The research at Yang lab focuses on a variety of topics centering on how to design, develop, and understand soft materials and their integrated systems with on-demand properties and functionalities for achieving desired mechanical and physical properties and also the control and manipulation of the interfacing with environments, in particular, aqueous environments, such as inside the body and under the water.

Current and previous research projects include implantable materials and devices, wet adhesion, and mechanics of soft materials. Click the following links for detailed research and publications.

• Implantable materials and devices
• Wet adhesion
• Functional surfaces by structural instabilities
• Mechanics of soft materials
• Fracture of mechanochemistry in soft materials