Publications

Our current research solves critical challenges across the field of science and engineering:

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Park, J., Feng, S., Satyabola, D., Saji, K.A., Povilus, B., Yan, H., Yang, S. Internal Symmetry-Driven Modal Convergence Enhances Chiral Scattering. Nano Letters, 2026, Accepted.

Keeney, D., Shi, W., Thomas, R., Yang, S., & Jiao, Y. Multihyperuniform Particle Composites Inspired by Avian Photoreceptor Patterns for Multifunctional Optical Applications. Advanced Optical Materials, 14(30), e71483. (2026) (Cover Story)

Patil, D., Thummalapalli, S.V., Westover, C., Ramanathan, A., Sobzcak, M.T., Patil, R., Xiang, Q., Li, T., Yang, S., Long, T.E. and Sun, H., Wang, X., Liu, Y., Song,. K. 3D Printing Innovations in Polymeric Porous and Patterned Architecture. Advanced Functional Materials, e76046. (2026)

T. Ndukaife, J.W. Park, A. S. Kumar, S. Yang, Lattice-Mediated high-Q Dielectric Metasurface for Near-Infrared Sensing, Optics Letters 51, 9, 2548-2551 (2026).

Hongki Lee, Junxiang Zhao, Pan Hu, Zhaoyu Nie, Ming Lei, Guanghao Chen, Soojeong Baek et al. “Meta-amplified dark-field interferometric scattering microscopy.” Nature Communications 17, 1977 (2026).

Akoumeh R, Kacem E, Zadeh K, Kumar AS, Zubair M, Ponnamma D, Yang S, Song K, Hassan MK, Hawari AH, Al-Ejji M. Advancement in 3D printing of polymer membranes: A breakthrough in sustainable membrane applications focusing on oil-water treatment. Separation and Purification Technology. Jan 8:136837 (2026).

Povilus, Blake, Renee Sailus, Jan Kopaczek, Shuai Feng, Mohammed Y. Sayyad, Seyed Tohid Rajaei Moosavy, Hayley Ruddick, Sui Yang, and Seth Ariel Tongay. “Experimentally establishing the optical dielectric function of 2D Janus TMDs.” Applied Physics Letters 127, no. 16 (2025).

S. Feng, T. Tang, J.W. Park, A. S. Kumar, X. Li, S. Yang. 3D Printing-Threading of Gold Nanoplatelets for Enhanced Optical Wavevector and Spontaneous Emission. Nano Letters 25, 21, 8558–8563 (2025).

Thippanna, Varunkumar, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Dhanush Patil, M. Taylor Sobczak, Taylor G. Theobald, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Xiao Sun et al. “Multilayered Fabrication Containing Wind Turbine Blade Solid Wastes for High-Performance Composite Fibers.” ACS Materials Au 5(5), 809-822 (2025).

J. Waitkus, J.W. Park, T. Ndukaife, S. Yang, K. Du. Antibiotic-Mediated Plasmonic-Mie Resonance for Biosensing Applications on a Novel Silicon Nanopillar Metasurface. Advanced Materials Interface 2400945, (2025).

X. Tong, B. D. Ridenour, A. S. Kumar, S. Feng, J. Nettles, J. Lin, S. Yang, K. Jin. Mechanically Strong and Photothermally Active Covalent Organic Framework Nanocomposite Aerogels for Applications in Gas Adsorption. ACS Applied Nano Materials 8, 5815−5828, (2025).

K. Lee, J. Kil, J.W. Park, S. Yang, B. Park. Rapid and Efficient Polymer/Contaminant Removal from Single-Layer Graphene via Aqueous Sodium Nitrite Rinsing for Enhanced Electronic Applications. Polymers 17(5), 689, (2025).

A. S. Kumar, R. Akoumeh, A. Ramanathan, J. Park, V. Thippanna, D. Patil, Y. Zhu, D. Ravichandran, S. V. Thummalapalli, M. Sobczak, L. B. Chambers, T. G. Theobald, C. Yu, C. Sui, L. Yang, D. Ponnamma, M. K. Hassan, M. Al-Ejji, S. Yang, K. Song. Biomimetic 3D Prototyping of Hierarchically Porous Multilayered Membranes for Enhanced Oil–Water Filtration. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 17, 5, 8285-8298, (2025).

W. Kim, J. Park, H. Jeong, K. Lee, S. Yang, E. H. Choi and B. Park. Poly(amic acid)-Polyimide Copolymer Interfacial Layers for Self-Powered CH3NH3PbI3 Photovoltaic Photodiodes. Polymers, 17(2), 163 (2025).

W. Jacob, J. Park, T. Ndukaife, S. Yang, and K. Du. Antibiotic-Mediated Plasmonic Resonance on a Novel Nanopillar Metasurface Array. bioRxiv (2024): 2024-10.

