Yang Zhang
· Dr. Yang ZhangNorth Carolina State University · Textiles
Active 1996–2025
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About
Yang Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science at NC State University. His research develops fluorescent and stimuli-responsive materials, as well as single-molecule methods to color-map and engineer the nanoscopic biological and man-made world. His work particularly focuses on nanofiber networks at the subcellular level, including DNA, cytoskeleton, and cell membranes. Zhang is interested in imaging biocompatible textile nanofibers and understanding their nanoscopic structure-function relationships for biomedical and energy-related applications. His research aims to generate innovative molecular constructs with specific photochemical and photophysical properties to enable high-throughput multiplexed single-molecule tracking of proteins in live cells, contributing to advancements in super-resolution microscopy and cellular imaging techniques.
Research topics
- Geography
- Meteorology
- Environmental science
- Agroforestry
- Geology
- Environmental planning
- Remote sensing
- Environmental resource management
- Climatology
- Atmospheric sciences
Selected publications
Atmosphere · 2023-04-10 · 6 citations
articleOpen accessThe emission of black carbon (BC) particles, which cause atmospheric warming by affecting radiation budget in the atmosphere, is the result of an incomplete combustion process of organic materials. The recent wildfire event during the summer 2019–2020 in south-eastern Australia was unprecedented in scale. The wildfires lasted for nearly 3 months over large areas of the two most populated states of New South Wales and Victoria. This study on the emission and dispersion of BC emitted from the biom…
Mineral Deposition from Liquid Precursors Triggered by Complementary Polyelectrolytes
ChemRxiv · 2025-12-10
articleOpen accessPolymer-induced liquid precursors are hydrated, metastable, amorphous droplets rich in insoluble ionic compounds; they form in aqueous solutions that are supersaturated with mineral ions in the presence of charged polymers that delay the onset of crystal nucleation. This work reports that rapid crystallization of a range of inorganic mineral salts can be triggered by the addition of polycations to polyanion-stabilized precursor solutions that would otherwise be stably amorphous for over ten days…
2024-11-23
peer-review2024-12-17
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Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 44 shared
Kai Wang
China Geological Survey
- 33 shared
L. Ruby Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- 27 shared
Kebin He
Tsinghua University
- 20 shared
Qiang Zhang
Nanchang Institute of Technology
- 20 shared
Athanasios Nenes
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 18 shared
Khairunnisa Yahya
National Environment Agency
- 17 shared
Patrick Campbell
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 16 shared
Michelle L. Bell
University of Washington
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