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Yang Yang

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • Materials Research Institute
  • Nuclear Engineering

N-243 Millennium Science Complex

yang@psu.edu

814-865-5070

Research Website

Research Areas:

Advanced Materials and Devices; Applied Mechanics and Biomechanics; Energy Infrastructure, Storage and Devices; Nanoscience, Bionanoscience and Engineering

Interest Areas:

Materials under extreme environments, Advanced electron microscopy, Elastic strain engineering, Nano mechanics.

 
 

 

Education

  • BE, Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012
  • Ph D, Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2019

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Ying Han, Hangman Chen, Yongwen Sun, Jian Liu, Shaolou Wei, Bijun Xie, Zhiyu Zhang, Yingxin Zhu, Meng Li, Judith Yang, Wen Chen, Penghui Cao and Yang Yang, 2024, "Ubiquitous short-range order in multi-principal element alloys", Nature Communications, 15, (1)
  • Yimeng Huang, Yanhao Dong, Yang Yang, Tongchao Liu, Moonsu Yoon, Sipei Li, Baoming Wang, Ethan Yupeng Zheng, Jinhyuk Lee, Yongwen Sun, Ying Han, Jim Ciston, Colin Ophus, Chengyu Song, Aubrey Penn, Yaqi Liao, Haijin Ji, Ting Shi, Mengyi Liao, Zexiao Cheng, Jingwei Xiang, Yu Peng, Lu Ma, Xianghui Xiao, Wang Hay Kan, Huaican Chen, Wen Yin, Lingling Guo, Wei-Ren Liu, Rasu Muruganantham, Chun-Chuen Yang, Yuntong Zhu, Qingjie Li and Ju Li, 2024, "Integrated rocksalt–polyanion cathodes with excess lithium and stabilized cycling", Nature Energy, (9), pp. 1497–1505
  • Rahul Pendurthi, Najam U. Sakib, Muhtasim Ul Sadaf, Zhiyu Zhang, Yongwen Sun, Chen Chen, Darsith Jayachandran, Aaryan Oberoi, Subir Ghosh, Shalini Kumari, Sergei P. Stepanoff, Divya Somvanshi, Yang Yang, Joan M Redwing, Douglas E Wolfe and Saptarshi Das, 2024, "Monolithic three-dimensional integration of complementary two-dimensional field-effect transistors", Nature Nanotechnology, 19, (7), pp. 970-977
  • Chen Chen, Nicholas Trainor, Shalini Kumari, Henrik Myja, Tilmar Kümmell, Zhiyu Zhang, Yuxi Zhang, Anuj Bisht, Muhtasim Ul Sadaf, Najam U. Sakib, Ying Han, Thomas V. Mc Knight, Andrew Graves, Meghan E. Leger, Nicholas D. Redwing, Myeongok Kim, Dorota Anna Kowalczyk, Gerd Bacher, Nasim Alem, Yang Yang, Saptarshi Das and Joan M Redwing, 2024, "Effect of growth temperature on the microstructure and properties of epitaxial MoS2 monolayers grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 42, (2)
  • Yang Yang, Sheng Yin, Qin Yu, Yingxin Zhu, Jun Ding, Ruopeng Zhang, Colin Ophus, Mark Asta, Robert O. Ritchie and Andrew M. Minor, 2024, "Rejuvenation as the origin of planar defects in the CrCoNi medium entropy alloy", Nature Communications, 15, (1)
  • Darsith Jayachandran, Rahul Pendurthi, Muhtasim Ul Sadaf, Najam U. Sakib, Andrew Pannone, Chen Chen, Ying Han, Nicholas Trainor, Shalini Kumari, Thomas V. Mc Knight, Joan M Redwing, Yang Yang and Saptarshi Das, 2024, "Three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional field-effect transistors", Nature, 625, (7994), pp. 276-281
  • Hanrui Zhang, Ying Han, Jianwei Lai, Joseph Wolf, Zhen Lei, Yang Yang and Feifei Shi, 2024, "Direct extraction of lithium from ores by electrochemical leaching", Nature Communications, 15, (1), pp. 5066
