Publications

Rui He, Manish Neupane, Xiaozhou Huang, Crystal Bowers, Gustavo Guedes, Zachary T. Messegee, Yingchao Yang*, and Pei Dong*, “Surface Modification Strategy for Fine-Tuning Wood-Converted Carbon Electrodes for Energy-Efficient Water Desalination”, Submitted to ACS Appl. Interface Mater. 2024.

Zhigong Song, Boyu Zhang, Yingchao Yang, Guanhui Gao, Qiyi Fang, Youtian Zhang, Bongki Shin, Doug Steinbach, Qing Ai, Xuan Zhao, Yimo Han, Nitin P. Padture, Brian Sheldon, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Huajian Gao, and Jun Lou, “Fracture of Van der Waals Materials: Flaw-size Induced Mechanical Interlayer Coupling and Edge-Reconstruction Embrittlement”, Under Revision with Nat. Mater. 2024. (Zhigong, Boyu, and Yingchao contributed equally.)

Akhter Zia, Manish Neupane, Aidan McGlone, Rui He, Ruikun Xin, Yifeng Liu, Qiangu Yan, Jinwu Wang, Ling Li, Zhiyong Cai, Pei Dong, and Yingchao Yang*, “Coupling Metal-Organic Frameworks and Biomass-based Carbon for Water Remediation”, Nano Res. 2024.

Nuzhat Maisha, Olugbenga Ogunbiyi, Guanhui Gao, Mingyuan Sun, Alexander Puretzky, Bo Li, and Yingchao Yang*, “Synthesis and Growth Mechanism of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Close-Packed Silica”, J. Crystal Growth. 2024, 634,127685

Drew M. Glenna, Asmita Jana, Qiang Xu, Yixiao Wang, Yuqing Meng, Yingchao Yang, Manish Neupane, Lucun Wang, Haiyan Zhao, Jin Qian, and Seth W. Snyder, “Carbon Capture: Theoretical Guidelines for Activated Carbon-Based CO2 Adsorption Material Evaluation”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14 (47), 10693-10699.

Yuan Tian, Zoe Benedict, Fanxing Li, Yingchao Yang, Debtanu Maiti, Yixiao Wang, and Rebecca Fushimi, “Carbon-Assisted, Continuous Syngas Production in a Chemical Looping Scheme”, Top. Catal. 2023, 66, 1581-1593.

Jia Liang, Yingchao Yang, Jing Zhang, Pei Dong, and Jun Lou, “Ultrasmall CoSe2 Nanoparticles Grown on MoS2 Nanofilms: A New Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, Phys. Status Solidi Rapid Res. Lett. 2023, 2300169.

Min Wang, Wei Wu, Yingqian Lin, Wei Tang, Guanhui Gao, Haixia Li, Fredrick F. Steweart, Lu-Cun Wang, Yingchao Yang*, and Dong Ding*, “Improved Solid-State Reaction Method for Scaled-Up Synthesis of Ceramic Proton-Conducting Electrolyte Materials”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6 (15), 8316-8326.

Manish Neupane, Qiangu Yan, Rui He, Rihab Masmoudi, Yifeng Liu, Zoe Bededict, Jinwu Wang, Carl Tripp, Pei Dong, Zhiyong Cai, and Yingchao Yang*, “Sodium-Dictated Free-Standing Lignin-Carbon towards Ultrahigh Capacitance”, Batter. Supercaps. 2023, 2300193. (Cover Feature)

Qing He, Rui He, Akhter Zia, Guanhui Gao, Yifeng Liu, Manish Neupane, Min Wang, Zoe Benedict, Karrar K. Al-Quraishi, Ling Li, Pei Dong*, and Yingchao Yang*, “Self-Promoting Energy Storage in Balsa Wood-Converted Porous Carbon Coupled with Carbon Nanotubes”, Small, 2022, 2200272.

