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  1. Starfish-inspired tube feet for temporary and switchable underwater adhesion and transportation

    Article • Science Advances, July 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Shu Yang

  2. Flexible pyroelectric energy harvesters from nanocomposites of liquid crystal elastomers/lead zirconate titanate nanoparticles

    Article • Science Advances, February 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Shu Yang

  3. Fast, strong, and reversible adhesives for wound dressing

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Shu Yang

  4. Multi-functional liquid crystal elastomer composites

    Article • Applied Physics Reviews, March 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Shu Yang

  5. Integration of Hierarchical Micro-/Nanostructures in a Microfluidic Chip for Efficient and Selective Isolation of Rare Tumor Cells

    Article • Micromachines, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Shu Yang

  6. Tailoring surface patterns to direct the assembly of liquid crystalline materials

    Article • Liquid Crystals Reviews, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Shu Yang

  7. Bio-inspired responsive polymer pillar arrays

    Article • MRS Communications, April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Shu Yang

  8. Compartment fabrication of magneto-responsive Janus microrod particles

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  9. Light-induced shape recovery of deformed shape memory polymer micropillar arrays with gold nanorods

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  10. Synergistic assembly of nanoparticles in smectic liquid crystals

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  11. Spray coating of superhydrophobic and angle-independent coloured films

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  12. Buckling, symmetry breaking, and cavitation in periodically micro-structured hydrogel membranes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  13. Angle-independent colours from spray coated quasi-amorphous arrays of nanoparticles: combination of constructive interference and Rayleigh scattering

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  14. Recent advances in wrinkle-based dry adhesion

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang

  15. Guided wrinkling in swollen, pre-patterned photoresist thin films with a crosslinking gradient

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Shu Yang