  • Patrick H Warren, Caleb D Clement, Yongwen Sun, Jim Ciston, Colin Ophus, Yang Yang and Janelle P Wharry, 2024, "Ion Implantation-Induced Plastic Phenomena in Metallic Alloys", JOM, pp. 1--12
  • Lei Jin, Tribhuwan Pandey, Haoye Sun, Yuzi Liu, Xun Li, Yueyin Wang, Tao Zhou, Rui Chen, Yongwen Sun, Yang Yang, Daryl Chrzan, Lucas Lindsay, Junqiao Wu, Jie Yao, Alejandro Rodriguez and Yin Liu, 2024, "Anomalous thermal transport in Eshelby twisted van der Waals nanowires", Nature Materials
  • Mayukh Das, Dipanjan Sen, Najam U Sakib, Harikrishnan Ravichandran, Yongwen Sun, Zhiyu Zhang, Subir Ghosh, Pranavram Venkatram, Shiva Subbulakshmi Radhakrishnan, Alexander Sredenschek, Zhuohang Yu, Kalyan Sarkar, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, Kalaiarasan Meganathan, Andrew Pannone, Ying Han, David Sanchez, Divya Somvanshi, Zdenek Sofer, Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Yang Yang and Saptarshi Das, 2024, "High-performance p-type field-effect transistors using substitutional doping and thickness control of two-dimensional materials", Nature Electronics
  • Subir Ghosh, Yikai Zheng, Zhiyu Zhang, Yongwen Sun, Thomas Schranghamer, Najam U Sakib, Aaryan Oberoi, Chen Chen, Joan M Redwing, Yang Yang and Saptarshi Das, 2024, "Monolithic and heterogeneous three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional materials with high-density vias", Nature Electronics
  • Dipanjan Sen, Harikrishnan Ravichandran, Mayukh Das, Pranavram Venkatram, Sooho Choo, Shivaseesh Varshney, Zhiyu Zhang, Yongwen Sun, Jay Shah, Shiva Subbulakshmi Radhakrishnan, Akash Saha, Sankalpa Hazra, Chen Chen, Joan M Redwing, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Venkatraman Gopalan, Yang Yang, Bharat Jalan and Saptarshi Das, 2024, "Multifunctional 2D FETs exploiting incipient ferroelectricity in freestanding SrTiO3 nanomembranes at sub-ambient temperatures", Nature Communications, (15), pp. 10739
  • Xufan Li, Samuel Wyss, Emanuil Yanev, Qing-Jie Li, Shuang Wu, Yongwen Sun, Raymond Unocic, Joseph Stage, Matthew Strasbourg, Lucas Sassi, Yingxin Zhu, Ju Li, Yang Yang, James Hone, Nicholas Borys, P. James Schuck and Avetik Harutyunyan, 2024, "Width-Dependent Growth of Atomically Thin Quantum Nanoribbons", Nature Communications, (15), pp. 10739
  • Alexander C. Castonguay, Nabila Nabi Nova, Lauren M. Dueñas, Shannon McGee, M. Jahangir Lodhi, Yang Yang and Lauren Zarzar, 2023, "Direct laser synthesis and patterning of high entropy oxides from liquid precursors", Materials Research Express, 10, (11)
  • Aaryan Oberoi, Ying Han, Sergei P. Stepanoff, Andrew Pannone, Yongwen Sun, Yu Chuan Lin, Chen Chen, Jeffrey Shallenberger, Da Zhou, Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Joan M Redwing, Joshua A Robinson, Douglas E Wolfe, Yang Yang and Saptarshi Das, 2023, "Toward High-Performance p-Type Two-Dimensional Field Effect Transistors: Contact Engineering, Scaling, and Doping", ACS Nano, 17, (20), pp. 19709-19723
  • Miao He, Yang Yang, Fei Gao and Yue Fan, 2023, "Stress sensitivity origin of extended defects production under coupled irradiation and mechanical loading", Acta Materialia, 248, pp. 118758
  • Yongchao Chen, Qing-Jie Li, Alexander D. O’Brien, Yang Yang, Qi He, David A. Bloore, Joost J. Vlassak and Ju Li, 2023, "Ion-beam radiation-induced Eshelby transformations: The mean and variance in hydrostatic and shear residual stresses", Extreme Mechanics Letters, 59, pp. 101970
