127 results on '"Yu Huang"'
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2. Plant Exosomes As Novel Nanoplatforms for MicroRNA Transfer Stimulate Neural Differentiation of Stem Cells In Vitro and In Vivo
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Li-Hua Peng, Yi-Yu Huang, Tie-Jun Yuan, Mu-Yang Shi, Zhi-Hong Jiang, Haseeb Anwar Dad, and Xue-Han Xu
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Chemokine ,Bioengineering ,Exosomes ,Regenerative medicine ,stomatognathic system ,In vivo ,microRNA ,medicine ,Animals ,General Materials Science ,biology ,Mechanical Engineering ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,Cell Differentiation ,Hydrogels ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,hemic and immune systems ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Microvesicles ,Cell biology ,MicroRNAs ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,biology.protein ,Bone marrow ,Stem cell - Abstract
Differentiation of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) into functional neural cells has been widely investigated for treating neural diseases. However, the limited neural differentiation of BMSCs remains a big challenge to overcome. Herein, for the first time, ginseng-derived exosomes (G-Exos) were demonstrated to have excellent efficiency in stimulating the neural differentiation of BMSCs by transferring the incorporated miRNAs to BMSCs efficiently. In vivo, a photo-cross-linkable hydrogel with chemokine and G-Exos loaded shows strong efficacy in recruiting and directing the neural differentiation of BMSCs in the program. G-Exos were demonstrated to be promising nanoplatforms in transferring plant-derived miRNAs to mammalian stem cells for neural differentiation both in vitro and in vivo, possessing great potential in neural regenerative medicine.
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- 2021
3. Lithium Deposition-Induced Fracture of Carbon Nanotubes and Its Implication to Solid-State Batteries
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Feng Ding, Xuedong Zhang, Yanshuai Li, Hui Li, Chao Zhao, Jian Yu Huang, Dingchuan Xue, Tingting Yang, Qiushi Dai, Jingzhao Chen, Congcong Du, Liqiang Zhang, Jun Zhao, Yongfu Tang, Stephen J. Harris, Ruyue Fang, Baiyu Guo, Sulin Zhang, and Hongjun Ye
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Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Electrolyte ,Carbon nanotube ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,Stress (mechanics) ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,law ,Stress relaxation ,Deposition (phase transition) ,General Materials Science ,Lithium ,Confined space ,Short circuit - Abstract
The increasing demand for safe and dense energy storage has shifted research focus from liquid electrolyte-based Li-ion batteries toward solid-state batteries (SSBs). However, the application of SSBs is impeded by uncontrollable Li dendrite growth and short circuiting, the mechanism of which remains elusive. Herein, we conceptualize a scheme to visualize Li deposition in the confined space inside carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to mimic Li deposition dynamics inside solid electrolyte (SE) cracks, where the high-strength CNT walls mimic the mechanically strong SEs. We observed that the deposited Li propagates as a creeping solid in the CNTs, presenting an effective pathway for stress relaxation. When the stress-relaxation pathway is blocked, the Li deposition-induced stress reaches the gigapascal level and causes CNT fracture. Mechanics analysis suggests that interfacial lithiophilicity critically governs Li deposition dynamics and stress relaxation. Our study offers critical strategies for suppressing Li dendritic growth and constructing high-energy-density, electrochemically and mechanically robust SSBs.
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- 2021
4. N-Cadherin Nanoantagonist Driven Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition in Fibroblasts for Improving Reprogramming Efficiency
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Xia Meng, Anwei Zhou, Kaifeng Shao, Yurui Xu, Yu Zhang, Yu Huang, and Xinghai Ning
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Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition ,Somatic cell ,Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Cell ,Metal Nanoparticles ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Mice ,In vivo ,medicine ,Animals ,General Materials Science ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,Cadherin ,Chemistry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,General Chemistry ,Fibroblasts ,Cadherins ,Cellular Reprogramming ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,In vitro ,Cell biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Gold ,0210 nano-technology ,Reprogramming - Abstract
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) hold promise in revolutionizing medicine; however, their application potential is limited because of low reprogramming efficiency. Mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) has been proved to involve reprogramming of somatic cells into iPSCs, making it a promising target for enhancing generation of iPSCs. Here, we nanoengineered N-cadherin-blocking peptide ADH-1 with gold nanoparticles, generating a multivalent N-cadherin antagonist (ADH-AuNPs), for improving reprogramming efficiency through driving cell MET. ADH-AuNPs exhibited good biocompatibility and showed higher N-cadherin inhibitory activity than ADH-1 due to multivalency, thereby enhancing cell-state reprogramming toward epithelial lineages. Particularly, ADH-AuNPs improved reprogramming efficiency by more than 7-fold after introduction of four Yamanaka factors. Importantly, ADH-AuNPs generated iPSCs displayed high stemness and pluripotency in vitro and in vivo. Therefore, we provide a cooperative strategy for promoting the iPSC generation efficacy.
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- 2021
5. Large-Area Synthesis and Patterning of All-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Heterostructures
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Xiangfeng Duan, Timothy L. Atallah, Zheng Fan, Yu Huang, Zhaoyang Lin, Chuancheng Jia, Sung-Joon Lee, Justin R. Caram, and Yiliu Wang
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Photoluminescence ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Halide ,Bioengineering ,Heterojunction ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Epitaxy ,Monocrystalline silicon ,Rectification ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Thin film ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Perovskite (structure) - Abstract
All-inorganic lead halide perovskites have attracted tremendous interest for their excellent stability when compared with hybrid perovskites. Here we report a large-area growth of monocrystalline all-inorganic perovskite thin films and further patterning them into heterostructure arrays. We show that highly oriented CsPbBr3 microcrystal domains can be readily grown on muscovite mica substrates with a well-defined epitaxial relationship, which can further expand and eventually merge into large-area monocrystalline CsPbBr3 thin films with an excellent optical quality. Taking a step further, we show the large-area CsPbBr3 thin film can be further patterned and selectively transformed into CsPbI3 using a selective anion-exchange process to produce CsPbBr3-CsPbI3 lateral heterostructure arrays with spatially modulated photoluminescence emission and an apparent current rectification behavior. The capability to grow large-area CsPbBr3 monocrystalline thin films and heterostructure arrays defines a robust material platform for both the fundamental investigations and potential applications in optoelectronics.
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- 2021
6. van der Waals Integrated Devices Based on Nanomembranes of 3D Materials
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Yang Liu, Zhaoyang Lin, Jin Huang, Haotian Liu, Yiliu Wang, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, and Peiqi Wang
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Materials science ,Silicon ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Epitaxy ,law.invention ,symbols.namesake ,law ,General Materials Science ,Diode ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transistor ,Schottky diode ,Heterojunction ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,chemistry ,symbols ,Optoelectronics ,Photonics ,van der Waals force ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
van der Waals (vdW) integration offers a flexible strategy to nearly arbitrarily combine materials of radically different chemical compositions, crystal structures, or lattice orientations, enabling versatile heterostructures with unique electronic and photonic characteristics or other exotic properties that are difficult to access in traditional epitaxial heterostructures, as highlighted by a recent blossom in two-dimensional (2D) vdW heterostructures. However, the studies on vdW heterostructures currently have been largely limited to 2D materials, with few reports of vdW integration of traditional three-dimensional (3D) materials. Here, we show that the vdW integration approach could be extended to 3D materials for flexible integration of highly disparate materials. In particular, by assembling nanomembranes fabricated from bulk β-gallium oxide, silicon, and platinum, we demosntrate a variety of functional devices including Schottky diodes, p-n diodes, metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors, and junction field-effect transistors. These devices exhibit excellent electronic performance, in terms of ideality factor, current on/off ratio, and subthreshold swing, laying the foundations for constructing high-performance heterostructure devices.
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- 2020
7. In Situ Imaging the Oxygen Reduction Reactions of Solid State Na–O2 Batteries with CuO Nanowires as the Air Cathode
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Yongfu Tang, Liqiang Zhang, Jian Yu Huang, Hongjun Ye, Tongde Shen, Jingzhao Chen, Yong Sun, Tingting Yang, Peng Jia, Qiunan Liu, Congcong Du, and Qiuming Peng
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Battery (electricity) ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Disproportionation ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrochemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Oxygen ,Cathode ,0104 chemical sciences ,law.invention ,Catalysis ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,law ,Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
We report real time imaging of the oxygen reduction reactions (ORRs) in all solid state sodium oxygen batteries (SOBs) with CuO nanowires (NWs) as the air cathode in an aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscope under an oxygen environment. The ORR occurred in a distinct two-step reaction, namely, a first conversion reaction followed by a second multiple ORR. In the former, CuO was first converted to Cu2O and then to Cu; in the latter, NaO2 formed first, followed by its disproportionation to Na2O2 and O2. Concurrent with the two distinct electrochemical reactions, the CuO NWs experienced multiple consecutive large volume expansions. It is evident that the freshly formed ultrafine-grained Cu in the conversion reaction catalyzed the latter one-electron-transfer ORR, leading to the formation of NaO2. Remarkably, no carbonate formation was detected in the oxygen cathode after cycling due to the absence of carbon source in the whole battery setup. These results provide fundamental unde...
