Research Associate
Han Yang is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Melville Laboratory in the University of Cambridge Chemistry Department. He earned his MSc and PhD in chemistry from McGill University, and his BSc in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Currently, he works on multifunctional cellulose photonic materials and nanocellulose related projects.
Highly-scattering material using only cellulose. Extremely short scattering mean free path (~1 μm) was achieved by optimizing the dimension of rod-shaped cellulose nanoparticles (CNPs) as cellulose building blocks. A typical biomimetic, 9 μm thick, cellulose-based film exhibits a reflectance of ~80% in the entire visible range. Our developed CNP films reproduce with high fidelity the 3D disordered nanostructures network of the white beetles Cyphochilus.