Shu Yang
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
Honors and Awards: NSF CAREER Award - 2006, World's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review - 2004, Unilever Award in Polymer Science and Engineering from American Chemical Society - 2001, ICI Award in Applied Polymer Science from American Chemical Society - 1999
Research Expertise: Biomaterials | Polymers | Nanostructured materials
Shu is interested in developing new methodologies for the controlled synthesis, fabrication and characterization of materials with specific and unique structures and functionalities inspired by biology. Special interests include preparation of functional (co)polymers and investigation of their self-assembled nanostructures; understanding the self-organization process at surfaces and interfaces; development of novel responsive materials and non-conventional approaches for nano- and micropatterning of complex 2-D and 3-D structures; controlling wetting, adhesion and biofouling on polymer thin films.
Member of:- Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME)
- Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration (CECR)
- Penn Center for Energy Innovation
Education:
PhD Chemistry & Chemical Biology 1999 - Cornell University
MS Chemistry & Chemical Biology 1997 - Cornell University
BS Materials Science 1992 - Fudan University in China
Recent Publications 
- Adhesion selectivity using rippled surfaces, Vajpayee, S. | Khare, K. | Yang, S. | Hui, C.-Y. | Jagota, A., Advanced Functional Materials, 2011
- Color changing photonic crystals detect blast exposure, Cullen, D.K. | Xu, Y. | Reneer, D.V. | Browne, K.D. | Geddes, J.W. | Yang, S. | Smith, D.H., NeuroImage, 2011
- Fabrication of size scalable three-dimensional photonic structures via dual-beam multiple exposure and its robustness study, Zhu, X. | Liang, G. | Xu, Y. | Cheng, S.-C. | Yang, S., Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 2010
- Solvent induced transition from wrinkles to creases in thin film gels with depth-wise crosslinking gradients, Guvendiren, M. | Burdick, J.A. | Yang, S., Soft Matter, 2010
- Template synthesis of 3D high-temperature silicon-oxycarbide and silicon-carbide ceramic photonic crystals from interference lithographically patterned organosilicates, Xu, Y. | Guron, M. | Zhu, X. | Sneddon, L.G. | Yang, S., Chemistry of Materials, 2010