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- 2018
8. Roles of Mo Surface Dopants in Enhancing the ORR Performance of Octahedral PtNi Nanoparticles
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Sanjeev Mukerjee, Zipeng Zhao, Eli Stavitski, Mufan Li, Jingkun Li, Klaus Attenkofer, Veronica Davies, Shraboni Ghoshal, Qingying Jia, Xiangfeng Duan, Tim Mueller, Zeyan Liu, Yu Huang, and Liang Cao
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Materials science ,Dopant ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanoparticle ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrochemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Oxygen ,0104 chemical sciences ,Crystallography ,chemistry ,Octahedron ,Transition metal ,General Materials Science ,Density functional theory ,Kinetic Monte Carlo ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
Doping with a transition metal was recently shown to greatly boost the activity and durability of PtNi/C octahedral nanoparticles (NPs) for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), but its specific roles remain unclear. By combining electrochemistry, ex situ and in situ spectroscopic techniques, density functional theory calculations, and a newly developed kinetic Monte Carlo model, we showed that Mo atoms are preferentially located on the vertex and edge sites of Mo–PtNi/C in the form of oxides, which are stable within the wide potential window of the electrochemical cycle. These surface Mo oxides stabilize adjacent Pt sites, hereby stabilizing the octahedral shape enriched with (111) facets, and lead to increased concentration of Ni in subsurface layers where they are protected against acid dissolution. Consequently, the favorable Pt3Ni(111) structure for the ORR is stabilized on the surface of PtNi/C NPs in acid against voltage cycling. Significantly, the unusual potential-dependent oxygen coverage trend o...
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- 2018
9. Achieving High Strength and Ductility in Magnesium Alloys via Densely Hierarchical Double Contraction Nanotwins
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Qiuming Peng, Jian Yu Huang, Ruizhi Wu, Yunchang Xin, Carlos Fernandez, Bingcheng Ge, and Hui Fu
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010302 applied physics ,Materials science ,Magnesium ,Mechanical Engineering ,Metallurgy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,High stiffness ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,chemistry ,0103 physical sciences ,General Materials Science ,Grain boundary ,Lithium ,Dislocation ,Elongation ,Magnesium alloy ,Composite material ,0210 nano-technology ,Ductility - Abstract
Light-weight magnesium alloys with high strength are especially desirable for the applications in transportation, aerospace, electronic components, and implants owing to their high stiffness, abundant raw materials, and environmental friendliness. Unfortunately, conventional strengthening methods mainly involve the formation of internal defects, in which particles and grain boundaries prohibit dislocation motion as well as compromise ductility invariably. Herein, we report a novel strategy for simultaneously achieving high specific yield strength (∼160 kN m kg–1) and good elongation (∼23.6%) in a duplex magnesium alloy containing 8 wt % lithium at room temperature, based on the introduction of densely hierarchical {1011}–{1011} double contraction nanotwins (DCTWs) and full-coherent hexagonal close-packed (hcp) particles in twin boundaries by ultrahigh pressure technique. These hierarchical nanoscaled DCTWs with stable interface characteristics not only bestow a large fraction of twin interface but also ...
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- 2017
10. Vertical Charge Transport and Negative Transconductance in Multilayer Molybdenum Disulfides
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Hung-Chieh Cheng, Yuan Liu, Xiangfeng Duan, Hao Wu, Jian Guo, Qiyuan He, Mengning Ding, Imran Shakir, Vincent Gambin, and Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Field (physics) ,Transconductance ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,symbols.namesake ,Rectangular potential barrier ,General Materials Science ,Quantum ,Quantum tunnelling ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Biasing ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,0104 chemical sciences ,Semiconductor ,symbols ,Optoelectronics ,van der Waals force ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Negative transconductance (NTC) devices have been heavily investigated for their potential in low power logical circuit, memory, oscillating, and high-speed switching applications. Previous NTC devices are largely attributed to two working mechanisms: quantum mechanical tunneling, and mobility degradation at high electrical field. Herein we report a systematic investigation of charge transport in multilayer two-dimensional semiconductors (2DSCs) with optimized van der Waals contact and for the first time demonstrate NTC and antibipolar characteristics in multilayer 2DSCs (such as MoS2, WSe2). By varying the measurement temperature, bias voltage, and body thickness, we found the NTC behavior can be attributed to a vertical potential barrier in the multilayer 2DSCs and the competing mechanisms between intralayer lateral transport and interlayer vertical transport, thus representing a new working mechanism for NTC operation. Importantly, this vertical potential barrier arises from inhomogeneous carrier distr...
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- 2017
11. Ambipolar Barristors for Reconfigurable Logic Circuits
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Yuan Liu, Vincent Gambin, Zheng Li, Rui Cheng, Guo Zhang, Yang Xu, Yu Huang, Hailong Zhou, and Xiangfeng Duan
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Materials science ,Ambipolar diffusion ,business.industry ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transistor ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Integrated circuit ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,law.invention ,law ,Logic gate ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Electronics ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Ohmic contact ,Graphene nanoribbons - Abstract
Vertical heterostructures based on graphene have emerged as a unique architecture for novel electronic devices with unusual characteristics. Here we report a new design of vertical ambipolar barristors based on metal–graphene–silicon–graphene sandwich structure, using the bottom graphene as a gate-tunable “active contact”, the top graphene as an adaptable Ohmic contact, and the low doping thin silicon layer as the switchable channel. Importantly, with finite density of states and weak screening effect of graphene, we demonstrate, for the first time, that both the carrier concentration and majority carrier type in the sandwiched silicon can be readily modulated by gate potential penetrating through graphene. It can thus enable a new type of ambipolar barristors with an ON-OFF ratio exceeding 103. Significantly, these ambipolar barristors can be flexibly configured into either p-type or n-type transistors and used to create integrated circuits with reconfigurable logic functions. This unconventional device ...
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- 2017
12. Plant Exosomes As Novel Nanoplatforms for MicroRNA Transfer Stimulate Neural Differentiation of Stem Cells In Vitro and In Vivo.
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Xue-Han Xu, Tie-Jun Yuan, Dad, Haseeb Anwar, Mu-Yang Shi, Yi-Yu Huang, Zhi-Hong Jiang, and Li-Hua Peng
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- 2021
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13. In Situ Probing Molecular Intercalation in Two-Dimensional Layered Semiconductors
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Yuan Liu, Zhaoyang Lin, Xiangfeng Duan, Anxiang Yin, Chen Wang, Qiyuan He, Mengning Ding, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Udayabagya Halim, and Yu Huang
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Phase transition ,Materials science ,Graphene ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Intercalation (chemistry) ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,Conductivity ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,Semiconductor ,Chemical physics ,law ,Phase (matter) ,Monolayer ,Molecule ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
The electrochemical molecular intercalation of two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) produces stable and highly tunable superlattices between monolayer 2DLMs and self-assembled molecular layers. This process allows unprecedented flexibility in integrating highly distinct materials with atomic/molecular precision to produce a new generation of organic/inorganic superlattices with tunable chemical, electronic, and optical properties. To better understand the intercalation process, we developed an on-chip platform based on MoS2 model devices and used optical, electrochemical, and in situ electronic characterizations to resolve the intermediate stages during the intercalation process and monitor the evolution of the molecular superlattices. With sufficient charge injection, the organic cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) intercalation induces the phase transition of MoS2 from semiconducting 2H phase to semimetallic 1T phase, resulting in a dramatic increase of electrical conductivity. Therefore, in situ monitoring the evolution of the device conductance reveals the electrochemical intercalation dynamics with an abrupt conductivity change, signifying the onset of the molecule intercalation. In contrast, the intercalation of tetraheptylammonium bromide (THAB), a branched molecule in a larger size, resulting in a much smaller number of charges injected to avoid the 2H to 1T phase transition. Our study demonstrates a powerful platform for in situ monitoring the molecular intercalation of many 2DLMs (MoS2, WSe2, ReS2, PdSe2, TiS2, and graphene) and systematically probing electronic, optical, and optoelectronic properties at the single-nanosheet level.
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- 2019
14. PtCuNi Tetrahedra Catalysts with Tailored Surfaces for Efficient Alcohol Oxidation
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Yang Liu, Chengzhang Wan, Mufan Li, Jin Huang, Haotian Liu, Xiaoqing Pan, Mingjie Xu, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, and Zhihong Huang
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Ethanol ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Alloy ,Bioengineering ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,engineering.material ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Catalysis ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Alcohol oxidation ,High mass ,Tetrahedron ,engineering ,General Materials Science ,Methanol ,0210 nano-technology ,Ethanol oxidation reaction - Abstract
Direct methanol/ethanol alkaline fuel cells (DMAFCs/DEAFCs) represent an attractive mobile power generation technology. The methanol/ethanol oxidation reaction (MOR/EOR) often requires high-performance yet expensive Pt-based catalysts that may be easily poisoned. Herein, we report the development of PtCuNi tetrahedra electrocatalysts with optimized specific activity and mass activity for MOR and EOR. Our synthetic and structural characterizations show that these PtCuNi tetrahedra have Cu-rich core and PtNi-rich shell with tunable surface composition. Electrocatalytic studies demonstrate that Pt56Cu28Ni16 exhibits exceptional MOR and EOR specific activities of 14.0 ± 1.0 mA/cm2 and 11.2 ± 1.0 mA/cm2, respectively and record high mass activity of 7.0 ± 0.5 A/mgPt and 5.6 ± 0.6 A/mgPt, comparing favorably with the best MOR or EOR Pt alloy-based catalysts reported to date. Furthermore, we show that the unique core-shell tetrahedra configuration can also lead to considerably improved durability.
