Huang Yonggang

Huang Yonggang

Huang Yonggang is a Chinese American solid mechanics scientist. Born in November 1962 in Beijing, China, he is an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a chair professor of Northwestern University.

In 1984, Huang Yonggang graduated from the Department of mechanics of Peking University; in 1990, he received a doctorate from Harvard University; in 1995, he was an associate professor of Michigan University of science and technology; in 2003, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; in 2007, he joined Northwestern University; in February 2017, he was elected a member of the National Academy of engineering; in November of the same year, he was elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On April 27, 2020, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

Huang Yonggang's main research field is the mechanical behavior of materials and electronic devices. Together with his collaborators, he created the field of extensible inorganic electronic devices and the strain gradient theory based on microscopic mechanism.

Character experience

In 1980, he entered the Department of mechanics of Peking University. He graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree, and then went to the United States to study for a master's degree and a doctor's degree in engineering at Harvard University. In 1990, he received a doctorate from Harvard University.

In August 1995, he joined Michigan University of technology as an associate professor (until August 1998).

In August 1998, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as an associate professor (from August 1998 to August 2001), Professor GRAYCE wical Gauthier (from August 2003 to August 2004) and Professor Shao leesoo (from August 2004 to August 2007).

In 2000, he won the overseas outstanding youth fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China.

In 2001, he won the Humboldt Foundation for scientists and scholars in Germany.

In 2007, Professor Joseph Cummings, Department of civil and environmental engineering and Department of mechanical engineering, Northwestern University, USA.

In 2010, he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and arts.

In 2014, he was employed as honorary professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University.

In 2015, he was employed as honorary professor of Southwest Jiaotong University.

In February 2017, he was selected as a member of the National Academy of engineering. In November 2017, he was elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 2018, he was employed as honorary professor of Xiangtan University.

On April 27, 2020, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

Main achievements

Achievements in scientific research

Huang Yonggang studied the mechanical behavior of materials and electronic devices, and his main scientific and technological achievements include: 1) he created the field of extensible inorganic electronic devices: Extensible electronic devices can better adapt to the needs of the next generation of electronic products, such as portability, shape variability, human applicability, etc., and have strategic applications in the fields of health care, military and national defense, which is an innovative development direction in the field of modern information. Although inorganic microelectronic materials can break through the performance bottleneck of organic semiconductor materials, due to the limitation of deformation, vulnerability and rigid substrate preparation, their ductility is very challenging. Based on the principle of mechanics, he created new concepts such as fractal interconnection wire and silicon strain isolation design for extensible inorganic electronic devices, and created quantitative design theory and preparation method, which made the functional inorganic materials keep very small strain when the device was deformed greatly, realized the device ductility of more than 300%, greatly expanded the application scope of devices, and opened up a variety of all-purpose devices such as electronic eye camera and skin electronics New devices and related patents are used by industry to develop and produce a variety of flexible health monitoring products. 2) A strain gradient theory based on micro mechanism was established: the traditional plasticity theory can not explain the change of material hardness in micro nano scale. He founded the strain gradient theory system based on microscopic mechanism, successfully explained the scale effect of nanoindentation experiments, and became the technical standard of such experiments. He was adopted by hundreds of universities, research institutions and companies from 54 countries and widely used in the determination of micro nano mechanical properties. These achievements have established and expanded the research frontier of modern mechanics, and produced extensive and important academic influence.

More than 500 SCI papers have been published and cited more than 40000 times.

Honorary recognition

Awarded by ASME in 2003 GustusL.LarsonMemorial prize

In 2004, he won the Melville Medal Award from ASME

In 2006, he won the Young Scholar Award of the society of Engineering Sciences

Won the International Journal of plasticity award in 2007

Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008

In 2017, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On April 27, 2020, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

He won the Richards award in 2010, Drucker medal in 2013 and Nadai medal in 2016, young investigator medal in 2006 and Prager medal in 2017 from the International Association of Engineering Sciences.

Related reports

Huang Kezhi, 92, and his son Huang Yonggang have cooperated for more than 30 years and published more than 200 SCI scientific papers and two monographs. Academician Huang Kezhi, who has been engaged in the teaching and research of mechanics for 72 years, is "healthy and diligent, and his life is not wasted.". (time of publication: April 15, 2019 source: People's daily)

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