Jie Yin
Associate Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-7030
- Email: jyin8@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3240
- Website: https://jieyin.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
Dr. Yin received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University. Prior to join NC State, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and an Assistant and Associate Professor at Temple University. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award.
Yin group’s research is on both fundamental mechanics and functionality of novel materials and structures at all scales (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OorAZMgAAAAJ).
Currently, it focuses on mechanics and design of mechanical metamaterials, mechanics guided design of soft robotics, and multifunctional interfacial materials. Presently, he studies reconfigurable kirigami-based architected materials for achieving unprecedented properties and functionalities. He also studies the mechanics guided design of high-performance soft robotics in both manipulation and locomotion for achieving high force, high speed, and high strength. Another topic is shape-morphing materials and structures for sustainable energy and environments. All of these topics are investigated through combining theoretical modeling, numerical simulation, and experimental techniques.
Publications
- Bistable and Multistable Actuators for Soft Robots: Structures, Materials, and Functionalities
- Chi, Y., Li, Y., Zhao, Y., Hong, Y., Tang, Y., & Yin, J. (2022). [Review of , ]. ADVANCED MATERIALS, 34(19). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202110384
- Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets
- Hong, Y., Chi, Y., Wu, S., Li, Y., Zhu, Y., & Yin, J. (2022), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28187-x
- On-Demand Solar and Thermal RadiationManagement Based on Switchable Interwoven Surfaces
- Ke, Y., Li, Y., Wu, L., Wang, S., Yang, R., Yin, J., … Long, Y. (2022), ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 7(5), 1758–1763. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00419
- Self-Sustained Snapping Drives Autonomous Dancing and Motion in Free-Standing Wavy Rings
- Zhao, Y., Hong, Y., Qi, F., Chi, Y., Su, H., & Yin, J. (2022, December 27), ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202207372
- Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient butterfly stroke-like soft swimmer
- Chi, Y., Hong, Y., Zhao, Y., Li, Y., & Yin, J. (2022), SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(46). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add3788
- 3D Transformable Modular Kirigami Based Programmable Metamaterials
- Li, Y., Zhang, Q., Hong, Y., & Yin, J. (2021, July 29), ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202105641
- Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics
- Wu, S., Baker, G. L., Yin, J., & Zhu, Y. (2021, December 7), SOFT ROBOTICS. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2021.0080
- Geometric mechanics of folded kirigami structures with tunable bandgap
- Li, Y., Song, X., Liu, H., & Yin, J. (2021), EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS, 49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2021.101483
- Metamorphosis of three-dimensional kirigami-inspired reconfigurable and reprogrammable architected matter
- Li, Y., & Yin, J. (2021), MATERIALS TODAY PHYSICS, 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2021.100511
- Microstructural design for mechanical-optical multifunctionality in the exoskeleton of the flower beetle Torynorrhina flammea
- Jia, Z., Fernandes, M. C., Deng, Z., Yang, T., Zhang, Q., Lethbridge, A., … Li, L. (2021), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118(25). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101017118
Grants
- Collaborative Research: NRI: Smart Skins for Robotic Prosthetic Hand
- Collaborative Research: ARM-SoRo: Adaptive, Rapid, and Multifunctional Soft Robots with Reconfigurable Shapes and Motions Enabled by Tunable Elastic Instabilities
- EAGER/Collaborative Research: Environmentally Responsive, Water Harvesting and Self-Cooling Building Envelopes
- Mechanics of Extreme Mechanical Instabilities via Spontaneously Periodic Delamination
- CAREER: Mechanics of Kirigami-based Reconfigurable Structures