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- 2019
15. Peptide-Assisted 2-D Assembly toward Free-Floating Ultrathin Platinum Nanoplates as Effective Electrocatalysts
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Haotian Liu, Enbo Zhu, Wang Xue, Hendrik Heinz, Mingjie Xu, Yu Huang, Shiyi Wang, Chen Wang, Xucheng Yan, Jin Cai, Jin Huang, and Yujing Li
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Models, Molecular ,Materials science ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Peptide ,02 engineering and technology ,Electrocatalyst ,Catalysis ,Electricity ,General Materials Science ,T7 peptide ,Platinum ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Mechanical Engineering ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Mass activity ,Nanostructures ,Oxygen ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Nanocrystal ,Nanoparticles ,Grain boundary ,0210 nano-technology ,Peptides ,Oxidation-Reduction ,Palladium - Abstract
We demonstrate the 2-D anisotropic formation of ultrathin free-floating Pt nanoplates from the assembly of small nanocrystals using T7 peptide (Ac-TLTTLTN-CONH2). As-formed nanoplates are rich in grain boundaries that can promote their catalytic activities. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a minor number of Pd atoms can selectively deposit on and stabilize the grain boundaries, which leads to enhanced structure stability. The Pd-enhanced Pt polycrystal nanoplates show great oxygen reduction reaction activities with 15.5 times higher specific activity and 13.7 times higher mass activity than current state-of-the-art commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts as well as 2.5 times higher mass activity for hydrogen evolution reaction compared with Pt/C.
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- 2019
16. High-Performance Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors with Long-Term Air Stability
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Yu Huang, Yiliu Wang, Xinran Wang, Xiangfeng Duan, Daowei He, and Yi Shi
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Materials science ,Drift velocity ,Passivation ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Saturation velocity ,Bioengineering ,Heterojunction ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,symbols.namesake ,symbols ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Field-effect transistor ,Thin film ,van der Waals force ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Current density - Abstract
Two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) are of considerable interest for high-performance electronic devices for their unique electronic properties and atomically thin geometry. However, the atomically thin geometry makes their electronic properties highly susceptible to the environment changes. In particular, some 2DLMs (e.g., black phosphorus (BP) and SnSe2) are unstable and could rapidly degrade over time when exposed to ambient conditions. Therefore, the development of proper passivation schemes that can preserve the intrinsic properties and enhance their lifetime represents a key challenge for these atomically thin electronic materials. Herein we introduce a simple, nondisruptive, and scalable van der Waals passivation approach by using organic thin films to simultaneously improve the performance and air stability of BP field-effect transistors (FETs). We show that dioctylbenzothienobenzothiophene (C8-BTBT) thin films can be readily deposited on BP via van der Waals epitaxy approach to protect BP against oxidation in ambient conditions over 20 d. Importantly, the noncovalent van der Waals interface between C8-BTBT and BP effectively preserves the intrinsic properties of BP, allowing us to demonstrate high-performance BP FETs with a record-high current density of 920 μA/um, hole drift velocity over 1 × 107 cm/s, and on/off ratio of 1 × 104 to ∼1 × 107 at room temperature. This approach is generally applicable to other unstable two-dimensional materials, defining a unique pathway to modulate their electronic properties and realize high-performance devices through hybrid heterojunctions.
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- 2018
17. Pushing the Performance Limit of Sub-100 nm Molybdenum Disulfide Transistors
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Yecun Wu, Yuan Liu, Nathan O. Weiss, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Hao Wu, Yang Xu, Jian Guo, Imran Shakir, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Enbo Zhu, and Qiyuan He
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Fabrication ,Materials science ,Silicon ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,law ,General Materials Science ,Molybdenum disulfide ,business.industry ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Contact resistance ,Transistor ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,0104 chemical sciences ,Semiconductor ,chemistry ,Optoelectronics ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Two-dimensional semiconductors (2DSCs) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have attracted intense interest as an alternative electronic material in the postsilicon era. However, the ON-current density achieved in 2DSC transistors to date is considerably lower than that of silicon devices, and it remains an open question whether 2DSC transistors can offer competitive performance. A high current device requires simultaneous minimization of the contact resistance and channel length, which is a nontrivial challenge for atomically thin 2DSCs, since the typical low contact resistance approaches for 2DSCs either degrade the electronic properties of the channel or are incompatible with the fabrication process for short channel devices. Here, we report a new approach toward high-performance MoS2 transistors by using a physically assembled nanowire as a lift-off mask to create ultrashort channel devices with pristine MoS2 channel and self-aligned low resistance metal/graphene hybrid contact. With the optimized cont...
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- 2016
18. Seedless Growth of Palladium Nanocrystals with Tunable Structures: From Tetrahedra to Nanosheets
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Yu Huang, Enbo Zhu, Ying Zhang, Xiaoqing Huang, Mingsong Wang, and Yuebing Zheng
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Materials science ,Formic acid ,Mechanical Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Ascorbic acid ,Styrene ,Catalysis ,Metal ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Nanocrystal ,Chemical engineering ,visual_art ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,General Materials Science ,Nanosheet ,Palladium - Abstract
Despite the great success that has been accomplished on the controlled synthesis of Pd nanocrystals with various sizes and morphologies, an efficient approach to systematic production of well-defined Pd nanocrystals without seed-mediated approaches remains a significant challenge. In this work, we have developed an efficient synthetic method to directly produce Pd nanocrystals with a highly controllable feature. Three distinct Pd nanocrystals, namely, Pd nanosheets, Pd concave tetrahedra, and Pd tetrahedra, have been selectively prepared by simply introducing a small amount of ascorbic acid (AA) and/or water without the other synthesis conditions changed. We found that the combined use of AA and water is of importance for the successful production of the unique Pd nanosheets. Detailed catalytic investigations showed that all the obtained Pd nanocrystals exhibit higher activity in the formic acid electrooxidation and styrene hydrogenation with respect to the Pd black, and their activities are highly shape-dependent with Pd nanosheets demonstrating a higher activity than both the Pd concave tetrahedra and Pd tetrahedra, which is likely due to the simple yet important feature of ultrathin thickness of Pd nanosheets. The present work highlights the importance of structures in tuning the related properties of metallic nanocrystals.
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- 2015
19. Significantly Enhanced Visible Light Photoelectrochemical Activity in TiO2 Nanowire Arrays by Nitrogen Implantation
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Zhaoyang Lin, Chen Wang, Xiaoqing Huang, Ling Miao, Gongming Wang, Changzhong Jiang, Wenqing Li, Xiangheng Xiao, Yu Huang, Chi Chen, Xiangfeng Duan, Zipeng Zhao, and Yongjia Li
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Photocurrent ,Materials science ,Dopant ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Energy conversion efficiency ,Oxygen evolution ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Photochemistry ,Titanium oxide ,Optoelectronics ,Water splitting ,General Materials Science ,business ,Visible spectrum - Abstract
Titanium oxide (TiO2) represents one of most widely studied materials for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting but is severely limited by its poor efficiency in the visible light range. Here, we report a significant enhancement of visible light photoactivity in nitrogen-implanted TiO2 (N-TiO2) nanowire arrays. Our systematic studies show that a post-implantation thermal annealing treatment can selectively enrich the substitutional nitrogen dopants, which is essential for activating the nitrogen implanted TiO2 to achieve greatly enhanced visible light photoactivity. An incident photon to electron conversion efficiency (IPCE) of ∼10% is achieved at 450 nm in N-TiO2 without any other cocatalyst, far exceeding that in pristine TiO2 nanowires (∼0.2%). The integration of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) cocatalyst with N-TiO2 can further increase the IPCE at 450 nm to ∼17% and deliver an unprecedented overall photocurrent density of 1.9 mA/cm2, by integrating the IPCE spectrum with standard AM 1.5G solar s...
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- 2015
20. Solution Processable Colloidal Nanoplates as Building Blocks for High-Performance Electronic Thin Films on Flexible Substrates
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Xiangfeng Duan, Anxiang Yin, Xing Zhong, Qiyuan He, Xiaoqing Huang, Yu Chen, Yuan Liu, Zhaoyang Lin, Yuxi Xu, and Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Nanostructure ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Chemical vapor deposition ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Flexible electronics ,Quantum dot ,General Materials Science ,Grain boundary ,Thin film ,Solution process - Abstract
Low-temperature solution-processed electronic materials on plastic substrates are of considerable interest for flexible electronics. Solution dispersible inorganic nanostructures (e.g., zero-dimensional (0D) quantum dots or one-dimensional (1D) nanowires) have emerged as interesting ink materials for low-temperature solution processing of electronic thin films on flexible substrates, but usually with limited performance due to the large number of grain boundaries (0D) or incomplete surface coverage (1D). Here, we report two-dimensional (2D) colloidal nanoplates of layered materials as a new ink material for solution assembly of high-performance electronic thin films. The 2D colloidal nanoplates exhibit few dangling bonds and represent an ideal geometry for the assembly of highly uniform continuous thin films with greatly reduced grain boundaries dictated by large-area conformal plane-plane contact with atomically flat/clean interfaces. It can therefore promise efficient charge transport across neighboring nanoplates and throughout the entire thin film to enable unprecedented electronic performance. We show that Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 nanoplates can be synthesized with well-controlled thickness (6-15 nm) and lateral dimension (0.5-3 μm) and can be used for the assembly of highly uniform continuous thin films with a full surface coverage and an excellent room temperature carrier mobility >100 cm(2)·V(-1)·s(-1), approaching that of chemical vapor deposition grown materials. Our study demonstrates a general strategy to using 2D nanoplates as a unique building block for the construction of high-performance electronic thin films on plastic substrates for future flexible electronics and optoelectronics.
