Publications

MIF Research

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Patents

  • Y. A. Wu, T. Rajh, I. McNulty, Y. Liu, Controlled Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol or Carbon Monoxide Using Cuprous Oxide Particles, US Patent, 10,696, 614 B2

Selected research

  1. Yuan, Fei, Ya-Chuan Shao, Bo Wang, Yu-Sheng Wu, Di Zhang, Zhao-Jin Li, and Yi-min A. Wu. "Recent progress in application of cobalt-based compounds as anode materials for high-performance potassium-ion batteries." Rare Metals (2022): 1-21.
  2. Chen, Zuolong, Xiyang Wang, Lei Wang, and Yimin A. Wu. "Ag@ Pd Bimetallic Structures for Enhanced Electrocatalytic CO2 Conversion to CO: An Interplay between Strain Effect and Ligand Effect." Nanoscale (2022).
  3. Guo, Tao, Jiawei Ge, Bai Sun, Kangqiang Pan, Zhao Pan, Lan Wei, Yong Yan, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "Soft Biomaterials Based Flexible Artificial Synapse for Neuromorphic Computing." Advanced Electronic Materials (2022): 2200449.
  4. Li, Zhen, Xiyang Wang, Minli Zeng, Kunyu Chen, Dehua Cao, Yiwei Huang, Yanqiu Zhu, Wenhua Zhang, Nannan Wang, and Yimin A. Wu. "The Interplay between Selective Etching Induced Cation Defects and Active Oxygen Species for Volatile Organic Compounds Degradation." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2022).
  5. Wang, Huan, Fengmin Sun, Jian Qi, Di Zhang, Huilan Sun, Qiujun Wang, Zhaojin Li, Yimin A. Wu, Zhilin Hu, and Bo Wang. "Recent progress on layered double hydroxides: comprehensive regulation for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction." Materials Today Energy (2022): 101036.
  6. Li, Zhen, Xiyang Wang, Xinbo Li, Minli Zeng, Carl Redshaw, Rui Cao, Ritimukta Sarangi et al. "Engineering surface segregation of perovskite oxide through wet exsolution for CO catalytic oxidation." Journal of Hazardous Materials 436 (2022): 129110.
  7. Li, Shunli, Jingyan Zhang, Zhen Liu, Tianzheng Wang, Rui Guo, Zhixiong Yang, Yimin A. Wu, Weijian Xu, and Shuaijun Pan. "Hollow nanopompoms engineered via a weak-strong coetching strategy for high-performance electrocatalysts." Chemical Engineering Journal 446 (2022): 136815.
  8. Zeng, Minli, Xiyang Wang, Qilei Yang, Xuefeng Chu, Zuolong Chen, Zhen Li, Carl Redshaw et al. "Activating Surface Lattice Oxygen of a Cu/Zn1–x Cu x O Catalyst through Interface Interactions for CO Oxidation." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, no. 7 (2022): 9882-9890.
  9. Guo, Tao, Kangqiang Pan, Yixuan Jiao, Bai Sun, Cheng Du, Joel P. Mills, Zuolong Chen et al. "Versatile memristor for memory and neuromorphic computing." Nanoscale Horizons 7, no. 3 (2022): 299-310.
  10. Kwon, Bob Jin, Liang Yin, Christopher J. Bartel, Khagesh Kumar, Prakash Parajuli, Jihyeon Gim, Sanghyeon Kim et al. "Intercalation of Ca into a Highly Defective Manganese Oxide at Room Temperature." Chemistry of Materials 34, no. 2 (2022): 836-846.
  11. Guo, T., K. Pan, B. Sun, L. Wei, Y. Yan, Y. N. Zhou, and Y. A. Wu. "Adjustable leaky-integrate-and-fire neurons based on memristor-coupled capacitors." Materials Today Advances 12 (2021): 100192.
  12. Chen, Zuolong, Xiyang Wang, Joel P. Mills, Cheng Du, Jintae Kim, John Wen, and Yimin A. Wu. "Two-dimensional materials for electrochemical CO 2 reduction: materials, in situ/operando characterizations, and perspective." Nanoscale 13, no. 47 (2021): 19712-19739.
