News

April 24, 2025

Yun received the MRS Graduate Student Gold Award!

At the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Yun received the Gold Graduate Student Award for her research on digital composites with reprogrammable mechanical behaviors. Huge congratulations, Yun!

September 23, 2022

Our lab's first paper is published in Nature

Please check out the research briefing for a summary of our work: Programmable Material Learns to Morph.

July 1, 2022

Our manuscript led by Yun is accepted in Nature

We introduce a programmable surface that can learn to morph into target shapes. Congratulations, Yun, and many thanks to our collaborators!

April 24, 2021

Our paper is online in PNAS

Our work on continuous monitoring of respiratory biomarkers for COVID-19 patients is online in PNAS. Great thanks to all the collaborators who played pivotal roles to make this happen!

May 1, 2020

Xiaoyue is joining Duke MEMS and B&B as a faculty member this fall

Xiaoyue is starting a tenure-track faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University, effective on Nov 1, 2020.