Welcome to the Yan Group at PKU

We work at the intersection of polymer science and bioelectronics.

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of polymer networks for transforming the way human beings interact with the electronic world.

Our Research

Polymeric electronic materials hold great promise for building bio-interfacing wearable and implantable medical devices, as well as efficient computing systems with biological intelligence. This owes to the close resemblance between electroactive polymers and biological world in terms of mechanical properties (softness and stretchability) and signal transduction mechanisms (mixed ionic-electronic transport).

Built on fundamental principles of polymer chemistry and physics, our group aims to understand and control transport processes in electroactive polymer networks through molecularly programming their topology and dynamics under external stimulus. These fundamental insights will be applied to create bioelectronic materials and devices that are adaptive to various long-term operational scenarios when seamlessly integrated with human bodies.