Lin Yang

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 745, Room 123
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5833
lyang@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Publications

Expertise

X-ray scattering, beamline instrumentation, soft matter physics

Research Activities

• Scanning scattering tomography for imaging plant tissues and other materials
• Component separation for X-ray scattering data
• Automation in X-ray scattering data processing (see py4xs documentaiton)

Education

• Ph.D. 2001: Physics, Rice University
• M.A. 1998: Physics, Rice University
• B.S. 1995: Physics, Beijing University

Selected Publications

• Yang L (2024) X-ray scattering based scanning tomography for imaging and structural characterization of cellulose in plants. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 31:936–947. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600577524004387
• Yang L (2022) Scattering measurements on lipid membrane structures. Small Angle Scattering Part A: Methods for Structural Investigation 385–415. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2022.08.033
• Yang L, Liu J, Chodankar S, et al (2022) Scanning structural mapping at the Life Science X-ray Scattering Beamline. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 29:540–548. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600577521013266
• Yang L, Lazo E, Byrnes J, et al (2021) Tools for supporting solution scattering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 28:1237–1244. https://doi.org/10.1107/s160057752100521x
• Hegde M, Yang L, Vita F, et al (2020) Strong graphene oxide nanocomposites from aqueous hybrid liquid crystals. Nature Communications 11:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14618-0
• Graziano V, Miller L, Yang L (2018) Interpretation of solution scattering data from lipid nanodiscs. Journal of Applied Crystallography 51:157–166. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576717018441
• Song L, Yang L, Meng J, Yang S (2017) Thermodynamics of Hydrophobic Amino Acids in Solution: A Combined Experimental–Computational Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8:347–351. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02673
• Wang S, Fukuto M, Checco A, et al (2011) Role of electrostatic interactions in two-dimensional self-assembly of tobacco mosaic viruses on cationic lipid monolayers. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 358:497–505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2011.03.048
• Yang L, Yang H (2009) Use of a hexapod in diffraction measurements of substrate-supported crystals of organic semiconductors. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 16:788–795. https://doi.org/10.1107/s0909049509037911
• Yang L, Fukuto M (2005) Modulated phase of phospholipids with a two-dimensional square lattice. Physical Review E 72:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.72.010901
• Yang L, Ding L, Huang HW (2003) New Phases of Phospholipids and Implications to the Membrane Fusion Problem. Biochemistry 42:6631–6635. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi0344836
• Yang L, Huang HW (2002) Observation of a Membrane Fusion Intermediate Structure. Science 297:1877–1879. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1074354