  • Punit Kumar, Sang Jun Kim, Qin Yu, Jon Ell, Mingwei Zhang, Yang Yang, Ji Young Kim, Hyung Ki Park, Andrew M. Minor, Eun Soo Park and Robert O. Ritchie, 2023, "Compressive vs. tensile yield and fracture toughness behavior of a body-centered cubic refractory high-entropy superalloy Al0.5Nb1.25Ta1.25TiZr at temperatures from ambient to 1200°C", Acta Materialia, 245
  • Yang Yang, Weiyue Zhou, Sheng Yin, Sarah Y. Wang, Qin Yu, Matthew J. Olszta, Ya-Qian Zhang, Steven E. Zeltmann, Mingda Li, Mia Jin, Daniel K. Schreiber, Jim Ciston, M. C. Scott, John R. Scully, Robert O. Ritchie, Mark Asta, Ju Li, Michael P. Short and Andrew M. Minor, 2023, "One dimensional wormhole corrosion in metals", Nature Communications, 14, (1)
  • Shitong Wang, Lijiang Zhao, Yanhao Dong, He Zhu, Yang Yang, Haowei Xu, Baoming Wang, Yakun Yuan, Yang Ren, Xiaojing Huang, Wei Quan, Yutong Li, Yimeng Huang, Charles M. Settens, Qi He, Yongwen Sun, Hua Wang, Zunqiu Xiao, Wenjun Liu, Xianghui Xiao, Riqiang Fu, Qiang Li, Yong S. Chu, Zhongtai Zhang, Qi Liu, Andrew M. Minor, Junying Zhang, Zilong Tang and Ju Li, 2022, "Pre-zeolite framework super-MIEC anodes for high-rate lithium-ion batteries", Energy and Environmental Science
  • Chaoqun Dang, Jyh-Pin Chou, Bing Dai, Chang-Ti Chou, Yang Yang, Rong Fan, Weitong Lin, Fanling Meng, Alice Hu, Jiaqi Zhu and others, 2021, "Achieving large uniform tensile elasticity in microfabricated diamond", Science, 371, (6524), pp. 76–78
  • Lauren Nuckols, Miguel L Crespillo, Yang Yang, Ju Li, Eva Zarkadoula, Yanwen Zhang and William J Weber, 2021, "Effects of Recoil Spectra and Electronic Energy Dissipation on Defect Survival in 3C-SiC", Materialia, pp. 101023
  • Yang Yang, Sarah Y Wang, Bin Xiang, Sheng Yin, Thomas C Pekin, Xiaoqing Li, Ruopeng Zhang, Kayla Yano, David Hwang, Mark Asta and others, 2021, "Evaluating the effects of pillar shape and gallium ion beam damage on the mechanical properties of single crystal aluminum nanopillars", Journal of Materials Research, pp. 1–14
  • Lianfeng Zou, Penghui Cao, Yinkai Lei, Dmitri Zakharov, Xianhu Sun, Stephen D House, Langli Luo, Jonathan Li, Yang Yang, Qiyue Yin and others, 2020, "Atomic-scale phase separation induced clustering of solute atoms", Nature Communications, 11, (1), pp. 1–10
  • Kang Pyo So, Penghui Cao, Yang Yang, Jong Gil Park, Mingda Li, Long Yan, Jing Hu, Mark Kirk, Meimei Li, Young Hee Lee and others, 2020, "Carbon nanotube (CNT) metal composites exhibit greatly reduced radiation damage", Acta Materialia, pp. 116483
  • Julian Rackwitz, Qin Yu, Yang Yang, Guillaume Laplanche, Easo P George, Andrew M Minor and Robert O Ritchie, 2020, "Effects of Cryogenic Temperature and Grain Size on Fatigue-Crack Propagation in the Medium-Entropy CrCoNi Alloy", Acta Materialia, 200, pp. 351–365
  • Jinyong Zhang, Yangyang Fu, Yijin Wu, Bingnan Qian, Zheng Chen, Akihisa Inoue, Yuan Wu, Yang Yang, Fan Sun, Ju Li and others, 2020, "Hierarchical {332} twinning in a metastable ß Ti-alloy showing tolerance to strain localization", Materials Research Letters, 8, (7), pp. 247–253
  • Weiyue Zhou, Yang Yang, Guiqiu Zheng, Kevin B Woller, Peter W Stahle, Andrew M Minor and Michael P Short, 2020, "Proton irradiation-decelerated intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys in molten salt", Nature communications, 11, (1), pp. 1–7
