimeter-scale Ferromagnetic Soft Continuums.” accepted by Nature Communications. Dr. Yang is the first author.
Dr. Yang was awarded by PSIPW in United Nations
United Nations, Vienna, Austria
Team leader: Zhiguo He
Team members include: Pengcheng Jiao and Yang Yang.
Nov. 8th – 2024
PSIPW-IAHR: Creativity prize!
Congratulations to high-speed underwater soft robot team!
The team is awarded for developing working, versatile soft robots with unprecedented manoeuvrability that have the capacity for numerous underwater research and monitoring applications.
Team leader: Zhiguo He
Team members include: Pengcheng Jiao and Yang Yang.
July 17th – 2024
Front Cover Page
Soft Robotics
Our research article entitled “Piezo Wormbots for Continous Crawling” was selected as the front cover art of Soft Robotics (Vol. 11 Issue 2, 2024).
Apr. 24th – 2024
Editor’s Choice
Advanced Functional Materials
Our research article entitled “Reversible elastomer-fluid transitions for metamorphorsic robots” was seleted as the Editor’s Choice of Advanced Functional Materials.
Jan. 25th – 2024
Latest Publication
Advanced Functional Materials
Our research article entitled “Reversible elastomer-fluid transitions for metamorphorsic robots” was accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. A nice beginning of MIMMs series studies.
Dec. 3rd – 2023
Annual Cover Page
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
Our Review paper entitled “Bioinspired soft robotics: How do we learn from creatures” was selected as the front cover image of the IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering 2024 volumn.
Nov. 15 – 2023
Annual Featured Paper
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
This work has also been selected as the featured paper of the IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering 2024 volumn.
Dec. 3rd – 2023
BioSoRo-A Touch of Nature 