Publications

 *    Total publications: 49, including 1 in Scientific Reports, 4 in Advanced Materials, 5              in Nano Letters, 1 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 4 in Carbon, 3 in                Nanoscale, 1 in Small, 2 in Acta Materialia, 2 in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,          3 in Advanced Materials & Interfaces, 1 in Applied Physics Letters, 1 in Journal of                Applied Physics, 1 in Applied Materials Today…                                                                        *    Citations: 817  (Google Scholar on July 1st, 2017)                                                                    *    H-Index: 18 (Google Scholar on July 1st, 2017)

2017

  1. 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.
  2. Yingchao Yang, Cristina Ramirez, Xing Wang, Zhixing Guo, Anton Tokranov, Ruiqi Zhao, Izabela Szlufarska, Jun Lou, and Brian W. Sheldon, “Impact of Carbon Nanotube Defects on Fracture Mechanisms in Ceramic Nanocomposites”, Carbon, 2017, 115, 402-408.
  3. Xinlu Li**, Yingchao Yang**, Yujie Zhao, Jun Lou, Xiyu Zhao, Ronghua Wang, Qinghua Liang, and Zhenghong Huang, “Electrospinning Fabrication and In-SituMechanical Investigation of Individual Graphene Nanoribbon Reinforced Carbon Nanofiber”, Carbon, 2017, 114, 717-723. (**Xinlu and Yingchao contribute equally.)
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Li-Chuan Jia, Ding-Xiang Yan, Yingchao Yang, Dong Zhou, Cheng-Hua Cui, Elisabeth Bianco, Jun Lou, Robert Vajtai, Bo Li, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Zhong-Ming Li, “High Strain Tolerant EMI Shielding Using Carbon Nanotube Network Stabilized Rubber Composite”, Adv. Mater. Tech. 2017, 1700078.
  8. Guangyuan Lu, Tianru Wu, Peng Yang, Yingchao Yang, Zehua Jin, Weibing Chen, Shuai Jia, Haomin Wang, Guanhua Zhang, Julong Sun, 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, 1700076.
  9. 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 Layered Hydrogen Evolution Catalyst with High Basal-Plane Activity”, Nat. Energy. 2017.
  10. 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, 1600866.
  11. 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.
  12. 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-C3N4Z-Scheme Catalysts”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 1700025.

2016

  1. 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-SituTensile Tests in SEM”, Small, 2016, 12 (33), 4486-4491.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Minglin Li, Yaling Wan, Liping Tu, Yingchao Yang, and Jun Lou, “The Effect of VMoS3Point Defect on the Elastic Properties of Monolayer MoS2 with REBO Potentials”, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2016, 11, 155.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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 SnSe2Crystals by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 3 (9), 1600383.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

2015

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

2014

  1. 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.
  2. Jia Liang, Gengmin Zhang, Yingchao Yang, and Jing Zhang, “Highly Ordered Hierarchical TiO2Nanotube Arrays for Flexible Fiber-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”,  J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 19841-19847.
  3. Xiaoxu Chen, Hongyuan Cai, Qunwei Tang, Yingchao Yang, and Benlin He, “Solar Photocatalysts from Gd-La Codoped TiO2Nanoparticles”, J. Mater. Sci. 2014, 49, 3371-3378.
  4. 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 TiO2Nanorod Arrays”, J. Power Sources, 2014, 272, 719-729.
  5. 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.

2013

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Lin Lin, Yuchao Chai, Yingchao Yang, Xin Wang, Dannong He, Qunwei Tang, and Soumitra Ghoshroy, “Hierarchical Gd-La Codoped TiO2Microspheres as Robust Photocatalysts”,  Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 2013, 38(6), 2634-2640.
  5. 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.

2012

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

2011 & before

  1. Yingchao Yang, Guofeng Wang, and Xiaodong Li, “Water Molecule-Induced Stiffening in ZnO Nanobelts”, Nano Lett. 2011, 11(7), 2845-2848.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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”, Mater. Sci. Eng. C-Mater 2011, 31(8), 1852-1856.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

 

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