Publication

Jingyao Dai, Alisa Webb, Carina Xiaochen Li, Talia Powell, Palak Patel, Christopher Kwon, Shaan Jagani, Shweta Sharma, Yuying Lin, Kwasi Asamoah-Addo, Justin Griffin, Stephen A. Steiner III, Nghia T. Vo,  and Brian L. Wardle. "In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Microtomography of Void Evolution During Nanoporous Network-Enabled Out-of-Autoclave Manufacturing of Aerospace-Grade Woven Composite Laminates." At the ICCM24-International Conference on Composite Materials. 2025

Luiz H. Acauan, Shaan A. Jagani, Jingyao Dai, Ilya Avros, Hillel Dei, Nyvia Lyles, Shigeo Maruyama, Rong Xiang, and Brian L. Wardle. "Optically-transparent epoxy polymer nanocomposites reinforced with aligned boron nitride nanotubes." Composites Part B (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2025.112773  

Jae-Moon Jeong, Jingyao Dai, Luiz H. Acauan, Kwang Il Jeong, Jeonyoon Lee, Carina Xiaochen Li, Hyunsoo Hong, Brian L. Wardle, and Seong Su Kim. "Aligned Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposite Bipolar Plates Technology for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries." Energy & Environmental Materials (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.70030 

Brian L. Wardle, Luiz H. Acauan, Jingyao Dai, Jeonyoon Lee, Ashley Louise Kaiser, Erick Gonzalez, Chloe Curtis-Smith, Xiaochen Li, and Yuying Lin. "Bulk nanocomposite materials and methods for making these." U.S. Patent Application 18/862,237, filed June 5, 2025. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250178325A1/ 

Yuying Lin, Carina Xiaochen Li, Erick Gonzalez, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication of High Volume Fraction Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Nanocomposite Laminates." In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, p. 0769. 2025 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-0769 

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Fracture Toughness Measurement for B4C Composites with Hierarchical Microstructures: Comparison of Micro-indentation and Four-Point Bending Methods." Journal of Testing and Evaluation 52.5 (2024): 2967-2981. https://doi.org/10.1520/JTE20240089 

Jae-Moon Jeong, Jingyao Dai, Luiz H. Acauan, Hyunsoo Hong, Brian L. Wardle, and Seong Su Kim. "Fabrication and Characterization of Horizontally Aligned CNT Nanocomposites via Knocking Down Process." Composites Research 37.5 (2024): 369-374. https://doi.org/10.7234/composres.2024.37.5.369 

Shaan A. Jagani, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication and Processing of Aligned Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes for Nanocomposite Systems." In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, p. 1005. 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1005  

Jingyao Dai, Alisa Webb, Jeonyoon Lee, Kwasi Asamoah-Addo, Justin Griffin, Steven Steiner, and Brian L. Wardle. "Investigation of Void Removal Behavior during Nanoporous Network Enabled Out of Autoclave Manufacturing of Void-free Aerospace-grade Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Composites." In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, p. 1219. 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-1219 

Carina Xiaochen Li, Erick Gonzalez, Aniruddha Ghosh, Yuying Lin, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, and Brian L. Wardle. "Multifunctionality of High Volume Fraction Aligned Carbon-Nanotube/Bismaleimide Nanocomposite Laminates." In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, p. 0764. 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-0764 

Palak B. Patel, Steven D. Kim, Jingyao Dai, Jarrod Buffy, Joseph H. Koo, and Brian L. Wardle. "Aligned Carbon Nanotube Polysiloxane Nanocomposite Laminate for Thermal Protection Systems." In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, p. 0763. 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-0763 

Yuying Lin, Carina Xiaochen Li, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube/Poly(methyl) Methacrylate Nanocomposite Laminates." At the 38th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites. 2023. Link

Jingyao Dai, Luiz H. Acuan, Shaan A. Jagani, Palak B. Patel, and Brian L. Wardle. "Silicon Oxycarbide Nanocomposite Laminates Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes of High Degree of Alignment and Ultrahigh Packing Density." At the 38th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites. 2023. Link

Steven Serrano, Palak B. Patel, Carina Xiaochen Li, Jingyao Dai, Marianna Rogers, Erick Gonzalez, Carolina Furtado, Yeajin Lee, Pedro Campo, Katy Rankin, Philip Basford, Masayuki Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Pedro Camanho, Mark Mavrogordato, Ian Sinclair, S. Mark Spearing, and Brian L. Wardle. "Synchrotron Radiation 3D Computed Tomography of In Situ Mode I Testing of Carbon Fiber Composites with Carbon Nanotube Interlaminar Reinforcement" At the ICCM23-International Conference on Composite Materials. 2023. Link

