YE Fangfu's Research Group

Principal Investigator

Research Interests

• Behavioral regulation of extracellular microenvironment on nerve cells, tumor cells, stem cells, etc.
• Interactions between cell membranes and proteins
• Functional biomaterials
• Medical imaging and detection technolog
• Structure and phase transitions of complex networks
• Ensemble behavior of spinning particle systems

Representative Publications

• Q Yang et al, "Topologically Protected Transport of Cargo in a Chiral Active Fluid Aided by Odd-Viscosity-Enhanced Depletion Interactions", Physical review letters 126, 198001 (2021); 
• Q Fan et al, "Dynamically Re-Organized Collagen Fiber Bundles Transmit Mechanical Signals and Induce Strongly Correlated Cell Migration and Self-Organization", Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (21), 11858-11867 (2021);
• C Yang et al, "3D-Printed Biomimetic Systems with Synergetic Color and Shape Responses Based on Oblate Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets", Advanced Materials 33 (10), 2006361 (2021);
• L Sun et al, "Biohybrid robotics with living cell actuation", Chemical Society Reviews 49, 4043-4069 (2020);
• L Cai et al, "Stomatocyte structural color-barcode micromotors for multiplex assays", National Science Review 7, 644-651 (2020);
• P Liu et al, "Oscillating collective motion of active rotors in confinement", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 117, 11901-11907 (2020);
• Y Yuan et al, "Droplet encapsulation improves accuracy of immune cell cytokine capture assays", Lab on a Chip 20, 1513-1520 (2020);
• A Boromand et al, "Jamming of deformable polygons", Physical review letters 121, 248003 (2018);
• Q Fan et al, "A novel 3-D bio-microfluidic system mimicking in vivo heterogeneous tumour microstructures reveals complex tumour–storm interactions", Lab on a Chip 17, 2852-2860 (2017);
• BS Lu, F Ye, X Xing, PM Goldbart, "Phenomenological theory of isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers", Physical review letters 108, 257803 (2012);
• Y Sawa#, F Ye# et al, "Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 108, 6364-6368 (2011);
• F Ye, R Mukhopadhyay, O Stenull, TC Lubensky, "Semisoft nematic elastomers and nematics in crossed electric and magnetic fields", Physical review letters 98, 147801 (2007);
• JC Tsai, F Ye, J Rodriguez, JP Gollub, TC Lubensky, "A chiral granular gas", Physical review letters 94, 214301 (2005).