RESEARCH INTERESTS:
◆ Biodegradable Polymeric materials
◆ Shape memory polymer
◆ Self-Healing materials
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CAREER:
Education:
◆ Ph.D. (2003) in Materialogy, Sichuan University, China
◆ M.S. (1997) in Chemical Fiber, Sichuan Union University, China
◆ B.S. (1994) in Polymeric materials, Chengdu University of Science and Technology, China
Professional Experience:
◆ 2007-present: professor, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China.
◆ 2016.08-2016.09: visiting scholar, Universite de Mons, Belgium.
◆ 2011.08-2011.10: visiting scholar, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Germany.
◆ 2002-2007: Associate professor, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China.
◆ 1999-2002: Lecturer, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China.
◆ 1997-1999: Assistant, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
◆ The 6th contributor for National Prize for Technological Invention Second Prize, entitled “Design, preparation and application of some typical flame-retardant polymers”, 2010, State Council of China.
◆ The 4th contributor for National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology Second Prize, entitled “Design, preparation and application of high-efficient polymeric flame-retardant”, 2001, State Council of China.
PUBLICATIONS IN RECENT 5 YEARS:
1. Lan Du, Zhi-Yuan Xu, Cai-Li Huang, Fan-Yu Zhao, Cheng-Jie Fan, Jiang Dai, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, From a body temperature-triggered reversible shape-memory material to high-sensitive bionic soft actuators, Applied Materials Today, 2020, 18, 100463. Doi:10.1016/j.apmt.2019.100463
2. Wen-Xia Xiao1, Dan Liu1, Cheng-Jie Fan, Yi Xiao, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, A high-strength and healable shape memory supramolecular polymer based on pyrene-naphthalene diimide complexes, Polymer 2020, 190(2), 122228. doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122228
3. Zhibin Wen*, Ke-Ke Yang*, Jean-Marie Raquez*, A review on liquid crystal polymers in free standing reversible shape memory materials, Molecules, 2020, 2020, 25, 1241; doi:10.3390/molecules25051241
4. Chuan-Ying Cheng, Hui Xie, Zhi-yuan Xu, Lu Li, Mei-Na Jiang, Li Tang, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, 4D printing of shape memory aliphatic copolyester via UV-assisted FDM strategy for medical protective devices, Chemical Engineering Journal 2020, 396, 125242. (15 September) doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.125242
5. Cheng-Jie Fan, Zhi-Bin Wen, Zhi-Yuan Xu, Yi Xiao, Di Wu, Ke-Ke Yang*, and Yu-Zhong Wang Adaptable Strategy to Fabricate Self-Healable and Reprocessable Poly(thiourethane-urethane) Elastomers via Reversible Thiol–Isocyanate Click Chemistry, Macromolecules, 2020, 53 (11), 4284-4293. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00239.
6. Zhi-Bin Wen*, Ren-Fan Snap, Jean-Marie Raquez, Noel A. Clark, Ke-Ke Yang* and Yu-Zhong Wang, Unique two-way free-standing thermo- and photo-responsive shape memory azobenzene-containing polyurethane liquid crystal network, SCIENCE CHINA Materials, 2020, 63(12), 2590-2598, doi.org/10.1007/s40843-020-1406-1.
7. Zhibin Wen, Xun Han, Benjamin D. Fairbanks, Keke Yang*, Christopher N. Bowman *，Development of thiourethanes as robust, reprocessable networks，Polymer 2020, 202, 122715
8. Hui Xie, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang*, Photo-cross-linking: A powerful and versatile strategy to develop shape-memory polymers, Progress in Polymer Science, 2019, 95, 32-64. Doi: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2019.05.001
9. Hui Xie, Lu Li, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate)/graphene shape-memory actuator with a cyclic thermal/light dual-sensitive capacity, Composites Science and Technology, 2019, 173, 41-46. Doi: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2017.08.025
10. Cheng-Jie Fan, Zi-Chun Huang, Bei Li, Wen-Xia Xiao, En Zheng, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, A robust self-healing polyurethane elastomer: From H-bonds and stacking interactions to well-defined microphase morphology, SCIENCE CHINA Materials, 2019, 62(8), 1188-1198. Doi: 10.1007/s40843-019-9422-7
11. Lan Du, Jiang Dai, Zhi-Yuan Xu, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, From shape and color memory PCL network to access high security anti-counterfeit material, Polymer, 2019, 172, 52-57. Doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.03.054
12. Wen-Xia Xiao, Cheng-Jie Fan, Bei Li, Wei-Xiu Liu, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, Single-walled carbon nanotubes as adaptable one-dimensional crosslinker to bridge multi-responsive shape memory network via π–π stacking, Composites Communications, 2019, 14, 48-54. Doi: 10.1016/j.coco.2019.05.006
13. Bei Li, Yi Xiao, Lan Du, Cheng‐Jie Fan, Wen‐Xia Xiao, Ke‐Ke Yang*, Yu‐Zhong Wang, Fabrication of Shape‐Memory Aerogel Based on Chitosan/Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate Semi‐Interpenetrating Networks via a Facile and Eco‐Friendly Strategy, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2019, 1900169, Doi:10.1002/mame.201900169.
