ZHANG Yiyuan 張藝媛 (Dr)

Research Assistant Professor

Area of Specialization: Structuring of Fluids, Soft and Smart Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Microfluidics, 3D Manipulation of Fluids, Flexible Electronics, Nonlinear Computation and Optimization

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yi-yuan.zhang@polyu.edu.hk

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Biography

PhD (UWO); MEng (CUG); BEng (CUG)

Short Description

Dr. Yiyuan Zhang received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, and her ME and BE degrees both from China University of Geosciences. Dr. Zhang is currently an SHS Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.

Her current research focuses mainly on the structuring of fluids, metamaterials, soft and smart manufacturing, and interfacial processes. Dr. Zhang’s work has been published in various prestigious journals including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Research, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. She is an active reviewer for top peer-reviewed journals like Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, and PNAS.

Selected Publications

Zhang Y., Huang Z., Cai Z., Ye Y., Li Z., Qin F., Xiao J., Zhang D., Guo Q., Song Y., Yang J., “Magnetic-actuated “capillary container” for versatile three-dimensional fluid interfaces manipulation”, Science Advances, 2021, 7 (34), eabi7498.
Zhang Y., Zhang T., Huang Z., Yang J., “A New Class of Electronic Devices Based on Flexible Porous Substrates”, Advanced Science, 2022, 9 (7), 2105084.
Zhang Y., Pan B., “The effect of valine on the process of nickel electrocrystallization on glassy carbon electrode”, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2017, 796, 43-48.
Jiang S., Li B., Zhao J., Wu D., Zhang Y., Zhao Z., Zhang Y., Yu H., Shao K., Zhang C., Li R., Chen C., Shen Z., Hu J., Dong B., Zhu L., Li J., Wang L., Chu J., Hu Y., “Magnetic Janus origami robot for cross-scale droplet omni-manipulation”, Nature Communications, 14, 5455 (2023).
Huang Z., Zhao S., Zhang Y., Cai Z., Li Z., Xiao J., Su M., Guo Q., Zhang C., Pan Y., Cai X., Song Y., Yang J., “Fluid-type metasurface for wide-angle and multifrequency water-air acoustic transmission”, Research, 2021, 2021, 9757943.
Huang Z., Zhao Z., Zhao S., Cai X., Zhang Y., Cai Z., Li H., Li Z., Su M., Zhang C., Pan Y., Song Y, Yang J., “Lotus Metasurface for Wide-Angle Intermediate-Frequency Water–Air Acoustic Transmission”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13 (44), 53242-53251.
Wu S., Xiang L., Zhang Y., Jiang S., Li C., Zhao Z., Zhang Y., Deng Q., Xie S., Jiao Y., Chen C., Lao Z., Wang L., “Active steering of omni-droplets on slippery cross-scale arrays by bi-directional vibration”, Applied Physics Letters, 2023, 122, 174101.
Pan B., Yang Y., Zhang Y., Zhang Q., “Effects of saccharin and tetramethylammonium bromide on the microstructure and microhardness of thick cobalt electrodeposits”, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2017, 329, 49-54.
Pan B., Yang Y., Zhang Y., “Extraction of diamond grain topography from diamond tool surface using 3D surface measurement coupled with image analysis”, Measurement, 2019, 133, 9-13.