Rui He, Manish Neupane, Akhter Zia, Xiaozhou, Huang, Crystal Bowers, Min Wang, Jun Lu, Yingchao Yang*, and Pei Dong*, “Binder-free Wood Converted Carbon for Enhanced Water Desalination Performance”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 2208040.

Min Wang, Lucun Wang, Haixia Li, Wei Wu, Guanhui Gao, Fanglin Chen, Yingchao Yang*, and Dong Ding*, “Nanostructured Carbon as Highly Efficient and Stable Anodes for Ethylene Production and Power Generation in Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells”, Carbon, 2022, 199, 379-386.

Yingchao Yang, Zhigong Song, Guangyuan Lu, Qinghua Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Chao Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Lin Gu, Xiaoming Xie, Huajian Gao, and Jun Lou, “Intrinsic Toughening and Stable Crack Propagation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride”, Nature, 2021, 594, 57–61.

Ling Li, Yongjiang Zhang, Abigayl Novak, Yingchao Yang, and Jinwu Wang, “Role of Biochar in Improving Sandy Soil Water Retention and Resilience to Drought”, Water, 2021, 13(4), 407.

Song, Ningning, Chen, Ruoxi, Yingchao Yang*, and Xiaodong Li*, “Size and Crystal Orientation-dependent Thermal Behaviors of ZnO Nanobelts“, J. Phys. Chem. C. 2020, 124(49), 27222–27229.

Lu, Wang, Douglas Gardner, Jinwu, Wang, Yingchao Yang, Halil Tekinalp, Mehdi Tajvidi, Kai Li, Xianhui Zhao, David Neivandt, Yousoo Han, Soydan Ozcan, and James Anderson, “Towards the Scale-up Production of Cellulose Nanocomposites Using Melt Processing: A Critical Review on Structure-Processing-Property Relationships”, Compos. B Eng. 2020, 201(15), 108297.

Karrar K. Al-Quraishi, Qing He, Wesley Kauppila, Min Wang, and Yingchao Yang*, “Mechanical Testing of Monolayer 2D Materials: A Brief Review”, Int. J. Smart Nano Mater. 2020, 11, 207-246. DOI: 1080/19475411.2020.1791276.

Chao Wang, Yushun Zhao, Yong Zhang, Linlin Miao, Jianyang Wu, Yingchao Yang, Chao Sui, Qingyu Peng, and Xiaodong He, “Partially Unzipping CarbonNanotubes: A Route to Synchronously Improve Fracture Strength and Toughness of Nanocomposites Inspired by Pinning Effect of Screw”, Mater. Today Commun. 2020, 25, 101355.

Karrar K. Al-Quraishi, Min Wang, Jia Liang, Song Jia, Wesley Kauppila, Jing Wang, and Yingchao Yang*, “Strengthening the Interface between Aramid Fibers and Polymer at Room and Elevated Temperatures”, Mater. Today Commun. 2020, 24, 101254.

Zhenxing Cao, Zhigong Song, Fengzhi Liang, Xiaoguang An, Karrar K. Al-Quraishi, Min Wang, Jianchao Chen, Dong Ding, and Yingchao Yang*, “Hydrogen Bonding Sewing Interfaces”, RSC Advances, 2020,10, 17438-17443.

Hanping Ding, Shumin Fang, Yingchao Yang, Yating Yang, Wei Wu, and Zetian Tao, “Electricity Generation in Dry Methane by a Durable Ceramic Fuel Cell with High-Performing and Coking-Resistant Layered Peroskite Anode”, Appl. Energy, 2019, 233-234, 37-43.

Hanping Ding, Shumin Fang, Yingchao Yang, Yating Yang, Wei Wu, and Zetian Tao, “High-performing and Stable Electricity Generation by Ceramic Fuel Cells Operating in Dry Methane over 1000 Hours”, J. Power Sources, 2018, 401, 322-328.

