Publications

      #: equal contribution; *: corresponding author. 

2024

  1. S. Liu*,#, R. Wang#, X. Cai, Y. Wang*, Revealing Electron Beam Facilitated Nano-Zinc Oxide Structural Evolution, submitted.
  2. Y. Liu#, Y. Deng#, Y. Wang, L. Wang, T. Liu, Z. Gong, Z. Fan, Z. Su*, Y. Wang*, Y. Dan*, Defects in graphite engineered by ion implantation for the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles, submitted.
  3. Z.-K. Xie#, F. Cui #, J. Wu#, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang, J. Fu, R. Shang, Y. Ruan, G. Liu, Y. Wang*, J. Xie*, J. Yan*, B. Qiao*, The Optimal Arm Length for Star Polymer Electrolytes, submitted.
  4. Z. Zhang#, R. Wang#, Z. Wei, Y. Wei, Z. Liu, Z. Guo, S. Hu, Y. Zhao, Y. Wang*, R. Tao*, Z. Zhang*, X. Zang*, Size and Color-Center Controllable Nanocrystalline Diamonds from Low-Grade Coals, submitted.
  5. N. Si, R. Wang, Q. He, S. Liu*, Y. Wang*, Q. Yuan*, PtSe2 nano-crystallization via an intermediate Pt5Se4 phase, submitted.
  6. Z. Shen, W. Bao, Z. Dang, He Li, R. Shang, M. Hu, Y. Wang*, J. Xie*, B. Qiao*, An Easy-to-Execute Data-Driven Method to Predict and Understand the Properties of Polymer Electrolytes based on Multivariate Linear Free Energy Relationship, submitted.
  7. Z. Zhang, H. Zhu*, R. Yuan, S. Wang, Y. Wang, T. Fan, Y. Rezgui, D. Zhang, The Elastic Properties of Composites Reinforced by a 3D Voronoi Fibre Network with or without Missing Fibres, submitted.
  8. L. Cheng, Y. Deng, J. Huang, Z. Zhang, H. Duan*, Y. Kim*, Y. Wang*, Atomistic Transport Mechanisms in Lithium Salt-Doped Ionic Covalent Organic Framework Electrolytes, Batter. Supercaps, in press. (Invited)
  9. Q. He#, D. Wang#, H. Qiu, N. Si, Q. Yuan, R. Wang, S. Liu*, Y. Wang*, Highly Air-stable N-doped Two-Dimensional Violet Phosphorus with Atomically Flat Surfaces, ACS Nano, in press.
  10. Z. Dang, Z. Tang, J. Wu, Y. Chang, Y. Wang*, Unraveling the Reaction Networks and Key Pathways During the Gas Phase Stage in CVD Synthesis of MoS2, Chem. Eng. J., in press.
  11. C. Li, D. Wang, Z. Zhang, J. U. Choi, J. Huang, K.-T. Bang, S. Xu, Y. Wang, Y. Kim*, Poly(norbornene-diphenothiazine) for Electrochemical Capture and Release of Chromium and Arsenic Oxyanions from Water, Energy Environ. Mater., in press.
  12. J. Huang, C. Li, H. Luo, L. Cheng, J. Gao, D. Jiang, G. Li, Z. Xu, D. Shin, Y. Wang, Y. Kim*, Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries: State‐of‐the‐Art and Perspectives, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2411171 (2024).
  13. X. Hui, Z. Zhan, Z. Zhang, J. Yu, P. Jiang, Z. Dang, J. Wang, S. Cai*, Y. Wang*, Z. Xu*, Missing-linker Metal-organic Frameworks Regulated Single Zn2+ Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Stable Zinc Metal Batteries, ACS Nano, 18(36), 25237-25248 (2024).
  14. Y. Mu, S. Liu, Y. Wang, Z. Liu, M. Zhao*,  Understanding electron transport mechanisms in monolayer MoS2 transistors: Impact of lattice phonon scattering and localized charge traps, Phys. Rev. B, 110(11), 115414 (2024).
  15. Y. Yuan, D. Wang, Z. Zhang, K.-T. Bang, H. Chen, R. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Kim*, Charge-Delocalized Triptycene-Based Ionic Porous Organic Polymers as Solid Electrolytes for Lithium-Metal Batteries, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 16(34), 44957-44966 (2024).
  16. S. He, F. Xiao*, R. Hou, S. Zuo, Y. Zhou, X. Cai, Z. Li, Y. Wang, A. A. Catal, E. I. Galindo-Nava, X. Jin*, Accelerated learning and co-optimization of elastocaloric effect and stress hysteresis of elastocaloric alloys, Rare Met., (2024).
  17. Z. Zhang, Z. Xu*, C. Shen, H. Zhao*, K. Wang, L. Cheng, Y. Wang, A computational model incorporating realistic microstructures for predicting effective thermal conductivity of polyimide nanofiber aerogel, Next Mater., 5, 100221 (2024).
  18. J. Huang, L. Cheng, Z. Zhang, C. Li, K.-T. Bang, A. Liem, H. Luo, C. Hu, Y. M. Lee, Y. Wang*, Y. Kim*, High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by Ionic Covalent Organic Framework Composites, Adv. Energy Mater., 2400762 (2024).
  19. R. Wang, J. Li, Y. Wang*, Atomistic Mechanisms of Ring Formation During Catalyzed Carbon Nanotube Growth, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128 (12), 5112–5119 (2024).
  20. Y. Yuan, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, K.-T. Bang, Y. Tian, Z. Dang, M. Gu, R. Wang, R. Tao, Y. Lu, Y. Wang, Y. Kim*, Highly Conductive Imidazolate Covalent Organic Frameworks with Ether Chains as Solid Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 63, e20240220 (2024).

    2023

  21. Z. Zhang#, H. Fang#, Z. Xu, J. Lv, Y. Shen, Y. Wang*, Multi-objective Generative Design of Three-Dimensional Composite Materials, APL Mach. Learn., 1(4), 046120 (2023).
  22. C. Li, D. Wang, G. S. H. P. Ho, Z. Zhang, J. Huang, K. Bang, C. Y. Lau, S. Leu, Y. Wang, Y. Kim*, Anthraquinone-Based Silicate Covalent Organic Frameworks as Solid Electrolyte Interphase for High-Performance Lithium-Metal Batteries, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 145(45), 24603-24614 (2023).
  23. Z. Zhang, P. Bai, Y. Xiao, Y. Guo*, Y. Wang*, Conformation-Induced Stiffening Effect of Crosslinked Polymer Thin Films, Commun. Physics, 6(1), 332 (2023).
  24. Y. Deng#, Y. Wang#, K. Xu, Y. Wang*, A Lightweight Extendable Stacking Framework for Structure Classification in Atomistic Simulations, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 19(22), 8332-8339 (2023).
  25. S. Peng, Y. Wang, M. Braun, Y. Yin, A. C. Meng, W. Tan, B. Saini, K. Severson, A. F. Marshall, K. Sytwu, J. Baniecki, J. Dionne, W. Cai and P. C. McIntyre*, Kinetics and Mechanism of Light-Induced Phase Separation in a Mixed-Halide Perovskite, Matter, 6(6), 2052-2065 (2023).
  26. S. He, Y. Wang, Z. Zhang, F. Xiao*, S. Zuo, Y. Zhou, X. Cai, X. Jin*, Interpretable Machine Learning Workflow for Evaluation of the Transformation Temperatures of TiZrHfNiCoCu High Entropy Shape Memory Alloys, Mater. Design, 225, 111513 (2023).

    2022

  27. Z. Wang, J. Wu, Y. Wang*, Revealing Atomistic Mechanisms of Gold-Catalyzed Germanium Growth Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, J. Phys. Chem. C, 126(44), 18867-18875 (2022).
  28. P. Li, Z. Sun, Y. Wang, R. Razaq, Y. Gao, S. Bo*, Overpotential-Regulated Stable Cycling of a Thin Magnesium Metal Anode,  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 14(27), 31435-31447 (2022).
  29. T. Xie, A. France-Lanord, Y. Wang, J. Lopez, Michael M. Stolberg, M. Hill, G. M. Leverick, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, J. A. Johnson, Y. Shao-Horn and Jeffrey C. Grossman*, Accelerating amorphous polymer electrolyte screening by learning to reduce errors in molecular dynamics simulated properties, Nat. Commun., 13(1), 1-10 (2022).
  30. A. Jana, T. Zhu, Y. Wang, J. J. Adams, L. Kearney, A. Naskar, J. C. Grossman and N. Ferralis*, Atoms to Fibers: identifying novel processing methods in the synthesis of pitch-based carbon fibers, Sci. Adv., 8(11), eabn1905 (2022).

    2021

  31. J. Chen, Y. Wang, W. Xu, Y. Wen, G. H. Ryu, J. C. Grossman, J. H. Warner*, Atomic Structure of Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional PtSe2, ACS Nano, 15(10), 16748-16759 (2021).
  32. A. C. Meng, Y. Wang, M. R. Braun, J. Z. Lentz, S. Peng, H. Cheng, A. F. Marshall, W. Cai, P. C. McIntyre*, Bending and Precipitate Formation Mechanisms in Epitaxial Ge-Core/GeSn-Shell Nanowires, Nanoscale, 13, 17547-17555 (2021).
  33. B. Huang*, R. R. Rao, S. You, K. H. Myint, Y. Song, Y. Wang, W. Ding, L. Giordano, Y. Zhang, T. Wang, S. Muy, Y. Katayama, J. C. Grossman, A. P. Willard, K. Xu, Y. Jiang and Yang Shao-Horn*, Cation- and pH- dependent hydrogen evolution and oxidation reaction kinetics, JACS Au, 1(10), 1674-1687 (2021).
  34. B. Jin#,*, Y. Wang#, C. Jin, R. Tang*, Revealing Au13 as elementary clusters during the early formation of Au nanocrystal, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 12, 5938-5943 (2021).
  35. B. Huang*, K. H. Myint, Y. Wang, Y. Zhang, R, R Rao, J. Sun, S. Muy, Y. Katayama, J. C. Garcia, D. Fraggedakis, J. C. Grossman, M. Z. Bazant, K. Xu, A. P. Willard* and Y. Shao-Horn*, Cation-Dependent Interfacial Structures and Kinetics for Outer-Sphere Electron-Transfer Reactions, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125(8), 4397-4411 (2021).

    2020

  36. P. Wang, R. Lu, A. France-Lanord, Y. Wang, J. C. Grossman* and T. M. Swager*, Cyclobutene Based Macrocycles, Mater. Chem. Front., 4, 3529-3538 (2020).
  37. A. C. Meng, M. R. Braun, Y. Wang, S. Peng, W. Tan, J. Z. Lentz, M. Xue, A. Pakzad, A. F. Marshall, J. S. Harris, W. Cai, and P. C. McIntyre*, Growth Mode Control for Direct-Gap Core/Shell Ge/GeSn Nanowire Light Emission, Mater. Today, 40, 101-113 (2020).
  38. Y. Wang, Tomas Sikola and Miroslav Kolibal*, Collector Droplet Behavior during Formation of Nanowire Junctions, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11, 6498-6504 (2020).
  39. Y. Yin, N. R. Bertin, Y. Wang, Z. Bao and W. Cai*, Topological Origin of Strain Induced Damage of Elastomers by Bond Breaking, Extreme Mech. Lett., 40, 100883 (2020).
  40. T. W. Nam, M. Kim, Y. Wang, G. Y. Kim, W. Choi, H. Lim, K. M. Song, D. Y. Jeon, J. C. Grossman and Y. S. Jung*, Thermodynamic-Driven Full-Colour Quantum Dot Patterning for Light-Emitting Diodes beyond the Eye-Limiting Resolution, Nat. Commun., 11, 3040 (2020).
  41. Y. Wang#,*, T. Xie#, A. France-Lanord, A. Berkley, J. A. Johnson, Y. Shao-Horn and J. C. Grossman*, Toward Designing Highly Conductive Polymer Electrolytes by Machine Learning Assisted Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics, Chem. Mater., 32(10), 4144-4151 (2020).
  42. A. France-Lanord, Y. Wang, T. Xie, Y. Shao-Horn, and J. C. Grossman*, Modelling the Effect of Chemical Variations on Lithium Transport in Poly(ethylene oxide)-Based Polymer Electrolytes at High Salt Concentration, Chem. Mater., 32(1), 121-126 (2020).

    2019

  43. B. Jin, C. Shao, Y. Wang, Z. Mu, Z. Liu* and R. Tang*, Anisotropic Epitaxial Behavior in the Amorphous Phase-Mediated Hydroxyapatite Crystallization Process: A New Understanding of Orientation Control, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10, 7611-7616 (2019).
  44. Y. Wang*, A. C. Meng, P. C. McIntyre and W. Cai*, Phase-Field Investigation of the Stages in Radial Growth of Core-Shell Ge/Ge1−xSnx Nanowires, Nanoscale, 11, 21974-21980 (2019).
  45. Y. Kim, Y. Wang#, A. France-Lanord#, Y. Wang, Y. M. Wu, S. Lin, Y. Li, J. C. Grossman* and T. M. Swager*, Ionic Highways in Pyrazolium Cross-Linked Triptycene Polymers for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 41(45), 18152-18159 (2019).
  46. T. Xie, A. France-Lanord, Y. Wang, Y. Shao-Horn and J. C. Grossman*, Graph Dynamical Networks for Unsupervised Learning of Atomic Scale Dynamics in Materials, Nat. Commun., 10, 2667 (2019).
  47. B. Jin, Y. Wang, Z. Liu, A. France-Lanord, J. C. Grossman, C. Jin* and R. Tang*, Revealing the Cluster-Cloud and Its Role in Nanocrystallization, Adv. Mater., 30, 1808225 (2019).
  48. A. C. Meng, M. R. Braun, Y. Wang, C. S. Fenrich, M. Xue, D. R. Diercks, B. P. Gorman, M-I. Richard, A. F. Marshall, W. Cai, J. S. Harris, and P. C. McIntyre*, Coupling of Coherent Misfit Strain and Composition Distributions in Core-shell Ge/Ge1−xSnx Nanowire Light Emitters, Mater. Today Nano, 5, 100026 (2019).