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- 2014
21. Highly Flexible Electronics from Scalable Vertical Thin Film Transistors
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Xiangfeng Duan, Yuan Liu, Woo Jong Yu, Rui Cheng, Hailong Zhou, and Yu Huang
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Materials science ,business.industry ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transistor ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Flexible electronics ,law.invention ,law ,Thin-film transistor ,Logic gate ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Work function ,Thin film ,business ,Macroelectronics - Abstract
Flexible thin-film transistors (TFTs) are of central importance for diverse electronic and particularly macroelectronic applications. The current TFTs using organic or inorganic thin film semiconductors are usually limited by either poor electrical performance or insufficient mechanical flexibility. Here, we report a new design of highly flexible vertical TFTs (VTFTs) with superior electrical performance and mechanical robustness. By using the graphene as a work-function tunable contact for amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) thin film, the vertical current flow across the graphene-IGZO junction can be effectively modulated by an external gate potential to enable VTFTs with a highest on-off ratio exceeding 10(5). The unique vertical transistor architecture can readily enable ultrashort channel devices with very high delivering current and exceptional mechanical flexibility. With large area graphene and IGZO thin film available, our strategy is intrinsically scalable for large scale integration of VTFT arrays and logic circuits, opening up a new pathway to highly flexible macroelectronics.
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- 2014
22. Gold Catalyzed Nickel Disilicide Formation: A New Solid–Liquid–Solid Phase Growth Mechanism
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Wei Tang, King-Ning Tu, Jian Yu Huang, Shadi A. Dayeh, S. Tom Picraux, and Xiaohua Liu
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Silicon ,Materials science ,Alloy ,Nucleation ,Oxide ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,engineering.material ,Catalysis ,Phase Transition ,Contact angle ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nickel ,Silicide ,General Materials Science ,Dissolution ,Nanowires ,Mechanical Engineering ,Metallurgy ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Semiconductors ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,engineering ,Gold - Abstract
The vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism is the predominate growth mechanism for semiconductor nanowires (NWs). We report here a new solid-liquid-solid (SLS) growth mechanism of a silicide phase in Si NWs using in situ transmission electron microcopy (TEM). The new SLS mechanism is analogous to the VLS one in relying on a liquid-mediating growth seed, but it is fundamentally different in terms of nucleation and mass transport. In SLS growth of Ni disilicide, the Ni atoms are supplied from remote Ni particles by interstitial diffusion through a Si NW to the pre-existing Au-Si liquid alloy drop at the tip of the NW. Upon supersaturation of both Ni and Si in Au, an octahedral nucleus of Ni disilicide (NiSi2) forms at the center of the Au liquid alloy, which thereafter sweeps through the Si NW and transforms Si into NiSi2. The dissolution of Si by the Au alloy liquid mediating layer proceeds with contact angle oscillation at the triple point where Si, oxide of Si, and the Au alloy meet, whereas NiSi2 is grown from the liquid mediating layer in an atomic stepwise manner. By using in situ quenching experiments, we are able to measure the solubility of Ni and Si in the Au-Ni-Si ternary alloy. The Au-catalyzed mechanism can lower the formation temperature of NiSi2 by 100 °C compared with an all solid state reaction.
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- 2013
23. Nucleation and Atomic Layer Reaction in Nickel Silicide for Defect-Engineered Si Nanochannels
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Wei Tang, Jian Yu Huang, Shadi A. Dayeh, King-Ning Tu, Andriy Gusak, and S. Tom Picraux
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Materials science ,Silicon ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nucleation ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrical contacts ,chemistry ,Transmission electron microscopy ,Microelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Grain boundary ,High-resolution transmission electron microscopy ,Crystal twinning ,business - Abstract
At the nanoscale, defects can significantly impact phase transformation processes and change materials properties. The material nickel silicide has been the industry standard electrical contact of silicon microelectronics for decades and is a rich platform for scientific innovation at the conjunction of materials and electronics. Its formation in nanoscale silicon devices that employ high levels of strain, intentional, and unintentional twins or grain boundaries can be dramatically different from the commonly conceived bulk processes. Here, using in situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), we capture single events during heterogeneous nucleation and atomic layer reaction of nickel silicide at various crystalline boundaries in Si nanochannels for the first time. We show through systematic experiments and analytical modeling that unlike other typical face-centered cubic materials such as copper or silicon the twin defects in NiSi2 have high interfacial energies. We observe that these twin defects dramatically change the behavior of new phase nucleation and can have direct implications for ultrascaled devices that are prone to defects or may utilize them to improve device performance.
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- 2013
24. In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of Electrochemical Oxidation of Li2O2
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Carl V. Thompson, Scott X. Mao, Betar M. Gallant, Jian Yu Huang, Li Zhong, Yang Liu, Robert R. Mitchell, and Yang Shao-Horn
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High rate ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Inorganic chemistry ,Kinetics ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrochemistry ,Electron transport chain ,In situ transmission electron microscopy ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,General Materials Science ,Carbon ,Lithium–air battery ,Lithium peroxide - Abstract
In this Letter, we report the first in situ transmission electron microscopy observation of electrochemical oxidation of Li2O2, providing insights into the rate limiting processes that govern charge in Li-O2 cells. In these studies, oxidation of electrochemically formed Li2O2 particles, supported on multiwall carbon nanotutubes (MWCNTs), was found to occur preferentially at the MWCNT/Li2O2 interface, suggesting that electron transport in Li2O2 ultimately limits the oxidation kinetics at high rates or overpotentials.
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- 2013
25. Morphology and Phase Controlled Construction of Pt-Ni Nanostructures for Efficient Electrocatalysis
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Xiaoqing Huang, Lingzheng Bu, Jiabao Ding, Yu Huang, Enbo Zhu, Shaojun Guo, and Zipeng Zhao
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Materials science ,Nanostructure ,Mechanical Engineering ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrocatalyst ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Catalysis ,Metal ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nanocrystal ,chemistry ,Oleylamine ,Phase (matter) ,visual_art ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,General Materials Science ,0210 nano-technology ,Bimetallic strip - Abstract
Highly open metallic nanoframes represent an emerging class of new nanostructures for advanced catalytic applications due to their fancy outline and largely increased accessible surface area. However, to date, the creation of bimetallic nanoframes with tunable structure remains a challenge. Herein, we develop a simple yet efficient chemical method that allows the preparation of highly composition segregated Pt-Ni nanocrystals with controllable shape and high yield. The selective use of dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC) and control of oleylamine (OM)/oleic acid (OA) ratio are critical to the controllable creation of highly composition segregated Pt-Ni nanocrystals. While DTAC mediates the compositional anisotropic growth, the OM/OA ratio controls the shapes of the obtained highly composition segregated Pt-Ni nanocrystals. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on composition segregated tetrahexahedral Pt-Ni NCs. Importantly, by simply treating the highly composition segregated Pt-Ni nanocrystals with acetic acid overnight, those solid Pt-Ni nanocrystals can be readily transformed into highly open Pt-Ni nanoframes with hardly changed shape and size. The resulting highly open Pt-Ni nanoframes are high-performance electrocatalysts for both oxygen reduction reaction and alcohol oxidations, which are far better than those of commercial Pt/C catalyst. Our results reported herein suggest that enhanced catalysts can be developed by engineering the structure/composition of the nanocrystals.
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- 2016
26. Crystallinity Control of Ferromagnetic Contacts in Stressed Nanowire Templates and the Magnetic Domain Anisotropy
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Renjie Chen, Yu Huang, Kaushik Ghosh, Yu Chen, Qihua Xiong, Yung-Chen Lin, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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Materials science ,Magnetic domain ,Condensed matter physics ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Germanide ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Magnetic anisotropy ,Magnetization ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Crystallography ,Ferromagnetism ,chemistry ,General Materials Science ,Crystallite ,Anisotropy - Abstract
We report the controlled growth of single-crystalline ferromagnetic contacts through solid state reaction at nanoscale. Single-crystal Mn(5)Si(3) and Fe(5)Ge(3) contacts were grown within stressed Si and Ge nanowire templates, where oxide-shells were used to exert compressive stress on the silicide or germanide. Compared to polycrystalline silicide and germanide structures observed within bare nanowires, the built-in high strain in the oxide-shelled nanostructures alters the nucleation behavior of the ferromagnetic materials, leading to single crystal growth in the transverse/radial direction. Interestingly, the compressive stress is also found to affect the magnetic anisotropy of the ferromagnetic contacts. In-plane and out-of-plane magnetization were observed in Fe(5)Ge(3) for different crystal orientations, showing distinctly preferred domain orientations. These interesting results display the capability to control both the crystallinity and the magnetic anisotropy of ferromagnetic contacts in engineered nanostructures.