Emily Hacopian, Yingchao Yang, Bo Ni, Yilun Li, Xing Li, Qing Chen, Hua Guo, James Tour, Huajian Gao, and Jun Lou, “Toughening Graphene by Integrating Carbon Nanotubes”, ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (8), 7901-7910. (*Emily, Yingchao, and Bo contribute equally)

Chao Sui, Yingchao Yang, Robert Headrick, Zixuan Pan, Jianyang Wu, Jing Zhang, Shuai Jia, Xinwei Li, Weilu Gao, Oliver Dewey, Chao Wang, Xiaodong He, Junichiro Kono, Matteo Pasquali, Jun Lou, “Directional Sensing Based on Flexible Aligned Carbon Nanotube Film Nanocomposites”, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 14938-14946. (*Chao, Yingchao, and Robert contribute equally)

Chao Sui, Zixuan Pan, Robert J. Headrick, Yingchao Yang, Chao Wang, Jiangtan Yuan, Xiaodong He, Matteo Pasquali, Jun Lou, “Aligned-SWCNT Film Laminated Nanocomposites: Role of the Film on Mechanical Reinforcement”, Carbon, 2018, 139, 680-687.

Peter Samora Owuor, Thierry Tsafack, Himani Agrawal, Hye Yoon Hwang, Matthew Zelisko, Tong Li, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Jun Hyoung Park, Yingchao Yang, Anthony S. Stender, Sehmus Ozden, Jarin Joyner, Robert Vajtai, Benny A. Kaipparettu, Bingqing Wei, Jun Lou, Pradeep Sharma, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Poly-albumen: Bio-derived Structural Polymer from Polymerized Egg White”, Today Chem., 2018, 9, 73-79.

Hui Xu, Jianjian Yi, Xiaojie, She, Qin Liu, Li Song, Shuangming Chen, Yingchao Yang, Yanhua Song, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, Huaming Li, Shouqi Yuan, Jingjie Wu, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “2D heterostructure comprised of metallic 1T-MoS2/Monolayer O-g-C3N4towards efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution”, Appl. Catal. B, 2018, 220, 379-385.

Yang Liu, Chenglu Liang, Jingjie Wu, Tiva Sharifi, Hui Xu, Yusuke Nakanishi, Yingchao Yang, Cristiano F. Woellne, Amir Aliyan, Angel A. Martí, Banghu Xie, Robert Vajtai, Wei Yang, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Atomic Layered Titanium Sulfide Quantum Dots as Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces. 2017, 5 (1), 1700895.

Yingchao Yang, Nam Dong Kim, Vikas Varshney, Sangwook Sihn, Yilun Li, Ajit K. Roy, James M. Tour, and Jun Lou, “In Situ Mechanical Investigation of Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Junction in Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures”, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 2916-2924.

Yingchao Yang, Cristina Ramirez, Zhixing Guo, Anton Tokranov, Xing Wang, Izabela Szlufarska, Jun Lou, and Brian W. Sheldon, “Impact of Carbon Nanotube Defects on Fracture Mechanisms in Ceramic Nanocomposites”, Carbon, 2017, 115, 402-408.

Yingchao Yang, Xing Li, Minru Wen, Emily Hacopian, Weibing Chen, Yongji Gong, Jing Zhang, Bo Li, Wu Zhou, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Qing Chen, Ting Zhu, and Jun Lou, “Brittle Fracture of 2D MoSe2”, Adv. Mater. 2017, 29 (2), 1604201.

Xinlu Li, Yingchao Yang, Yujie Zhao, Jun Lou, Xiyu Zhao, Ronghua Wang, Qinghua Liang, and Zhenghong Huang, “Electrospinning Fabrication and In Situ Mechanical Investigation of Individual Graphene Nanoribbon Reinforced Carbon Nanofiber”, Carbon, 2017, 114, 717-723. (*Xinlu and Yingchao contribute equally)

Xin Liang, Yingchao Yang, Jun Lou, and Brian W. Sheldon, “The Impact of Core-Shell Nanotube Structures on Fracture in Ceramic Nanocomposites”, Acta Mater. 2017, 122, 82-91.

