Kuanming Yao

4.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
53 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Kuanming Yao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuanming Yao has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 24 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Kuanming Yao's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (48 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (31 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (24 papers). Kuanming Yao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (48 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (31 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (24 papers). Kuanming Yao collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Kuanming Yao's co-authors include Xinge Yu, Dengfeng Li, Yiming Liu, Jingkun Zhou, Xingcan Huang, Mengge Wu, Zhaoqian Xie, Jiyu Li, Chun Ki Yiu and Ya Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kuanming Yao

53 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electronic skin as wireless human-machine interfaces for robotic VR

2022 223 citations Yiming Liu, Chun Ki Yiu et al. Science Advances profile →
Wafer-patterned, permeable, and stretchable liquid metal microelectrodes for implantable bioelectronics with chronic biocompatibility

2023 111 citations Qiuna Zhuang, Kuanming Yao et al. Science Advances profile →
Permeable, three-dimensional integrated electronic skins with stretchable hybrid liquid metal solders

2024 105 citations Qiuna Zhuang, Kuanming Yao et al. profile →
Ultrathin, soft, radiative cooling interfaces for advanced thermal management in skin electronics

2023 101 citations Jiyu Li, Yang Fu et al. Science Advances profile →
Bioelectronics for electrical stimulation: materials, devices and biomedical applications

2024 55 citations Ya Huang, Kuanming Yao et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Self-powered electrotactile textile haptic glove for enhanced human-machine interface

2025 21 citations Haoyu Wang, Guangyao Zhao et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuanming Yao Hong Kong	27	1.6k	684	683	487	278	53	2.0k
Kyun Kyu Kim South Korea	13	1.6k 1.0×	627 0.9×	540 0.8×	539 1.1×	314 1.1×	22	1.9k
Joonhwa Choi South Korea	18	1.3k 0.8×	438 0.6×	342 0.5×	588 1.2×	261 0.9×	20	1.8k
Zhanan Zou United States	17	1.5k 0.9×	628 0.9×	398 0.6×	387 0.8×	351 1.3×	27	1.9k
Chenchen Sun China	18	1.6k 1.0×	778 1.1×	645 0.9×	427 0.9×	307 1.1×	39	1.9k
R. Chad Webb United States	11	1.8k 1.2×	688 1.0×	503 0.7×	699 1.4×	278 1.0×	16	2.2k
Sungwoo Chun South Korea	28	2.2k 1.4×	828 1.2×	822 1.2×	710 1.5×	391 1.4×	58	2.6k
Jidong Shi China	20	2.1k 1.3×	977 1.4×	753 1.1×	935 1.9×	260 0.9×	40	2.6k
Yuji Gao China	13	1.6k 1.0×	436 0.6×	431 0.6×	764 1.6×	393 1.4×	22	2.0k
Woosik Lee South Korea	8	1.9k 1.2×	793 1.2×	732 1.1×	615 1.3×	435 1.6×	25	2.3k
Shixuan Yang United States	5	1.2k 0.7×	546 0.8×	335 0.5×	517 1.1×	223 0.8×	9	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuanming Yao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhuang, Qiuna, Kuanming Yao, Xian Song, et al.. (2025). An ICU-grade breathable cardiac electronic skin for health, diagnostics, and intraoperative and postoperative monitoring. Science Advances. 11(12). eadu3146–eadu3146. 12 indexed citations

Yiu, Chun Ki, Yiming Liu, Woo‐Young Park, et al.. (2025). Skin-interfaced multimodal sensing and tactile feedback system as enhanced human-machine interface for closed-loop drone control. Science Advances. 11(13). eadt6041–eadt6041. 8 indexed citations

Yao, Kuanming, et al.. (2025). Wireless Electrotactile System with Hydrogel‐Based Electrodes for Conformal Tactile Interaction. Small Methods. 9(9). e01142–e01142. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Haoyu, Guangyao Zhao, Jing‐jing Fu, et al.. (2025). Self-powered electrotactile textile haptic glove for enhanced human-machine interface. Science Advances. 11(12). eadt0318–eadt0318. 21 indexed citations breakdown →