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- 2012
27. Ultrashort Channel Silicon Nanowire Transistors with Nickel Silicide Source/Drain Contacts
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S. Tom Picraux, Shadi A. Dayeh, King-Ning Tu, Jian Yu Huang, and Wei Tang
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Range (particle radiation) ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Schottky barrier ,Transconductance ,Transistor ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,law ,Transmission electron microscopy ,Phase (matter) ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Silicon nanowires ,business ,Communication channel - Abstract
We demonstrate the shortest transistor channel length (17 nm) fabricated on a vapor−liquid−solid (VLS) grown silicon nanowire (NW) by a controlled reaction with Ni leads on an in situ transmission electron microscope (TEM) heating stage at a moderate temperature of 400 °C. NiSi2 is the leading phase, and the silicide−silicon interface is an atomically sharp type-A interface. At such channel lengths, high maximum on-currents of 890 (μA/μm) and a maximum transconduc- tance of 430 (μS/μm) were obtained, which pushes forward the performance of bottom-up Si NW Schottky barrier field- effect transistors (SB-FETs). Through accurate control over the silicidation reaction, we provide a systematic study of channel length dependent carrier transport in a large number of SB- FETs with channel lengths in the range of 17 nm to 3.6 μm. Our device results corroborate with our transport simulations and reveal a characteristic type of short channel effects in SB-FETs, both in on- and off-state, which is different from that in conventional MOSFETs, and that limits transport parameter extraction from SB-FETs using conventional field-effect transconductance measurements.
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- 2012
28. Domain Wall Motion in Synthetic Co2Si Nanowires
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Xiangfeng Duan, Yu Chen, Nathan O. Weiss, Yung-Chen Lin, Yu Huang, Lixin Liu, Hailong Zhou, Yuan Liu, Gang Liu, and Lei Liao
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Silicon ,Materials science ,Magnetic domain ,Magnetoresistance ,Field (physics) ,Surface Properties ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Article ,Crystal ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Magnetics ,Condensed Matter::Superconductivity ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,Condensed matter physics ,Nanowires ,Mechanical Engineering ,Temperature ,Cobalt ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Domain wall (magnetism) ,chemistry ,Ferromagnetism ,Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
We report the synthesis of single crystalline Co2Si nanowires, and electrical transport studies of single Co2Si nanowire devices at low temperature. The butterfly-shaped magnetoresistance shows interesting ferromagnetic features including negative magnetoresistance, hysteretic switch fields and step-wise drops in magnetoresistance. The non-smooth step-wise magnetoresistance response is attributed to magnetic domain wall pinning and de-pinning motion in the Co2Si nanowires probably at crystal defects or morphology defects. The temperature dependence of the domain wall de-pinning field is observed and is described by a model based on thermally assisted domain wall de-pinning over a single energy barrier.
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- 2012
29. van der Waals Heterojunction Devices Based on Organohalide Perovskites and Two-Dimensional Materials
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Yu Huang, Dehui Li, Yuan Liu, Xiangfeng Duan, Gongming Wang, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Qiyuan He, Anxiang Yin, Hao Wu, and Mengning Ding
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Materials science ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,symbols.namesake ,law ,General Materials Science ,Lithography ,Perovskite (structure) ,Diode ,Condensed Matter - Materials Science ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Photoconductivity ,Transistor ,Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) ,Heterojunction ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,0104 chemical sciences ,symbols ,van der Waals force ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
The recently emerged organohalide perovskites (e.g., CH3NH3PbI3) have drawn intense attention for high efficiency solar cells. However, with a considerable solubility in many solvents, these perovskites are not typically compatible with conventional lithography processes for more complicated device fabrications that are important for both fundamental studies and technological applications. Here, we report the creation of novel heterojunction devices based on perovskites and two-dimensional (2D) crystals by taking advantage of the layered characteristic of lead iodide (PbI2) and vapor-phase intercalation. We show that a graphene/perovskite/graphene vertical stack can deliver a highest photoresponsivity of ∼950 A/W and photoconductive gain of ∼2200, and a graphene/WSe2/perovskite/graphene heterojunction can display a high on/off ratio (∼10(6)) transistor behavior with distinct gate-tunable diode characteristics and open-circuit voltages. Such unique perovskite-2D heterostructures have significant potential for future optoelectronic research and can enable broad possibilities with compositional tunability of organohalide perovskites and the versatility offered by diverse 2D materials.
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- 2015
30. Synthesis of WS2xSe2-2x Alloy Nanosheets with Composition-Tunable Electronic Properties
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Guolin Hao, Zheng Fan, Xueping Wu, Jian-Hui Jiang, Ruqin Yu, Liangzhi Kou, Udayabagya Halim, Anlian Pan, Xidong Duan, Xiangfeng Duan, Honglai Li, Yicheng Wang, Yu Huang, and Chen Wang
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Materials science ,Band gap ,Alloy ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,engineering.material ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,law ,General Materials Science ,Electronics ,Nanosheet ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transistor ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,0104 chemical sciences ,Semiconductor ,engineering ,Field-effect transistor ,Charge carrier ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of atomically thin semiconductors for diverse electronic, optoelectronic, and valleytronic applications. To explore the full potential of these 2D semiconductors requires a precise control of their band gap and electronic properties, which represents a significant challenge in 2D material systems. Here we demonstrate a systematic control of the electronic properties of 2D-TMDs by creating mixed alloys of the intrinsically p-type WSe2 and intrinsically n-type WS2 with variable alloy compositions. We show that a series of WS2xSe2-2x alloy nanosheets can be synthesized with fully tunable chemical compositions and optical properties. Electrical transport studies using back-gated field effect transistors demonstrate that charge carrier types and threshold voltages of the alloy nanosheet transistors can be systematically tuned by adjusting the alloy composition. A highly p-type behavior is observed in selenium-rich alloy, which gradually shifts to lightly p-type, and then switches to lightly n-type characteristics with the increasing sulfur atomic ratio, and eventually evolves into highly n-doped semiconductors in sulfur-rich alloys. The synthesis of WS2xSe2-2x nanosheets with tunable optical and electronic properties represents a critical step toward rational design of 2D electronics with tailored spectral responses and device characteristics.
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- 2015
31. Size-Dependent Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Silica Glass Nanofibers
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Junhang Luo, Qing Yang, Jiangwei Wang, He Zheng, Ju Li, Jian Yu Huang, Scott X. Mao, Limin Tong, and Erik Bitzek
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Materials science ,Nanofibers ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,Plasticity ,01 natural sciences ,Phase Transition ,Brittleness ,Flexural strength ,Tensile Strength ,0103 physical sciences ,Ultimate tensile strength ,Formability ,Humans ,General Materials Science ,Composite material ,Ductility ,010302 applied physics ,Mechanical Engineering ,Temperature ,General Chemistry ,Strain rate ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Silicon Dioxide ,Amorphous solid ,Glass ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
Silica (SiO2) glass, an essential material in human civilization, possesses excellent formability near its glass-transition temperature (Tg > 1100 °C). However, bulk SiO2 glass is very brittle at room temperature. Here we show a surprising brittle-to-ductile transition of SiO2 glass nanofibers at room temperature as its diameter reduces below 18 nm, accompanied by ultrahigh fracture strength. Large tensile plastic elongation up to 18% can be achieved at low strain rate. The unexpected ductility is due to a free surface affected zone in the nanofibers, with enhanced ionic mobility compared to the bulk that improves ductility by producing more bond-switching events per irreversible bond loss under tensile stress. Our discovery is fundamentally important for understanding the damage tolerance of small-scale amorphous structures.
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- 2015
32. Growth, Defect Formation, and Morphology Control of Germanium–Silicon Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures
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Jian Wang, Aaron Gin, Nan Li, S. Thomas Picraux, Shadi A. Dayeh, and Jian Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Silicon ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Stacking ,Nucleation ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Germanium ,Heterojunction ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Semiconductor ,chemistry ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Thin film ,business - Abstract
By the virtue of the nature of the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth process in semiconductor nanowires (NWs) and their small size, the nucleation, propagation, and termination of stacking defects in NWs are dramatically different from that in thin films. We demonstrate germanium-silicon axial NW heterostructure growth by the VLS method with 100% composition modulation and use these structures as a platform to understand how defects in stacking sequence force the ledge nucleation site to be moved along or pinned at a single point on the triple-phase circumference, which in turn determines the NW morphology. Combining structural analysis and atomistic simulation of the nucleation and propagation of stacking defects, we explain these observations based on preferred nucleation sites during NW growth. The stacking defects are found to provide a fingerprint of the layer-by-layer growth process and reveal how the 19.5° kinking in semiconductor NWs observed at high Si growth rates results from a stacking-induced twin boundary formation at the NW edge. This study provides basic foundations for an atomic level understanding of crystalline and defective ledge nucleation and propagation during [111] oriented NW growth and improves understanding for control of fault nucleation and kinking in NWs.
