Yuxing Yao

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yuxing Yao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuxing Yao has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yuxing Yao's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (7 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (5 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (4 papers). Yuxing Yao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (7 papers), Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (5 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (4 papers). Yuxing Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yuxing Yao's co-authors include Xi Zhang, Kai Liu, Joanna Aizenberg, Huanxiang Yuan, Zhiqiang Wang, Yiliu Liu, Shu Wang, Shucong Li, Zhibo Li and Yu Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yuxing Yao

21 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures

2022 134 citations Shucong Li, Michael M. Lerch et al. Nature profile →
Functional nanoporous graphene superlattice

2024 85 citations Hualiang Lv, Yuxing Yao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuxing Yao United States	16	526	460	339	284	222	23	1.3k
Yu Chai China	20	568 1.1×	1.0k 2.2×	176 0.5×	399 1.4×	127 0.6×	52	1.6k
Feng Jin China	27	1.2k 2.2×	669 1.5×	251 0.7×	247 0.9×	108 0.5×	111	1.9k
Jianping Gong Japan	18	459 0.9×	249 0.5×	279 0.8×	299 1.1×	220 1.0×	42	1.5k
Koki Sano Japan	15	348 0.7×	268 0.6×	272 0.8×	147 0.5×	231 1.0×	38	1.0k
Supitchaya Iamsaard Netherlands	13	481 0.9×	495 1.1×	657 1.9×	314 1.1×	311 1.4×	14	1.3k
Won Jin Choi South Korea	20	610 1.2×	877 1.9×	176 0.5×	155 0.5×	194 0.9×	78	1.8k
Xuan‐Ming Duan China	27	1.5k 2.8×	828 1.8×	238 0.7×	322 1.1×	114 0.5×	81	2.3k
Mo Sun China	18	494 0.9×	353 0.8×	101 0.3×	240 0.8×	332 1.5×	38	1.2k
Yaxian Wang China	20	396 0.8×	755 1.6×	199 0.6×	81 0.3×	166 0.7×	62	1.6k
Kyungsuk Yum United States	19	783 1.5×	451 1.0×	340 1.0×	99 0.3×	88 0.4×	28	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuxing Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuxing Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuxing 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 Yuxing Yao. Yuxing Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zhou, Xiaozhuang, Haohui Zhang, Michael Aizenberg, et al.. (2025). Controlled macroscopic shape evolution of self-growing polymeric materials. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2131–2131.

Zhang, Meng, Xinxin Lu, Haodong Hu, et al.. (2025). Liquid crystal elastomers for solar, mechanical, thermal, and electrochemical energy applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 14(6). 3185–3209.

Yao, Yuxing, Friedrich Stricker, Shucong Li, et al.. (2024). Programming liquid crystal elastomers for multistep ambidirectional deformability. Science. 386(6726). 1161–1168. 21 indexed citations

Ling, Bill, Yuxing Yao, Przemysław Dutka, et al.. (2024). Truly Tiny Acoustic Biomolecules for Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy. Advanced Materials. 36(28). e2307106–e2307106. 11 indexed citations

Lv, Hualiang, Yuxing Yao, Mingyue Yuan, et al.. (2024). Functional nanoporous graphene superlattice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1295–1295. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Ruonan, Mingwei Liu, Shucong Li, et al.. (2023). Single-molecule visualization determines conformational substate ensembles in β-sheet–rich peptide fibrils. Science Advances. 9(27). eadg7943–eadg7943. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Lanlan, Ruonan Wang, Shucong Li, et al.. (2023). Experimental Insights into Conformational Ensembles of Assembled β-Sheet Peptides. ACS Central Science. 9(7). 1480–1487. 5 indexed citations

Li, Shucong, Michael M. Lerch, James T. Waters, et al.. (2022). Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures. Nature. 605(7908). 76–83. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Shucong, et al.. (2021). Controlling Liquid Crystal Orientations for Programmable Anisotropic Transformations in Cellular Microstructures. Advanced Materials. 33(42). e2105024–e2105024. 39 indexed citations

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Xu, Yang, Adil Majeed Rather, Yuxing Yao, et al.. (2021). Liquid crystal–based open surface microfluidics manipulate liquid mobility and chemical composition on demand. Science Advances. 7(40). eabi7607–eabi7607. 56 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuxing, Zhiyang Jin, Bill Ling, Dina Malounda, & Mikhail G. Shapiro. (2021). Self-assembly of protein superstructures by physical interactions under cytoplasm-like conditions. Biophysical Journal. 120(13). 2701–2709. 4 indexed citations

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Xu, Yang, Robert L. Dupont, Yuxing Yao, et al.. (2021). Random Liquid Crystalline Copolymers Consisting of Prolate and Oblate Liquid Crystal Monomers. Macromolecules. 54(12). 5376–5387. 18 indexed citations

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Waters, James T., Shucong Li, Yuxing Yao, et al.. (2020). Twist again: Dynamically and reversibly controllable chirality in liquid crystalline elastomer microposts. Science Advances. 6(13). eaay5349–eaay5349. 34 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuxing, James T. Waters, Anna V. Shneidman, et al.. (2018). Multiresponsive polymeric microstructures with encoded predetermined and self-regulated deformability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(51). 12950–12955. 115 indexed citations

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Wu, Feng, Songyue Chen, Baiyi Chen, et al.. (2018). Bioinspired Universal Flexible Elastomer‐Based Microchannels. Small. 14(18). e1702170–e1702170. 37 indexed citations

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Hou, Xu, Jianyu Li, Alexander B. Tesler, et al.. (2018). Dynamic air/liquid pockets for guiding microscale flow. Nature Communications. 9(1). 733–733. 58 indexed citations

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Liu, Kai, Yuxing Yao, Yuetong Kang, et al.. (2013). A supramolecular approach to fabricate highly emissive smart materials. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2372–2372. 81 indexed citations

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Liu, Kai, Yiliu Liu, Yuxing Yao, et al.. (2013). Supramolecular Photosensitizers with Enhanced Antibacterial Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(32). 8285–8289. 317 indexed citations

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Liu, Kai, Yuxing Yao, Yu Liu, et al.. (2012). Self-Assembly of Supra-amphiphiles Based on Dual Charge-Transfer Interactions: From Nanosheets to Nanofibers. Langmuir. 28(29). 10697–10702. 69 indexed citations

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Liu, Kai, Yuxing Yao, Chao Wang, et al.. (2012). From Bola‐amphiphiles to Supra‐amphiphiles: The Transformation from Two‐Dimensional Nanosheets into One‐Dimensional Nanofibers with Tunable‐Packing Fashion of n‐Type Chromophores. Chemistry - A European Journal. 18(28). 8622–8628. 57 indexed citations

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