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Journal Articles

A ‘Moore’s law’ for fibers enables intelligent fabrics.
Shengtai Qian#, Mingyang Liu#, Yuhai Dou, Yoel Fink and Wei Yan*. National Science Review (2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac202

Focused Rotary Jet Spinning: A novel fiber technology for heart biofabrication.
Mingyang Liu#, Zhiwei Lin#, Xingbei Wang, Wei Yan*. Matter 5,(2022) 3576.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g0ga9Cyxc-DJU

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical Monitoring.
Irmandy Wicaksono, Peter G. Hwang, Samir Droubi, Franny Xi Wu, Allison, N. Serio, Wei Yan, and Joseph A. Paradiso*. C&C '22: Creativity and Cognition

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Single fiber enables acoustic fabrics via nanometer scale vibrations.
Wei Yan, Grace Noel, Gabriel Loke, Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Tural Khudiyev, Juliette Marion, Guanchun Rui, Jinuan Lin, Juliana Cherston, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Joao Wilbert, Irmandy Wicaksono, Reed W. Hoyt, Anais Missakian, Lei Zhu, Chu Ma, John Joannopoulos, Yoel Fink*. Nature 603 (2022) 616

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Digital Electronics in Fibers enable Fabric-based Machine-Learning Inference.
Gabriel Loke, Tural Khudiyev, Brain Wang, Stephaine Fu, Syamantak Payra, Yorai Shaoul, Johnny Fung, Ioannis Chatziveroglou, Pin-Wen Chou, Itamar Chinn, Wei Yan, Anna Gitelson-Kahn, John Joannopoulos, Yoel Fink*.
Nature Communications 12 (2021) 3317.


Featured by MIT News: Engineers create a programmable fiber    

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Second harmonic generation in glass-based metasurfaces using tailored surface lattice resonances.
Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Louis Martin-Monier, Jeremy Butet, Kuang-Yu Yang, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Tung Nguyen-Dang, Wei Yan, Olivier JF Martin, Fabien Sorin*. 
Nanophotonics https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0277

     

Recent progress and perspectives of thermally-drawn multimaterial fiber electronics.

Gabriel Loke#, Wei Yan#, Tural Khudiyev, Grace Noel, Yoel Fink*.

Advanced Materials 32 (2020) 1904911 

     

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Computing fabrics.
Gabriel Loke, Juliette Alain, Wei Yan, Tural Khudiyev, Grace Noel, Rodger Yuan, Anais Missakian, Yoel Fink*.
Matter 2 (2020) 786.

Featured by MIT News: 3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics        

Nanoscale Controlled Oxidation of Liquid Metals for Stretchable Electronics and Photonics.
Louis Martin-Monier, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Wei Yan, Stéphanie Lacour, Fabien Sorin*. 
Advanced Functional Materials 31(2021) 2006711.

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Structured nanoscale metallic glass fibres with extreme aspect ratios.
Wei Yan, Ines Richard, Guven Kurtuldu, Niclolas James, Giuseppe Schiavone, Tung Nguyen-Dang, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Yunpeng Qu, Jake Cao, Reinis Ignatans, Stéphanie P. Lacour, Vasiliki Tileli, Grégoire Courtine, Jörg F. Löffler, Fabien Sorin*. 
Nature Nanotechnology 15 (2020) 875.

Highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology: A. Lindsay Greer,
Fine fibres with multifunctionality. Nature Nanotechnology 15 (2020) 1.
Highlighted by Science: Metallic glass fibers. Science 369 (2020) 1204-1205.
Featured by EPFL news: Using viscous metals in micro fibers.
 
        

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High-efficiency Super-elastic Liquid Metal based Triboelectric Fibers and Textiles.
Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Marco Volpi, Yunpeng Qu, Tung Nguyen-Dang, Wei Yan, Fabien Sorin*. 
Nature Communications 11 (2020) 9.

        

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Flexible fibre probe for efficient neural stimulation and detection.
Minghui Du, Lu Huang, Jiajun Zheng, Yue Xi, Yi Dai, Weida Zhang, Chaoran Ren, Wei Yan, Guangming Tao, Jianrong Qiu, Kwok-Fai So, Shifang Zhou*. 
Advanced Science 5 (2020) 2001410.

Thermally drawn advanced functional fibers: new frontier of flexible electronic devices. 
Wei Yan, Chaoqun Dong, Yuanzhuo Xiang, Shan Jiang, Andreas Leber, Gabriel Loke, Wenxin Xu, Chong Hou, Shifeng Zhou, Min Chen, Run Hu, Perry Shum Ping, Lei Wei, Xiaoting Jia, Fabien Sorin, Xiaoming Tao, Guangming Tao* 
Materials Today 35 (2020) 168.    

