主要从事介电、铁电、压电功能高分子膜材结构设计与工程应用研究，以第一作者或通讯作者在Nature, Nature Materials(3篇), Nature Communications, Advanced Materials(3篇)等国际期刊上发表论文40余篇，SCI总引用超过6800余次（谷歌学术），其研究成果受到Nature等多家媒体追踪并作为研究亮点进行重点报道，先后获得美国材料研究会博士后奖，美国物理学会三月会议青年科学家提名奖，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学博士后研究优秀奖、中国新锐科技人物卓越影响奖等。多次受美国材料学会、美国陶瓷学会、国际铁电大会、国际先进材料学会等国际会议邀请做特邀报告。同时担任电子元器件关键材料与技术专委会委员和介电高分子复材及应用专委会委员，《先进电介质学报（英文）》青年编委，《Micromachines》杂志客座编辑。目前主持海外人才项目、国自然重大研究计划集成项目子课题、面上项目等。

1       Xiang Yu, et al,  “Large reversible caloric effect in FeRh thin films via a dual-stimulus multicaloric cycle.”Journal of Materiomics 2025, 11, 100960.

2.       Xiang Yu, et al,  “Ultra‐high energy density in cyanoethyl biomass polymers.” Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 34, 2404613.

3.       Yang Liu, et al,   "Electro-thermal actuation in percolative ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites." Nature Materials 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01564-7

4.    Yang Liu, et al,   "Polymer actuation using a Joule-heating-induced ferroelectric phase transition." Nature Materials 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01566-5

5.       Yang Liu, et al,  "Piezoelectric polymers." Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/0471440264.pst427.pub2 

6.       Yang Liu, et al,  " Defects in poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based ferroelectric polymers from a molecular perspective." Applied Physics Reviews 2022, 9, 031306

Before 2021

1.       Yang Liu, et al, “Ferroelectric polymers exhibiting behaviour reminiscent of a morphotropic phase boundary.” Nature 2018, 562, 96-100

2.       Yang Liu, et al, "Chirality-induced relaxor properties in ferroelectric polymers." Nature Materials 2020, 19, 1169-1174 

3.       Yang Liu, et al,  " Structural insight in the interfacial effect in ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites." Advanced Materials 2020, 32, 2005431

4.       Yang Liu, et al,  “Observation of a negative thermal hysteresis in relaxor ferroelectric polymers.” Advanced Functional Materials 2020, 30, 2000648

5.       Yang Liu, et al,  “Ferroelectric polymers exhibiting negative longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient: Progress and prospects.” Advanced Science 2020, 7, 1902468

6.       Yang Liu, et al,  “Large reversible caloric effect in FeRh thin films via a dual-stimulus multicaloric cycle.” Nature Communications 2016, 7, 11614