Huang Yixing is an Associate Professor in Advanced Multifunctional Composite and Structure Mechanics and Solid Mechanics, at Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology. He completed his BSc and PhD at South China University of Technology (2011-2019), working on advanced multifunctional composite and structure mechanics across multiple functional trials and electromagnetic-mechanical integration. During his doctoral program, he underwent joint training for 4 years at Peking University. Following that, he conducted postdoctoral researches at the College of Engineering, Peking University (2019-2021), and joined Beijing Institute of Technology in 2021.
He has long been engaged in research in the interdisciplinary field of mechanics and electromagnetism, systematically investigating the integrated design of materials, structures, and functions for mechanical load-bearing and broadband electromagnetic manipulation, as well as optimization algorithms for load-bearing electromagnetic structures. By structurally designing lossy composite materials, he has overcome the performance limitations of traditional materials, such as weak load-bearing capacity and poor electromagnetic functionality, achieving a compatible design of mechanical and electromagnetic functions across the microwave frequency band of 1-40 GHz. Through the electromagnetic functionalization of mechanical lattice structures, he has experimentally and theoretically validated the feasibility and application prospects of structured electromagnetic manipulation. Experiments have confirmed the existence of a significant structural coupling effect between the mechanical load-bearing performance and electromagnetic performance of lossy lattice structures, demonstrating that the mechanical-electromagnetic parallelism at the material level cannot determine the mechanical-electromagnetic coupling at the structural level. This underscores a significant difference between the mechanical-electromagnetic interactions at the material level and those at the structural level.
He has long been engaged in research on advanced multifunctional composites and structural mechanics, with his primary research directions focusing on the constitutive theory of multi-field coupling for additive manufacturing polymers, machine learning-based constitutive theory, the integrated design theory and manufacturing technology for material-structure-function integration in multifunctional metastructures that integrate mechanical load-bearing, microwave broadband electromagnetic manipulation, ultra-high temperature thermal protection and insulation, infrared manipulation, and other functions, as well as the electromagnetic functionalization of mechanical lattice structures. Currently, he has published nearly 50 SCI articles in top-tier journals such as JMPS, CST, Matter, AFM, and CPB, with 32 of them being first author or corresponding author, including 5 ESI highly cited papers and 2 ESI hot papers. He has been included in the 2024 Elsevier list of the world's top 2% scientists. His SCI articles have been cited over 1,400 times, and his H-index is 21. He has hosted youth projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, special grants and general programs of the Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and has received awards and funding such as the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the Youth Talent Pool Project of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Guangdong Society of Mechanics, the title of Outstanding Student in Guangdong Province, the Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship from Peking University, and the National Doctoral Scholarship.
[1] Huang Y, Song W-L, Wang C, Xu Y, Wei W, Chen M, et al., Multi-scale design of electromagnetic composite metamaterials for broadband microwave absorption, Compos. Sci. Technol., 162 (2018) 206-214.
[2] Huang Y, Yuan X, Chen M, Song W-L, Chen J, Fan Q, et al., Ultrathin Flexible Carbon Fiber Reinforced Hierarchical Metastructure for Broadband Microwave Absorption with Nano Lossy Composite and Multiscale Optimization, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10 (51) (2018) 44731-44740.
[3] Huang Y, Yuan X, Wang C, Chen M, Tang L, Fang D, Flexible thin broadband microwave absorber based on a pyramidal periodic structure of lossy composite, Opt. Lett., 43 (12) (2018) 2764-2767.
[4] Huang Y, Yuan X, Chen M, Song W-L, Chen J, Fan Q, et al., Ultrathin multifunctional carbon/glass fiber reinforced lossy lattice metastructure for integrated design of broadband microwave absorption and effective load bearing, Carbon, 144 (2019) 449-456.
[5] Fan Q, Yang X, Lei H, Liu Y, Huang Y, Chen M, Gradient nanocomposite with metastructure design for broadband radar absorption, Compos. Pt. A: Appl. Sci. Manuf., 129 (2020) 105698.
[6] Huang Y, Fan Q, Chen J, Li L, Chen M, Tang L, et al., Optimization of flexible multilayered metastructure fabricated by dielectric-magnetic nano lossy composites with broadband microwave absorption, Compos. Sci. Technol., 191 (2020) 108066.