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- 2011
33. Reversible Nanopore Formation in Ge Nanowires during Lithiation–Delithiation Cycling: An In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study
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Ju Li, Shan Huang, Xiao Hua Liu, Jian Yu Huang, Ting Zhu, and S. Tom Picraux
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Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Microstructure ,Lithium-ion battery ,Ion ,In situ transmission electron microscopy ,Nanopore ,chemistry ,Energy density ,General Materials Science ,Lithium - Abstract
Retaining the high energy density of rechargeable lithium ion batteries depends critically on the cycle stability of microstructures in electrode materials. We report the reversible formation of nanoporosity in individual germanium nanowires during lithiation-delithiation cycling by in situ transmission electron microscopy. Upon lithium insertion, the initial crystalline Ge underwent a two-step phase transformation process: forming the intermediate amorphous Li(x)Ge and final crystalline Li(15)Ge(4) phases. Nanopores developed only during delithiation, involving the aggregation of vacancies produced by lithium extraction, similar to the formation of porous metals in dealloying. A delithiation front was observed to separate a dense nanowire segment of crystalline Li(15)Ge(4) with a porous spongelike segment composed of interconnected ligaments of amorphous Ge. This front sweeps along the wire with a logarithmic time law. Intriguingly, the porous nanowires exhibited fast lithiation/delithiation rates and excellent mechanical robustness, attributed to the high rate of lithium diffusion and the porous network structure for facile stress relaxation, respectively. These results suggest that Ge, which can develop a reversible nanoporous network structure, is a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries with superior energy capacity, rate performance, and cycle stability.
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- 2011
34. Anisotropic Swelling and Fracture of Silicon Nanowires during Lithiation
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S. Tom Picraux, Eric Epstein, Li Zhong, John Cumings, Jian Yu Huang, Wentao Liang, John P. Sullivan, Zhizhen Ye, Liqiang Zhang, Ting Zhu, Sulin Zhang, Jiangwei Wang, Akihiro Kushima, Ju Li, Khim Karki, Jeong Hyun Cho, Yang Liu, Shan Huang, Shadi A. Dayeh, He Zheng, Scott X. Mao, Chunsheng Wang, and Xiao Hua Liu
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Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Electrolyte ,Plasticity ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Lithium-ion battery ,chemistry ,Ultimate tensile strength ,medicine ,General Materials Science ,Lithium ,Swelling ,medicine.symptom ,Composite material ,Necking - Abstract
We report direct observation of an unexpected anisotropic swelling of Si nanowires during lithiation against either a solid electrolyte with a lithium counter-electrode or a liquid electrolyte with a LiCoO(2) counter-electrode. Such anisotropic expansion is attributed to the interfacial processes of accommodating large volumetric strains at the lithiation reaction front that depend sensitively on the crystallographic orientation. This anisotropic swelling results in lithiated Si nanowires with a remarkable dumbbell-shaped cross section, which develops due to plastic flow and an ensuing necking instability that is induced by the tensile hoop stress buildup in the lithiated shell. The plasticity-driven morphological instabilities often lead to fracture in lithiated nanowires, now captured in video. These results provide important insight into the battery degradation mechanisms.
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- 2011
35. Scalable Fabrication of Self-Aligned Graphene Transistors and Circuits on Glass
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Lixin Liu, Rui Cheng, Xiangfeng Duan, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Hailong Zhou, Jingwei Bai, and Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Transistors, Electronic ,Transconductance ,Molecular Conformation ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Substrate (electronics) ,Article ,law.invention ,law ,General Materials Science ,Electronic circuit ,business.industry ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transistor ,Equipment Design ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Cutoff frequency ,Nanostructures ,Equipment Failure Analysis ,Optoelectronics ,Graphite ,business ,Graphene nanoribbons - Abstract
Graphene transistors are of considerable interest for radio frequency (rf) applications. High-frequency graphene transistors with the intrinsic cutoff frequency up to 300 GHz have been demonstrated. However, the graphene transistors reported to date only exhibit a limited extrinsic cutoff frequency up to about 10 GHz, and functional graphene circuits demonstrated so far can merely operate in the tens of megahertz regime, far from the potential the graphene transistors could offer. Here we report a scalable approach to fabricate self-aligned graphene transistors with the extrinsic cutoff frequency exceeding 50 GHz and graphene circuits that can operate in the 1-10 GHz regime. The devices are fabricated on a glass substrate through a self-aligned process by using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene and a dielectrophoretic assembled nanowire gate array. The self-aligned process allows the achievement of unprecedented performance in CVD graphene transistors with a highest transconductance of 0.36 mS/μm. The use of an insulating substrate minimizes the parasitic capacitance and has therefore enabled graphene transistors with a record-high extrinsic cutoff frequency (50 GHz) achieved to date. The excellent extrinsic cutoff frequency readily allows configuring the graphene transistors into frequency doubling or mixing circuits functioning in the 1-10 GHz regime, a significant advancement over previous reports (∼20 MHz). The studies open a pathway to scalable fabrication of high-speed graphene transistors and functional circuits and represent a significant step forward to graphene based radio frequency devices.
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- 2011
36. The Influence of Surface Oxide on the Growth of Metal/Semiconductor Nanowires
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Wen-Wei Wu, Kuo Chang Lu, King-Ning Tu, Yu Huang, Chun Wen Wang, Lih J. Chen, Yung-Chen Lin, Zheng Wei Wu, Hao Ouyang, and Chun Wei Huang
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Silicon ,Materials science ,Surface Properties ,Nanowire ,Oxide ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Epitaxy ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Silicide ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,Platinum ,Nanowires ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Oxides ,Heterojunction ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Semiconductor ,Semiconductors ,chemistry ,Optoelectronics ,business ,Single crystal - Abstract
We report the critical effects of oxide on the growth of nanostructures through silicide formation. Under an in situ ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscope, it is observed from the conversion of Si nanowires into the metallic PtSi grains epitaxially through controlled reactions between lithographically defined Pt pads and Si nanowires. With oxide, instead of contact area, single crystal PtSi grains start forming either near the center between two adjacent pads or from the ends of Si nanowires, resulting in the heterostructure formation of Si/PtSi/Si. Without oxide, transformation from Si into PtSi begins at the contact area between them, resulting in the heterostructure formation of PtSi/Si/PtSi. The nanowire heterostructures have an atomically sharp interface with epitaxial relationships of Si(20-2)//PtSi(10-1) and Si[111]//PtSi[111]. Additionally, it has been observed that the existence of oxide significantly affects not only the growth position but also the growth behavior and the growth rate by two orders of magnitude. Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to support our experimental results and the proposed growth mechanisms. In addition to fundamental science, the significance of the study matters for future processing techniques in nanotechnology and related applications as well.
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- 2011
37. Top-Gated Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Graphene Transistors with Current Saturation
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Lei Liao, Yu Huang, Rui Cheng, Lixin Liu, Hailong Zhou, Xiangfeng Duan, and Jingwei Bai
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Materials science ,business.industry ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Transconductance ,Transistor ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Chemical vapor deposition ,Dielectric ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,law ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,business ,Saturation (magnetic) ,Graphene nanoribbons ,High-κ dielectric - Abstract
Graphene transistors are of considerable interest for radio frequency (rf) applications. In general, transistors with large transconductance and drain current saturation are desirable for rf performance, which is however nontrivial to achieve in graphene transistors. Here we report high-performance top-gated graphene transistors based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene with large transconductance and drain current saturation. The graphene transistors were fabricated with evaporated high dielectric constant material (HfO(2)) as the top-gate dielectrics. Length scaling studies of the transistors with channel length from 5.6 μm to 100 nm show that complete current saturation can be achieved in 5.6 μm devices and the saturation characteristics degrade as the channel length shrinks down to the 100-300 nm regime. The drain current saturation was primarily attributed to drain bias induced shift of the Dirac points. With the selective deposition of HfO(2) gate dielectrics, we have further demonstrated a simple scheme to realize a 300 nm channel length graphene transistors with self-aligned source-drain electrodes to achieve the highest transconductance of 250 μS/μm reported in CVD graphene to date.
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- 2011
38. In Situ Nanomechanics of GaN Nanowires
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Jian Yu Huang, Qiming Li, Scott X. Mao, George T. Wang, and He Zheng
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Materials science ,Macromolecular Substances ,Surface Properties ,Molecular Conformation ,Nucleation ,Nanowire ,Gallium ,Bioengineering ,Plasticity ,Brittleness ,Elastic Modulus ,Tensile Strength ,Materials Testing ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,Composite material ,Mechanical Engineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Nanostructures ,Crystallography ,Fracture (geology) ,Stress, Mechanical ,Dislocation ,Deformation (engineering) ,Nanomechanics - Abstract
The deformation, fracture mechanisms, and the fracture strength of individual GaN nanowires were measured in real time using a transmission electron microscope-scanning probe microscope (TEM-SPM) platform. Surface mediated plasticity, such as dislocation nucleation from a free surface and plastic deformation between the SPM probe (the punch) and the nanowire contact surface were observed in situ. Although local plasticity was observed frequently, global plasticity was not observed, indicating the overall brittle nature of this material. Dislocation nucleation and propagation is a precursor before the fracture event, but the fracture surface shows brittle characteristic. The fracture surface is not straight but kinked at (10-10) or (10-11) planes. Dislocations are generated at a stress near the fracture strength of the nanowire, which ranges from 0.21 to 1.76 GPa. The results assess the mechanical properties of GaN nanowires and may provide important insight into the design of GaN nanowire devices for electronic and optoelectronic applications.