  13. Shabalin, Anatoly G., Elihu Anouchi, Nelson Hua, Yimin A. Wu, Martin V. Holt, Amos Sharoni, and Oleg G. Shpyrko. "Twinned nanostructure of VO 2 thin films grown on r-cut sapphire." Physical Review B 102, no. 13 (2020): 134106.
  14. Mills, Joel P., Cheng Du, Zuolong Chen, Tao Guo, and Yimin A. Wu. "Catalyst design strategies for aqueous N2 electroreduction." Applied Materials Today 25 (2021): 101184.
  15. Wang, Bo, Zeyu Zhang, Fei Yuan, Di Zhang, Qiujun Wang, Wen Li, Zhaojin Li, Yimin A. Wu, and Wei Wang. "An insight into the initial Coulombic efficiency of carbon-based anode materials for potassium-ion batteries." Chemical Engineering Journal 428 (2022): 131093.
  16. Sun, Huilan, Jian Wang, Wen Li, Fei Yuan, Qiujun Wang, Di Zhang, Bo Wang, and Yimin A. Wu. "Spanish-dagger shaped CoP blooms decorated N-doped carbon branch anode for high-performance lithium and sodium storage." Electrochimica Acta 388 (2021): 138628.
  17. Sun, Bai, Shubham Ranjan, Guangdong Zhou, Tao Guo, Cheng Du, Lan Wei, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "A True Random Number Generator Based on Ionic Liquid Modulated Memristors." ACS Applied Electronic Materials 3, no. 5 (2021): 2380-2388.
  18. Sun, Bai, Tao Guo, Guangdong Zhou, Shubham Ranjan, Yixuan Jiao, Lan Wei, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "Synaptic devices based neuromorphic computing applications in artificial intelligence." Materials Today Physics 18 (2021): 100393.
  19. Yuan, Fei, Wenxin Zhang, Di Zhang, Qiujun Wang, Zhaojin Li, Wen Li, Huilan Sun, Bo Wang, and Yimin A. Wu. "Recent progress in electrochemical performance of carbon-based anodes for potassium-ion batteries based on first principles calculations." Nanotechnology 32, no. 47 (2021): 472003.
  20. Sun, Bai, Tao Guo, Guangdong Zhou, Jinggao Wu, Yuanzheng Chen, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "A battery-like self-selecting biomemristor from earth-abundant natural biomaterials." ACS Applied Bio Materials 4, no. 2 (2021): 1976-1985.
  21. Guo, Tao, Bai Sun, Shubham Ranjan, Cheng Du, Bryce Joseph Kieffer, Joel Philip Mills, Yongcheng Tong, Lan Wei, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "Electrocatalytic Hydrolysis‐Modulated Multistate Resistive Switching Behaviors in Memristors." physica status solidi (a) 218, no. 8 (2021): 2000655.
  22. Kan, Shuting, Mengying Xu, Wenshuai Feng, Yufeng Wu, Cheng Du, Xiaohui Gao, Yimin A. Wu, and Hongtao Liu. "Tuning overall water splitting on an electrodeposited NiCoFeP films." ChemElectroChem 8, no. 3 (2021): 539-546.
  23. Sun, B., S. Ranjan, G. Zhou, T. Guo, Y. Xia, L. Wei, Y. N. Zhou, and Y. A. Wu. "Multistate resistive switching behaviors for neuromorphic computing in memristor." Materials Today Advances 9 (2021): 100125.
  24. Wang, Bo, Yi Peng, Fei Yuan, Qian Liu, Lizhi Sun, Pin Zhang, Qiujun Wang, Zhaojin Li, and Yimin A. Wu. "A comprehensive review of carbons anode for potassium-ion battery: Fast kinetic, structure stability and electrochemical." Journal of Power Sources 484 (2021): 229244.
  25. Guo, Tao, Bai Sun, Shubham Ranjan, Yixuan Jiao, Lan Wei, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "From memristive materials to neural networks." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 49 (2020): 54243-54265.
