Biography

Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Before joining UAH in 2026, he was a postdoctoral research associate at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. His research program bridges solid mechanics, multiphysics modeling, and advanced electron/scanning probe microscopy to resolve and engineer strength–structure–property relationships across scales. By integrating in-situ experiments with theory, he studies organic semiconductors, nano catalysts, and electrochemically active systems, with the goal of linking nanoscale mechanisms to bulk performance. He is a reviewer of multiple peer-reviewed journals, and a member of SES and MRS.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. 2023
• B. Eng. Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. 2017

Expertise

• Solid Mechanics
• Organic semiconductors
• Electrochemistry

Recent Publications

• Recent Publications

   

  Mechanical Breathing in Organic Electrochromics.

  Xiaokang Wang, Ke Chen, Luize Scalco de Vasconcelos, Jiazhi He, Yung C. Shin, Jianguo Mei*, Kejie Zhao*

  Nature Communications 11, (2020): 211.

  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14047-8

   

  A Continuum Theory of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors of Phase Separation.

  Xiaokang Wang, Kejie Zhao*

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 172, (2023): 105178.

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.105178

   

  Mechanics and Dynamics of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors.

  Xiaokang Wang†, Xixian Yang†, Jianguo Mei, Kejie Zhao*

  Applied Mechanics Reviews 77, 3, (2025): 030801.

  https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068298

   

  Doping Kinetics in Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors: Moving Front Experiments and the Stress Effect.

  Xiaokang Wang, Xuefei Li, Jianguo Mei, Kejie Zhao*

  Extreme Mechanics Letters 54, (2022): 101739.

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101739

   

  Imaging Lattice Strain and Defects in Nanoparticles by 4D-STEM.

  Xiaokang Wang, Chu-Yun Hwang, Qian Chen*

  Microscopy and Microanalysis 32, S1, (2026): ozag053.029.

  https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozag053.029