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- 2011
39. Edge Effect on Resistance Scaling Rules in Graphene Nanostructures
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Yu Huang, Carlos M. Torres, Emil B. Song, Guangyu Xu, Kang L. Wang, Xiangfeng Duan, Jingwei Bai, Jianshi Tang, and Yuegang Zhang
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Physics ,Nanostructure ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,Condensed matter physics ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Bilayer ,Crossover ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Edge (geometry) ,Condensed Matter Physics ,On resistance ,law.invention ,law ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,General Materials Science ,Physics::Chemical Physics ,Layer (electronics) ,Scaling - Abstract
We report an experimental investigation of the edge effect on the room-temperature transport in graphene nanoribbon and graphene sheet (both single-layer and bilayer). By measuring the resistance scaling behaviors at both low and high carrier densities, we show that the transport of single-layer nanoribbons lies in a strong localization regime, which can be attributed to an edge effect. We find that this edge effect can be weakened by enlarging the width, decreasing the carrier densities or adding an extra layer. From graphene nanoribbon to graphene sheet, the data show a dimensional crossover of the transport regimes possibly due to the drastic change of the edge effect., Comment: Accepted by Nano Letters
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- 2011
40. Growth of Nickel Silicides in Si and Si/SiOx Core/Shell Nanowires
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Yu Huang, Yung-Chen Lin, Yu Chen, and Di Xu
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inorganic chemicals ,Silicon ,Materials science ,Nanostructure ,Macromolecular Substances ,Surface Properties ,Annealing (metallurgy) ,Molecular Conformation ,Nanowire ,Oxide ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nitride ,Phase Transition ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nickel ,Materials Testing ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,Thin film ,Mechanical Engineering ,Silicon Compounds ,Metallurgy ,General Chemistry ,Silicon Dioxide ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Nanostructures ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,Crystallization - Abstract
We exploited the oxide shell structure to explore the structure confinement effect on the nickel silicide growth in one-dimensional nanowire template. The oxide confinement structure is similar to the contact structure (via hole) in the thin film system or nanodevices passivated by oxide or nitride film. Silicon nanowires in direct contact with nickel pads transform into two phases of nickel silicides, Ni31Si12 and NiSi2, after one-step annealing at 550 °C. In a bare Si nanowire during the annealing process, NiSi2 grows initially through the nanowire, followed by the transformation of NiSi2 into the nickel-rich phase, Ni31Si12 starting from near the nickel pad. Ni31Si12 is also observed under the nickel pads. Although the same phase transformations of Si to nickel silicides are observed in nanowires with oxide confinement structure, the growth rate of nickel silicides, Ni31Si12 and NiSi2, is retarded dramatically. With increasing oxide thickness from 5 to 50 nm, the retarding effect of the Ni31Si12 growth and the annihilation of Ni2Si into the oxide confined-Si is clearly observed. Ni31Si12 and Ni2Si phases are limited to grow into the Si/SiOx core-shell nanowire as the shell thickness reaches 50 nm. It is experimental evidence that phase transformation is influenced by the stressed structure at nanoscale.
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- 2010
41. Top-Gated Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors with Ultrathin High-k Dielectrics
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Shan Jiang, Jingwei Bai, Rui Cheng, Xiangfeng Duan, Lei Liao, Yung-Chen Lin, and Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Transistors, Electronic ,Transconductance ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Dielectric ,Article ,law.invention ,Atomic layer deposition ,law ,Materials Testing ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,High-κ dielectric ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Electric Conductivity ,Equipment Design ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Nanostructures ,Equipment Failure Analysis ,Nanoelectronics ,Graphite ,Crystallization ,Graphene nanoribbons - Abstract
The integration ultrathin high dielectric constant (high-k) materials with graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) for top-gated transistors can push their performance limit for nanoscale electronics. Here we report the assembly of Si/HfO(2) core/shell nanowires on top of individual GNRs as the top-gates for GNR field-effect transistors with ultrathin high-k dielectrics. The Si/HfO(2) core/shell nanowires are synthesized by atomic layer deposition of the HfO(2) shell on highly doped silicon nanowires with a precise control of the dielectric thickness down to 1-2 nm. Using the core/shell nanowires as the top-gates, high-performance GNR transistors have been achieved with transconductance reaching 3.2 mS microm(-1), the highest value for GNR transistors reported to date. This method, for the first time, demonstrates the effective integration of ultrathin high-k dielectrics with graphene with precisely controlled thickness and quality, representing an important step toward high-performance graphene electronics.
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- 2010
42. Rational Design and Synthesis of Freestanding Photoelectric Nanodevices as Highly Efficient Photocatalysts
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Yu Huang, Lei Liao, Xiangfeng Duan, Yue Wang, Yongquan Qu, Yung-Chen Lin, and Rui Cheng
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Nanostructure ,Materials science ,Light ,Transducers ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Photovoltaic effect ,Catalysis ,Article ,Artificial photosynthesis ,law.invention ,Electric Power Supplies ,law ,General Materials Science ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Optical Devices ,Schottky diode ,Equipment Design ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Solar fuel ,Photodiode ,Equipment Failure Analysis ,Energy Transfer ,Semiconductors ,Optoelectronics ,Quantum efficiency ,business - Abstract
Photocatalysts are of significant interest in solar energy harvesting and conversion into chemical energy. However, the photocatalysts available to date are limited by either poor efficiency in the visible light range or insufficient photoelectrochemical stability. Here we report the rational design of a new generation of freestanding photoelectric nanodevices as highly efficient and stable photocatalysts by integrating a nanoscale photodiode with two redox catalysts in a single nanowire heterostructure. We show that a platinum-silicon-silver nanowire heterostructure can be synthesized to integrate a nanoscale metal-semiconductor Schottky diode encased in a protective insulating shell with two exposed metal catalysts. We further demonstrated that the Schottky diodes exhibited a pronounced photovoltaic effect with nearly unity internal quantum efficiency and that the integrated nanowire heterostructures could be used as highly efficient photocatalysts for a wide range of thermodynamically downhill and uphill reactions including the photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes and the reduction of metal ions and carbon dioxide using visible light. Our studies for the first time demonstrated the integration of multiple distinct functional components into a single nanostructure to form a standalone active nanosystem and for the first time successfully realized a photoelectric nanodevice that is both highly efficient and highly stable throughout the entire solar spectrum. It thus opens a rational avenue to the design and synthesis of a new generation of photoelectric nanosystems with unprecedented efficiency and stability and will have a broad impact in areas including environmental remediation, artificial photosynthesis and solar fuel production.
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- 2010
43. Electrically Conductive and Optically Active Porous Silicon Nanowires
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Yongquan Qu, Yujing Li, Xiangfeng Duan, Hua Zhang, Yu Huang, and Lei Liao
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Silicon ,Materials science ,Light ,Macromolecular Substances ,Surface Properties ,Hybrid silicon laser ,Molecular Conformation ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Porous silicon ,Article ,Etching (microfabrication) ,Materials Testing ,Scattering, Radiation ,General Materials Science ,Particle Size ,Nanoporous ,Mechanical Engineering ,Electric Conductivity ,Nanocrystalline silicon ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Isotropic etching ,Nanostructures ,Refractometry ,chemistry ,Crystallization ,Porosity - Abstract
We report the synthesis of vertical silicon nanowire array through a two-step metal-assisted chemical etching of highly doped n-type silicon (100) wafers in a solution of hydrofluoric acid and hydrogen peroxide. The morphology of the as-grown silicon nanowires is tunable from solid nonporous nanowires, nonporous/nanoporous core/shell nanowires, and entirely nanoporous nanowires by controlling the hydrogen peroxide concentration in the etching solution. The porous silicon nanowires retain the single crystalline structure and crystallographic orientation of the starting silicon wafer, and are electrically conductive and optically active with visible photoluminescence. The combination of electronic and optical properties in the porous silicon nanowires may provide a platform for the novel optoelectronic devices for energy harvesting, conversion and biosensing.
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- 2009
44. Superplastic Nanowires Pulled from the Surface of Common Salt
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Junhang Luo, Nathan W. Moore, Scott X. Mao, Jack E. Houston, and Jian Yu Huang
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Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Diffusion ,Bent molecular geometry ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Superplasticity ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Crystallography ,Transmission electron microscopy ,Cathode ray ,General Materials Science ,Composite material ,Elongation ,Dislocation - Abstract
Superplastic nanowires were formed by touching the NaCl(100) surface with a Au tip in a transmission electron microscope. The nanowires were stretchedor =2.2 microm, or 280%, and bent90 degrees upon compression, when showered with the electron beam. More surprisingly, no dislocations were observable during the elongation due to fast diffusion. Mechanical measurements in humid atmospheres suggest that salt nanowires also form in ambient environments.
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- 2009
45. Rational Fabrication of Graphene Nanoribbons Using a Nanowire Etch Mask
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Xiangfeng Duan, Jingwei Bai, and Yu Huang
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Plasma etching ,Materials science ,Graphene ,Band gap ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,Nanoelectronics ,law ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Electrical measurements ,Field-effect transistor ,business ,Graphene nanoribbons - Abstract
We report a rational approach to fabricate graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with sub-10 nm width by employing chemically synthesized nanowires as the physical protection mask in oxygen plasma etch. Atomic force microscopy study shows that the patterns of the resulted nanoribbons replicate exactly those of mask nanowires so that ribbons or branched or crossed graphene nanostructures can be produced. Our study shows a linear scaling relation between the resulted GNR widths and mask nanowire diameters with variable slopes for different etching times. GNRs with controllable widths down to 6 nm have been demonstrated. We have fabricated GNR field effect transistors (FETs) with nanoribbons directly connected to bulk graphene electrodes. Electrical measurements on an 8 nm GNR-FET show room temperature transistor behavior with an on/off ratio around 160, indicating appreciable band gaps arise due to lateral confinement. We find the on/off ratio in the log scale inversely scales with ribbon width. This approach opens a new avenue to graphene nanoribbons and other graphene nanostructures in the deep nanometer regime without sophisticated lithography. It thus opens exciting new opportunities for graphene nanodevice engineering.