Zhe Fan, Jin Li, Yingchao Yang, Jian Wang, Qiang Li, Sichuang Xue, Haiyan Wang, Jun Lou, and Xinhang Zhang, “Ductile” Fracture of Metallic Glass Nanolaminates, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 4 (21), 1700510.

Li-Chuan Jia, Ding-Xiang Yan, Yingchao Yang, Dong Zhou, Cheng-Hua Cui, Jun Lou, Bo Li, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Zhong-Ming Li, “High Strain Tolerant EMI Shielding Using Carbon Nanotube Network Stabilized Rubber Composite”, Adv. Mater. Tech. 2017, 2 (7), 1700078.

Guangyuan Lu, Tianru Wu, Peng Yang, Yingchao Yang, Zehua Jin, Weibing Chen, Shuai Jia, Haomin Wang, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Jun Lou, Xiaoming Xie, and Mianheng Jiang, “Synthesis of High-Quality Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayer In-Plane Heterostructure on Cu-Ni Alloy”, Adv. Sci. 2017, 4 (9), 1700076.

Yuanyue Liu, Jingjie Wu, Ken P. Hackenberg, Jing Zhang, Morris Y. Wang, Yingchao Yang, Kuttal Keyshar, Jing Gu, Tadashi Ogitsu, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, Pulickel Ajayan, Brandon C. Wood, and Boris I. Yakobson, “Self-Optimizing, Highly Surface-Active Layered Metal Dichalcogenide Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution”, Nat. Energy. 2017, 6, 17127.

Jingjie Wu, Lulu Ma, Atanu Samanta, Mingjie Liu, Bo Li, Yingchao Yang, Jiangtan Yuan, Jing Zhang, Yongji Gong, Jun Lou, Robert Vajtai, Boris Yakobson, Abhishek Singh, ChandraSekhar Tiwary, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Growth of Molybdenum Carbide-Graphene Hybrids from Molybdenum Disulfide Atomic Layer Template”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces. 2017, 4 (4), 1600866.

Mingyang Liu, Luqing Wang, Linan Zhou, Sidong Lei, Jarin Joyner, Yingchao Yang, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Boris Yakobson, and Pol Spanos, “Characterization of Tin (II) Sulfide Defects/Vacancies and Correlation with Their Photocurrent”, Nano Res. 2017, 10 (1), 218-228.

Xiaojie She, Jingjie Wu, Hui Xu, Jun Zhong, Yan Wang, Yanhua Song, Kaiqi Nie, Yang Liu, Yingchao Yang, Marco-Tulio F. Rodrigues, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, Daolin Du, Huaming Li, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “High Efficiency Photocatalytic Water Splitting Using Two-Dimensional α-Fe2O3/g-C3N4 Z-Scheme Catalysts”, submitted to Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7 (17), 1700025.

Yingchao Yang, Weibing Chen, Emily Hacopian, Pei Dong, Anqi Sun, Lijie Ci, and Jun Lou, “Unveil Size-Dependent Mechanical Behaviors of Individual CNT/SiC Composite Nanofibers by In Situ Tensile Tests in SEM”, Small, 2016, 12 (33), 4486-4491.

Yingchao Yang, Charlotte Flatebo, Jia Liang, Pei Dong, Jiangtan Yuan, Tianxiao Wang, Jing Zhang, Weibing Chen, Jingjie Wu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Lijie Ci, Qilin Li, and Jun Lou, “Towards Methyl Orange Degradation by Sunlight from Coupled TiO2 and Activated Cotton T-Shirt”, Appl. Mater. Today, 2016, 3, 57-62.

Jing Zhang, Yingchao Yang, and Jun Lou, “Investigation of Hexagonal Boron Nitride as an Atomically Thin Corrosion Passivation Coating in Aqueous Solution”, Nanotechnology, 2016, 27 (36), 364004.