  26. Heng, Yingqi, Tianqi Xie, Xiyang Wang, Ding Chen, Jiahao Wen, Xiyong Chen, Dongying Hu, Nannan Wang, and Yimin A. Wu. "Raw cellulose/polyvinyl alcohol blending separators prepared by phase inversion for high-performance supercapacitors." Nanotechnology 32, no. 9 (2020): 095403.
  27. Johnson, Ian D., Gene Nolis, Kit McColl, Yimin A. Wu, Daisy Thornton, Linhua Hu, Hyun Deog Yoo et al. "Probing Mg Intercalation in the Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze Framework V4Nb18O55." Inorganic Chemistry 59, no. 14 (2020): 9783-9797.
  28. Sun, Bai, Guangdong Zhou, Tao Guo, Y. Norman Zhou, and Yimin A. Wu. "Biomemristors as the next generation bioelectronics." Nano Energy 75 (2020): 104938.
  29. Ranjan, Shubham, Bai Sun, Guangdong Zhou, Yimin A. Wu, Lan Wei, and Y. Norman Zhou. "Passive filters for nonvolatile storage based on capacitive-coupled memristive effects in nanolayered organic–inorganic heterojunction devices." ACS Applied Nano Materials 3, no. 6 (2020): 5045-5052.
  30. Du, C., X. Wang, W. Chen, S. Feng, J. Wen, and Y. A. Wu. "CO2 transformation to multicarbon products by photocatalysis and electrocatalysis." Materials Today Advances 6 (2020): 100071.
  31. Sun, B., M. Xiao, G. Zhou, Z. Ren, Y. N. Zhou, and Y. A. Wu. "Non–zero-crossing current-voltage hysteresis behavior in memristive system." Materials Today Advances 6 (2020): 100056.
  32. Kwon, Bob Jin, Ka-Cheong Lau, Haesun Park, Yimin A. Wu, Krista L. Hawthorne, Haifeng Li, Soojeong Kim et al. "Probing Electrochemical Mg-Ion Activity in MgCr2–x V x O4 Spinel Oxides." Chemistry of Materials 32, no. 3 (2019): 1162-1171.
  33. Stamenkovic, Vojislav, Rongyue Wang, and Dusan Strmcnik. "Scalable pt cluster and ruo2 heterojunction anode catalysts." U.S. Patent Application 16/584,385, filed April 1, 2021.
  34.  Wu, Yimin A., Ian McNulty, Cong Liu, Kah Chun Lau, Qi Liu, Arvydas P. Paulikas, Cheng-Jun Sun et al. "Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu2O particle photocatalyst for CO2 reduction to methanol." Nature Energy 4, no. 11 (2019): 957-968.
  35. Wang, Rongyue, Dongguo Li, Sandip Maurya, Yu Seung Kim, Yimin Wu, Yuzi Liu, Dusan Strmcnik, Nenad M. Markovic, and Vojislav R. Stamenkovic. "Ultrafine Pt cluster and RuO 2 heterojunction anode catalysts designed for ultra-low Pt-loading anion exchange membrane fuel cells." Nanoscale Horizons 5, no. 2 (2020): 316-324.
  36. Kwon, Bob Jin, Krista L. Hawthorne, Ka-Cheong Lau, Soojeong Kim, Yimin Wu, Timothy T. Fister, Chen Liao et al. "MgCr2-XVxO4 High Voltage Spinel Oxide Cathodes for Mg-Ion Batteries." In ECS Meeting Abstracts, no. 6, p. 556. IOP Publishing, 2019.
  37. Chen, Zhaowei, He Zhang, Peijun Guo, Jingjing Zhang, Gregory Tira, Yu Jin Kim, Yimin A. Wu et al. "Semi-artificial photosynthetic CO2 reduction through purple membrane re-engineering with semiconductor." Journal of the American Chemical Society 141, no. 30 (2019): 11811-11815.
  38. Chen, Zhaowei, Gleiciani De Queiros Silveira, Xuedan Ma, Yunsong Xie, Yimin A. Wu, Edward Barry, Tijana Rajh, H. Christopher Fry, Philip D. Laible, and Elena A. Rozhkova. "Light‐gated synthetic protocells for plasmon‐enhanced chemiosmotic gradient generation and ATP synthesis." Angewandte Chemie 131, no. 15 (2019): 4950-4954.
