研究方向
1) 碳纳米管自组装及其在碳纳米管电子学中的应用；
2）MXene自组装及其在电化学储能中的应用；
3）基于碳纳米管的软体机器人
代表性学术论著
†：共同一作
1. Xia, Y., Mathis, T., Zhao, M.Q., Anasori, B., Dang, A.L., Zhou, Z.H., Cho, H.S., Gogotsi, Y.*, Yang, S.*, “Thickness-Independent Capacitance of Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystalline MXenes”, Nature, 2018, 557, 409-412.
2. Xia, Y.†, DeBenedictis, A.†, Kim, D.S., Chen, S.L., Cleaver, D.*, Atherton, T.*, Yang, S.*, “Programming Emergent Symmetries with Saddle-Splay Elasticity”, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 5104.
3. Aharoni, H.†, Xia, Y.†, Zhang, X.Y., Kamien, R.D., Yang, S.*, “Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115, 7206-7211.
4. Xia, Y., Serra, F., Kamien, R.D., Stebe, K.J. and Yang, S.*, “Direct Mapping of Local Director Field of Nematic Liquid Crystals at the Nanoscale”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 112, 15291-15296.
5. Xia, Y., Cedillo-Servin, G., Kamien, R. D. and Yang, S.*, “Guided Folding of Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Sheets into 3D by Patterned 1D Micro-Channels”, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28 (43), 9637–9643.
6. Lee, E.†, Xia, Y.†, Ferrier, R.C. Jr.†, Kim, H.-N., Gharbi, M.A., Stebe, K.J., Kamien, R.D., Composto, R.J.*, and Yang, S.*, “Fine Golden Rings: Tunable Surface Plasmon Resonance from Assembled Nanorods in Topological Defects of Liquid Crystals”, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28 (14), 2731–2736.
7. Xia, Y., Zhang, X.Y., Yang, S.*, “Instant Locking of Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystal Elastomers via Oxygen Mediated Thiol-Acrylate "Click" Reactions”, Angewandte Chemie, 2018, 57 (20), 5665-5668.
8. Xia, Y., Li, R.P., Tsai, E., He Y.W., Liu T.R., Zhao X.M., Gu K.C., Meng, H., Loo, Y.L.*, “Solvent-Free Coating of Organic Semiconductor Membranes with Large-Area Single-Crystalline Domains”, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021, 7, 2000792.
重点主持/参与项目
（1）基础加强计划重点基础研究项目，2022-2026，课题负责人；
（2）国家重点研发计划-智能传感器，2022-2025，项目负责人；
（3）国家自然科学基金面上项目-碳纳米管的液晶法排列，2022-2026，项目负责人。
