About

Rong Yin is an assistant professor at the Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University. His research interests include wearable systems, flexible actuators and robots, fiber-based composites, advanced spinning technologies, modeling, characterization, and prediction of textile processes. Dr. Yin has obtained his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and serves as a youth editorial board member of Advanced Fiber Materials, a guest editor of Actuators and Frontiers in Chemistry, and a reviewer for more than 40 international journals. He is also a subcommittee member of the ASTM D37.07 Hemp Fiber Testing Standards and a consultant to several companies. His research group has published over 50 papers in internationally renowned SCI journals and is actively involved in multiple funded projects by NSF, USDA, US Navy, DARPA, AFFOA, and industry partners. His work focuses on sustainable and innovative textile technologies, including hemp fiber characterization, performance modeling of textile products, smart textiles, wearable electronics, and soft actuators. Dr. Yin's contributions aim to develop sustainable hemp yarns and textiles, high-throughput fiber analysis, hemp fiber reinforced composites, and electronic textiles for human-machine interaction, supporting the advancement of sustainable and high-performance textile materials.

Research topics

• Engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Composite material
• Artificial Intelligence
• Materials science
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Chemical engineering
• Embedded system
• Optoelectronics
• Electrical engineering
• Geometry
• Nanotechnology

Selected publications

• Flexible, durable, and washable triboelectric yarn and embroidery for self-powered sensing and human-machine interaction

  Nano Energy · 2022 · 59 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Materials science
  • Electrical engineering
  • Composite material
  DOI

• Wearable Actuators: An Overview

  Textiles · 2021 · 68 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Mechanical engineering

  The booming wearable market and recent advances in material science has led to the rapid development of the various wearable sensors, actuators, and devices that can be worn, embedded in fabric, accessorized, or tattooed directly onto the skin. Wearable actuators, a subcategory of wearable technology, have attracted enormous interest from researchers in various disciplines and many wearable actuators and devices have been developed in the past few decades to assist and improve people’s everyday lives. In this paper, we review the actuation mechanisms, structures, applications, and limitations of recently developed wearable actuators including pneumatic and hydraulic actuators, shape memory alloys and polymers, thermal and hygroscopic materials, dielectric elastomers, ionic and conducting polymers, piezoelectric actuators, electromagnetic actuators, liquid crystal elastomers, etc. Examples of recent applications such as wearable soft robots, haptic devices, and personal thermal regulation textiles are highlighted. Finally, we point out the current bottleneck and suggest the prospective future research directions for wearable actuators.

  DOI

• A theoretical model to investigate the performance of cellulose yarns constrained to lie on a moving solid cylinder

  Cellulose · 2020 · 10 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Materials science
  • Composite material
  • Mechanical engineering
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Erdong Chen

  Wilson College

  40 shared

• Yiduo Yang

  37 shared

• Yali Ling

  Wilson College

  33 shared

• Xiaoming Tao

  Yangzhou University

  31 shared

• Mengjiao Li

  North Carolina State University

  28 shared

• Weilei Mu

  Ocean University of China

  20 shared

• Bochao Xie

  Yale University

  18 shared

• Binghang Li

  Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

  18 shared

Education

• doctor of philosophy, institute of textiles & clothings

  Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  2017

• master of engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering

  Donghua University

  2011

Awards & honors

• NSF CAREER Award (2025)
• Goodnight Early Career Innovator

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