Minglin Li, Yaling Wan, Liping Tu, Yingchao Yang, and Jun Lou, “The Effect of VMoS3 Point Defect on the Elastic Properties of Monolayer MoS2 with REBO Potentials”, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2016, 11, 155.

Pei Dong, Alin Cristian Chipara, Phillip Loya, Yingchao Yang, Liehui Ge, Sidong Lei, Bo Li, Gustavo Brunetto, Leonardo D. Machado, Liang Hong, Qizhong Wang, Bilan Yang, Douglas S. Galvao, Robert Vajtai, Mircea Chipara, Ming Tang, Jun Lou, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “A Solid-liquid Self-Adaptive Composite”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016,8 (3), 2142-2147.

Bo Li,Yongji Gong, Zhili Hu, Gustavo Brunetto, Yingchao Yang, Gonglan Ye, Zhuhua Zhang, Sidong Lei, Zehua Jin, Elisabeth Bianco, Xiang Zhang, Weipeng Wang, Jun Lou, Douglas S. Galvão, Ming Tang, Boris Yakobson, Robert Vajtai, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Solid Vapor Reaction Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 128, 10814-10819.

Xiaojie She, Jingjie Wu, Jun Zhong, Hui Xu, Yingchao Yang, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, Yang Liu, Daolin Du, Huaming Li, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Oxygenated Monolayer Carbon Nitride for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution”, Nano Energy 2016, 27, 138-146.

Jingjie Wu, Mingjie Liu, Pranav Sharma, Ram Yadav, Lulu Ma, Yingchao Yang, Xiaolong Zou, Xiao-Dong Zhou, Robert Vajtai, Boris Yakobson, Jun Lou, and Pulickel Ajayan, “Incorporation of Nitrogen Defects for Efficient Reduction of CO2 via Two-Electron Pathway on Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam”, Nano Lett. 2016,16 (1), 466-470.

Jingjie Wu, Zhili Hu, Zehua Jin, Sidong Lei, Hua Guo, Kuntal Chatterjee, Yingchao Yang, Bo Li, Robert Vajtai, Boris Yakobson, Ming Tang, Jun Lou, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Spiral Growth of SnSe2 Crystals by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 3 (9), 1600383.

Yongmin He, Sidong Lei, Ali Sobhani, Zhuhua Zhang, Yongji Gong, Wu Zhou, Yingchao Yang, Yuan Zhang, Xifan Wang, Boris Yakobson, Robert Vajtai, Naomi J. Halas, Bo Li, Erqing Xie, and Pulickel Ajayan, “Layer Engineering of 2D Semiconductor Junctions”, Adv. Mater. 2016, 28 (25), 5126-5132.

Jingjie Wu, Mingjie Liu, Kuntal Chatterjee, Ken Hanckenberg, Jianfeng Shen, Xiaolong Zou, Yong Yan, Jing Gu, Yingchao Yang, Jun Lou, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, “Exfoliated Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Disulfides for Enhanced Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Medium”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 3 (9), 1500669.

Yongmin He, Yang Yang, Zhuhua Zhang, Yongji Gong, Wu Zhou, Gonglan Ye, Xiang Zhang, Sidong Lei, Zehua Jin, Xiaolong Zou, Yingchao Yang, Yuan Zhang, Erqing Xie, Jun Lou, Boris Yakobson, Robert Vajtai, Bo Li, and Pulickel Ajayan, “Strain Induced Electronic Structure Changes in Stacked van der Waals Heterostructures”, Nano Lett. 2016, 16 (5), 3314-3320.

Yingchao Yang, Xin Liang, Weibing Chen, Linlin Cao, Minglin Li, Brian Sheldon, and Jun Lou, “Quantification and Promotion of Interfacial Interactions between Carbon Nanotubes and Polymer Derived Ceramics”, Carbon, 2015, 95, 964-971.

Jia Liang, Yingchao Yang, Jing Zhang, Jingjie Wu, Pei Dong, Jiangtan Yuan, Pulikel Ajayan, Gengmin Zhang, and Jun Lou, “Metal Diselenide Nanoparticles as Highly Active and Stable Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 14813-14816.