Huang, Qingyun, Hongyu Zhang, Mengge Wu, et al.. (2024). Biometric‐Tuned E‐Skin Sensor with Real Fingerprints Provides Insights on Tactile Perception: Rosa Parks Had Better Surface Vibrational Sensation than Richard Nixon. Advanced Science. 11(34). e2400234–e2400234. 11 indexed citations

Huang, Ya, Kuanming Yao, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Bioelectronics for electrical stimulation: materials, devices and biomedical applications. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(17). 8632–8712. 55 indexed citations breakdown →

Chow, Lung, Guangyao Zhao, Xingcan Huang, et al.. (2024). Soft, body conformable electronics for thermoregulation enabled by kirigami. Bio-Design and Manufacturing. 7(4). 453–462. 4 indexed citations

Li, Jiyu, Yang Fu, Jingkun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Ultrathin, soft, radiative cooling interfaces for advanced thermal management in skin electronics. Science Advances. 9(14). eadg1837–eadg1837. 101 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhuang, Qiuna, Kuanming Yao, Mengge Wu, et al.. (2023). Wafer-patterned, permeable, and stretchable liquid metal microelectrodes for implantable bioelectronics with chronic biocompatibility. Science Advances. 9(22). eadg8602–eadg8602. 111 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Mengge, Kuanming Yao, Hu Li, et al.. (2023). Ultrathin, Soft, Bioresorbable Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Transient Spatiotemporal Mapping of Brain Activity. Advanced Science. 10(14). e2300504–e2300504. 57 indexed citations

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Li, Jiyu, Xingcan Huang, Jingkun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Wearable and battery‐free wound dressing system for wireless and early sepsis diagnosis. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 8(6). e10445–e10445. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Mengge, Qiuna Zhuang, Kuanming Yao, et al.. (2023). Stretchable, skin‐conformable neuromorphic system for tactile sensory recognizing and encoding. InfoMat. 5(12). 33 indexed citations

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Liu, Yiming, Chun Ki Yiu, Zhen Song, et al.. (2022). Electronic skin as wireless human-machine interfaces for robotic VR. Science Advances. 8(2). eabl6700–eabl6700. 223 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Yiming, Chun Ki Yiu, Zhao Zhao, et al.. (2022). Skin-Integrated Haptic Interfaces Enabled by Scalable Mechanical Actuators for Virtual Reality. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(1). 653–663. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Dengfeng, Jiahui He, Zhen Song, et al.. (2021). Miniaturization of mechanical actuators in skin-integrated electronics for haptic interfaces. Microsystems & Nanoengineering. 7(1). 85–85. 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Yiming, Huanxi Zheng, Ling Zhao, et al.. (2020). Electronic Skin from High-Throughput Fabrication of Intrinsically Stretchable Lead Zirconate Titanate Elastomer. Research. 2020. 1085417–1085417. 45 indexed citations

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Yao, Kuanming, Yiming Liu, Dengfeng Li, et al.. (2020). Mechanics designs-performance relationships in epidermal triboelectric nanogenerators. Nano Energy. 76. 105017–105017. 28 indexed citations

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Zhao, Ling, Raudel Avila, Chun Ki Yiu, et al.. (2020). Epidermal electronics for respiration monitoring via thermo-sensitive measuring. Materials Today Physics. 13. 100199–100199. 77 indexed citations

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Yao, Kuanming, et al.. (2020). Stretchable self-powered epidermal electronics from piezoelectric rubber for tactile sensing. Acta Physica Sinica. 69(17). 178701–178701. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Yiming, Lingyun Wang, Ling Zhao, et al.. (2019). Thin, Skin‐Integrated, Stretchable Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Tactile Sensing. Advanced Electronic Materials. 6(1). 66 indexed citations

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