2024

Wu, S., & Zheng, Y. L. (2024). Influence of Pre-Stretch on Planar Indentation of Elastomers: Insights from Experiments and Theory.Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1-12.

Mieles, M., Walter, A. D., Wu, S., Zheng, Y., Schwenk, G. R., Barsoum, M. W., & Ji, H. F. (2024). Hydronium‐Crosslinked Inorganic Hydrogel Comprised of 1D Lepidocrocite Titanate Nanofilaments. Advanced Materials, 2409897.

2023

Zheng, Y., Celli, P., Tobasco, I., & Plucinsky, P. (2023). Modeling planar kirigami metamaterials as generalized elastic continua. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 479:20220665.

Wang, Z., Dong, Y., Zheng, Y., Wang, Y., Li, C., Hu, Y., & Cai, S. (2023). Electrowetting of a Soft Elastic Gel. ACS Macro Letters, 12, 828-834.

Guo, Q., Zheng, Y., & Cai, S. (2023). Modeling and numerical simulation of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling behaviors of liquid crystal elastomers. International Journal of Plasticity, 171, 103799.

2022

Zheng, Y., Niloy, I., Celli, P., Tobasco, I., & Plucinsky, P. (2022). Continuum field theory for the deformations of planar kirigami. Physical Review Letters, 128(20), 208003.

2021

Li, H. #, Zheng, Y. #, Han, Y. L., Cai, S., & Guo, M. (2021). Nonlinear elasticity of biological basement membrane revealed by rapid inflation and deflation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(11).

2020

He, X. #, Zheng, Y. #, He, Q., & Cai, S. (2020). Uniaxial tension of a nematic elastomer with inclined mesogens. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 100936.

Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Zheng, Y., He, Q., Wang, Y., & Cai, S. (2020). Three-dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer. Science advances, 6(39), eabc0034.

Tiwari, S., Kazemi-Moridani, A., Zheng, Y., Barney, C., McLeod, K., Dougan, C., … & Lee, J. H. (2020). Seeded laser-induced cavitation for studying high-strain-rate irreversible deformation of soft materials. Soft Matter.

He, Q. #, Zheng, Y.#, Wang, Z., He, X., & Cai, S. (2020). Anomalous Inflation of a Nematic Balloon. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 104013.

Zheng, Y., & Cai, S. (2020). Analytical solutions of cavitation instability in a compressible hyperelastic solid. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 103562.

Barney, C. W., Dougan, C. E., McLeod, K. R., Kazemi-moridani, A., Zheng, Y., Ye, Z., Tiwari, S., Sacligil, I., Riggleman, R. A., Cai, S., Lee, J.-H., Peyton, S. R., Tew, G. N., & Crosby, A. J. (2020). Cavitation in soft matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201920168.

2019

Zheng, Y., Lai, Y., Hu, Y., & Cai, S. (2019). Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a confined elastic soft cylinder. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 131, 221-229.

Zheng, Y., & Cai, S. (2019). Determining prestrains in an elastomer through elliptical indentation. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1-22. (Selected for 2020 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award)

Barney, C. W., Zheng, Y., Wu, S., Cai, S., & Crosby, A. J. (2019). Residual strain effects in needle-induced cavitation. Soft matter, 15(37), 7390-7397.

2018

Zheng, Y., Hu, Y., & Cai, S. (2018). Contact mechanics of a gel under constrained swelling. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 124, 427-445.

2017

Zheng, Y., Crosby, A. J., & Cai, S. (2017). Indentation of a stretched elastomer. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 107, 145-159.

Wang, P., Zheng, Y., Fernandes, M. C., Sun, Y., Xu, K., Sun, S., … & Bertoldi, K. (2017). Harnessing Geometric Frustration to Form Band Gaps in Acoustic Channel Lattices. Physical review letters, 118(8), 084302.