Prof. Yadong Yin
Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside

Web: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~yadongy/


EMPLOYMENT:

2014-present     Professor, University of California, Riverside, CA

2011-2014         Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, CA

2006-2011         Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside, CA

2005-2006         Staff Scientist, the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

2003-2005         Postdoc, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

2003-2003         Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

EDUCATION:

2002     Ph.D., University of Washington (UW), Department of Materials Science and Engineering

1998     M.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Applied Chemistry

1996     B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Applied Chemistry

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2022     Langmuir Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society

2021     Highly Cited Researcher 2021 (Cross-field), Clarivate Analytics

2020     Highly Cited Researcher 2020 (Chemistry), Clarivate Analytics

2020     MRS Fellow, Materials Research Society

2019     Highly Cited Researcher 2019 (Chemistry), Clarivate Analytics

2018     Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (Chemistry), Clarivate Analytics

2017     Highly Cited Researcher 2017 (Chemistry), Clarivate Analytics

2016     NML Researcher Award, Nano-Micro Letters, Nature Research Society

2016     Thomson Reuters 2016 Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry)

2015     Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry)

2014     Thomson Reuters 2014 Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry, Materials Science)

2011     Top 100 Chemists (#55) and Top 100 Materials Scientists (#2) in the world, 2000-2010, Ranked by Citation Impact, Thomson Reuters

2010     DuPont Young Professor Grant

2010     3M Nontenured Faculty Grant

2010     Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, Chinese-American Chemistry Professor Association

2010     The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, National Science Foundation

2010     LabAutomation2010 Academic Travel Award, the Association for Laboratory Automation

2009     Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement

2008     The Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Grant, Chinese-American Faculty Association of Southern California

2007     Regents’ Faculty Fellowship, University of California

RESEARCH INTERESTS: interfacial chemistry, nanomaterials, self-assembly, photonic crystals, smart materials

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0218-3042

  • Web of Science: total times cited: > 67K; h-index impact factor: 122;
  • Google Scholar: total times cited: > 87K; h-index impact factor: 133.

REVELANT PUBLICATIONS:  (out of 413 total publications)

  • Chen, C.; Fan, Q.; Li, Z.; Cai, Z.; Ye, Z.; Yin, Y. Colorimetric Pressure Sensing by Plasmonic Decoupling of Silver Nanoparticles Confined within Polymeric Nanoshells, Nano Lett., 2024, 24, 3737–3743.
  • Li, Z., Fan, Q.; Ye, Z.; Wu, C.; Wang, Z.; Yin, Y. A Magnetic Assembly Approach to Chiral Superstructures, Science, 2023, 380, 1384-1390.
  • Wu, C.; Fan, Q.; Wu, W.; Liang, T.; Liu, Y.; Yu, H.; Yin, Y. Magnetically Tunable One-Dimensional Plasmonic Photonic Crystals, Nano Lett., 2023, 23, 1981–1988.
  • Li, Z., Myung, N. V., Yin, Y. Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming, Sci. Robot., 2021, 6, eabi4523.
  • Li, Z.; Qian, C.; Xu, W.; Zhu, C.; Yin, Y. Coupling Morphological and Magnetic Anisotropy for Assembling Tetragonal Colloidal Crystals, Sci. Adv., 2021, , eabh1289.