Yonggang Huang

Yonggang Huang

Yonggang Huang (* 1962 in Beijing ) is a Chinese-American engineer.

Huang graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree in mechanics in 1984. He then studied at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1987 and a PhD under John W. Hutchinson in 1990. He became an assistant professor at the University of Arizona in 1991 , 1995 Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University . From 1998 he was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with full professorship from 2001, and from 2007 Joseph Cummings professor at Northwestern University . From 2015 he has been Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering there.

Huang deals with the mechanics of materials (strength theory) on different and over different scales with applications for example in carbon nanotubes, medicine, electronics (stretchable and flexible electronic components, for example on the skin) and three-dimensional deterministic assembly.

He is the editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics . Huang received the Von Karman Medal in 2019 , the William Prager Medal in 2017, the Nadai Medal in 2016 and the Daniel C. Drucker Medal in 2013 . He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academia Europaea and the National Academy of Engineering . In 2008 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He was one of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering in 2009 and in Materials Science in 2014 and 2015. In 2014, Huang was President of the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES), and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• with LD Yuan, MW Yuan: Elastic curved beams in space structures, Engineering Mechanics, Volume 2, 1985, pp. 64-75
• On the stability of elastic curved bars, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol. 3, 1987, pp. 326-334
• with JW Hutchinson, V. Tvergaard: Cavitation instabilities in elastic-plastic solids, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 39, 1991, pp. 223-241
• with V. Tvergaard, JW Hutchinson: Cavitation instabilities in a power hardening elastic-plastic solid, European Journal of Mechanics, A / Solids, Volume 11, 1992, pp. 215-231
• with C. Liu, MG Stout, KC Hwang: The effect of interface damage on the microbuckling of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites, Key Engineering Materials, Volume 145, 1997, pp. 473-478
• with W. Zhou a. a .: Stamp collapse in soft lithography, Langmuir, Volume 21, 2005, pp. 8058-8068
• with KJ Hsia u. a .: Collapse of stamps for soft lithography due to interfacial adhesion, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 86, 2005, p. 154106
• with Khang u. a .: A stretchable form of single crystal silicon for high performance electronics on rubber substrates, Science, Volume 311, 2006, pp. 208-212.
• with Kim u. a .: Stretchable and foldable silicon integrated circuits, Science, Volume 320, 2008, pp. 507-511
• with Ko u. a .: A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics, Nature, Volume 454, 2008, pp. 748-753
• with park u. a .: Printed assemblies of inorganic light-emitting diodes for deformable and semitransparent displays, Science, Volume 325, 2009, pp. 977-981
• with JA Rogers, T. Someya: Materials and mechanics for stretchable electronics, Science, Volume 327, 2010, pp. 1603-1607
• with Kim u. a .: Epidermal electronics, Science, Volume 333, 2011, pp. 838-843
• with Hwang u. a .: A physically transient form of silicon electronics, Science, Volume 337, 2012, pp. 1640-1644
• with Kim: Injectable, cellular-scale optoelectronics with applications for wireless optogenetics, Science, Volume 340, 2013, pp. 211-216
• with song u. a .: Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye, Nature, Volume 497, 2013, pp. 95-99.
• with Xu u. a .: Soft microfluidic assemblies of sensors, circuits and radios for the skin, Science, Volume 344, 2014, pp. 70-74
• with Xu u. a .: Assembly of micro / nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling, Science, Volume 347, 2015, pp. 154–159
• with Kang u. a .: Bioresorbable silicon sensors for the brain, Nature, Volume 530, 206, pp. 71-76
• with Chung u. a .: Binodal, wireless epidermal electronic systems with in-sensor analytics for neonatal intensive care, Science, Volume 363, 2019, eaau0780
• with Mickle u. a .: A wireless closed-loop system for optogenetic peripheral neuromodulation, Nature, Volume 565, 2019, pp. 361-365

Web links

• Homepage, Northwestern University