40 Selected Publications before 2022
123. Qing Zhang, Qihua Huang, Shu-Meng Hao, Shuyi Deng, Qiming He, Zhiqun Lin*, and Yingkui Yang*: Polymers in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Science 2022, 9: 2103798. (Invited, Editors' Choice, Featured on Cover Picture)
122. Yanying Dong, Yonglin Wang, Xiaofang Zhang*, Qi Lai, and Yingkui Yang*: Carbon-based elastic foams supported redox-active covalent organic frameworks for flexible supercapacitors. Chemical Engineering Journal 2022, 449: 137858.
121. Qing Zhang, Yu Dou, Qiming He, Shuyi Deng, Qihua Huang, Shaozhuan Huang, and Yingkui Yang*: Emerging Carbonyl Polymers as Sustainable Electrode Materials for Lithium-free Metal-ion Batteries. Energy & Environmental Materials 2022, 5(4): 1037-1059.
120. Rui Ma, Xun Cui,* Yonglin Wang, Zongying Xiao, Rui Luo, Likun Gao, Zhengnan Wei, and Yingkui Yang*: Pyrolysis-Free Synthesized Single-Atom Cobalt Catalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2022, 10(11): 5918-5924. (Invited, Featured on Back Cover)
119. Qing Zhang, Xun Cui, Shumeng Hao, Qiang Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Huiqiao Li, Zhiqun Lin,* and Yingkui Yang*: Chain engineering of carbonyl polymers for sustainable lithium-ion batteries. Materials Today 2021, 50: 170-198.
118. Xun Cui, Likun Gao, Sheng Lei, Shuang Liang, Jiawei Zhang, Chris D. Sewell, Qian Liu, Zhiqun Lin*, and Yingkui Yang*: Simultaneously Crafting Single-Atomic Fe Sites and Graphitic Layer-Wrapped Fe3C Nanoparticles Encapsulated within Mesoporous Carbon Tubes for Oxygen Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials 2021, 31: 2009197. (Featured on Inside Front Cover, ESI Highly Cited Paper)
117. Xun Cui*, Likun Gao, Rui Ma, Zhengnan Wei, Cheng-Hsin Lu, Zili Li, and Yingkui Yang*: Pyrolysis-Free Covalent Organic Frameworks-Based Materials for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021, 9(37): 20985-21004. (Invited)
116. Qing Zhang, Yi He, Guanyu Lin, Xiaolan Ma, Zongying Xiao, Dean Shi, and Yingkui Yang*: In-situ growth of polyimide nanoarrays onto conductive carbon supports for high-rate charge storage and long-lived metal-free cathodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021, 9(17): 10652-10660. (Featured on Inside Front Cover)
115. Xufei Liu, Peng Mei*, Yu Dou, Rui Luo, Yusuke Yamauchi*, and Yingkui Yang*: Heteroarchitecturing a Novel Three-Dimensional Hierarchical MoO2/MoS2/Carbon Electrode Material for High-Energy and Long-Life Lithium Storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021, 9(22): 13001-13007. (Featured on Inside Front Cover; JMCA HOT Papers)
114. Qian Liu, Zongying Xiao, Xun Cui, Shuyi Deng, QimingHe, Qing Zhang, Zhiqun Lin*, and Yingkui Yang*: Conjugated cyclized-polyacrylonitrile encapsulated carbon nanotubes as core-sheath heterostructured anodes with favorable lithium storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021, 9(11): 6962-6970.
113. Xiaofang Zhang, Zongying Xiao, Xufei Liu, Peng Mei*, and Yingkui Yang*: Redox-Active Polymers as Organic Electrode Materials for Sustainable Supercapacitors. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2021, 147: 111247.
112. Xufei Liu, Xiaofang Zhang, Yu Dou, Peng Mei, Xiaolan Ma, and Yingkui Yang*: Ultrasmall Mo2C nanocrystals embedded in N-doped porous carbons as surface-dominated capacitive anode for lithium-ion capacitors. Chemical Communications 2021, 57(40): 4966-4969.