Y. Zhu, S. Gun, D. Ravichandran, A. Ramanathan, M. T. Sobczak, A. F. Sacco, D. Patil, S. Thummalapalli, T. V. Pulido, J. N. Lancaster, J. Yi, J. L. Cornella, D. G. Lott, X. Chen, X. Mei, Y. S. Zhang, L. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Zhao, M. K. Hassan, L. B. Chambers, T. G. Theobald, S. Yang, L. Liang, K. Song, 3D-Printed Polymeric Biomaterials for Health Applications. Adv. Healthcare Mater, 2402572 (2024).

S. Haque, M. Alexandre, A. T. Vicente, C. S. Schuster, S. Yang, H. Aguas, R. Martins, R. A. S. Ferreira, M. J. Mendes, Photon shifting and trapping in perovskite solar cells for improved efficiency and stability. Light: Science & Applications, 13:238 (2024).

J. Park, W. Kim, M. Kim, H. Jeong, K. Lee, J. Kil, S. Yang, E. H. Choi, B. Park, Interphase-Controlled Inkjet Printing of MicroInlaid OLEDs: Effects of Solvent– and Solute–Polymer Interactions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 33 (2024).

A. Ramanathan, S. Feng, A. S. Kumar, S. V. Thummalapalli, M. T. Sobczak, L. R. Bick, K. Song, S. Yang, Light-Driven Nanonetwork Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles via 3D Printing for Optical Sensors. ACS App. Nano Mater, 29, 30 (2024).

L. Liu, W. Wang, S. Feng, S. Liu, H. Sun, Q. Nian, S. Yang, X. Chen, Rapid, Micron-Resolution 3D Printing of Nd:YAG Ceramic with Optical Gain. Small, 2403130 (2024).

S. Jambulkar, D. ravichandran, Y. Zhu, V. Thippanna, A. Ramanathan, D. Patil, N. Fonseca, S.V. Thummalapalli, B. Sundaravadivelan, A. Sun, W. Xu, S. Yang, A. M. Kannan, Y. Golan, J. Lancaster, L. Chen, E. B. Joyce, K. Song, Nanoparticle Assembly: From Self-Organization to Controlled Micropatterning for Enhanced Functionalities. Small, 20, 2306394 (2024).

A. Ramanathan, V. Thippanna, A. S. Kumar, B. Sundaravadivelan, Y. Zhu, D. Ravichandran, S. Yang, K. Song, Highly Loaded Carbon Fiber Filaments for 3D-printed Composites. J. Polym. Sci. 1–13 (2023).

S. Feng, B. Povilus, S. Yang, Color tuning halide perovskites: Optical amplification and lasing. Materials Today Advances, 20, 100431 (2023).

S. Y. Liu, S. Alfarhan, W. B. Wang, S. Feng, Y. X. Zhu, L. Y. Liu, K. N. Song, S. Yang, K. L. Jin, X. F. Chen, Robust Optical Data Encryption by Projection-Photoaligned Polymer-Stabilized-Liquid-Crystals. Adv. Optical Mater., 2301364 (2023).

R. Nile, S. Feng, M. Cabello, D. Y. Wang, S. Yang, K. L. Jin, Crystallization Behavior of Semicrystalline Polymers Characterized by an In Situ Fluorescence Technique and its Sensing Mechanism. Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2300230 (2023).

T. A. Ndukaife and S. Yang, Slot driven dielectric electromagnetically induced transparency metasurface. Optics Express, 31, 27324-27331 (2023).

P. Cilibrizzi, X. Z. Liu, P. Y. Zhang, C. Z. Wang, Q. W. Li, S. Yang, and X. Zhang, Self-Induced Valley Bosonic Stimulation of Exciton Polaritons in a Monolayer Semiconductor. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 036902 (2023).

P. Zhang, T-F. Chung, Q. Li, S. Wang, Q. Wang, W. L. B. Huey, S. Yang, J. E. Goldberger, J. Yao, X. Zhang, All-optical switching of magnetization in atomically thin CrI3. Nature Materials, 21, 1373-1378 (2022).

Y. U. Lee, Z.Y. Nie, S. Li, C-H. Lambert, J. Zhao, F. Yang, G. B. M. Wisna, S. Yang, X. Zhang, and Z. Liu, Ultrathin Layered Hyperbolic Metamaterial-Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. Nano Letters, 22, 5916-5961 (2022).

S. Yang, W. Bao, X. Z. Liu, J. Kim, R. K. Zhao, R. M. Ma, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Subwavelength-scale lasing perovskite with ultrahigh Purcell enhancement. Matter, 10. 024 (2021).