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- 2009
46. Single Crystalline PtSi Nanowires, PtSi/Si/PtSi Nanowire Heterostructures, and Nanodevices
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Wen-Wei Wu, Lih J. Chen, Yung-Chen Lin, King-Ning Tu, Yu Huang, Kuo Chang Lu, and Jingwei Bai
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Electron mobility ,Materials science ,Silicon ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,Heterojunction ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Epitaxy ,chemistry ,Nanoelectronics ,Optoelectronics ,General Materials Science ,Electrical measurements ,Field-effect transistor ,business - Abstract
We report the formation of PtSi nanowires, PtSi/Si/PtSi nanowire heterostructures, and nanodevices from such heterostructures. Scanning electron microscopy studies show that silicon nanowires can be converted into PtSi nanowires through controlled reactions between lithographically defined platinum pads and silicon nanowires. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy studies show that PtSi/Si/PtSi heterostructure has an atomically sharp interface with epitaxial relationships of Si[110]//PtSi[010] and Si(111)//PtSi(101). Electrical measurements show that the pure PtSi nanowires have low resistivities approximately 28.6 microOmega.cm and high breakdown current densities>1x10(8) A/cm2. Furthermore, using single crystal PtSi/Si/PtSi nanowire heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces, we have fabricated high-performance nanoscale field-effect transistors from intrinsic silicon nanowires, in which the source and drain contacts are defined by the metallic PtSi nanowire regions, and the gate length is defined by the Si nanowire region. Electrical measurements show nearly perfect p-channel enhancement mode transistor behavior with a normalized transconductance of 0.3 mS/microm, field-effect hole mobility of 168 cm2/V.s, and on/off ratio>10(7), demonstrating the best performing device from intrinsic silicon nanowires.
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- 2008
47. Near-Infrared Plasmonic-Enhanced Solar Energy Harvest for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Reactions
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Leyu Wang, Jiabin Cui, Enbo Zhu, Yongjia Li, Lixia Zhao, Gang Fang, Yu Huang, Lin Chen, Hao Wu, Jun Xu, Lei Liu, and Jingwen Ma
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Materials science ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Solar energy ,Photochemistry ,Catalysis ,Chemical energy ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Organic reaction ,Benzyl alcohol ,Photocatalysis ,General Materials Science ,business ,Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) ,Power density - Abstract
We report a highly efficient photocatalyst comprised of Cu7S4@Pd heteronanostructures with plasmonic absorption in the near-infrared (NIR)-range. Our results indicated that the strong NIR plasmonic absorption of Cu7S4@Pd facilitated hot carrier transfer from Cu7S4 to Pd, which subsequently promoted the catalytic reactions on Pd metallic surface. We confirmed such enhancement mechanism could effectively boost the sunlight utilization in a wide range of photocatalytic reactions, including the Suzuki coupling reaction, hydrogenation of nitrobenzene, and oxidation of benzyl alcohol. Even under irradiation at 1500 nm with low power density (0.45 W/cm(2)), these heteronanostructures demonstrated excellent catalytic activities. Under solar illumination with power density as low as 40 mW/cm(2), nearly 80-100% of conversion was achieved within 2 h for all three types of organic reactions. Furthermore, recycling experiments showed the Cu7S4@Pd were stable and could retain their structures and high activity after five cycles. The reported synthetic protocol can be easily extended to other Cu7S4@M (M = Pt, Ag, Au) catalysts, offering a new solution to design and fabricate highly effective photocatalysts with broad material choices for efficient conversion of solar energy to chemical energy in an environmentally friendly manner.
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- 2015
48. Solution Processable Holey Graphene Oxide and Its Derived Macrostructures for High-Performance Supercapacitors
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Zipeng Zhao, Chen Wang, Yu Huang, Muhammad Imran Shakir, Chih-Yen Chen, Chain Lee, Xiangfeng Duan, Yuxi Xu, Xu Xu, and Zhaoyang Lin
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Supercapacitor ,Materials science ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Oxide ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Nanopore ,chemistry ,law ,Specific surface area ,Self-healing hydrogels ,General Materials Science ,Porosity ,Graphene oxide paper - Abstract
Scalable preparation of solution processable graphene and its bulk materials with high specific surface areas and designed porosities is essential for many practical applications. Herein, we report a scalable approach to produce aqueous dispersions of holey graphene oxide with abundant in-plane nanopores via a convenient mild defect-etching reaction and demonstrate that the holey graphene oxide can function as a versatile building block for the assembly of macrostructures including holey graphene hydrogels with a three-dimensional hierarchical porosity and holey graphene papers with a compact but porous layered structure. These holey graphene macrostructures exhibit significantly improved specific surface area and ion diffusion rate compared to the nonholey counterparts and can be directly used as binder-free supercapacitor electrodes with ultrahigh specific capacitances of 283 F/g and 234 F/cm(3), excellent rate capabilities, and superior cycling stabilities. Our study defines a scalable pathway to solution processable holey graphene materials and will greatly impact the applications of graphene in diverse technological areas.
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- 2015
49. Significantly Enhanced Visible Light Photoelectrochemical Activity in TiO₂ Nanowire Arrays by Nitrogen Implantation
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Gongming, Wang, Xiangheng, Xiao, Wenqing, Li, Zhaoyang, Lin, Zipeng, Zhao, Chi, Chen, Chen, Wang, Yongjia, Li, Xiaoqing, Huang, Ling, Miao, Changzhong, Jiang, Yu, Huang, and Xiangfeng, Duan
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Models, Molecular ,Titanium ,Light ,Nanowires ,Nitrogen ,Water ,Electrochemical Techniques ,Photochemical Processes ,Catalysis - Abstract
Titanium oxide (TiO2) represents one of most widely studied materials for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting but is severely limited by its poor efficiency in the visible light range. Here, we report a significant enhancement of visible light photoactivity in nitrogen-implanted TiO2 (N-TiO2) nanowire arrays. Our systematic studies show that a post-implantation thermal annealing treatment can selectively enrich the substitutional nitrogen dopants, which is essential for activating the nitrogen implanted TiO2 to achieve greatly enhanced visible light photoactivity. An incident photon to electron conversion efficiency (IPCE) of ∼10% is achieved at 450 nm in N-TiO2 without any other cocatalyst, far exceeding that in pristine TiO2 nanowires (∼0.2%). The integration of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) cocatalyst with N-TiO2 can further increase the IPCE at 450 nm to ∼17% and deliver an unprecedented overall photocurrent density of 1.9 mA/cm(2), by integrating the IPCE spectrum with standard AM 1.5G solar spectrum. Systematic photoelectrochemical and electrochemical studies demonstrated that the enhanced PEC performance can be attributed to the significantly improved visible light absorption and more efficient charge separation. Our studies demonstrate the implantation approach can be used to reliably dope TiO2 to achieve the best performed N-TiO2 photoelectrodes to date and may be extended to fundamentally modify other semiconductor materials for PEC water splitting.
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- 2015
50. Toward barrier free contact to molybdenum disulfide using graphene electrodes
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Mengning Ding, Qiyuan He, Hao Wu, Yuan Liu, Enbo Zhu, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Xiangfeng Duan, Sen Yang, Nathan O. Weiss, Jian Guo, Dehui Li, and Yu Huang
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Boron Compounds ,Materials science ,Passivation ,Field effect ,Bioengineering ,Nanotechnology ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,symbols.namesake ,law ,Monolayer ,General Materials Science ,Disulfides ,Molybdenum disulfide ,Ohmic contact ,Electrodes ,Molybdenum ,Graphene ,Mechanical Engineering ,Fermi level ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Nanostructures ,chemistry ,Semiconductors ,Boron nitride ,symbols ,Graphite - Abstract
Two-dimensional layered semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have attracted tremendous interest as a new class of electronic materials. However, there are considerable challenges in making reliable contacts to these atomically thin materials. Here we present a new strategy by using graphene as the back electrodes to achieve ohmic contact to MoS2. With a finite density of states, the Fermi level of graphene can be readily tuned by a gate potential to enable a nearly perfect band alignment with MoS2. We demonstrate for the first time a transparent contact to MoS2 with zero contact barrier and linear output behavior at cryogenic temperatures (down to 1.9 K) for both monolayer and multilayer MoS2. Benefiting from the barrier-free transparent contacts, we show that a metal-insulator transition can be observed in a two-terminal MoS2 device, a phenomenon that could be easily masked by Schottky barriers found in conventional metal-contacted MoS2 devices. With further passivation by boron nitride (BN) encapsulation, we demonstrate a record-high extrinsic (two-terminal) field effect mobility up to 1300 cm(2)/(V s) in MoS2 at low temperature.
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- 2015
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