• Configurational statistics of macromolecular chains; pattern formation and selection of the soft matter including PDLC and vesicles etc; the self-assembly of polymers.
• Study of the correlations between structure, orientation and motion in polymeric solids by using solid NMR.
• Rheological stability theory of various complex fluids of polymers and its application in polymer processing

1.Yang, Y. L. and Yu, T. Y. ‘Graph-theory of viscoelasticity of polymers with linear and cylic chains’, Makromol. Chem. Rapid Comm. 1984, 5(1), 1-9

2.Yang , Y. L.; Hagemeyer, A.; Zemke, K. and Spiess, H. W. ‘Rotor Synchronized 3D-13C MAS NMR - Correlation between Molecular Structure, Order and Dynamics in Solids’, J. Chem. Phys. 1990, 93, 7740-7750

3.He, J. P.; Zhang, H. D.; Chen, J. M. and Yang, Y. L. ‘Monte Carlo Simulation of Kinetics and Chain Length Distributions in Living Free-Radical Polymerization’, Macromolecules, 1997, 30 (25), 8010-8018

4.Yang, Y. L. ‘Graph theory of viscoelastic and configurational properties of Gaussian chains (Feature Article)’ Macromol. Theory Simul. 1998, 7, 521-549

5.Zhang,  Z. L.; Zhang, H. D.; Yang, Y. L.; Vinckier, I. and Laun, H. M. ‘Rheology and Morphology of Phase-Separating Polymer Blends’, Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 1416-1429

6.Wang, J. F.; Wang, Z. G. and Yang, Y. L. ‘Nature of Disordered Micelles in Sphere-Forming Block CopolymerMelts’, Macromolecules, 2005, 38, 1979-1988

7.Yang, Y. L.; Zhang, H. D.; and Qiu, F. ‘Threading-unthreading equilibrium in solution of molecular nanotubes and linear flexible polymer chains’, J. Chem. Phys. 2005, 122, 084908

8.Wang, J. F.; Guo, K. K.; Qiu, F.; Zhang, H. D. and Yang, Y. L. ‘Predicting shapes of polymer-chain-anchored fluid vesicles’, Phys. Rev. E, 2005, 71, 041908

9.Song, W. D.; Tang, P.; Zhang, H. D.; Yang, Y. L. and Shi, A. C. ‘New Numerical Implementation of Self-Consistent Field Theory for Semiflexible Polymers’, Macromolecules, 2009, 42, 6300-6309

10.Yang, Y. Z.; Qiu, F.; Zhang, H. D.; Yang, Y. L. The Rouse Dynamic Properties of Dendritic Chains: A Graph Theoretical Method, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 4008-4022  

Monograph  Yang Y L，Zhang H D，1993， Monte Carlo Methods in Polymer Science，Fudan University Press 

• First Prize for S&T Progress from China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (2010)
• Outstanding Scientist Award of Qiushi (2008)
• S&T Progress Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2007)
• Second-grade prize for National S&T Progress (2004)
• First Prize for S&T Progress from China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (2003)
• First-grade prize for S&T Progress from the Ministry of Education (1999)