Y. U. Lee, C. Posner, Z. Nie, J. Zhao, S. Li, S. E. Bopp, G. B. M. Wisna, J. Ha, C. Song, J. Zhang, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Z. Liu, Organic Hyperbolic Material Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. Advanced Science, 2102230 (2021). (Cover Story)

Y. Xue, Y. Xia, S. Yang, Y. Alsaid, K. Y. Fong, Y. Wang, & X. Zhang, Atomic-scale ion transistor with ultrahigh diffusivity. Science 372, 501-503 (2021).

H. Li, D. Wines, B. Chen, K. Yumigeta, Y. M. Sayyad, J. Kopaszek, S. Yang, C. Ataca, E. H. Sargent, S. Tongay, Abnormal Phase Transition and Band Renormalization of Guanidinium-Based Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, 37, 44964–44971 (2021).

Q.W. Li, W. Bao, Z. Nie, Y. Xia, Y. Xue, Y. Wang, S. Yang, X. Zhang, A non-unitary metasurface enables continuous control of quantum photon–photon interactions from bosonic to fermionic. Nature Photonics, 15, 267–271 (2021).

N. Bachelard, C. Ropp, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Externally driven broadband transmission in strongly disordered materials. Applied Physics Letters, 118, 231103 (2021).

Prior to ASU

Y. Wang, J. Xiao, T.-F. Chung, Z. Nie, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Direct electrical modulation of second-order optical susceptibility via phase transitions. Nature Electronics, 4, 725-730 (2021).

X. Liu, J. Yi, S. Yang, E. C. Lin, Y. J. Zhang, P. Zhang, J. F. Li, Y. Wang, Y. H. Lee, Z. Q. Tian, & X. Zhang, Nonlinear valley phonon scattering under the strong coupling regime. Nature Materials, 20, 1210–1215, (2021).

Y.U. Lee, S. Li, S.E. Bopp, J. Zhao, Z. Nie, C. Posner, S. Yang, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. Liu, Unprecedented Fluorophore Photostability Enabled by Low‐Loss Organic Hyperbolic Materials. Advanced Materials, 2006496 (2021).

C. Shi, X. Jiang, Z. Li, S. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Yang, S. G. Louie, & X. Zhang, Phononic crystals as a platform for experimental physics: The direct observation of Klein tunneling. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149, A79 (2021).

S. Lan, X. Liu, S. Wang, H. Zhu, Y. Liu, C. Gong, S. Yang, J. Shi, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Observation of strong excitonic magneto-chiral anisotropy in twisted bilayer van der Waals crystals. Nature Communications 12, 2088 (2021).

J. S. T. Smalley, X. Ren, J. Y. Lee, W. Ko, W.-J. Joo, H. Park, S. Yang, Y. Wang, C. S. Lee, H. Choo, S. Hwang, & X. Zhang, Subwavelength pixelated CMOS color sensors based on anti-Hermitian metasurface. Nature Communications, 11, 3916 (2020).

X. Jiang, C. Shi, Z. Li, S. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Yang, S. G. Louie, & X. Zhang, Direct observation of Klein tunneling in phononic crystals. Science, 370, 1447-1450 (2020).

X. Liu, J. Yi, Q. Li, S. Yang, W. Bao, C. Ropp, S. Lan, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Nonlinear Optics at Excited States of Exciton Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals. Nano Letters, 20, 1676-1685 (2020).

S. Wang, M. Zhao, C. Zhang, S. Yang, Y. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, X. Zhang, Electron-hole Hybridization in Bilayer Graphene. National Science Review, 7, 248-253, (2020).

K. Y. Fong, H.-K. Li, R. Zhao, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations. Nature, 576, pages 243–247 (2019).

W. Bao, X. Liu, F. Xue, F. Zheng, R. Tao, S. Wang, Y. Xia, M. Zhao, J. Kim, S. Yang, Q. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, L.-W. Wang, A. H. MacDonald & X. Zhang, Observation of Rydberg exciton polaritons and their condensate in a perovskite cavity. PNAS, 116, 20274-20279 (2019).

R. Zhao*, L. Li*, S. Yang*, W. Bao, Y. Xia, P. Ashby, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Stable Casimir equilibria and quantum trapping. Science, 364, 984-987 (2019). (Top 10 Breakthrough of 2019 in physics world)

S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Curvature sculptured growth of plasmonic nanostructures by supramolecular recognition. Physical Review Materials, 3, 116002 (2019).

H.-K. Li, K. Y. Fong, H. Zhu, Q. Li, S. Wang, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Valley optomechanics in a monolayer semiconductor. Nature Photonics, 13, 397–401 (2019).

C. Shi, R. Zhao, Y. Long, S. Yang, Y. Wang, H. Chen, J. Ren & X. Zhang, Observation of acoustic spin. National Science Review, 59, 707–712 (2019).

