Yifu Ding

  • Professor
  • Director, MAST Center
  • Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Micro/Nanoscale
Address

Office Location: ECME 269A
Lab Location: ECME 102

Research Interests

Polymer science, separation membranes

My research interests focus on understanding the structure and dynamics of polymers in bulk and under confinement. We study the fabrication processes and properties of the polymer-based nanostructures, nanocomposites, and polymer-based separation membranes. I am also interested in fabricating smart materials, particularly novel smart surfaces and particles, and understand the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of these smart nanostructures.

Selected Publications and Accomplishments

  • 鈥淭unable mechanical anisotropy, crack guiding, and toughness enhancement in two-stage reactive polymer networks鈥, Cox, L.; Blevins, A.; Drisko, J.; Qi, Y.; Ding, Y.; Fiedler-Higgins, C.; Long, R.; Bowman, C.; Killgore, J. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019, 1900578. 
  • 鈥淪urface-patterning of polymeric membranes: fabrication and performance鈥, Heinz, O.; Aghajani, M.; Greenberg, A.; Ding, Y.  Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2018, 20, 1-12.
  • 鈥淩elationship between permeation and deformation for porous membranes鈥, Aghajani, M.; Maruf, S.; Wang, M.; Yoshimura, J.; Pichorim, G.; Greenberg, A.; Ding, Y. Journal of Membrane Science 2017, 526, 293-300.
  • 鈥淗indered nanoparticle diffusion and void accessibility in a three-dimensional porous medium鈥, Skaug, M. J.; Wang, L.; Ding, Y.; and Schwartz, D. K. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 2148-2156.
  • 鈥淢orphing metal-polymer Janus particles鈥, Cox, L.; Killgore, J.; Li, Z.; Zhang, Z.; Hurley, D.; Xiao, J.; and Ding, Y. Advanced Materials 2014, 26, 899-994.