  • Cui-Lan Ren, Yang Yang, Yong-Gang Li, Ping Huai, Zhi-Yuan Zhu and Ju Li, 2020, "Sample spinning to mitigate polarization artifact and interstitial-vacancy imbalance in ion-beam irradiation", npj Computational Materials, 6, (1), pp. 1–11
  • Chung-Soo Kim, Richard G Hobbs, Akshay Agarwal, Yang Yang, Vitor R Manfrinato, Michael P Short, Ju Li and Karl K Berggren, 2019, "Focused-helium-ion-beam blow forming of nanostructures: radiation damage and nanofabrication", Nanotechnology, 31, (4), pp. 045302
  • Zhi Zhu, Daiwei Yu, Yang Yang, Cong Su, Yimeng Huang, Yanhao Dong, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Baoming Wang, Adrian Hunt, Xiahui Yao and others, 2019, "Gradient Li-rich oxide cathode particles immunized against oxygen release by a molten salt treatment", Nature Energy, 4, (12), pp. 1049–1058
  • Kunlei Zhu, Chao Wang, Zixiang Chi, Fei Ke, Yang Yang, Anbang Wang, Weikun Wang and Lixiao Miao, 2019, "How far away are lithium-sulfur batteries from commercialization?", Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Jinyong Zhang, Fan Sun, Zheng Chen, Yang Yang, Baolong Shen, Ju Li and Frédéric Prima, 2019, "Strong and ductile beta Ti–18Zr–13Mo alloy with multimodal twinning", Materials Research Letters, 7, (6), pp. 251–257
  • Weiwei Xia, Yang Yang, Qingping Meng, Zhiping Deng, Mingxing Gong, Jie Wang, Deli Wang, Yimei Zhu, Litao Sun, Feng Xu and others, 2018, "Bimetallic Nanoparticle Oxidation in Three Dimensions by Chemically Sensitive Electron Tomography and In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy", ACS Nano, 12, (8), pp. 7866–7874
  • Yang Yang, Akihiro Kushima, Weizhong Han, Huolin Xin and Ju Li, 2018, "Liquid-like, self-healing aluminum oxide during deformation at room temperature", Nano letters, 18, (4), pp. 2492–2497
  • Yang Yang, Michael Short and Ju Li, 2018, "Monte Carlo simulation of PKA distribution along nanowires under ion radiation", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 340, pp. 300–307
  • Yang Yang, Yong Gang Li, Michael P Short, Chung-Soo Kim, Karl K Berggren and Ju Li, 2018, "Nano-beam and nano-target effects in ion radiation", Nanoscale, 10, (4), pp. 1598–1606
  • Kang Pyo So, Di Chen, Akihiro Kushima, Mingda Li, Sangtae Kim, Yang Yang, Ziqiang Wang, Jong Gil Park, Young Hee Lee, Gonzalez, Rafael I and others, 2016, "Dispersion of carbon nanotubes in aluminum improves radiation resistance", Nano Energy, 22, pp. 319–327
  • Yonggang Li, Yang Yang, Michael P Short, Zejun Ding, Zhi Zeng and Ju Li, 2016, "Ion radiation albedo effect: influence of surface roughness on ion implantation and sputtering of materials", Nuclear Fusion, 57, (1), pp. 016038
  • Clara Yuan Li, Mingshuai Ding, Yang Yang, Pengcheng Zhang, Yao Li, Yuecun Wang, Longchao Huang, Pingjiong Yang, Ming Wang, Xiao Sha and others, 2016, "Portrait and Classification of Individual Haze Particulates", Journal of Environmental Protection, 7, (10), pp. 1355
  • Michael P Short, Cody A Dennett, Sara E Ferry, Yang Yang, Vikash K Mishra, Jeffrey K Eliason, Alejandro Vega-Flick, Alexei A Maznev and Keith A Nelson, 2015, "Applications of transient grating spectroscopy to radiation materials science", JOM, 67, (8), pp. 1840–1848
  • Yong Gang Li, Yang Yang, Michael P Short, Ze Jun Ding, Zhi Zeng and Ju Li, 2015, "IM3D: A parallel Monte Carlo code for efficient simulations of primary radiation displacements and damage in 3D geometry", Scientific reports, 5, pp. 18130

