Yonggang Huang
Joseph Cummings Professor

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road, Room A116
Evanston, IL60208, USA

TEL: (847) 467-3165
FAX: (847) 491-3915

email: y-huang@northwestern.edu

BS Mechanics, Peking University, 1984
MS Engineering Science, Harvard University, 1987
PhD Engineering Science, Harvard University, 1990

CV

Research: Mechanics of materials and structures; fracture mechanics; composite materials; micromechanics; atomistic-based continuum mechanics; mechanics of stretchable electronics

Honors and Awards

Selected Publications

Gao H, Huang Y, Nix WD, and Hutchinson JW, "Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity. I. - Theory," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, v 47, pp 1239-1263, 1999.

Huang Y, Gao H, Nix WD, and Hutchinson JW, "Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity. II. - Analysis," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, v 48, pp 99-128, 2000.

Zhang P, Huang Y, Geubelle PH, Klein PA, and Hwang KC, "The elastic modulus of single-wall carbon nanotubes: A continuum analysis incorporating interatomic potentials," International Journal of Solids and Structures, v 39, pp 3893-3906, 2002.

Huang Y, Qu S, Hwang KC, Li M, and Gao H, "A conventional theory of mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity," International Journal of Plasticity, v 20, pp 753-782, 2004.

Khang D-Y, Jiang H, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, "A stretchable form of single crystal silicon for high performance electronics on rubber substrates," Science, v 311, pp 208-212, 2006.

Meitl MA, Zhu Z, Kumar V, Lee KJ, Feng X, Huang Y, Adesida I, Nuzzo RG, and Rogers JA, "Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastometric stamp," Nature Materials, v 5, pp 33-38, 2006 (Cover feature article).

Sun Y, Choi WM, Jiang H, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, "Controlled buckling structures in semiconductor nanoribbons with application examples in stretchable electronics," Nature Nanotechnology, v 1, pp 201-206, 2006.

Jiang H, Khang D-Y, Song J, Sun Y, Huang Y, and Rogers, "Finite deformation mechanics in buckled thin films on compliant supports," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science v 104, pp 15607-15612, 2007.

Kim D-H, Ahn J-H, Choi W-M, Kim H-S, Kim T-H, Song J, Huang Y, Liu Z, Lu C, and Rogers JA, Stretchable and foldable silicon integrated circuits, Science, v 320, pp 507-511, 2008.

Kim D-H, Song J, Choi W-M, Kim H-S, Kim R-H, Liu Z, Huang Y, Hwang KC, Zhang YW, and Rogers JA, Materials and non-coplanar mesh designs for integrated circuits with linear elastic responses to extreme mechanical deformations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v 105, pp 18675-18680, 2008 (Cover feature article).

Ko HC, Stoykovich MP, Song J, Malyarchuk V, Choi WM, Yu C-J, Geddes JB III, Xiao J, Wang S, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, "A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics," Nature, v 454, pp 748-753, 2008 (Cover feature article).