2024：

 Tang, Y.^†, Xu, J.^†, Liu, Q., Hu, X., Xue, W., Liu, Z., Lin, Z., Lin, H., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z.^✉, Ma, X.^✉, Wang, J.^✉, Zhong, J.^✉, Wang, D.^✉, Jiang, H.^✉, & Ma, Y.^✉︎  "Advancing haptic interfaces for immersive experiences in the metaverse". Device 2024, 2(6), 100365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100365

 Yang, T., Ma, Y., & Zhang, P.^✉︎ "Dynamical behavior of small-scale buoyant diffusion flames in externally swirling flows". Symmetry, 2024.16(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16030292

 Wang, Z., Chen, Y., Ma, Y., & Wang, J.^✉︎ "Bioinspired stimuli-responsive materials for soft actuators". Biomimetics, 2024, 9(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics9030128

2025：

Jiang, M., Zheng, J., Tang, Y., Liu, H., Yao, Y., Zhou, J., Lin, W., Ma, Y.^✉, Liu, J.^✉, & Zhou, J.^✉ “Retrievable hydrogel networks with confined microalgae for 

efficient antibiotic degradation and enhanced stress tolerance.”Nature Communications 2025, 16(1), 3160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58415-z

  Xue, W., Ren, Y., Tang, Y., Gong, Z., Zhang, T., Chen, Z., Dong, X., Ma, X.^✉, Wang, Z., Xu, H., Zhao, J., & Ma, Y. ^✉ "Interactive wearable digital devices for 

  blind and partially sighted people." Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering 2025, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-025-00170-w

  Yang, T., Ma, Y., & Zhang, P.^✉ "Computational identification and stuart-landau modeling of collective dynamical behaviors of octuple laminar diffusion flame oscillators." Combustion and Flame 2025, 275, 114090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2025.114090

  Ma, Y.^†, Li, X.^†, Ma, X., Choi, C., Kruse, L., Lan, S., & Cynthia Hipwell, M.^✉  "Predictive design of tactile friction for micro/nanostructured haptic surfaces." Communications Materials 2025, 6(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00724-9

2023：

 Pi, Y.^†, Liu, Q.^†, Li, Z., Zhao, D., Zhang, K., Liu, Z., Zhou, B., Lei, I. M., Ma, Y.^✉, & Zhong, J. "Scalable and eco-friendly flexible loudspeakers for distributed human-machine interactions". Npj Flexible Electronics  2023, 7(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-023-00278-9

Chatterjee, S., Ma, Y., Sanghani, A., Cherif, M., Colgate, J. E., & Hipwell, M. C.^✉ "Preferential contamination in electroadhesive touchscreens: Mechanisms, multiphysics model, and solutions". Advanced Materials Technologies 2023, 8(16), 2300213. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202300213

 Liu, J., Liu, Q., Lin, S., Leung, M. Y., Ma, Y., & Tao, X.^✉  "Wearable thermoelectric generators: Materials, structures, fabrications, and applications". Physica Status Solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters 2023, 17(7), 2200502. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.202200502

 Li, Z., Ma, Y., Zhang, K., Wan, J., Zhao, D., Pi, Y., Chen, G., Zhang, J., Tang, W., Lin, L.^✉, & Zhong, J.^✉  "Air Permeable Vibrotactile Actuators for Wearable Wireless Haptics". Advanced Functional Materials 2023, 33(8), 2211146. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202211146

2022：

  Ma, X., Kudtarkar, K., Chen, Y., Cunha, P., Ma, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Qian, X., Hipwell, M. C., Wong, Z. J., & Lan, S.^✉  "Coherent momentum control of forbidden excitons". Nature Communications 2022, 13(1), 6916. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34740-5

 Ma, X., Ma, Y., Cunha, P., Liu, Q., Kudtarkar, K., Xu, D., Wang, J., Chen, Y., Wong, Z. J., Liu, M., Hipwell, M. C., & Lan, S. ^✉︎ "Strategical deep learning for photonic bound states in the continuum". Laser & Photonics Reviews 2022, 16(10), 2100658. https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202100658

 Choi, C.^†, Ma, Y.^† ✉︎, Li, X., Chatterjee, S., Sequeira, S., Friesen, R., Felts, J., Hipwell, M.^✉︎, "Surface Haptic Rendering of Virtual Shapes through Change in   Surface Temperature". Science Robotics 2022, 7(63), eabl4543. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abl4543

 Yu, D.^✉︎, & Ma, Y.  "Investigations of fast vacuum pump-down processes between parallel isothermal disks". IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor  Manufacturing  2022, 35(3), 556–568. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSM.2022.3177697

