Published in Nature Communications, 2023
Temperature dependence of elastic limit in metallic glasses
Recommended citation: Yifan Wang, Jing Liu, Jian-Zhong Jiang, and Wei Cai. Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Elastic Limit in Metallic Glasses. Nature Communications 15 (1): 171 (2024). (link)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
Entropy effect of thermally activated processes in solids
Recommended citation: Yifan Wang, and Wei Cai. "Stress-dependent activation entropy in thermally activated cross-slip of dislocations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (2023): e2222039120. (link)
Published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2020
Analytical formula for enery barrier of dislocation cross-slip in FCC metals
Recommended citation: Kuykendall, William P., Yifan Wang, and Wei Cai. "Stress effects on the energy barrier and mechanisms of cross-slip in FCC nickel." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 144 (2020): 104105. (link)
Published in Nature Communications, 2020
Reference-free method for microparticle traction force microscopy for mechanical interaction in phagocytosis
Recommended citation: Vorselen, Daan, Yifan Wang, Miguel M. de Jesus, Pavak K. Shah, Matthew J. Footer, Morgan Huse, Wei Cai, and Julie A. Theriot. "Microparticle traction force microscopy reveals subcellular force exertion patterns in immune cell–target interactions." Nature communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-14. (link)
Published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2019
Spherical harmonics solver for linear elasticity problems with spherical interface
Recommended citation: Wang, Yifan, Xiaohan Zhang, and Wei Cai. "Spherical harmonics method for computing the image stress due to a spherical void." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 126 (2019): 151-167. (link)
Published in Nano Letters, 2018
Molecular dynamics simulation of dislocations in metallic nanocubes
Recommended citation: Kiani, Mehrdad T., Yifan Wang, Nicolas Bertin, Wei Cai, and X. Wendy Gu. "Strengthening mechanism of a single precipitate in a metallic nanocube." Nano letters 19, no. 1 (2018): 255-260. (link)