Yimin Luo

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Room / Office:
Mason 204

Office Address:

9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520

Website: Luo Research Group

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

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)

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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.