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  1. A neural-network-enhanced micromechanical framework with evolving reference medium for nonlinear heterogeneous materials

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  2. Flexible filaments in vesicles with reduced volume: Anisotropic confinement and morphological response

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  3. Interacting filaments drive vesicle morphogenesis

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  4. Recent Progress in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators: Mechanisms, Fabrication, and Multifunctional Applications

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr Xin Yi

  5. Multimodal Locomotion of Amphibious Soft Microrobots for Multi-Environment Exploration

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, August 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  6. Enhancing load-bearing in lattice structures via core-modified designs with secondary hardening

    Article • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  7. Melt pool dynamics and pore formation in selective laser melting: Mechanisms and microstructural insights

    Article • Materials & Design, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  8. Strain rate-dependent tension-compression asymmetry in cast Mg-Gd-Y alloy: Insights into slip and twinning mechanisms

    Article • Journal of Material Science and Technology, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  9. Mitigating surface notches for enhanced fatigue performance of metallic gyroid structures via contour scanning

    Article • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  10. Strength–ductility synergy in Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloys via texture engineering in bi-directional forging

    Article • Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, November 2024, Tsinghua University Press

    Dr Xin Yi

  11. Deformation, shape transformations, and stability of elastic rod loops within spherical confinement

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  12. Equilibrium analysis of surface-constrained elastic rods: Unveiling contact and internal forces through local geometry

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  13. Stretching transition of vesicles with confined filament loops: Morphological evolution with filament distortion and reorientation

    Article • Giant, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  14. Angle-dependent protrusion of cell membranes

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  15. Effects of Ion Irradiation and Temperature on Mechanical Properties of GaN Single Crystals under Nanoindentation

    Article • Materials, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Xin Yi

  16. Twin evolution in cast Mg-Gd-Y alloys and its dependence on aging heat treatment

    Article • Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  17. Morphological transformations of vesicles with confined flexible filaments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xin Yi

  18. Overcoming strength–ductility trade-off of nanocrystalline metals by engineering grain boundary, texture, and gradient microstructure

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  19. Membrane-tension-dominated growth mechanism and size modulation of giant unilamellar vesicles in electroformation

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  20. Area difference between monolayers facilitates budding of lipid droplets from vesicles

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  21. Nanoparticle elasticity regulates the formation of cell membrane-coated nanoparticles and their nano-bio interactions

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Chun-Xia Zhao, Dr Xin Yi

  22. Indentation of pore-spanning lipid membranes: Spring-stiffening or -softening responses and apparent stiffness prediction

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  23. New heat source model for accurate estimation of laser energy absorption near free surface in selective laser melting

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  24. High pressure-induced elimination of grain size softening in nanocrystalline metals: Grain boundary strengthening overwhelming reduction of intragranular dislocation storage ability

    Article • International Journal of Plasticity, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  25. Mechanical and microstructural characterization of additive manufactured Inconel 718 alloy by selective laser melting and laser metal deposition

    Article • Journal of Iron and Steel Research International, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  26. Mechanical Properties of GaN Single Crystals upon C Ion Irradiation: Nanoindentation Analysis

    Article • Materials, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Xin Yi

  27. Selective Electron Beam Melting (SEBM) of Pure Tungsten: Metallurgical Defects, Microstructure, Texture and Mechanical Properties

    Article • Materials, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Xin Yi

  28. Mechanical behavior of the HfNbZrTi high entropy alloy after ion irradiation based on micro-pillar compression tests

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  29. Bulging-to-Budding Transition of Lipid Droplets Confined within Vesicle Membranes

    Article • Langmuir, October 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  30. Membrane-mediated interaction of intercellular cylindrical nanoparticles

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  31. A unified mechanistic model for Hall–Petch and inverse Hall–Petch relations of nanocrystalline metals based on intragranular dislocation storage

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  32. Mechanics of cell interaction with intercellular nanoparticles: Shape-dependent competition between two-membrane trapping and single-membrane wrapping

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  33. Soft Actuators Based on Liquid–Vapor Phase Change Composites

    Article • Soft Robotics, June 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Xin Yi

  34. Effects of processing parameters on the densification, microstructure and mechanical properties of pure tungsten fabricated by optimized selective laser melting: From single and multiple scan tracks to bulk parts

    Article • International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  35. Morphological changes of nanofiber cross-sections due to surface tension

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  36. Bulging and budding of lipid droplets from symmetric and asymmetric membranes: competition between membrane elastic energy and interfacial energy

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  37. Dislocation-grain boundary interaction in metallic materials: Competition between dislocation transmission and dislocation source activation

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  38. Unified Model for Size-Dependent to Size-Independent Transition in Yield Strength of Crystalline Metallic Materials

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  39. Nanoparticle elasticity regulates phagocytosis and cancer cell uptake

    Article • Science Advances, April 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Xin Yi

  40. Structures and mechanical behaviors of soft nanotubes confining adhesive single or multiple elastic nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  41. Probabilistic and constitutive models for ductile-to-brittle transition in steels: A competition between cleavage and ductile fracture

