Yugang Zhang

ORCID: 0000-0001-5358-9283
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Research Areas
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
  • Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Risk and Safety Analysis
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Decision-Making Techniques
  • Smart Grid and Power Systems
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Education and Work Dynamics
  • Mechanical Engineering and Vibrations Research
  • Dielectric materials and actuators

Brookhaven National Laboratory
2024-2025

Northwestern Polytechnical University
2013-2025

Hefei University of Technology
2014-2024

Soochow University
2022-2024

South China University of Technology
2022

Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China
2021-2022

Institute of Soil and Water Conservation
2014

Hubei University of Technology
2010-2011

Hefei University
2010-2011

Central China Normal University
2008-2009

Cesium lead halide quantum dots (QDs) have tunable photoluminescence that is capable of covering the entire visible spectrum and high yields, which make them a new fluorescent materials for various applications. Here, synthesis CsPbX 3 (X = Cl, Br, I, or mixed Cl/Br Br/I) QDs by direct ion reactions in ether solvents reported, first time synergetic effects solvent polarity reaction temperature on nucleation growth are demonstrated. The use with low enables controlled QDs, facilitates...

10.1002/adfm.201603734 article EN Advanced Functional Materials 2016-10-18

Flexible, stretchable, and wearable strain sensors have attracted significant attention for their potential applications in human movement detection recognition. Here, we report a highly stretchable flexible sensor based on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNTs)/carbon black (CB) synergistic conductive network. The fabrication, mechanism, characterization of the sandwich-structured were investigated. experimental results show that device exhibits high stretchability (120%), excellent...

10.1088/1361-665x/aa79c3 article EN Smart Materials and Structures 2017-06-15

Self-powered photodetectors based on CdS:Ga nanoribbons (NR)/Au Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) were fabricated. The as-fabricated SBDs exhibit an excellent rectification characteristic with a ratio up to 106 within ±1 V in the dark and distinctive photovoltaic (PV) behavior under light illumination. Photoconductive analysis reveals that highly sensitive illumination very good stability, reproducibility fast response speeds at zero bias voltage. corresponding rise/fall times of 95/290 μs...

10.1039/c2jm34869a article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012-01-01

Proton conductors are essential functional materials with a wide variety of potential applications in energy storage and conversion. In order to address the issues low proton conductivity poor stability conventional conductors, simple valid ion-exchange method was proposed this study for introduction stable ultrahigh layered rare earth hydroxides (LRHs). Test analyses by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction revealed that...

10.1021/acsami.4c01241 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024-04-18

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) attract significant attention due to their potential as an alternative energy storage solution, yet challenges persist the limited density of existing cathode materials. In principle, redox-active organic materials can tackle this challenge because high theoretical densities. However, electrode-level densities electrodes are compromised poor electron/ion transport and severe dissolution. Here, we report use a low-bandgap, conductive, highly insoluble layered...

10.1021/jacs.4c17713 article EN Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025-02-04

Sb-doped ZnTe nanoribbons (NRs) with enhanced p-type conductivity were successfully synthesized by a simple thermal co-evaporation method. Nanodevices, including nano-field-effect transistors (FETs) and nano-photodetectors (nanoPDs), constructed based on the ZnTe:Sb NRs their structure dependent device performances systemically investigated. It is found that transport properties of nanostructures as well structures play critical role in determining performances. In contrast to...

10.1039/c2jm16632a article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012-01-01

Human arm/hand gestures capturing and recognition provide an intelligent convenient way for use in application from human-machine interface (HMI) human-computer interaction (HCI) to human-robot (HRI). As human constitute a powerful inter-human communication modality, they can be considered as well intuitive mean the between machines. This paper presents novel real-time static dynamic gesture method designed using flexible wearable data band/data glove, which are based on three/ten...

10.1109/jsen.2020.2965580 article EN IEEE Sensors Journal 2020-01-10

Abstract The cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring device has attracted much attention because of its comfortable and real‐time monitoring. Inspired by the physical structure human epidermis, an ultra‐sensitive flexible resistive sensor with a double strain layer crack is prepared screen printing in this study. material mainly blending Poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene) :poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) waterborne polyurethane reduced graphene oxide. exhibits high gauge factor (GF, ≈1682),...