[7] Wang Z, Huang Y, Zhang X, Li L, Chen M, Fang D, Broadband underwater sound absorbing structure with gradient cavity shaped polyurethane composite array supported by carbon fiber honeycomb, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 479 (2020) 115375.
[8] Chen J, Chu H, Huang Y, Lai Y, Liu Z, Chen M, et al., Ultrabroadband compact lens antenna with high performance based on a transmission gradient index medium, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54 (17) (2021) 175101.
[9] Huang Y, Chen J, Fan Q, Chen M, Fang D, Multifunctional carbon fiber reinforced multilayered metastructure with broadband microwave absorption and effective mechanical resistance, Polym. Compos., (2021) 1-9.
[10] Huang Y, Wu D, Chen M, Zhang K, Fang D, Evolutionary optimization design of honeycomb metastructure with effective mechanical resistance and broadband microwave absorption, Carbon, 177 (2021) 79-89.
[11] Huang Y, Wu D, Zhang K, Yang H, Dong W, Chen M, et al., Topological designs of mechanical-electromagnetic integrated laminate metastructure for broadband microwave absorption based on bi-directional evolutionary optimization, Compos. Sci. Technol., 213 (2021) 108898.
[12] Lin Y, Yang X, Huang Y, Chen M, Impact-resistant multilayered metastructure for broadband microwave absorption designed by evolutionary optimization, Composite Structures, 272 (2021) 114235.
[13] Sun X, Li Y, Huang Y, Cheng Y, Wang S, Yin W, Achieving Super Broadband Electromagnetic Absorption by Optimizing Impedance Match of rGO Sponge Metamaterials, Adv. Funct. Mater., (2021) 2107508.
[14] Yang X, Lin Y, Huang Y, Chen M, Mechanical Reinforced Lightweight Multifunctional Metastructure With Ultrabroadband Microwave Absorption, IEEE Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett., 20 (6) (2021) 1023-1027.
[15] An Z, Li Y, Luo X, Huang Y, Zhang R, Fang D, Multilaminate metastructure for high-temperature radar-infrared bi-stealth: Topological optimization and near-room-temperature synthesis, Matter, 5 (6) (2022) 1937-1952.
[16] Chen J, Chu H, Huang Y, Lai Y, Chen M, Ultra-wideband Luneburg lens with high performance based on gradient metamaterials, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (35) (2022) 355109.
[17] Liang L, Lin Y, Huang Y, Chen M, Broadband stealth composite metastructure with high penetration protection, Compos. Pt. A: Appl. Sci. Manuf., 160 (2022) 107069.
[18] Zhang Y, Shen Q, Huang Y, Lu Q, Yu J, Broadband Electromagnetic Absorption Effect of Topological Structure Using Carbon Nanotube Based Hybrid Material, Materials, 15 (14) (2022).
[19] Zhou N, Zhang L, Wang W, Zhang X, Zhang K, Chen M, et al., Stereolithographically 3D Printed SiC Metastructure for Ultrabroadband and High Temperature Microwave Absorption, Advanced Materials Technologies, 8 (4) (2022) 2201222.
[20] An Z, Huang Y, Zhang R, High-temperature multispectral stealth metastructure from the microwave-infrared compatible design, Composites Part B: Engineering, 259 (2023) 110737.
[21] Lei H, Shan M, Zhang Y, Zhao P, Yu C, Huang Y, Design-manufacturing-evaluation integration of microwave absorbing metastructures based on additive manufacturing, Compos. Sci. Technol., 243 (2023) 110270.
[22] Shan M, Zhang Y, Lei H, Zhao P, Yu C, Huang Y, Vehicle metastructure skin designed by overall-parameter evolutionary optimization for broadband microwave absorption, Compos. Sci. Technol., 232 (2023) 109880.
[23] Zhang Y, Xu Y, Yu C, Lei H, Zhao P, Huang Y, Electromagnetic functionalization of mechanical lattice to metastructure with oblique incident broadband microwave absorption, Compos. Sci. Technol., 244 (2023) 110308.
[24] Zhang Y, Zhao P, Lu Q, Zhang Y, Lei H,
