EDUCATION

Ph.D. Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, June 2017
Supervisor: Prof. Zhigang Suo
BS, Engineering Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China July 2012

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
Assistant Professor 2019.7 –

Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
Teaching Assistant 2018.9 – 2019.1

Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow March 2017 – June 2019

Journal Peer Reviewer

Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Extreme Mechanics Letters

News and report

1.   Hydrogel ionotronics: http://www.polymer.cn/sci/kjxw14163.html

2.  A new way to combine soft materials: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/02/new-way-to-combine-soft-materials

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-combine-soft-materials.html

http://www.polymer.cn/sci/kjxw13898.html

3.  Stretchable liquid crystal devices: http://www.polymer.cn/sci/kjxw13216.html

Research Interest

Mechanics of soft materials

Stretchable devices, Hydrogel ionotronics

Adhesion & Coating

PUBLICATIONS

1. Canhui Yang, Tenghao Yin, Zhigang Suo^*, Rupture of polyacrylamide hydrogel I. Network imperfection. JMPS, 131, 43-55.

2. Jiawei Yang, Ruobing Bai, Jianyu Li, Canhui Yang, Xi Yao, Qihan Liu, Joost J. Vlassak, David J. Mooney, Zhigang Suo^*, Design Molecular Topology for Wet–Dry Adhesion. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019.

3. Canhui Yang, Zhigang Suo^*, Hydrogel ionotronics, Nature Reviews Materials, 2018, 3, 125-142.

4. Qihan Liu^#, Guodong Nian^#, Canhui Yang^#, Shaoxing Qu, Zhigang Suo^*, Bonding dissimilar polymer networks in various manufacturing processes, Nat. Commun., 2018, 9:846.

5. Ruobing Bai, Jiawei Yang, Xavier P. Morelle, Canhui Yang, Zhigang Suo^*, Fatigue fracture of self-recovery hydrogels, ACS Macro Lett., 2018, 7: 312-317.

6. Canhui Yang, Shuang Zhou, Samuel Shian, David R. Clarke, Zhigang Suo^*, Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors, Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4(6): 1102-1109.

7. Charles Hamilton, Kevin Tian, Jinhye Bae, Canhui Yang, Gursel Alici, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Zhigang Suo, Joost J. Vlassak, Marc in het Panhuis, A soft stretchable sensor: Towards peripheral nerve signal sensing, MRS Advances, 2018, 2, 1-6 (Conference).

8. Kevin Tian, Jinhye Bae, Shannon E. Bakarich, Canhui Yang, Reece D. Gately, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Marc in het Panhuis, Zhigang Suo^*, Joost J. Vlassak^*, 3D Printing of transparent and conductive heterogeneous hydrogel–elastomer systems, Adv. Mater., 2017, 29(10): 1604827.

9. Canhui Yang, Baohong Chen, Jinxiong Zhou, Yong Mei Chen, Zhigang Suo^*, Electroluminescence of giant stretchability, Adv. Mater., 2016, 28(22): 4480-4484.

10. Canhui Yang, Baohong Chen, Jing Jiang Lu, Jian Hai Yang, Jinxiong Zhou, Yong Mei Chen^*, Zhigang Suo^*, Ionic cable, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2015, 3: 59-65.

11. Hussain Haider^#, Canhui Yang^#, Wen Jiang Zheng, Jian Hai Yang, Mei Xiang Wang, Sen Yang, Miklos Zrinyi, Yoshihito Osada, Zhigang Suo, Qiqing Zhang, Jinxiong Zhou^*, Yong Mei Chen^*, Exceptionally tough and notch-insensitive magnetic hydrogels, Soft Matter, 2015, 11(42): 8253-8261.

12. Mei Xiang Wang, Canhui Yang, Zhen Qi Liu, Jinxiong Zhou, Feng Xu, Zhigang Suo, Jian Hai Yang^*, Yong Mei Chen^*, Tough photoluminescent hydrogels doped with lanthanide, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2015, 36(5): 465-471.

13. Baohong Chen, Jing Jing Lu, Canhui Yang, Jian Hai Yang, Jinxiong Zhou, Yong Mei Chen^*, Zhigang Suo^*, Highly stretchable and transparent ionogels as nonvolatile conductors for dielectric elastomer transducers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6(10): 7840-7845.

14. Canhui Yang, Mei Xiang Wang, Hussain Haider, Jian Hai Yang, Jeong-Yun Sun, Yong Mei Chen^*, Jinxiong Zhou^*, Zhigang Suo, Strengthening alginate/polyacrylamide hydrogels using various multivalent cations, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2013, 5(21): 10418-10422.