10.1002/admt.202201466 article EN Advanced Materials Technologies 2023-03-21

Strain sensors used as flexible and wearable electronic devices have improved prospects in the fields of artificial skin, robotics, human–machine interfaces, healthcare. This work introduces a highly stretchable fiber-based strain sensor with laminated structure made up graphene nanoplatelet layer carbon black/single-walled nanotube synergetic conductive network layer. An ultrathin, flexible, elastic two-layer polyurethane (PU) yarn substrate was successively deposited by novel chemical...

10.1088/1361-665x/aaaba0 article EN Smart Materials and Structures 2018-01-30

Electronic skin (e-skin) with favorable wearability and high flexibility has increasingly raised attention for potential research prospect in artificial skin, flexible electronics, soft robotics prosthetic device. A resistive strain sensor layered structure made up of Graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) layer GNPs/polyaniline (PANI) synergetic conductive network based on threadlike spandex substrate is successfully fabricated by a simple dipping-drying process. Herein, the fiber-based sensors...

10.1088/1361-665x/aaf3ce article EN Smart Materials and Structures 2018-11-26

With the rapid advancement of urbanization and industrialization, contradiction between social economy resources environment has become increasingly prominent. On basis limited land resources, way to promote multi-objective comprehensive development such as economic, ecological environmental protection through structure layout regulation, so maximize regional benefits, is an important task current spatial planning. Our aim obtain land-use-change data in study area using remote-sensing...

10.3390/ijerph19042432 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-02-19

10.1016/j.trd.2022.103409 article EN Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment 2022-08-05

ABSTRACT Silicon rubber (SR) filled with carbon black (CB) and (CB)/graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) hybrid fillers are synthesized via a liquid mixing method. The effects of filler type on the electrical properties piezoresistive (near region percolation) conductive SR composites studied. It is suggested that conductivity composite CB/GNPs in mass ratio 2 : 4 much higher than other ratio. Percolation threshold for CB/GNPs/SR found to be 0.18 volume fractions lower CB/SR. Moreover, force rang...

10.1002/app.39778 article EN Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2013-09-09

Silicon based optoelectronic integration is restricted by its poor properties arising from the indirect band structure. Here, combining silicon with another promising material, CdS nanoribbon (NR), devices heterojunction structure were constructed. The NRs also doped gallium to improve their n-type conductivity. A host of nano-optoelectronic devices, including light emitting diodes, photovoltaic and photodetectors, successfully constructed on basis CdS:Ga NR/Si heterojunctions. They all...

10.1088/0957-4484/22/40/405201 article EN Nanotechnology 2011-09-07

We demonstrated a flexible and reversibly deformable radio-frequency antenna based on SWCNTs/PANI/Lycra conductive fabric semipermeable film for wireless wearable communications applications. The fabricated by using the 'dip dry' process exhibits good flexibility, electrical stability, stretchability mechanical properties, high conductivity (with low sheet resistance of ~35 Ω/sq) was obtained SWCNTs/PANI synergistic network. morphology investigated to further illustrate waterproof breathable...

10.1088/1361-665x/aa88ec article EN Smart Materials and Structures 2017-08-29

ABSTRACT Pressure/temperature sensitive silicon rubber (SR) filled with carbon black (CB) was prepared by a liquid mixing method. The transfer function of pressure/temperature sensor based on CB/SR derived general effective media theory. results show that the functions coincided well experimental data, and negative pressure coefficient resistance/positive temperature resistance are shown. working principles these two kinds sensors different. principle related to volume fraction CB. With...

10.1002/app.42979 article EN Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2015-10-30

It is known that when nanoparticles are added to polymer thin films, they often migrate the film–substrate interface and form an "immobile interfacial layer", which believed be mechanism behind dewetting suppression. We here report a new of suppression from structural aspect chains accommodated at interface. Dodecanethiol-functionalized gold (Au) embedded in relatively low molecular weight PS films prepared on silicon (Si) substrates were used as model. mimicked previously reported...

10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01187 article EN Macromolecules 2017-09-26
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