WORKING EXPERIENCE

• 2025/6 –                  SUSTech, Guangdong, PR China, Associate Professor (Tenured)

• 2019/7– 2025/5       SUSTech, Guangdong, PR China, Assistant Professor

• 2018/9 – 2019/1      Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Teaching Assistant

• 2017/3 – 2019/6      Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Postdoctoral Fellow
  

EDUCATION

• 2013.9 – 2017.3       Ph.D. in Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Supervisor: Prof. Zhigang Suo

• 2015.9 – 2017.3       Visiting student, Harvard University, Supervisor: Prof. Joost Vlassak            

• 2008.9 – 2012.6       BS in Engineering Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Research Interests

• Mechanics of soft materials

• Stretchable ionotronics

• Hydrogels

Selected Publications

[1] Yihang Xiao, Yimin Zeng, Binhong Liu, Ruobing Bai, Wei Hong,* Canhui Yang,* Prolonged fracture resistance of hydrogels through spontaneous network reconfiguration. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2025, 75, 102298.

[2] Yunfeng He, Yu Cheng, Canhui Yang,* Chuan Fei Guo,* Creep-free polyelectrolyte elastomer for drift-free iontronic sensing. Nature Materials. 2024, 23, 1107-1114.

[3] Qingxian Li, Xiaodong Wan, Ziyi Xu, Yunfeng He, Qiqi Xue, Canhui Yang,* Stretchable heterogeneous adhesion with high debonding resistance by large-scale bridging. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2024, 67, 102128.

[4] Yi-ming Yuan, Binhong Liu, Mohammad Reza Adibeig, Qiqi Xue, Chu Qin, Qing-yin Sun, Ying Jin, Min Wang,* Canhui Yang,* Microstructured polyelectrolyte elastomer-based ionotronic sensors with high sensitivities and excellent stability for artificial skins. Advanced Materials. 2024, 36, 2310429.

[5] Caicong Li, Jianxiang Cheng, Yunfeng He, Xiangnan He, Ziyi Xu, Qi Ge,* Canhui Yang,* Polyelectrolyte elastomer-based ionotronic sensors with multi-mode sensing capabilities via multi-material 3D printing. Nature Communications, 2023, 14:4853.

[6] Hao Zhong, Qiqi Xue, Jiameng Li, Yunfeng He, Yuxin Xie, Canhui Yang,* Stretchable transparent polyelectrolyte elastomers for all-solid tunable lenses of excellent stability based on electro–mechano–optical coupling. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023, 8(3), 2200947.

[7] Ping Zhang, Weiyu Zhou, Yunfeng He, Ziyi Xu, Maochun Li, Wei Hong,* Canhui Yang,* Stretchable heterogeneous polymer networks of high adhesion and low hysteresis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 43, 49264-49273.

[8] Yihang Xiao, Qi Li, Xi Yao, Ruobing Bai, Wei Hong, Canhui Yang,* Fatigue of amorphous hydrogels with dynamic covalent bonds. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022, 53, 101679.

[9] Yunfeng He, Xiaodong Wan, Yujie Chen, Canhui Yang,* Enhance the debonding resistance of hydrogel by large-scale bridging. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021, 155, 104570.

[10] Qi Li, Ping Zhang, Canhui Yang,* Huiling Duan, Wei Hong,* Switchable adhesion between hydrogels by wrinkling. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021, 43, 101193.

[11] Canhui Yang,* Sibo Cheng, Xi Yao, Guodong Nian, Qihan Liu, Zhigang Suo,* Ionotronic luminescent fibers, fabrics, and other configurations. Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 2005545.

[12] Canhui Yang, Tenghao Yin, Zhigang Suo,*  Polyacrylamide hydrogel I. Network imperfection. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019, 131, 43-55.

[13] Canhui Yang, Zhigang Suo,* Hydrogel ionotronics. Nature Reviews Materials, 2018, 3, 125-142.

[14] Canhui Yang, Baohong Chen, Jinxiong Zhou, Yongmei Chen, Zhigang Suo,* Electroluminescence of giant stretchability. Advanced Materials, 2016, 28(22), 4480-4484.

[15] Canhui Yang, Meixiang Wang, Hussain Haider, Jianhai Yang, Jeong-Yun Sun, Yongmei Chen,* Jinxiong Zhou,* Zhigang Suo, Strengthening alginate/polyacrylamide hydrogels using various multivalent cations. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2013, 5(21), 10418-10422.