111. Xun Cui, Yihuang Chen, Meng Zhang, Yeu-Wei Harn, Jiabin Qi, Likun Gao, Zhong Lin Wang, Jinsong Huang, Yingkui Yang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Tailoring Carrier Dynamics in Perovskite Solar Cells via Precise Di-mension and Architecture Control and Interfacial Positioning of Plasmonic Nanoparticles. Energy & Environmental Science 2020, 13(6): 1743-1752. (Featured on Inside Front Cover)
110. Bing Wang, Meng Zhang, Xun Cui, Zewei Wang, Matthew Rager, Yingkui Yang*, Zhong Lin Wang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Unconventional Route to Oxygen Vacancies-Enabled Highly Efficient Electron Extraction and Transport in Perovskite Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59(4): 1611-1618. (Featured on Frontispiece)
109. Xiaofang Zhang, Rui Xiong, Saewon Kang, Yingkui Yang*, and Vladimir V. Tsukruk*: Alternating Stacking of Nanocrystals and Nanofibers into Ultra-Strong Chiral Biocomposite Laminates. ACS Nano 2020, 14(11): 14675-14685.
108. Xun Cui, Sheng Lei, Aurelia Chi Wang, Likun Gao, Qing Zhang, Yingkui Yang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Emerging Covalent Organic Frameworks Tailored Materials for Electrocatalysis. Nano Energy 2020, 70: 104525. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
107. Zhiyong Huang, Xiaoyan Han, Xun Cui, Chengen He, Jinlong Zhang, Xianggang Wang, Zhiqun Lin*, and Yingkui Yang*: Vertically-Aligned VS2 on Graphene as 3D Heteroarchitectured Anode Materials with Capacitance-Dominated Lithium Storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 8(12): 5882-5889. (Featured on Inside Front Cover)
106. XiaofangZhang, Xun Cui, Cheng-Hsin Lu, Hong Li, Qing Zhang, Chengen He, and Yingkui Yang*: Conjugated polyimide-coated carbon nanofiber aerogels in a redox electrolyte for binder-free supercapacitors. Chemical Engineering Journal 2020, 401: 126031.
105. Yulin Jiang, Chengen He, Shengqiang Qiu, Jinlong Zhang, Xianggang Wang, and Yingkui Yang*: Scalable mechanochemical coupling of homogeneous Co3O4 nanocrystals onto in-situ exfoliated graphene sheets for asymmetric supercapacitors. Chemical Engineering Journal 2020, 397: 125503.
104. Hong Li, Xiaofang Zhang, Xiaotao Wang*, Jianye Zhang, and Yingkui Yang*: One-pot solvothermal incorporation of graphene into chain-engineered polyquinones for metal-free supercapacitors. Chemical Communications 2020, 56(76): 11191-11194. (Featured on Outside Front Cover)
103. Sheng Lei, Xun Cui, Xufei Liu, Xiaofang Zhang, Xiaoyan Han, and Yingkui Yang*: Hydrothermally Self-templated Synthesis of Rectangular Polyimide Submicrotubes and Promising Potentials in Electrochemical Energy Storage. Chemical Communications 2020, 56(9): 1429-1432.
102. Zongfeng Sha, Shengqiang Qiu, Qing Zhang, Zhiyong Huang, Xun Cui, Yingkui Yang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: A facile solvothermal polymerization approach to thermoplastic polymer-based nanocomposites as alternative anodes for highperformance lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7(40): 23019-23027.
101. Qing Zhang, Yi He, Peng Mei, Xun Cui, Yingkui Yang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Multi-Functional PEDOT-Engineered Sodium Titanate Nanowires for Sodium-Ion Batteries with Synchronous Improvements in Rate Capability and Structural Stability. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7(33): 19241-19247. (Featured on Inside Front Cover)
100. Xueqin Liu, Yang Wang, Xun Cui, Meng Zhang, Bing Wang, Matthew Rager, Zhu Shu, Yingkui Yang*, Zhen Li*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Enabling Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation and Organics Degradation via a Perovskite Solar Cell-Assisted Semiconducting Nanocomposite Photoanode. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7(1): 165–171.
99. Sheng Lei, Yun Lu, Xiaofang Zhang, Pengyuan Gao, Xun Cui, and Yingkui Yang*: A molecular engineering approach to pore-adjustable nanoporous carbons with narrow distribution for high-performance supercapacitors. Chemical Communications 2019, 55(16): 2305-2308.
98. Shengqiang Qiu, Ran Li, Zhiyong Huang, Zhenjia Huang, Chi Pong Tsui, Chengen He*, Xiaoyan Han, and Yingkui Yang*: Scalable sonochemical synthesis of petal-like MnO2/graphene hierarchical composites for high-performance supercapacitors. Composites Part B 2019, 161: 37-43.
96. Jiawen Ji, Ran Li, Huiyu Li, Yang Shu, Yang Li, Shengqiang Qiu, Chengen He*, and Yingkui Yang*: Phytic acid assisted fabrication of graphene/polyaniline composite hydrogels for high-capacitance supercapacitors. Composites Part B 2018, 155: 132–137.