Self-assembly of nanostructured glass metasurfaces via templated fluid instabilities. 
Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Louis Martin-Monier, Wei Yan, Arthur Le Bris, Tùng Dang Nguyen, Alexis Page, Ho Kuan-Ting, Filiz Yesilköy, Hatice Altug, Yunpeng Qu, Fabien Sorin*. 
Nature Nanotechnology 14 (2019) 320.

Highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology: Chalcogenide glass metasurfaces from fluid instabilities. Tian Gu, Juejun  
Hu, Nature Nanotechnology 14 (2019) 309
Featured by EPFL news: Next-generation optics in just two minutes of cooking time 



        

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Direct Synthesis of Selenium  Nanowire Mesh on a Solid Substrate and Insights into Ultrafast Photocarrier Dynamics. 
Wei Yan, Andrés Burgos, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Fabien Sorin*. 
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122 (2018) 25134.  

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Advanced Multimaterial Electronic and Optoelectronic Fibers and Textiles. 
Wei Yan, Alexis Page, Tung Nguyen, Yunpeng Qu, Federica Sordo, Lei Wei, Fabien Sorin*. 
Advanced Materials 31 (2019) 1802348 (Invited Review). 

Highly cited paper, ESI

Semiconducting nanowire-based optoelectronic fibers. 
Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Arouna Darga, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Alexis Page, Mariana Rossi, Michele Ceriotti, Fabien Sorin*. 
Advanced Materials 29 (2017) 1700681.


 

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Super-elastic Multi-material Electronic and Photonic Fibers and Devices via Thermal Drawing. 
Yunpeng Qu, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Alexis Page, Wei Yan, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Gelu Marius Rotaru, René Rossi, Valentine Favrod, Nicola Bartolomei, Fabien Sorin*. 
Advanced Materials 30 (2018) 1707251. 

Featured by EPFL news: An elastic fiber set to revolutionize smart clothes 

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Microstructure tailoring of selenium-core multimaterial optoelectronic fibers. 
Wei Yan, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Cyril Cayron, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Alexis Page, Yunpeng Qu, Fabien Sorin*. 
Optical Materials Express 7 (2017) 1388 

Editor’s pick

Multi-material optical fibers with integrated optoelectronic devices.
Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Marco Volpi, Alexis Gérald Page, Fabien Sorin*. 
Proceedings of the ACP 2016, paper AF3A.3

OPTICA (formerly OSA) Best Student Paper Award

Micro-structured Multi-material Fibers for Microfluidic sensing. 
Chaoqun Dong, Alexis Page, Wei Yan, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Fabien Sorin*. 
Advanced Materials Technologies 4(2019) 1900417.

 

Multi-material optoelectronic fiber devices. 
Fabien Sorin*, Wei Yan, Marco Volpi, Alexis Page, Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Yunpeng Qu. 
Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications IX;10194, 1019407-1, 2017 

Hexagonal mesoporous silica islands to enhance photovoltaic performance of planar junction perovskite solar cells.   
Yi Zhang, Zhaofei Zhang, Wei Yan, Bao Zhang, Yaqing Feng, Abdullah M. Asiri, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin*, Peng  Gao*. 
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5 (2017) 1415.

Controlled sub-micrometer hierarchical textures engineered in polymeric fibers and micro-channels via thermal drawing.
Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Alba C. de Luca, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Alexis Page, Marco Volpi, Tapajyoti Das Gupta, Stéphanie P. Lacour, Fabien Sorin*.
Advanced Functional Materials 27 (2017) 1605935.

 

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Featured by EPFL news: New discovery: nanometric imprinting on fiber

Multi-material micro-electromechanical fibers with bendable functional domains. 
Tùng Nguyên-Dang, Alexis Page, Yunpeng Qu, Wei Yan, Marco Volpi, Fabien Sorin*. 
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 50 (2017) 144001 

Special Issue: Emerging Leaders

Phase-field modeling of Widmanstätten ferrite formation during isothermal transformation in low carbon steels. 
Wei Yan, Namin Xiao*, Yun Chen, Dianzhong Li. 
Computational Materials Science 81 (2014) 503.

Glass-forming ability and thermal stability of gas-atomized Zr50Cu40Al10 metallic glass powders. 
Wei Yan, Yong Liu*, Yitian Zhu, Sen Niu. 
International Journal of Materials Research 102 (2011) 435.

Processing porous bulk metallic glass using prealloyed powders. 
Yong Liu*, Yitian Zhu, Fei Li, Wei Yan
Advanced Engineering Materials 12 (2010) 1131.

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