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Xiaoyue Ni

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Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The Ni group aims to realize human-oriented materials intelligence through the combination of soft electronics and digital metamaterials—the materials can sense human signals, transform and adapt their functional properties according to human actions or status. The technical approach embraces epidermal electronics for advanced sensing of body mechanics, and micro/nanomechanics for closed-loop programmable matter. Our research focuses on creating digital-physical interfaces for dynamic control over materials properties via a full spectrum of mechanical and acoustic processes.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information

  • Office Phone: +1 919 660 5310
  • Email Address: xiaoyue.ni@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2018

Research Interests

Flexible electronics, precision measurement, non-destructive testing, deformation physics of random media, mechanical metamaterials, robotic materials and smart structures, machine learning

Courses Taught

  • ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
  • ME 591: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
  • ME 543: Energy Flow and Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids
  • ME 494: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
  • ME 493: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
  • ME 392: Undergraduate Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 391: Undergraduate Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 221L: Structure and Properties of Solids
  • ECE 391: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • CEE 626: Energy Flow and Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Bai, Y; Wang, H; Xue, Y; Pan, Y; Kim, J-T; Ni, X; Liu, T-L; Yang, Y; Han, M; Huang, Y; Rogers, JA; Ni, X, A dynamically reprogrammable surface with self-evolving shape morphing., Nature, vol 609 no. 7928 (2022), pp. 701-708 [10.1038/s41586-022-05061-w] [abs].
  • Ni, X; Ouyang, W; Jeong, H; Kim, J-T; Tzaveils, A; Mirzazadeh, A; Wu, C; Lee, JY; Keller, M; Mummidisetty, CK; Patel, M; Shawen, N; Huang, J; Chen, H; Ravi, S; Chang, J-K; Lee, K; Wu, Y; Lie, F; Kang, YJ; Kim, JU; Chamorro, LP; Banks, AR; Bharat, A; Jayaraman, A; Xu, S; Rogers, JA, Automated, multiparametric monitoring of respiratory biomarkers and vital signs in clinical and home settings for COVID-19 patients., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 118 no. 19 (2021) [10.1073/pnas.2026610118] [abs].
  • Lee, K; Ni, X; Lee, JY; Arafa, H; Pe, DJ; Xu, S; Avila, R; Irie, M; Lee, JH; Easterlin, RL; Kim, DH; Chung, HU; Olabisi, OO; Getaneh, S; Chung, E; Hill, M; Bell, J; Jang, H; Liu, C; Park, JB; Kim, J; Kim, SB; Mehta, S; Pharr, M; Tzavelis, A; Reeder, JT; Huang, I; Deng, Y; Xie, Z; Davies, CR; Huang, Y; Rogers, JA, Mechano-acoustic sensing of physiological processes and body motions via a soft wireless device placed at the suprasternal notch., Nature biomedical engineering, vol 4 no. 2 (2020), pp. 148-158 [10.1038/s41551-019-0480-6] [abs].
  • Ni, X; Guo, X; Li, J; Huang, Y; Zhang, Y; Rogers, JA, 2D Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Unusual Modes of Thermal Expansion., Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), vol 31 no. 48 (2019) [10.1002/adma.201905405] [abs].
  • Ni, X; Zhang, H; Liarte, DB; McFaul, LW; Dahmen, KA; Sethna, JP; Greer, JR, Yield Precursor Dislocation Avalanches in Small Crystals: The Irreversibility Transition., Physical review letters, vol 123 no. 3 (2019) [10.1103/physrevlett.123.035501] [abs].
  • Ni, X; Papanikolaou, S; Vajente, G; Adhikari, RX; Greer, JR, Probing Microplasticity in Small-Scale FCC Crystals via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Physical Review Letters, vol 118 no. 15 (2017) [10.1103/physrevlett.118.155501] [abs].
  • Vajente, G; Quintero, EA; Ni, X; Arai, K; Gustafson, EK; Robertson, NA; Sanchez, EJ; Greer, JR; Adhikari, RX, An instrument to measure mechanical up-conversion phenomena in metals in the elastic regime., The Review of scientific instruments, vol 87 no. 6 (2016) [10.1063/1.4953114] [abs].