  39. Mutyala, Kalyan C., Yimin A. Wu, Ali Erdemir, and Anirudha V. Sumant. "Graphene-MoS2 ensembles to reduce friction and wear in DLC-Steel contacts." Carbon 146 (2019): 524-527.
  40. Feng, Zhange, Pallab Barai, Jihyeon Gim, Ke Yuan, Yimin A. Wu, Yuanyuan Xie, Yuzi Liu, and Venkat Srinivasan. "In situ monitoring of the growth of nickel, manganese, and cobalt hydroxide precursors during co-precipitation synthesis of Li-ion cathode materials." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 165, no. 13 (2018): A3077.
  41. Nagaoka, Yasutaka, Rui Tan, Ruipeng Li, Hua Zhu, Dennis Eggert, Yimin A. Wu, Yuzi Liu, Zhongwu Wang, and Ou Chen. "Superstructures generated from truncated tetrahedral quantum dots." Nature 561, no. 7723 (2018): 378-382.
  42. “Novel Atomic Level Multiple-element Doping Method Opens Up New Perspective for Layered Cathode Materials in Lithium Ion Batteries”, Q. Liu, X. Su, D. Lei, Y. Qin, J.G. Wen, F. Guo, Y. A. Wu, Y. Rong, R. Kou, X. Xiao, F. Aguesse, J. Bareno, Y. Ren, W. Lu, Y. X. Li; Nature Energy, 2018, 3, 936-943.
  43. Liu, Qi, Xin Su, Dan Lei, Yan Qin, Jianguo Wen, Fangmin Guo, Yimin A. Wu et al. "Approaching the capacity limit of lithium cobalt oxide in lithium ion batteries via lanthanum and aluminium doping." Nature Energy 3, no. 11 (2018): 936-943.
  44. Solomon, Lee A., Matthew E. Sykes, Yimin A. Wu, Richard D. Schaller, Gary P. Wiederrecht, and H. Christopher Fry. "Tailorable Exciton Transport in Doped Peptide–Amphiphile Assemblies." ACS nano 11, no. 9 (2017): 9112-9118.
  45. Liu, Qi, Guoqiang Tan, Peng Wang, Sasitha C. Abeyweera, Dongtang Zhang, Yangchun Rong, Yimin A. Wu et al. "Revealing mechanism responsible for structural reversibility of single-crystal VO2 nanorods upon lithiation/delithiation." Nano Energy 36 (2017): 197-205.
  46. Wu, Yimin A., Zuwei Yin, Maryam Farmand, Young-Sang Yu, David A. Shapiro, Hong-Gang Liao, Wen-I. Liang, Ying-Hao Chu, and Haimei Zheng. "In-situ multimodal imaging and spectroscopy of Mg electrodeposition at electrode-electrolyte interfaces." Scientific reports 7, no. 1 (2017): 1-9.
  47. Wu, Yimin A., Liang Li, Zheng Li, Alper Kinaci, Maria KY Chan, Yugang Sun, Jeffrey R. Guest, Ian McNulty, Tijana Rajh, and Yuzi Liu. "Visualizing redox dynamics of a single Ag/AgCl heterogeneous nanocatalyst at atomic resolution." ACS nano 10, no. 3 (2016): 3738-3746.
  48. Robertson, Alex W., Barbara Montanari, Kuang He, Christopher S. Allen, Yimin A. Wu, Nicholas M. Harrison, Angus I. Kirkland, and Jamie H. Warner. "Structural reconstruction of the graphene monovacancy." ACS nano 7, no. 5 (2013): 4495-4502.
  49. Robertson, Alex W., Barbara Montanari, Kuang He, Judy Kim, Christopher S. Allen, Yimin A. Wu, Jaco Olivier et al. "Dynamics of single Fe atoms in graphene vacancies." Nano letters 13, no. 4 (2013): 1468-1475.
