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  1. Structures and mechanical behaviors of soft nanotubes confining adhesive single or multiple elastic nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  2. Probabilistic and constitutive models for ductile-to-brittle transition in steels: A competition between cleavage and ductile fracture

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  3. Failure of fracture toughness criterion at small scales

    Article • Physical Review Materials, November 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  4. Force Barrier for Lipid Sorting in the Formation of Membrane Nanotubes

    Article • Journal of Applied Mechanics, September 2019, ASME International

    Dr Xin Yi

  5. Role of Nanoparticle Mechanical Properties in Cancer Drug Delivery

    Article • ACS Nano, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  6. Finite Indentation of Pressurized Elastic Fluid Nanovesicles by a Rigid Cylindrical Indenter

    Article • Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  7. Chain-Length- and Saturation-Tuned Mechanics of Fluid Nanovesicles Direct Tumor Delivery

    Article • ACS Nano, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  8. Model of nanoindentation size effect incorporating the role of elastic deformation

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  9. Temperature- and rigidity-mediated rapid transport of lipid nanovesicles in hydrogels

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xin Yi

  10. Mechanics of the Formation, Interaction, and Evolution of Membrane Tubular Structures

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  11. Why are nanoparticles trapped at cell junctions when the cell density is high?

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Xianren Zhang, Dr Xin Yi

  12. Curvature-mediated cooperative wrapping of multiple nanoparticles at the same and opposite membrane sides

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  13. Sidewall contact regulating the nanorod packing inside vesicles with relative volumes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  14. Membrane Wrapping Efficiency of Elastic Nanoparticles during Endocytosis: Size and Shape Matter

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  15. Multimaterial Microfluidic 3D Printing of Textured Composites with Liquid Inclusions

    Article • Advanced Science, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Xin Yi

  16. Erratum: Cellular Uptake of Elastic Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 , 098101 (2011)]

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  17. Packing of flexible 2D materials in vesicles

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, May 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Xin Yi

  18. Packing of flexible nanofibers in vesicles

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  19. A minimal mechanics model for mechanosensing of substrate rigidity gradient in durotaxis

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  20. Size-dependent formation of membrane nanotubes: continuum modeling and molecular dynamics simulations

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Xianren Zhang

  21. Mechanics of cellular packing of nanorods with finite and non-uniform diameters

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  22. Budding of an Adhesive Elastic Particle out of a Lipid Vesicle

    Article • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, February 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  23. Kinetics of receptor-mediated endocytosis of elastic nanoparticles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  24. Incorporation of Soft Particles into Lipid Vesicles: Effects of Particle Size and Elasticity

    Article • Langmuir, December 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  25. Nanomechanical mechanism for lipid bilayer damage induced by carbon nanotubes confined in intracellular vesicles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xin Yi

  26. Biological and environmental interactions of emerging two-dimensional nanomaterials

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  27. Cell membrane wrapping of a spherical thin elastic shell

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

    Dr Xin Yi

  28. Cell interaction with graphene microsheets: near-orthogonal cutting versus parallel attachment

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  29. Phase diagrams and morphological evolution in wrapping of rod-shaped elastic nanoparticles by cell membrane: A two-dimensional study

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  30. A Universal Law for Cell Uptake of One-Dimensional Nanomaterials

    Article • Nano Letters, February 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  31. Cellular Uptake of Elastic Nanoparticles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  32. Water-Swelling-Induced Morphological Instability of a Supported Polymethyl Methacrylate Thin Film

    Article • Langmuir, June 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  33. Vibration of cantilevers with rough surfaces

    Article • Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  34. Surface stress induced by interactions of adsorbates and its effect on deformation and frequency of microcantilever sensors

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  35. Prediction of complex dielectric constants of polymer-clay nanocomposites

    Article • Physics Letters A, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  36. A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects: Part II—Application and scaling laws

    Article • Mechanics of Materials, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  37. A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects. Part I: Theoretical framework

    Article • Mechanics of Materials, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  38. Compatible composition profiles and critical sizes of alloyed quantum dots

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  39. Conductivities of heterogeneous media with graded anisotropic constituents

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, August 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  40. Solutions of inhomogeneity problems with graded shells and application to core–shell nanoparticles and composites

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  41. Strain distributions in nano-onions with uniform and non-uniform compositions

    Article • Nanotechnology, June 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  42. Effective conductivities of heterogeneous media containing multiple inclusions with various spatial distributions

    Article • Physical Review B, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  43. Bounds on effective conductivities of heterogeneous media with graded constituents

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  44. Eshelby Equivalent Inclusion Method for Composites with Interface Effects

    Article • Key Engineering Materials, January 2006, Trans Tech Publications

    Dr Xin Yi

  45. Monitoring of Molecule Adsorption and Stress Evolutions by In-situ Microcantilever Systems

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi