Yimin Luo
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Luo Research GroupAssistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Room / Office: Mason 204
Office Address:
9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT
06520
Email: yimin.luo@yale.edu
Degrees:
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- B.S., Rice University
Interests:
Image analysis and reconstruction, high-throughput experiment design, cell-material interaction, biophysics, liquid crystals and liquid crystal elastomers, rheology of suspensions, phase behaviors, active colloids and active nematics, scattering
Selected Awards & Honors:
- Woman Interactive Materials Award Finalist, Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (2021)
- MIT ChemE Rising Stars Symposium Finalist (2018)
- University of Washington Distinguished Young Scholars (2018)
- President Gutmann Leadership Award (2018)
- Langmuir Student Oral Presentation Award (2017)
- Phi Beta Kappa (2013)
Selected Publications:
For complete list, please see here
- T. Yao, Z. Kos, Q. Zhang, Y. Luo, F. Serra, E. B. Steager, M. Ravnik, K. J. Stebe, "Nematic colloidal micro-robots as physically intelligent systems", Adv. Funct. Mat., 2022.
- Y.-F. Lee, Y. Luo, T. Bai, S. C. Brown, and N. J. Wagner, "Microstructure of shear thickening colloidal suspensions determined by rheo-VSANS and Rheo-USANS'", Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 4325-4337.
- Y. Luo, Y. -F. Lee, K. A. Dennis, C. Velez, S. C. Brown, E. M. Furst, and N. J. Wagner, "One-step, in-situ jamming point measurements by immobilization cell rheometry", Rheol. Acta, 2020, 59, 209–225.
- Y. Luo, M. Gu, C. E. R. Edwards, M. T. Valentine, M. E. Helgeson, "High-throughput microscopy to determine morphology, microrheology, and phase boundaries applied to phase separating coacervates", Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 3063-3075.
- M. Gu*, Y. Luo*, Y. He, M. E. Helgeson, M. T. Valentine, "Uncertainty quantification and estimation in differential dynamic microscopy", Phys. Rev. E, 2021,104,034610. arXiv: 2105.01200.
- Y. Luo, D. A. Beller, F. Serra, and K. J. Stebe, "Tunable colloid trajectories in nematic liquid crystals near wavy walls", Nat. Comm., 2018, 3841.
- Y. Luo, F. Serra, and K. J. Stebe, "Experimental realization of the `lock-and-key' mechanism in liquid crystals", Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 6027-6032. Front Cover.
- Y. Luo, F. Serra, D. A. Beller, M. A. Gharbi, N. Li, S. Yang, R. D. Kamien, and K. J. Stebe, "Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells", Phys. Rev. E, 2016, 93, 032705.