  50. Wu, Yimin A., Ye Fan, Susannah Speller, Graham L. Creeth, Jerzy T. Sadowski, Kuang He, Alex W. Robertson, Christopher S. Allen, and Jamie H. Warner. "Large single crystals of graphene on melted copper using chemical vapor deposition." ACS nano 6, no. 6 (2012): 5010-5017.
  51. Wu, Yimin A., and Jamie H. Warner. "Shape and property control of Mn doped ZnSe quantum dots: from branched to spherical." Journal of Materials Chemistry 22, no. 2 (2012): 417-424.
  52. Robertson, Alex W., Christopher S. Allen, Yimin A. Wu, Kuang He, Jaco Olivier, Jan Neethling, Angus I. Kirkland, and Jamie H. Warner. "Spatial control of defect creation in graphene at the nanoscale." Nature communications 3, no. 1 (2012): 1-7.
  53. Moghal, Jonathan, Yimin A. Wu, and Jamie H. Warner. "Mechanical response of few-layer graphene films on copper foils." Scripta Materialia 67, no. 3 (2012): 273-276.
  54. Li, Baojun, Huaqiang Cao, Jiefu Yin, Yimin A. Wu, and Jamie H. Warner. "Synthesis and separation of dyes via Ni@ reduced graphene oxide nanostructures." Journal of Materials Chemistry 22, no. 5 (2012): 1876-1883.
  55. Wu, Yimin A., Alex W. Robertson, Franziska Schäffel, Susannah C. Speller, and Jamie H. Warner. "Aligned rectangular few-layer graphene domains on copper surfaces." Chemistry of Materials 23, no. 20 (2011): 4543-4547.
  56. Wu, Yimin A., Angus I. Kirkland, Franziska Schäffel, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Neil P. Young, G. Andrew D. Briggs, and Jamie H. Warner. "Utilizing boron nitride sheets as thin supports for high resolution imaging of nanocrystals." Nanotechnology 22, no. 19 (2011): 195603.
  57. Wang, Chengle J., Yimin A. Wu, Robert MJ Jacobs, Jamie H. Warner, Gareth R. Williams, and Dermot O’Hare. "Reverse micelle synthesis of Co− Al LDHs: control of particle size and magnetic properties." Chemistry of Materials 23, no. 2 (2011): 171-180.
  58. Liu, Guoquan, Yimin Wu, and Kyriakos Porfyrakis. "Synthesis and chemistry of endohedral fullerenes." Current Organic Chemistry 15, no. 8 (2011): 1197-1207.
  59. Robertson, Alex W., Alicja Bachmatiuk, Yimin A. Wu, Franziska Schäffel, Bernd Rellinghaus, Bernd Büchner, Mark H. Rümmeli, and Jamie H. Warner. "Atomic structure of interconnected few-layer graphene domains." ACS nano 5, no. 8 (2011): 6610-6618.
  60. Robertson, Alex W., Alicja Bachmatiuk, Yimin A. Wu, Franziska Schäffel, Bernd Büchner, Mark H. Rümmeli, and Jamie H. Warner. "Structural distortions in few-layer graphene creases." ACS nano 5, no. 12 (2011): 9984-9991.
  61. Lawrence, Elliot J., Gregory G. Wildgoose, Leigh Aldous, Yimin A. Wu, Jamie H. Warner, Richard G. Compton, and Paul D. McNaughter. "3-Aryl-3-(trifluoromethyl) diazirines as versatile photoactivated “linker” molecules for the improved covalent modification of graphitic and carbon nanotube surfaces." Chemistry of Materials 23, no. 16 (2011): 3740-3751.
  62. Mai, Liqiang, Xu Xu, Chunhua Han, Yanzhu Luo, Lin Xu, Yimin A. Wu, and Yunlong Zhao. "Rational synthesis of silver vanadium oxides/polyaniline triaxial nanowires with enhanced electrochemical property." Nano letters 11, no. 11 (2011): 4992-4996.
  63. Zaka, Mujtaba, Yasuhiro Ito, Huiliang Wang, Wenjing Yan, Alex Robertson, Yimin A. Wu, Mark H. Rümmeli et al. "Electron paramagnetic resonance investigation of purified catalyst-free single-walled carbon nanotubes." ACS nano 4, no. 12 (2010): 7708-7716.