准聘教授，博士生导师

博士和硕士学术型招生专业：软物质科学与工程

博士和硕士专业型招生专业：材料与化工

电子邮件：yanxiaoyun@scut.edu.cn

google学术主页：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6BhY5EcAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN 

教育背景

2010-2014学士，厦门大学，化学化工学院

2015-2020博士，阿克伦大学，高分子科学系

科研经历

2025-至今准聘教授，华南理工大学，前沿软物质学院

2022-2025博士后，麻省理工学院，机械工程系，合作导师：Xuanhe Zhao

2020-2022研究助理，华南理工大学，前沿软物质学院

2014-2015研究助理，厦门大学，化学化工学院

教学与科研情况

• 面向先进制造领域，从分子设计/组装行为调控/相态结构构筑的角度出发：1）开发具有特殊光学、热学性质的10纳米晶格周期结构的软材料；2）开发具有特殊相态结构的水凝胶/弹性体的制备方法，实现优异的传质/传热性能。。

近期代表论文

#equal contribution, *corresponding author

1.Liu, C. #; Yan, X.-Y.#; Li, S. #; Zhao, X. *; et al. A Meter-scale Vertical Origami Hydrogel Panel for Atmospheric Water Harvesting in Death Valley, Nat. Water 2025, accepted.

2.Liu, X.-Y. #; Yan, X.-Y.#*; Kong, X.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Self-Assembled Soft Alloy with Frank-Kasper Phases beyond Metals, Nat. Mater. 2024, 23, 570.

3.Yan, X.-Y.#; Liu, Y.#; Huang, M.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Guidelines for Superlattice Engineering with Giant Molecules: The Pivotal Role of Mesoatoms, Phys. Rev. Mater. 2023, 7, 120302.

4.Liu, Y.; Yan, X.-Y.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Spherical Packing Superlattices in Self-Assembly of Homogenous Soft Matter: Progresses and Potentials. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41 (5), 607-620.

5.Xu, W.; Yan, X.-Y.*; Ni, B.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. A robust platform to construct molecular patchy particles with a pentiptycene skeleton toward controlled mesoscale structures. Polym. Chem. 2022, 13 (15), 2108-2114.

6.Yan, X.-Y.#; Guo, Q.-Y.#; Liu, Y.*; Liu, T.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Superlattice Engineering with Well-Defined Molecular Building Blocks Superlattice Engineering with Chemically Precise Molecular Building Blocks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (51), 21613-21621.

7.Guo, Q. Y.#; Yan, X.-Y.#; Zhang, W.*; Hsu, C. H.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Ordered Mesoporous Silica Pyrolyzed from Single-Source Self-Assembled Organic-Inorganic Giant Surfactants. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (33), 12935-12942. 

8.Yan, X.-Y.#; Guo, Q.-Y.#; Lin, Z.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Geometry Directed Self‐Assembly of Polymeric Molecular Frameworks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2024-2029. 

9.Yan, X. Y.; Lin, Z.*; Cheng, S. Z. D.*; et al. Magnifying the Structural Components of Biomembranes: A Prototype for the Study of the Self‐Assembly of Giant Lipids. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59 (13), 5226-5234.

10.Lu, R.-Q.#; Yan, X.-Y.#; Lan, Y.*; Weng, W.*; Cao, X.-Y.*; et al. Unveiling How Intramolecular Stacking Modes of Covalently Linked Dimers Dictate Photoswitching Properties. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 1-8.

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