Yimo Han

Papers

Total Citations

219

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About

Yimo Han is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of nanofabrication, advanced microscopy, and autonomous scientific discovery. Her work centers on developing origami and kirigami-inspired techniques to create micron-scale machines, metamaterials, and functional devices from atomically thin materials. In her highly cited 2018 paper (176 citations), she demonstrated graphene-based bimorphs for autonomous origami machines, showing how ultrathin layers preserve conductivity, stiffness, and flexibility while enabling dramatic miniaturization. She further advanced atomic layer deposition methods for membranes, metamaterials, and mechanisms (2019, 39 citations), establishing scale-invariant design principles for 3D nanostructures. Most recently, Han has pioneered the use of large language models in scientific automation, introducing the PEAR framework (2024) for ptychography—a powerful computational imaging technique used in X-ray and electron microscopy. This work promises to accelerate materials characterization across physics, chemistry, biology, and semiconductor industries. By bridging nanoscale fabrication with AI-driven experimentation, Han is shaping the future of autonomous materials discovery and nanorobotics.