1.  Yang Gao, Xiuyuan Hana, Jiaojiao Chen, Yudong Pan, Meng Yang, Linhe Lub, Jian Yang, Zhigang Suo* and Tongqing Lu*. Hydrogel–mesh composite for wound closure. PNAS, 2021, 118 (28), e2103457118

2.  Yang Gao, Jiaojiao Chen, Xiuyuan Han, Yudong Pan, Peiyao Wang, Tiejun Wang, Tongqing Lu*.   A universal strategy for tough adhesion of wet soft material.  Advanced Functional Materials  (2020).

3.  Xiao Feng Cui, Wen Jiang Zheng*, Wei Zou, Xing Yong Liu, Hu Yang, Jie Yan and Yang Gao*, Water-retaining, tough and self-healing hydrogels and their uses as fire-resistant materials. Polymer Chemistry, 2019, accepted.

4.  Yang Gao, Kangling Wu, and Zhigang Suo*, Photodetachable Adhesion. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1806948.

5.  Wen Jiang Zheng*‡, Yang Gao‡, Xiao Xi Fan, Xiao Feng Cui, Wei Zou, Dan Zheng, Jie Yan, and Bin Li, Physically Linked PVA/P(AAm-co-SMA) Hydrogels: Tough, Fast Recovery, Antifatigue, and Self-Healing Soft Materials. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2018, 303, 1800104. (Co-first author)

6.   Mei Xiang Wang, Yong Mei Chen*, Yang Gao, Chen Hu, Jian Hu, Li Tan,* and Zhimao Yang*, Rapid Self-Recoverable Hydrogels with High Toughness and Excellent Conductivity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10, 26610.

7.   Jingda Tang, Zongfei Tong, Yukun Xia, Ming Liu, Zengyao Lv, Yang Gao, Tongqing Lu, Shejuan Xie, Yongmao Pei*, Daining Fang and T. J. Wang*, Super tough magnetic hydrogels for remotely triggered shape morphing. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2018, 18, 2713-2722.

8.  Yang Gao, Jingfeng Song, Shumin Li, Christian Elowsky You Zhou, Stephen Ducharme, Yongmei Chen*, Qin Zhou* and Li Tan*. Hydrogel microphone: Deformable network of metal nanoparticles enables stealthy underwater listening with extreme sensitivity. Nature Communications, 2016, 7: 12316.

9.  Yang Gao, Chen Hu, Wen Jiang Zheng, Sen Yang, Fei Li, Shao Dong Sun, Miklos Zrinyi, Yoshihito Osada, Zhi Mao Yang*, and Yongmei Chen*, Fe₃O₄ anisotropic nanostructures in hydrogel: Efficient catalysts for rapid removal of organic dyes from wastewater. ChemPhysChem, 2016, 17 (13): 1999.

10. Yang Gao, Li Mei Zhang, Chun Cai Kong, Zhi Mao Yang*, Yongmei Chen*. NO adsorption and dissociation on palladium clusters: The importance of charged state and metal doping. Chemical Physics Letters, 2016, 658, 7.

11. Yang Gao, Zhao Wei, Fei Li, Zhi Mao Yang*, Yongmei Chen*, Miklos Zrinyi and Yoshihito Osada, Synthesis of morphology controllable Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles/hydrogel magnetic nanocomposite inspired by magnetotactic bacteria and its application in H₂O₂ detection. Green Chemistry, 2014, 16 (3): 1255.

12. Shaodong Sun, Dongchu Deng, Chuncai Kong, Yang Gao, Shengchun Yang , Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Zhimao Yang*, Seed-mediated synthesis of polyhedral 50-facet Cu₂O architectures, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13 (20), 5993 (Cover Paper)