14. Xiao-Ying Deng, Hui Xie, Lan Du, Cheng-Jie Fan, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Ke-Ke Yang* and Yu-Zhong Wang, Polyurethane networks based on disulfide bonds: from tunable multi-shape memory effects to simultaneous self-healing, SCIENCE CHINA Materials 2019, 62, 437-447; doi.org/10.1007/s40843-018-9318-7
15. Hui Xie, Lu Li, Xiao-Ying Deng, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, Reinforcement of shape-memory poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) by carbon fibre to access robust recovery capability under resistant Condition, Composites Science and Technology, 2018, 157, 202-208.
16. Lan Du, Zhi-Yuan Xu, Cheng-Jie Fan, Gang Xiang, Ke-Ke Yang*, and Yu-Zhong Wang, A Fascinating Metallo-Supramolecular Polymer Network with Thermal/Magnetic/Light-Responsive Shape-Memory Effects Anchored by Fe3O4 Nanoparticles, Macromolecules, 2018, 51 (3), 705–715.
17. Dan Liu, Wu-Cheng Nie, Zhi-Bin Wen, Cheng-Jie Fan, Wen-Xia Xiao, Bei Li, Xu-Jing Lin, Ke-Ke Yang*, and Yu-Zhong Wang, Strategy for Constructing Shape-Memory Dynamic Networks through Charge-Transfer Interactions. ACS Macro Lett, 2018, 7, 705−710.
18. Zhi-Bin Wen, Matthew K. McBride, Xingpeng Zhang, Xun Han, Alina M. Martinez, Renfan Shao,Chenhui Zhu, Rayshan Visvanathan, Noel A. Clark, Yuzhong Wang, Ke-Ke Yang,*and Christopher N. Bowman* Reconfigurable LC Elastomers: Using a Thermally Programmable Monodomain To Access Two-Way Free-Standing Multiple Shape Memory Polymers, Macromolecules 2018, 51, 5812−5819.
19. Hui Xie, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Lu Li, Xiao-Ying Deng, Ke-Ke Yang* and Yu-Zhong Wang, Integrating shape-memory technology and photoimaging on a polymer platform for a high-security information storage medium, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 10422-10427.
20. Zhi-Bin Wen, Dan Liu, Xiao-Yang Li, Chen-Hui Zhu, Ren-Fan Shao, Rayshan Visvanathan, Noel A. Clark*, Ke-Ke Yang*, and Yu-Zhong Wang, Fabrication of Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane Networks with a Pendant Azobenzene Group to Access Thermal/Photoresponsive Shape-Memory Effects, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 24947−24954. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b05280
21. Hui Xie, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Xiao-Ying Deng, Cheng-Jie Fan, Lan Du, Ke-Ke Yang*, and Yu-Zhong Wang, Creating Poly(tetramethylene oxide) Glycol-Based Networks with Tunable Two-Way Shape Memory Effects via Temperature-Switched Netpoints, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 5155−5164. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02773
22. Hui Xie, Xiao-Ying Deng, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang, New Strategy to Access Dual-stimuli-responsive Triple-shape Memory Effect in a Non-overlapping Pattern, Macromolecular Rapid Communication, 2017, 38(4), 1600664. DOI: 10.1002/marc.201600664
23. Man-Jie He, Wen-Xia Xiao, Hui Xie, Cheng-Jie Fan, Lan Du, Xiao-Ying Deng, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang*, Facile Fabrication of Ternary Nanocomposites with Selective Dispersion of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes to Access Multi-stimuli-responsive Shape-memory Effect, Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2017, 1, 343-353. DOI: 10.1039/C6QM00047A
24. Yan Hui, Zhi-Bin Wen, Florence Pilate, Hui Xie, Cheng-Jie Fan, Lan Du, Dan Liu, Ke-Ke Yang* and Yu-Zhong Wang, A facile strategy to fabricate high-stretchable self-healing poly(vinyl alcohol) hybrid hydrogels based on metal-ligand interaction and hydrogen bonding, Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 7269–7277. DOI: 10.1039/c6py01752e
25. Hui Xie, Man-jie He, Xiao-Ying Deng, Lan Du, Cheng-Jie Fan, Ke-Ke Yang,* and Yu-Zhong Wang, Design of Poly(L‑lactide)−Poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer with Light-Induced Shape-Memory Effect Triggered by Pendant Anthracene Groups, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 9431−9439
26. Hui Xie, Chuan-Ying Cheng, Lan Du, Cheng-Jie Fan, Xiao-Ying Deng, Ke-Ke Yang,* and Yu-Zhong Wang*, A Facile Strategy To Construct PDLLA-PTMEG Network with Triple-Shape Effect via Photo-Cross-Linking of Anthracene Groups, Macromolecules, 2016, 49, 3845-3855. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00382
27. Xiao-Yang Li, Qian Zhou, Zhi-Bin Wen, Yan Hui, Ke-Ke Yang*, Yu-Zhong Wang*, The influence of coexisted monomer on thermal, mechanical and hydrolytic properties of poly(p-dioxanone), Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2016, 133, 43483. DOI: 10.1002/APP.43483