Jingjie Wu, Lulu Ma, Ram Manohar Yadav, Yingchao Yang, Xiang Zhang, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, and Pulickel M Ajayan, “Nitrogen-Doped Graphene with Pyridinic Dominance as a Highly Active and Stable Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (27), 14763-14769.

Jiangtan Yuan, Jingjie Wu, Will Hardy, Philip Loya, Minhan Lou, Yingchao Yang, Sina Najmaei, Menglei Jiang, Kunttal Keyshar, Heng Ji, Weilu Gao, Junichiro Kono, Douglas Natelson, Pulickel Ajayan, and Jun Lou, “Facile Synthesis of Single Crystal Vanadium Disulfide Nanosheets by Chemical Vapor Deposition for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, Adv. Mater. 2015, 27 (37), 5605-2609.

Jianfeng Shen, Yongmin He, Jingjie Wu, Caitian Gao, Kunttal Keyshar, Xiang Zhang, Yingchao Yang, Mingxin Ye, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, and Pulickel M Ajayan, “Liquid Phase Exfoliation of Two-Dimensional Materials by Directly Probing and Matching Surface Tension Components”, Nano Lett. 2015, 15 (8), 5449-5454.

Bo Li, Yongmin He, Sidong Lei, Sina Najmaei, Yongji Gong, Xin Wang, Jing Zhang, Lulu Ma, Yingchao Yang, Sanghyun Hong, Ji Hao, Gang Shi, Antony George, Kunttal Keyshar, Xiang Zhang, Pei Dong, Liehui Ge, Robert Vajtai, Jun Lou, Yung Joon Jung, and Pulickel M Ajayan, “Scalable Transfer of Suspended Two Dimensional Single Crystals”, Nano Lett. 2015, 15 (8), 5089-5097.

Jia Liang, Gengmin Zhang, Yingchao Yang, and Jing Zhang, “Highly Ordered Hierarchical TiO2 Nanotube Arrays for Flexible Fiber-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 19841-19847.

Jia Liang, Genmin Zhang, Jianbo Yin, and Yingchao Yang, “Transparent, 3-Dimensional Light-Collected, and Flexible Fiber-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Highly Ordered Hierarchical Anatase TiO2 Nanorod Arrays”, J. Power Sources 2014, 272, 719-729.

Kaiyuan Li, Yingchao Yang, Zhanjun Gu, Gyula Eres, Jane Y. Howe, Litong Zhang, Xiaodong Li, and Zhengwei Pan, “Approaching Carbon Nanotube Reinforcing Limit in B4C Matrix Composites Produced by Chemical Vapor Infiltration”, Adv. Eng. Mater. 2014, 16(2), 161-166.

Xiaoxu Chen, Hongyuan Cai, Qunwei Tang, Yingchao Yang, and Benlin He, “Solar Photocatalysts from Gd-La Codoped TiO2 Nanoparticles”, J. Mater. Sci. 2014, 49, 3371-3378.

Wanlu Yang, Zan Gao, Ningning Song, Yunya Zhang, Yingchao Yang, and Jun Wang, “Synthesis of Hollow Polyaniline Nano-Capsules and Their Supercapacitor Application”, J. Power Sources 2014, 272, 915-921.

Yingchao Yang, William Rigdon, Xinyu Huang, and Xiaodong Li, “Enhancing Graphene Reinforcing Potential in Composites by Hydrogen Passivation Induced Dispersion”, Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2086.

Eric McDaniel, Ivana Chen, Erika Balogh, Yingchao Yang, and Soumitra Ghoshroy, “Structural Analysis of Plants Exposed to Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles”, Microanal. 2013, 19, 104.

Jun Du, Yingchao Yang, Zheng Fan, Yang Xia, Xuejuan Cheng, Yongping Gan, Hui Hang, Lixin Dong, Xiaodong Li, Wenkui Zhang, and Xinyong Tao, “Biotemplating Fabrication, Mechanical and Electrical Characterization of NbC Nanowire Arrays from the Bamboo Substrate”, J. Alloy Compd. 2013, 560, 142-146.

