YE YUAN

Last Updated :2025/06/16

Affiliations, Positions
International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter, Associate Professor (Special Appointment)
Web Site
https://yuan.zone
www.linkedin.com/in/y-yuan
E-mail
yeyuanhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Other Contact Details
2 Chome-313 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
TEL : (+81)82-424-7886 FAX : (+81)
Self-introduction
My research in the broad field of soft matter, at the intersection of physics, chemistry and biology. More specifically, I try to understand colloidal interactions in liquid crystals and fabricate functional materials for potential applications in optical devices, energy conversion, etc. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking and running in the mountains.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2019, 2020, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Postdoctoral Associate
  • 2020, 2023, ETH Zurich, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Postdoctoral Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Uiniversity of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, USA, 2012, 2018
  • University of Science and Technology of China, School of Physical Sciences, China, 2008, 2012

Academic Degrees

  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Doctor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Research Fields

  • Mathematical and physical sciences;Physics;Biological physics / Chemical physics / Soft matter physics

Research Keywords

  • Physics
  • Soft matter
  • Liquid crystals
  • Colloids
  • Functional materials

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Hybridization of colloidal handlebodies with singular defects and topological solitons in chiral liquid crystals, Soft Matter, 21, 4323-4335, 202503
  2. Chiral, Topological, and Knotted Colloids in Liquid Crystals, Crystals, 14, 885, 202410
  3. Liquid-liquid crystalline phase separation of filamentous colloids and semiflexible polymers: experiments, theory and simulations, REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS, 88, 036601, 202502
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  4. Cholesteric Tactoids with Tunable Helical Pitch Assembled by Lysozyme Amyloid Fibrils, Small, 2024
  5. Structural Colors from Amyloid-Based Liquid Crystals, Advanced Materials, 2024
  6. Single-Step Control of Liquid–Liquid Crystalline Phase Separation by Depletion Gradients, Advanced Materials, 2312564, 2024
  7. Disentangling kinetics from thermodynamics in heterogeneous colloidal systems, Nature Communications, 14, 607, 2023
  8. Polymer induced liquid crystal phase behavior of cellulose nanocrystal dispersions, Nanoscale Advances, 4, 4863, 2022
  9. Nematic Order, Plasmonic Switching and Self-Patterning of Colloidal Gold Bipyramids, Advanced Science, 8, 2102854, 2021
  10. ★, Plasmonic Amyloid Tactoids, Advanced Materials, 33, 2106155, 2021
  11. Elastomeric nematic colloids, colloidal crystals and microstructures with complex topology, Soft Matter, 17, 3037, 2021
  12. Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers, Nature Communications, 11, 188, 2020
  13. ★, Elastic colloidal monopoles and reconfigurable self-assembly in liquid crystals, Nature, 570, 214, 2019
  14. Self-assembled nematic colloidal motors powered by light, Nature Communications, 9, 5040, 2018
  15. ★, Chiral liquid crystal colloids, Nature Materials, 17, 71, 2018
  16. Pristine Polysulfone Networks as a Class of Polysulfide-Derived High-Performance Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, 28, 5102, 2016
  17. Edge pinning and transformation of defect lines induced by faceted colloidal rings in nematic liquid crystals, Physical Review E, 93, 062704, 2016
  18. Metal Nanoparticle Dispersion, Alignment, and Assembly in Nematic Liquid Crystals for Applications in Switchable Plasmonic Color Filters and E-Polarizers, ACS Nano, 9, 3097, 2015
  19. Topological nanocolloids with facile electric switching of plasmonic properties, Optics Letters, 40, 5630, 2015
  20. Electrically and Optically Tunable Plasmonic Guest-Host Liquid Crystals with Long-Range Ordered Nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 14, 4071, 2014
  21. Fabrication of Wafer-Size Monolayer Close-Packed Colloidal Crystals via Slope Self-Assembly and Thermal Treatment, Langmuir, 29, 14017, 2013

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal colloids, Ye Yuan, Intelligent Soft Matter SoftComp Topical Workshop, 2024/11/27, Without Invitation, English, Salou, Spain
  2. Optical microscopy and manipulation, Ye Yuan, WPI-SKCM2 Winter School, 2024/12/10, With Invitation, English, Hiroshima University
  3. Plasmonic amyloid tactoids, Swiss Soft Days, 2023/04/14, Without Invitation, English, Fribourg, Switzerland