Y. Xia, Q. Li, J. Kim, W. Bao, C. Gong, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Room-Temperature Giant Stark Effect of Single Photon Emitter in van der Waals Material. Nano Letters, 19, 7100–7105 (2019).

Y. Wang, J. Xiao, S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Second harmonic generation spectroscopy on two-dimensional materials. Optical Materials Express, 9, 1136-1149 (2019).

D.B. Litt, M.R. Jones, M. Hentschel, Y. Wang, S. Yang, H.D. Ha, X. Zhang, A.P. Alivisatos Hybrid lithographic and DNA-directed assembly of a configurable plasmonic metamaterial that exhibits electromagnetically induced transparency. Nano letters, 18, 859-864 (2018).

X. Zhang and S. Yang (contributed one chapter), “Roadmap on plasmonics: Plasmon lasers: coherent light source at the single molecular scale”, Journal of Optics, 20, 043001 (2018).

Z. Yang, Y. Deng, X-W. Zhang, S. Wang, H. Chen, S. Yang, J. Khurgin, N.X. Fang, X. Zhang, R. Ma, “High‐performance single‐crystalline perovskite thin‐film photodetector”, Advanced Materials, 30, 1704333 (2018).

P. Bai, S. Yang, W. Bao, J. Kao, K. Thorkelsson, B. Salmeron, X. Zhang, T. Xu, Diversifying nanoparticle assemblies in supramolecule nanocomposites via cylindrical confinement, Nano Letters, 17, 6847-6854 (2017).

P. Li*, S. Yang*, T. Zhang, R. Shrestha, K. Hippalgaonkar, T. Luo, X. Zhang, S. Shen, Tunable thermal transport in polysilsesquioxane (PSQ) hybrid crystals, Scientific Reports, 6, 1-9 (2016).

Z. Chen, Z., X. Wang, Y. Qi, S. Yang, J. A. Soares, B. A. Apgar, R. Gao, R. Xu, Y. Lee, X. Zhang, J. Yao, & L. Martin, Self-assembled, nanostructured, tunable metamaterials via spinodal decomposition, ACS Nano, 10, 10237-10244 (2016).

S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Ni, & X. Zhang, Optical modulation of aqueous metamaterial properties at large scale, Optics Express, 23, 28736-28741 (2015).

S. Yang, X. Ni, X. Yin, B. Kante, P. Zhang, J. Zhu, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, “Feedback-driven self-assembly of symmetry-breaking optical metamaterials in solution”, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 1002-1006 (2014). (Highlighted in Science Newsline, etc)

P. Zhang, T. Li, J. Zhu, X. Zhu, S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Yin & X. Zhang, Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering, Nature Communications, 5, 1-9 (2014).

L. Feng, X. Zhu, S. Yang, H. Zhu, P. Zhang, X. Yin, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Demonstration of a large-scale optical exceptional point structure, Optics Express, 22, 1760-1767 (2014).

R-M. Ma, S. Ota, Y. Li, S. Yang & X. Zhang, Explosives detection in a lasing plasmon nanocavity, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 600-604 (2014).

Z. Li, J. L. Nyalosaso, A. A. Hwang, D.P. Ferris, S. Yang, G. Derrien, C. Charnay, J. O. Durand, and J. I. Zink, Measurement of uptake and release capacities of mesoporous silica nanoparticles enabled by nanovalve gates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115,19496-19506 (2011).

H. Meng*, S. Yang*, Z. Li, T. Xia, J. Chen, Z. Ji, H. Zhang, X. Wang, S. J. Lin, C. Huang, Z.H. Zhou, J. I. Zink, A. E. Nel, Aspect ratio determines the quantity of mesoporous silica nanoparticle uptake by a small GTPase-dependent macropinocytosis mechanism, ACS Nano, 5, 4434-4447 (2011).

P. Yuan, S. Yang, H. Wang, M. Yu, X. Zhou, G. Lu, J. Zou and C. Yu, “Structure transition from hexagonal mesostructured rodlike silica to multilamellar vesicles”, Langmuir, 24, 5038-5043 (2008).

S. Yang, X. Zhou, P. Yuan, M. Yu, S. Xie, J. Zou, G. Q. Lu and C. Yu, “Siliceous nanopods from a compromised dual-templating approach”, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 46, 8579-8582 (2007).

X. Zhou, S. Yang, C. Yu, Z. Li, X. Yan, Y. Cao and D. Zhao, “Hexylene- and octylene-bridged polysilsesquioxane hybrid crystals self-assembled by dimeric building blocks with ring structures”. Chemistry-a European Journal, 12, 8484-8490 (2006).

S. Yang, L. Zhao, C. Yu, X. Zhou, J. Tang, P. Yuan, D. Chen and D. Zhao, “On the origin of helical mesostructures”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 10460-10466 (2006).