Youyou Yao

988 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 815 citations indexed

About

Youyou Yao is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Youyou Yao has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 815 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Youyou Yao's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (5 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (5 papers). Youyou Yao is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (5 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (5 papers). Youyou Yao collaborates with scholars based in China. Youyou Yao's co-authors include Jing Liu, Lei Sheng, Jie Zhang, Zhi‐Zhu He, Hongzhang Wang, Xiangjiang Wang, Wei Rao, Yuntao Cui, Xuyang Sun and Ju Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Small and RSC Advances.

In The Last Decade

Youyou Yao

11 papers receiving 804 citations

Hit Papers

Self‐Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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.

  1. Self‐Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk
    2015 330 citations Jie Zhang, Youyou Yao et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers

Youyou Yao
Bangdao Chen China
Jiang‐Wei Mao China
Prosenjit Sen India
Collin B. Eaker United States
Jianye Gao China
Jiu Yang Zhu Australia
Zhao‐Di Chen China
Yujie Ding China
Ishan D. Joshipura United States
Sanha Kim South Korea
Bangdao Chen China
Youyou Yao
Citations per year, relative to Youyou Yao Youyou Yao (= 1×) peers Bangdao Chen

Countries citing papers authored by Youyou Yao

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Youyou Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Youyou Yao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Youyou Yao. The network helps show where Youyou Yao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youyou Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Youyou Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Youyou Yao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Youyou Yao. Youyou Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Wang, Hongzhang, Youyou Yao, Zhi‐Zhu He, et al.. (2019). A Highly Stretchable Liquid Metal Polymer as Reversible Transitional Insulator and Conductor. Advanced Materials. 31(23). e1901337–e1901337. 241 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongzhang, Youyou Yao, Xiangjiang Wang, et al.. (2019). Large-Magnitude Transformable Liquid-Metal Composites. ACS Omega. 4(1). 2311–2319. 47 indexed citations
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Yao, Youyou, Hongzhang Wang, Xiaohu Yang, & Jing Liu. (2018). E-BiInSn Enhanced Rigidity Alterable Artificial Bandage. PubMed. 11. 2873–2876. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuelin, Rui Guo, Bo Yuan, et al.. (2018). Ni-doped Liquid Metal Printed Highly Stretchable and Conformable Strain Sensor for Multifunctional Human-Motion Monitoring. PubMed. 2018. 3276–3279. 18 indexed citations
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Yao, Youyou & Jing Liu. (2017). A polarized liquid metal worm squeezing across a localized irregular gap. RSC Advances. 7(18). 11049–11056. 39 indexed citations
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Xu, Jing, et al.. (2017). 3D multi-directional sensor with pyramid mirror and structured light. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 93. 156–163. 22 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie, Youyou Yao, Lei Sheng, & Jing Liu. (2015). Self‐Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk. Advanced Materials. 27(16). 2648–2655. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Jie, Youyou Yao, Lei Sheng, & Jing Liu. (2015). Self‐Fueled Motors: Self‐Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk (Adv. Mater. 16/2015). Advanced Materials. 27(16). 2550–2550. 6 indexed citations
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Sheng, Lei, Zhi‐Zhu He, Youyou Yao, & Jing Liu. (2015). Transient State Machine Enabled from the Colliding and Coalescence of a Swarm of Autonomously Running Liquid Metal Motors. Small. 11(39). 5253–5261. 64 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie, Youyou Yao, & Jing Liu. (2015). Autonomous convergence and divergence of the self-powered soft liquid metal vehicles. Science Bulletin. 60(10). 943–951. 43 indexed citations

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