Wenzhong Yan
· Assistant ProfessorUniversity of California, Davis · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Active 1997–2024
About
Wenzhong Yan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis. His research focuses on the development and deployment of next-generation soft robots and bio-inspired robots that integrate Mechanical Intelligence (MI) with Computational Intelligence, including AI, to address critical societal challenges. Prior to his appointment at UC Davis, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale working with Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, and a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA ECE working with Ankur Mehta and Jonathan Hopkins. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UCLA in June 2023, with a thesis titled 'Printable Mechanical Autonomy.' His broad research interests include origami and soft robotics, mechanical intelligence, structural instability, computational fabrication, smart materials and structures, and wearable devices. Yan actively seeks research collaborations in robotics, machine and mechanism design, and advanced manufacturing, and his lab welcomes visiting scholars and research interns.
Research topics
- Materials science
- Computer Science
- Organic chemistry
- Nanotechnology
- Medicine
- Metallurgy
- Chemistry
- Optoelectronics
- Inorganic chemistry
- Composite material
- Stereochemistry
- Internal medicine
Selected publications
Nature Communications · 2020 · 909 citations
- Computer Science
- Chemistry
- Materials science
moiety acts as an active center during the oxygen reduction process. Our discovery provides a universal scheme for the controllable synthesis and performance regulation of single metal atom catalysts toward energy applications.
Black phosphorus composites with engineered interfaces for high-rate high-capacity lithium storage
Science · 2020 · 540 citations
- Composite material
- Materials science
- Metallurgy
transport. The resultant composite anode demonstrates an excellent combination of capacity, rate, and cycling endurance.
Frequent coauthors
- 330 shared
Shiqiang Wei
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- 277 shared
Zhihu Sun
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- 261 shared
Yi Xie
University of Science and Technology of China
- 178 shared
Qinghua Liu
- 178 shared
Tao Yao
University of Science and Technology of China
- 178 shared
Hengli Duan
University of Science and Technology of China
- 177 shared
Fengchun Hu
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
- 134 shared
Chao Wang
University of Science and Technology of China
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