Yangyang Fan
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Total Citations
157
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About
Yangyang Fan is pioneering the frontier of bioinspired soft robotics, with a focus on creating artificial muscles and miniature robots that mimic the dynamic, adaptive movements of living organisms. Their major contributions lie in engineering soft materials—such as liquid crystal elastomers and monolithic artificial muscles—that can autonomously generate traveling waves, snap at high speeds, and morph in response to light or electrical stimuli. Fan’s work on photomorphogenetic traveling waves (52 citations) and tunable snapping dynamics (42 citations) has established new paradigms for propulsion and locomotion in soft robotics, achieving speeds and programmability previously unattainable. Their development of helical liquid crystal elastomer robots with photocontrolled locomotion (22 citations) and phototactic miniature robots with terrain adaptability (21 citations) demonstrates real-world potential for noninvasive operations and environmental monitoring. Notably, Fan’s adaptive nanotube networks enable omnidirectionally deformable, electro-driven artificial muscles (20 citations) that can lift 4000 times their own weight while exhibiting damage-preventing morphing intelligence. With over 157 citations across their most-cited works, Yangyang Fan is shaping the future of high-performance, lifelike soft actuators and robots.
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- 4Phototactic Miniature Soft Robots with Terrain Adaptability21 citations · 2022
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