Lin Lin, Yingchao Yang, Long Men, Xin Wang, Dannong He, Yuchao Chai, Bin Zhao, Soumitra Ghoshroy, and Qunwei Tang, “A Highly Efficient TiO2@ZnO n-p-n Heterojunction Nanorod Photocatalyst”, Nanoscale 2013, 5(2), 588-593.

Lin Lin, Yuchao Chai, Yingchao Yang, Xin Wang, Dannong He, Qunwei Tang, and Soumitra Ghoshroy, “Hierarchical Gd-La Codoped TiO2 Microspheres as Robust Photocatalysts”, Int.  J. Hydrogen Energy. 2013, 38(6), 2634-2640.

Xianming Dai, Xinyu Huang, Fanghao Yang, Xiaodong Li, Joshua Sightler, Yingchao Yang, and Chen Li, “Enhanced Nucleate Boiling on the Horizontal Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Carbon Nanotube Coatings”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 2013, 102 (16), 161605.

Yingchao Yang, Zhi-Hui Xu, Zhengwei Pan, and Xiaodong Li, “Hydrogen Passivation Induced Dispersion of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24(7), 881-885.

Yingchao Yang, Yuping He, Yiping Zhao, and Xiaodong Li, “Mechanically Robust Si Nanorod Arrays on Cu/Ti Bilayer Film Coated Si Substrate for High Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes”, J. Appl. Phys. 2012, 112(10), 045222.

Yingchao Yang, Guofeng Wang, and Xiaodong Li, “Water Molecule-Induced Stiffening in ZnO Nanobelts”, Nano Lett. 2011, 11(7), 2845-2848.

Zhi-Hui Xu, Yingchao Yang, Zaiwang Huang, and Xiaodong Li, “Elastic Modulus of Biopolymer Matrixi Nacre Measured Using Coupled Atomic Force Microscopy Bending and Inverse Finite Element Techniques”, Mat. Sci. Eng. C-Mater 2011, 31(8), 1852-1856.

Zhanjun Gu, Yingchao Yang, Kaiyuan Li, Xinyong Tao, Gyula Eres, Jane Y. Howe, Litong Zhang, Xiaodong Li, and Zhengwei Pan, “Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Silicon Carbide Composites Produced by Chemical Vapor Infiltration”, Carbon 2011, 49(7), 2475-2482.

Xinyong Tao, Jun Du, Yingchao Yang, Yiping Li, Yang Xia, Yongping Gan, Hui Huang, Wenkui Zhang, and Xiaodong Li, “TiC Nanorods Derived from Cotton Fibers: Chloride-Assisted VLS Growth, Structure, and Mechanical Properties”, Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11(10), 4422-4426.

Xinyong Tao, Jun Du, Yiping Li, Yingchao Yang, Zheng Fan, Yongping Gan, Hui Huang, Wenkui Zhang, Lixin Dong, and Xiaodong Li, “TaC Nanowire/Activated Carbon Microfiber Hybrid Structures from Bamboo Fibers”, Adv. Energ. Mater. 2011, 1(4), 534-539.

Xinyong Tao, Yiping Li, Jun Du, Yang Xia, Yingchao Yang, Hui Huang, Yongping Gan, Wenkui Zhang, and Xiaodong Li, “A Generic Bamboo-Based Carbothermal Method for Preparing Carbide (SiC, B4C, TiC, TaC, NbC, TixNb1-xC, and TaxNb1-xC) Nanowires”, J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21(25), 9095-9102.

Zhi-Hui Xu, Yingchao Yang, Peng Huang, and Xiaodong Li, “Determination of Interfacial Properties of Thermal Barrier Coatings by Shear Test and Inverse Finite Element Method”, Acta Mater. 2010, 58(18), 5972-5979.