Haoran Wang
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Office Location: ENGR 419NPhone: 435-797-0951
Email: haoran.wang@usu.edu
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Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Biography
Haoran Wang joined the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at USU in August 2020. Before joining USU, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University for two years. He does research in solid mechanics and materials with a focus on multiscale computations and probabilistic modeling. Currently, he is working on the mechanics of energy storage materials for high-capacity rechargeable batteries and the mechanics of stimuli-responsive polymers. He is hiring new graduate students to join his research group. If you are interested, email him with your CV and transcripts.
Teaching Interests
Solid mechanics, Continuum mechanics, Fracture mechanics, Data-driven modeling in solid mechanics
If you are a USU student planning to enroll in MAE 6670 Fracture Mechanics, it is strongly recommended to complete MAE 6040 Continuum Mechanics beforehand.
Research Interests
Solid mechanics and materials, Multiscale computations, Uncertainty quantification, Data-driven modeling
Awards
Engineering Research Initiation Award, 2022
National Science Foundation
Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Fellowship, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aerospace Engineering Department
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Nadew, W., Wang, H., (2025). Learning the governing partial differential equation of solid diffusion from atomistic simulations. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 481:2322, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2025.0383
- Moon, J.V, Sakir, M.T, Go, W., Xie, R., Tucker, M.C, Doeff, M., Wang, H., Warren, R., (2024). Microscale mechanical property variations of Al-substituted LLZO: insights from compression testing and molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, (Front Cover).
- Mahardika, N., Raistrick, T., Mihai, A., Wang, H., (2024). All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of nematic liquid crystal elastomers. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 291, 112717.
- Wang, H., Guilleminot, J., Schafer, B.W, Tootkaboni, M., (2022). Stochastic analysis of geometrically imperfect thin cylindrical shells using topology-aware uncertainty models. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 393, 114780.
- Wang, H., Lu, S., Wang, X., Xia, S., Chew, H.B, (2021). A review of the multiscale mechanics of silicon electrodes in high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55:2022, 063001.
- Mihai, A., Wang, H., Guilleminot, J., Goriely , A., (2021). Nematic liquid crystalline elastomers are aeolotropic materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 477:2253, cover story.
- Wang, H., Guilleminot, J., Soize, C., (2019). Modeling uncertainties in molecular dynamics simulations using a stochastic reduced-order basis. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 354, 37--55.
- Antartis, D.A, Wang, H., Tang, C., Chew, H.B, Dillon, S.J, Chasiotis, I., (2019). Nanofibrillar Si helices for low-stress, high-capacity Li+ anodes with large affine deformations. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 11:12, 11715--11721.
- Wang, H., Chew, H.B, (2017). Nanoscale mechanics of the solid electrolyte interphase on lithiated-silicon electrodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9:31, 25662--25667.
- Wang, H., Chew, H.B, (2016). Molecular dynamics simulations of plasticity and cracking in lithiated silicon electrodes. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 9, 503-513.
- Wang, X., Fan, F., Wang, J., Wang, H., Tao, S., Yang, A., Liu, Y., Chew, H.B, Mao, S.X, Zhu, T., others, , (2015). High damage tolerance of electrochemically lithiated silicon. Nature Communications, 6
- Wang, H., Wang, X., Xia, S., Chew, H.B, (2015). Brittle-to-ductile transition of lithiated silicon electrodes: Crazing to stable nanopore growth. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 143:10, 104703.
- Wang, H., Hou, B., Wang, X., Xia, S., Chew, H.B, (2015). Atomic-scale mechanisms of sliding along an interdiffused Li-Si-Cu interface. Nano letters, 15:3, 1716--1721.
- Wang, H., Wang, X., Li, T., Lee, B., (2014). Transient viscoelasticity study of tobacco mosaic virus/Ba 2+ superlattice. Nanoscale Research Letters, 9:1, 1--11.
- Xu, X., Wang, H., Jiang, L., Wang, X., Payne, S.A, Zhu, J., Li, R., (2014). Comparison between cellulose nanocrystal and cellulose nanofibril reinforced poly (ethylene oxide) nanofibers and their novel shish-kebab-like crystalline structures. Macromolecules, 47:10, 3409--3416.
- Huo, S., Ulven, C.A, Wang, H., Wang, X., (2013). Chemical and mechanical properties studies of Chinese linen flax and its composites. Polymers and Polymer Composites, 21:5, 275--286.
- Wang, H., Wang, X., Li, T., Lee, B., (2013). Nanomechanical characterization of rod-like superlattice assembled from tobacco mosaic viruses. Journal of Applied Physics, 113:2, 024308.
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