    2018

  49. Y. Wang*, P. Woytowitz, D. Mui and W. Cai*, Stability of Nano-Fin Arrays Against Collapse Predicted by Phase Field Modeling, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 36(5), 051602 (2018).
  50. X. Zhang, Y. Wang and W. Cai*, Anisotropy Effect on Strain Induced Instability during Growth of Heteroepitaxial Films, J. Mater. Sci., 53(8), 5777-5785 (2018).
  51. J. Wang#,*, Y. Wang#, W. Cai*, J. Li, Z. Zhang and S. X. Mao*, Discrete Shear Band Plasticity through Dislocation Activities in Body-Centered Cubic Tungsten Nanowires, Sci. Rep., 8, 4574 (2018).

    2017

  52. Y. Wang, A. Santana* and W. Cai, Atomistic Mechanisms of Orientation and Temperature Dependence in Gold-Catalyzed Silicon Growth, J. Appl. Phys., 122(8), 085106 (2017).
  53. R. Ramachandramoorthy#, Y. Wang#, A. Aghaei, G. Richter, W. Cai* and H. D. Espinosa*, Reliability of Single Crystal Silver Nanowire-Based Systems: Stress Assisted Instabilities, ACS Nano, 11(5), 4768-4776 (2017). 
  54. Y. Wang*, P. C. McIntyre and W. Cai*, Phase Field Model for Morphological Transition in Nanowire Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth, Cryst. Growth Des., 17(4), 2211-2217 (2017).
  55.  J. Xu#, S. Wang#, G.-J. N. Wang, C. Zhu, S.  Luo, L. Jin, X. Gu, S. Chen, V. R. Feig, J. W. F. To, S. Rondeau-Gagné, J. Park, B. C. Schroeder, C. Lu, J. Y. Oh, Y. Wang, Y.-H. Kim, H. Yan, R. Sinclair, D. Zhou, G. Xue, B. Murmann, C. Linder, W. Cai, J. B.-H. Tok, J. W. Chung* and Z. Bao*, Highly Stretchable Polymer Semiconductor Films through Nanoconfinement Effect, Science, 355(6320), 59-64 (2017).

    2016

  56. Y. Wang, A. Santana* and W. Cai, Au-Ge MEAM Potential Fitted to the Binary Phase Diagram, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 25, 025004 (2016).
  57. Y. Li#, Y. Wang#,*, S. Ryu, A. F. Marshall, W. Cai and P. C. McIntyre, Spontaneous, Defect-Free Kinking via Capillary Instability during Vapor-Liquid-Solid Nanowire Growth, Nano Lett., 16(3), 1713-1718 (2016).
  58. L. Zhang, Y. Shen*, L. Zhang, Y. Wang, X. Xiong and L. Zhang, Effects of Interface Anisotropy and Isotropic Driving Force on the Growth of Steady-State Shape in Phase-field Modeling, Comput. Mater. Sci., 111, 313-321 (2016).

    2015

  59. Y. Wang* and W. Cai, Evaluation of the Surface Tension of Silicon-Gold Binary Liquid Alloy, Mater. Sci. Forum, 817, 772 (2015).
  60. H. Wang, Y. Wang, B. C.-K. Tee, K.P. Kim, J. Lopez, W. Cai and Z. Bao*, Shape-Controlled, Self-Wrapped Carbon Nanotube 3D Electronics, Adv. Sci., 2(9) (2015).

    2014

  61. S. Xu, D. Thian, S. Wang, Y. Wang and F. B. Prinz*, Effects of Size Polydispersity on Electron Mobility in a Two-Dimensional Quantum-Dot Superlattice, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 144202 (2014).
  62. Y. Wang, S. Ryu, P. C. McIntyre and W. Cai*, A Three-Dimensional Phase Field Model for Nanowire Growth by the Vapor-Liquid-Solid Mechanism, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 22, 055005 (2014).