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  42. Nanomechanical characterization of pressurized elastic fluid nanovesicles using indentation analysis

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  43. Failure of fracture toughness criterion at small scales

    Article • Physical Review Materials, November 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  44. Force Barrier for Lipid Sorting in the Formation of Membrane Nanotubes

    Article • Journal of Applied Mechanics, September 2019, ASME International

    Dr Xin Yi

  45. Role of Nanoparticle Mechanical Properties in Cancer Drug Delivery

    Article • ACS Nano, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  46. Finite Indentation of Pressurized Elastic Fluid Nanovesicles by a Rigid Cylindrical Indenter

    Article • Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  47. Chain-Length- and Saturation-Tuned Mechanics of Fluid Nanovesicles Direct Tumor Delivery

    Article • ACS Nano, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  48. Model of nanoindentation size effect incorporating the role of elastic deformation

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  49. Temperature- and rigidity-mediated rapid transport of lipid nanovesicles in hydrogels

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xin Yi

  50. Mechanics of the Formation, Interaction, and Evolution of Membrane Tubular Structures

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  51. Why are nanoparticles trapped at cell junctions when the cell density is high?

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Xianren Zhang, Dr Xin Yi

  52. Curvature-mediated cooperative wrapping of multiple nanoparticles at the same and opposite membrane sides

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  53. Sidewall contact regulating the nanorod packing inside vesicles with relative volumes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  54. Membrane Wrapping Efficiency of Elastic Nanoparticles during Endocytosis: Size and Shape Matter

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  55. Multimaterial Microfluidic 3D Printing of Textured Composites with Liquid Inclusions

    Article • Advanced Science, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Xin Yi

  56. Erratum: Cellular Uptake of Elastic Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 , 098101 (2011)]

    Article • Physical Review Letters, November 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  57. Packing of flexible 2D materials in vesicles

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, May 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Xin Yi

  58. Packing of flexible nanofibers in vesicles

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  59. A minimal mechanics model for mechanosensing of substrate rigidity gradient in durotaxis

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  60. Size-dependent formation of membrane nanotubes: continuum modeling and molecular dynamics simulations

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Xianren Zhang

  61. Mechanics of cellular packing of nanorods with finite and non-uniform diameters

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  62. Budding of an Adhesive Elastic Particle out of a Lipid Vesicle

    Article • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, February 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  63. Kinetics of receptor-mediated endocytosis of elastic nanoparticles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  64. Incorporation of Soft Particles into Lipid Vesicles: Effects of Particle Size and Elasticity

    Article • Langmuir, December 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  65. Nanomechanical mechanism for lipid bilayer damage induced by carbon nanotubes confined in intracellular vesicles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Xin Yi

  66. Biological and environmental interactions of emerging two-dimensional nanomaterials

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  67. Cell membrane wrapping of a spherical thin elastic shell

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  68. Cell interaction with graphene microsheets: near-orthogonal cutting versus parallel attachment

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Xin Yi

  69. Phase diagrams and morphological evolution in wrapping of rod-shaped elastic nanoparticles by cell membrane: A two-dimensional study

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  70. A Universal Law for Cell Uptake of One-Dimensional Nanomaterials

    Article • Nano Letters, February 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  71. Cellular Uptake of Elastic Nanoparticles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  72. Water-Swelling-Induced Morphological Instability of a Supported Polymethyl Methacrylate Thin Film

    Article • Langmuir, June 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  73. Vibration of cantilevers with rough surfaces

    Article • Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi

  74. Surface stress induced by interactions of adsorbates and its effect on deformation and frequency of microcantilever sensors

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  75. Prediction of complex dielectric constants of polymer-clay nanocomposites

    Article • Physics Letters A, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  76. A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects: Part II—Application and scaling laws

    Article • Mechanics of Materials, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  77. A unified scheme for prediction of effective moduli of multiphase composites with interface effects. Part I: Theoretical framework

    Article • Mechanics of Materials, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  78. Compatible composition profiles and critical sizes of alloyed quantum dots

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  79. Conductivities of heterogeneous media with graded anisotropic constituents

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, August 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  80. Solutions of inhomogeneity problems with graded shells and application to core–shell nanoparticles and composites

    Article • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Xin Yi

  81. Strain distributions in nano-onions with uniform and non-uniform compositions

    Article • Nanotechnology, June 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  82. Eshelby Equivalent Inclusion Method for Composites with Interface Effects

    Article • June 2006, CrossRef Test Account

    Dr Xin Yi

  83. Effective conductivities of heterogeneous media containing multiple inclusions with various spatial distributions

    Article • Physical Review B, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi, Professor Bhushan L Karihaloo

  84. Bounds on effective conductivities of heterogeneous media with graded constituents

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Xin Yi

  85. Eshelby Equivalent Inclusion Method for Composites with Interface Effects

    Article • Key Engineering Materials, January 2006, Trans Tech Publications

    Dr Xin Yi

  86. Monitoring of Molecule Adsorption and Stress Evolutions by In-situ Microcantilever Systems

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xin Yi