Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, China. 1992.
M.S. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. 1989
B.S. Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. 1983
Recent Publications:
Y. Zhao, N. Mahajan, S. Long, Q. Wang, J. Y. Fang, “Stability and Deformation of Virus Nanoparticles under Applied Load with Atomic Force Microscopy”. Micro and Nano Letters 2006. 1, 1.
Y. Zhao, N. Mahajan, J. Y. Fang, “Self-Assembled Cylindrical Lipid Tubules with Birefringent Core”. Small 2006, 2, 364.
N. Mahajan, Y. Zhao, T. B. Du, J. Y. Fang, “Nanoscale Ripples in Self-Assembled Lipid Tubules”. Langmuir 2006, 22, 1973.
Y. Zhao, J. Y. Fang, “Alignment and Positioning of Lipid Tubules on Patterned Au Substrates under Flow and Confinement”. Langmuir 2006, 22, 1892.
Y. H. Lin, H. W. Ren, Y. H. Wu, Y. Zhao, J. Y. Fang, S. T. Wu, “IPS-LCD Using a Glass Substrate and an Anisotropic Polymer Film”. Journal of Display Technology 2006, 2, 21.
Y. Zhao, N. Mahajan, R. Lu, J. Y. Fang, “Liquid-Crystal Imaging of Molecular-Tilt Organization in Self-Assembled Tubules of Chiral Phospholipids”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2005, 102, 7438. (This work is highlighted in This Week in PNAS).
N. Mahajan, J. Y. Fang, “Two-Dimensional Ordered Arrays of Aligned Lipid Tubules on Substrates with Microfluidic Networks”. Langmuir 2005, 21, 3153. (This work is featured on the cover of Langmuir and is highlighted on May 1, 2005 News section of Analytical Chemistry).
Y. H. Lin, H. W. Ren, Y. H. Wu, Y. Zhou, S. Gauza, J. Y. Fang,
S. T. Wu, “Polarization-independent Liquid Crystal Phase Modulators using a Thin Polymer-Separated Double-Layered Structure.” Optics Express 2005, 13, 8746.
C. Whitehouse, J. Y. Fang, A. Aggeli, M. Bell, R. M. Brydson, C. W. G. Fishwick, C. M. Knobler, J. Henderson, R. W. Owens, N. H., Thomson, N. Boden, “Adsorption and Self-assembly of Peptides on Substrates”. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2005, 44, 1965. (This work is listed as a “very important paper” by the journal and highlighted in Chemie ED News-Center, 2005).
N. Mahajan, R. Lu, S. T. Wu, J. Y. Fang, “Patterning Polymerized Lipid Vesicles with Soft Lithography”. Langmuir 2005, 21, 3132.