Abstracts

  • Xufan Li, Shuang Wu, Samuel Wyss, Emanuil Yanev, Yongwen Sun, Raymond Unocic, Yang Yang, James Schuck, Nick Borys and Avetik Harutyunyan, 2024, "Growth of Atomic Layer TMD Quantum Nanoribbons with Controllable Width", Bulletin of the American Physical Society
  • Yang Yang, Sheng Yin and Andrew M Minor, 2024, "Imaging Point Defect and Planar Defect in Metals with 4D-STEM", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 30, (S1)
  • Yongwen Sun, Ying Han, Dan Zhou, Hugo Perez Garza, Alejandro Gomez Perez, Thanos Galanis, Starvos Nicolopoulos and Yang Yang, 2024, "In-situ 4D-STEM Study of Chemo-Mechanical Interactions during Metal Oxidation", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 30, (S1)
  • Zhiyu Zhang, Sarah Wang, Peter Hosemann, Yang Yang and Andrew M Minor, 2024, "4D-STEM Characterization of Stainless Steel 316L after Corrosion in Lead-bismuth Eutectic", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 30, (S1)
  • Sean H Mills, Yang Yang and Andrew M Minor, 2023, "Imaging Ghosts with 4D-STEM: from Vacancies to Vanishing Dislocations", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 29, (S1), pp. 270
  • Yang Yang, Weiyue Zhou, Sheng Yin, Sarah Wang, Qin Yu, Robert Ritchie, Mark Asta, Ju Li, Michael Short and Andrew Minor, 2021, "4D-STEM Imaging of nanostructural heterogeneities in Ni-20Cr after corrosion in molten salt", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, (S1), pp. 2134–2135
  • Yang Yang, Ruopeng Zhang, Shiteng Zhao, Yu Deng, Qin Yu, Steven Zeltmann, Sheng Yin, Jim Ciston, Colin Ophus, Mark Asta and others, 2021, "In situ observations and measurements of plastic deformation, phase transformations and fracture with 4D-STEM", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, (S1), pp. 1494–1495
  • Sean Mills, Yang Yang and Andrew M Minor, 2021, "In-situ 4D-STEM imaging to develop a fundamental understanding of coupled transport of vacancies", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, (S1), pp. 2202–2202
  • Yang Yang, Akihiro Kushima, Huolin Xin, Peter Hosemann and Ju Li, 2019, "In-Situ Observation of Concurrent Oxidation and Mechanical Deformation in Al and Zr", Microscopy and Microanalysis, 25, (S2), pp. 1912–1913

Other

  • Kangpyo So, Penghui Cao, Yang Yang, Jong Gil Park, Mingda Li, Yan Long, Jing Hu, Mark Kirk, Meimei Li, Young Hee Lee and others, 2018, "Nanotube/Nanowire as Effective Defect Sinks in Metals—Atomistic Simulations and In Situ Ion Radiation Transmission Electron Microscopy"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • NSF Early Career Award, National Science Foundation, September 2022 - August 2027
  • Best Postdoc Talk Award, MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium MT05, 2019
  • Best Overall Research Award, America Nuclear Society Student Conference, 2017
  • Best in Materials Sci. & Tech. Award, America Nuclear Society Student Conference, 2017
  • First place in the 8th Annual CFN Image Contest (Scientific and Technical), Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2017
  • Alpha Nu Sigma Honor Society Member, Alpha Nu Sigma Honor Society, 2014
  • Best Bachelor Graduate in Anhui Province, China, 2012
  • Best Bachelor Graduate in University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012
  • Guo Moruo Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012
  • TMS Young Leaders International Scholar - KIM Award, TMS, 2025
  • First place in the 15th Annual CFN Image Contest (Scientific and Technical), Brookhaven National Laboratory, November 2024

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