95. Chengen He, Shengqiang Qiu, Shan Sun, Qing Zhang, Guanyu Lin, Sheng Lei, Xiaoyan Han, and Yingkui Yang*: Electrochemically Active Phosphotungstic Acid Assisted Prevention of Graphene Restacking for High-Capacitance Supercapacitors. Energy & Environmental Materials 2018, 1(2): 88–95.
94. Xun Cui, Peng Xiao, Jing Wang, Ming Zhou, Wenlong Guo, Yang Yang, Yanjie He, Zewei Wang, Yingkui Yang, Yunhuai Zhang*, and Zhiqun Lin*: Highly Branched Metal Alloy Networks with Superior Activities for the Methanol Oxidation Reaction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56(16): 4488–4493.
93. Yun Lu, Cheng-En He, Pengyuan Gao, Shengqiang Qiu, Xiaoyan Han, Dean Shi, Aiqing Zhang and Yingkui Yang*: Simultaneous Polymerization Enabled Facile Fabrication of S-Doped Carbons with Tunable Mesoporosity for High-Capacitance Supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5(45): 23513–23522. (Selected as one of 2017 JMCA HOT Papers)
92. Ran Li, Chengen He, Long Cheng, Guanyu Lin, Guocheng Wang*, Dean Shi, Robert Kowk-Yiu Li, and Yingkui Yang*: Polyoxometalate-Enabled Photoreduction of Graphene Oxide to Bioinspired Nacre-Like Composite Films for Supercapacitor Electrodes. Composites Part B 2017, 121: 75–82.
91. Chengen He, Yachao Liang, Pengyuan Gao, Long Cheng, Dean Shi, Xiaolin Xie, Robert Kowk-Yiu Li, and Yingkui Yang*: Bioinspired Co3O4/Graphene Layered Composite Films as Self-Supported Electrodes for Supercapacitors. Composites Part B 2017, 121: 68–74.
90. Yingkui Yang*, Cuiping Han, Beibei Jiang, James Iocozzia, Chengen He, Dean Shi, Tao Jiang, and Zhiqun Lin*: Graphene-based Materials with Tailored Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage. Materials Science and Engineering R 2016, 102: 1–72. (Cover, Most-Downloaded, ESI Highly Cited Paper)
89. Chengen He, Shan Sun, Haiyan Peng, Chi Pong Tsui*, Dean Shi, Xiaolin Xie, and Yingkui Yang*: Poly(ionic liquid)-assisted reduction of graphene oxide to achieve high-performance composite electrodes. Composites Part B 2016, 106: 81–87.
88. Yingkui Yang*,Wenjie Zhan, Rengui Peng, Chengen He, Xinchang Pang, Dean Shi, Tao Jiang, and Zhiqun Lin*: Graphene-enabled superior and tunable photomechanical actuation in liquid crystalline elastomer nanocomposites. Advanced Materials 2015, 27: 6376–6381. (Inside Cover, ESI Highly Cited Paper)
87. Yingkui Yang*, Cheng-En He, Wei Tang, Chi Pong Tsui*, Dean Shi, Zhengguang Sun, Tao Jiang, and Xiaolin Xie: Judicious selection of bifunctional molecules to chemically modify graphene for improving nanomechanical and thermal properties of polymer composites. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2014, 2: 20038-20047. (Inside Cover)
86. Yingkui Yang*, Cheng-En He, Rengui Peng, Avinash Baji, Xusheng Du, Yuan-Li Huang, Xiaolin Xie, and Yiu-Wing Mai: Non-covalently modified graphene sheets by imidazolium ionic liquids for multifunctional polymer nanocomposites. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012, 22: 5666-5675. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
85. Yingkui Yang, Xiaotao Wang, Lang Liu, Xiaolin Xie*, Zhifang Yang, Robert Kwok Yiu Li*, and Yiu-Wing Mai: Structures and photoresponsive behaviors of multiwalled carbon nanotubes grafted by polyurethanes containing azobenzene side-chains. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111: 11231-11239.
84. Yingkui Yang, Xiaolin Xie*, Zhifang Yang, Xiaotao Wang, Wei Cui, Jingying Yang, and Yiu-Wing Mai: Controlled synthesis and novel solution rheology of hyperbranched poly(urea-urethane)-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Macromolecules 2007, 40: 5858-5867.
123 Peer-reviewed SCI papers were published before 2022.