2021：

Li, X.†, Ma, Y.† ✉︎, Choi, C., Ma, X.,  Chartterjee, S., Hipwell, M.✉︎, “Nanotexture Shape and Surface Energy Impact on Electroadhesive Human-

Machine Interface Performance”. Advanced materials 2021,33(31). DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adma.202008337, 

cover: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202170240

Ma,X. † , Ma, Y. †, Cunha, P.,  Liu, Q., Kudtarkar, K., Xu, D., Wang, J. Liu, M., Hipwell M.C., Lan, S^✉. “A universal deep learning strategy for designing 

high-quality-factor photonic resonances”. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03001. arxiv.org/abs/2105.03001

Boonpuek, P.^†, Ma, Y.^†, Li, X., Choi, C., Hipwell, M., Felts, J.^✉︎, "Evaluation of the Electrowetting Effect on the Interfacial Mechanics Between 

Human Corneocytes and Nano-Asperities". Langmiur 2021, 37(14), 4056–4063. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03170

2020:

Choi, C.^†, Ma, Y.^† ✉︎, Li, X.^†, Hipwell, M.^✉︎, "Fingerpad topography beyond fingerprints: Understanding the Heterogeneity Effect of Finger Topography for

Human-Machine Interface Modeling". ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2020, 13 (2), 3303-3310. http://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c15827

Ma, Y. ^† ✉︎, Ghafari, A. ^†, Wu, Y., Bogy, D.^✉︎, "A Study of the Nanoscale Heat Transfer in the HDD Head–Disk Interface Based on a Static Touchdown 

Experiment". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 2020, 56 (3), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2019.2960262

Li, X.^†, Choi, C.^†, Ma, Y.^† ✉︎, Boonpuek, P., Felts, J., Mullenbach, J., Shultz, C., Colgate, J., Hipwell, M.^✉︎, "Electrowetting: a consideration in electroadhesion". 

IEEE transactions on haptics 2020,13(03), 522-529. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2020.2979439

Cheng, Q., Sakhalkar, S., Ghafari, A., Ma, Y., Bogy, D.^✉︎, "Dependence of nanoscale heat transfer across a closing gap on the substrate material and ambient 

humidity". Applied Physics Letters 2020, 116 (21), 213102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0010286

2019:

Zhong, J. ^† ✉︎, Ma, Y.^†, Song, Y., Zhong, Q., Chu, Y., Karakurt, I., Bogy, D. B., Lin, L.^✉︎, "A Flexible Piezoelectret Actuator/Sensor Patch for Mechanical Human–

Machine Interfaces". ACS nano 2019, 13 (6), 7107-7116. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b02437. Media Coverage by EENews, Sohu, Electronic Products 

and UCB College of Engineering News

Sakhalkar, S., Cheng, Q., Ghafari, A., Ma, Y., Bogy, D.^✉︎, "Numerical and experimental investigation of heat transfer across a nanoscale gap between a 

magnetic recording head and various media". Applied Physics Letters 2019, 115 (22), 223102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5119721

2018 and earlier

Chu, Y., Zhong, J.^✉︎, Liu, H., Ma, Y., Liu, N., Song, Y., Liang, J., Shao, Z., Sun, Y., Dong, Y., "Human pulse diagnosis for medical assessments using a 

wearable piezoelectret sensing system". Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 28 (40), 1803413. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201803413

Ma, Y., Ghafari, A., Budaev, B. V., Bogy, D.^✉︎, "Measurement and simulation of nanoscale gap heat transfer using a read/write head with a contact sensor". 

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 2016, 53 (2), 1-5.https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2016.2604209

Ma, Y., Ghafari, A., Budaev, B., Bogy, D.^✉︎, "Controlled heat flux measurement across a closing nanoscale gap and its comparison to theory". Applied Physics 

Letters 2016, 108 (21), 213105. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4952449

Ma, Y.^✉︎, Xue, S., Peng, J.-P., Bogy, D., "Study of Head-Disk Interface Characterization Using Touchdown Sensor and Electromagnetic Signal in Hard Disk 

Drives". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 2015, 51 (11), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2015.2434371

Zhao, J., Zeng, P.^✉︎, Lei, L., Ma, Y., "Initial guess by improved population-based intelligent algorithms for large inter-frame deformation measurement using 

digital image correlation". Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2012, 50 (3), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2011.10.005

Ma, Y., Deng, D., Li, G., Li, Z., Shi, J., and Suo. S., "A kind of tunnel-dilatation rescue machine": No.201110031767 (Chinese Patent of Invention: 

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