Jae-Moon Jeong, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, Kwang Il Jeong, Brian L. Wardle, and Seong Su Kim. "Bipolar Plate Using Horizontally Aligned CNT for High-Performance Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries" At the ICCM23-International Conference on Composite Materials. 2023. Link

Alisa N. Webb, Jingyao Dai, Kwasi Asmoah-Addo, Justin Griffin, Stephen A. Steiner III, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fundamental Study of Nanoporous Network (NPN) Characteristics Enabling Out of Autoclave Manufacturing of Aerospace-Grade Composite Laminates" At the ICCM23-International Conference on Composite Materials. 2023. Link

Shaan Jagani, Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication and Characterization of Horizontally-Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Carbide Nanocomposite Laminates With Ultra-high Nanofiber Volume Fraction" At the ICCM23-International Conference on Composite Materials. 2023. Link

Jingyao Dai, Luiz Acauan, Shaan Jagani, Palak Patel, Veera Panova, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication and characterization of carbon nanotube/Silicon Carbide nanocomposite laminates." In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, p. 2033. 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2033  

Chloe Curtis-Smith, Marianna Rogers, Jingyao Dai, Erick Gonzalez, Carina Xiaochen Li, Yuying Lin, Ashley L. Kaiser, Jeonyoon Lee, and Brian L. Wardle. "Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube/Bismaleimide Nanocomposite Laminates with Ultrahigh Nanofiber Volume Fraction." In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, p. 2031. 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2031  

Jingyao Dai, Alisa Webb, Jeonyoon Lee, Lauren Randaccio, Justin Griffin, Stephen A. Steiner III, and Brian L. Wardle. "Out of Autoclave Manufacturing of Void-free Woven Aerospace-grade Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Composite Laminates Using Capillary Effects of Aerogel Nanoporous Networks." In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, p. 0516. 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-0516 

Jingyao Dai, Evan J. Pineda, Brett A. Bednarcyk, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Micromechanics-based simulation of B4C-TiB2 composite fracture under tensile load." Journal of the European Ceramic Society 42 (14), 6364-6378 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.07.010 

Jingyao Dai, Evan J. Pineda, Brett A. Bednarcyk, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Macro-scale Testing and Micromechanics Modeling of Fracture Behaviors for Boron Carbide Composites with Hierarchical Microstructures." In AIAA SCITECH 2021 Forum, p. 0405. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-0405  

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Toughening of Boron Carbide Composites with Hierarchical Microstructuring." In AIAA SCITECH 2020 Forum, p. 1387. 2020. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-1387  

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Micromechanics-based simulation of B4C-TiB2 composite fracture under tensile load." Journal of the European Ceramic Society 40 (15), 5272-5285 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.05.074 

Jingyao Dai, Wonho Lee, Enrique D. Gomez, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Demonstrating low-temperature sintering of boron carbide powders." International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & Science 1 (4), 178-184 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/ces2.10028 

Shreya Trivedi, Melissa Rudolph, Yagmur Atescan, Jingyao Dai, Kayla Cooley, James H. Adair, Suzanne E. Mohney, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Effect of diazotization and magnetic assembly on CNT dispersion observed with hardness and modulus measurement of their epoxy composite of low CNT volume fraction." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 21, 270 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-019-4697-9 

Mychal P. Spencer, Wonho Lee, Albraa Alsaati, Corey M. Breznak, Ricardo Braga Nogueira Branco, Jingyao Dai, Enrique D. Gomez, Amy Marconnet, Paris von Lockette, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Cold sintering to form bulk maghemite for characterization beyond magnetic properties." International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & Science 1 (3), 119-124 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/ces2.10021 

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Field Assisted Sintering of Nanoporous Boron Carbide with Hierarchical Microstructure." In AIAA SCITECH 2019 Forum, p. 1694. 2019. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-1694  

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Nonbrittle nanopore deformation of anodic aluminum oxide membranes." Journal of the American Ceramic Society 101 (5), 2170-2180 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15367 

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Nanoporous Ceramic Composites for Potential Toughening." In 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference. 2018. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-1641  

Jingyao Dai, Jogender Singh, and Namiko Yamamoto. "The Effect of Nano Pore Size and Porosity on Deformation Behaviors of Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membranes." In SAMPE 2017. Link