{"id":5,"date":"2016-07-26T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1409.mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:39:23","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanomechanics and Nanoengineering Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<h4><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\">Home<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/Members\">Members<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/Teaching\">Teaching<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/Research\">Research<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/Publications\">Publications<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Welcome to the Zhu group! Our research addresses basic and applied problems at the intersection of Solid Mechanics and Micro\/Nano-technology, including nanomechanics, micro\/nano-electromechanical systems, and nanomaterial-enabled soft electronics and soft robotics. We aim to understand mechanical and multiphysical behaviors of nanomaterials through in-situ experiments and explore their device applications based on their unique properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are currently looking for a postdoctoral research fellow in the area of manufacturing and applications of soft wearable electronics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"callOut gray-lighter-bg\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n\t\t<aside id=\"recent-posts-3\" class=\"widget_recent_entries amr_widget \">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"widget-title\" >Recent News<\/h1>\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/2024\/darpans-paper-on-silver-nanowire-and-liquid-metal-composite-appeared-online-congrats-darpan\/\">Darpan&#8217;s paper on silver nanowire and liquid metal composite appeared online<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/2024\/welcome-dr-xu\/\">Welcome Dr. Jin Xu!<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/2023\/hongyu-successfully-defended\/\">Hongyu successfully defended!<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/2023\/welcome-dr-doyun-kim\/\">Welcome Dr. Doyun Kim!<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/2023\/prof-zhu-highlighted-by-development-communications\/\">Prof. Zhu highlighted by Development Communications<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/aside> <em>More <a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news\/\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/a> -&gt;<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\"><i>More <\/i><strong style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/lab-news\/\">Lab News<\/a><\/strong><br \/><em>More <a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/news-releases\/\"><strong>News Releases<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"row multiColumn\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-7 multiColumn-item\">\n<h3>Representative Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>G. Cheng, S. Yin, C. Li, T.H. Chang, G. Richter, H. Gao, and Y. Zhu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1359645420304900\">In-situ study of dislocation interaction with twin boundary and retraction in twinned metallic nanowires<\/a>\u201c, <em>Acta Materialia<\/em> 196, 304-312 (2020).<\/li>\n<li>W. Zhou, S. Yao, H. Wang, Q. Du, Y Ma, and Y. Zhu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acsnano.0c00906\">Gas-Permeable, Ultrathin, Stretchable Epidermal Electronics with Porous Electrodes<\/a>\u201c, <em>ACS Nano<\/em> 14, 5798-5805 (2020).<\/li>\n<li>G. Cheng, Y. Zhang, T.-H. Chang, Q. Liu, L. Chen, W. Lu, T. Zhu and Y. Zhu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.9b01789\">In situ nano-thermo-mechanical experiment reveals brittle to ductile transition in silicon nanowires<\/a>\u201c, <em>Nano Letters<\/em> 19, 5327-5334 (2019).<\/li>\n<li>S. Yin, G. Cheng, T.-H. Chang, G. Richter, Y. Zhu and H. Gao, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-10035-0\">Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic nanowires<\/a>\u201c, <em>Nature Communications<\/em> 10, 2004 (2019).<\/li>\n<li>J. Cui, F. Poblete and Y. Zhu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/adfm.201802768\">Origami\/Kirigami\u2010Guided Morphing of Composite Sheets<\/a>\u201c, <em>Advanced Functional Materials<\/em> 28, 1802768 (2018).<\/li>\n<li>Z. Cui, Y. Han, J. Dong and Y. Zhu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2018\/nr\/c7nr09570h#!divAbstract\">Electrohydrodynamic Printing of Silver Nanowires for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics<\/a>\u201d, <em>Nanoscale<\/em> 10, 6806-6811 (2018).<\/li>\n<li>G. Cheng, C. Miao, Q. Qin, J. Li, F. Xu, H. Haftbaradaran, E.C. Dickey, H. Gao and Y. Zhu, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/08\/NatureNano2015.pdf\">Large Anelasticity and Associated Energy Dissipation in Single-Crystalline Nanowires<\/a>&#8220;, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 687-691 (2015).<\/li>\n<li>Q. Qin, S. Yin, G. Cheng, X. Li, T.-H. Chang, G. Richter, Y. Zhu and H. Gao, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/150113\/ncomms6983\/full\/ncomms6983.html\">Recoverable Plasticity in Penta-twinned Metallic Nanowires Governed by Dislocation Nucleation and Retraction<\/a>&#8220;, Nature Communications 6, 5983 (2015).<\/li>\n<li>T. Jiang, R. Huang, Y. Zhu, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/08\/AdFM2014.pdf\">Interfacial Sliding and Buckling of Monolayer Graphene on a Stretchable Substrate<\/a>&#8220;, Advanced Functional Materials 24, 396-402 (2014).<\/li>\n<li>F. Xu and Y. Zhu, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/08\/AdvMat2012b.pdf\">Highly Conductive and Stretchable Silver Nanowire Conductors<\/a>,&#8221; Advanced Materials 24 (37), 5117-5122 (2012).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>More <a href=\"https:\/\/mae.ncsu.edu\/zhu\/publications\/\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/a><\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-5 multiColumn-item\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Members\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Teaching\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Research\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Publications Welcome to the Zhu group! Our research addresses basic and applied problems at the intersection of Solid Mechanics and Micro\/Nano-technology, including nanomechanics, micro\/nano-electromechanical systems, and nanomaterial-enabled soft electronics and soft robotics. 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