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Hydrogen Storage

Y.-P. He, Y.-J. Liu, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Formation of sub-micro MgH2 whiskers during the hydrogenation of Ti doped Mg film,” Nanotechnology 19, 465602 (2008).
W.M. Hlaing Oo, M.D. McCluskey, Y.-P. He, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Strong Fano resonance of oxygen-hydrogen bonds on oblique angle deposited Mg nanoblades,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 183112 (2008).
Y.-P. He, Y.-P. Zhao, L. Huang, H. Wang, and R. J. Composto, “Hydrogenation of Mg film and Mg nanoblade array on Ti coated Si substrates,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 163114 (2008).
Y.-P. He and Y.-P. Zhao, “Improved hydrogen storage properties of V decorated Mg nanoblade array,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11, 255–258 (2009).
Y.-P. He and Y.-P. Zhao, “Hydrogen storage and cycling properties of Vanadium decorated Mg nanoblade array on Ti coated Si substrate,” Nanotechnology 20, 204008 (2009).
Y.-P. He and Y.-P. Zhao, "The role of Mg2Si formation in the hydrogenation of Mg film and Mg nanoblade array on Si substrates," Journal of Alloys and Compounds 482, 173–186 (2009).
Xiangwen Chen, Yuping He, Yiping Zhao, and Xinwei Wang, ‘‘Thermophysical properties of hydrogenated vanadium-doped magnesium porous nanostructures,” Nanotechnology 21, 055707 (2010).
Y.-P. He, J. G. Fan, and Y.-P. Zhao, "The role of differently distributed vanadium nanocatalyst in the hydrogen storage of magnesium nanostructures," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35, 4162–4170 (2010).
Bo Yang, Y.-P. He, and Y.-P. Zhao, "Hydrogenation of magnesium nanoblades: the effect of concentration dependent hydrogen diffusion," Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 081905 (2011).
Bo Yang, Yuping He, and Yiping Zhao, "Concentration-dependent hydrogen diffusion in hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of vanadium-coated magnesium nanoblades," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 36, 15642–15651 (2011).
Bingyun Ao, Zhengjun Zhang, Yuping. He, and Yiping Zhao, "Semiconducting ground-state of three polymorphs of Mg2NiH4 from first-principles calculations," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 38, 16471–16476 (2013).

Lithium Ion Battery

Ming Au, Scott McWhorter, Thad Adams, John Gibbs, and Yiping Zhao,“Free standing aluminum nanostructures as anodes of Li-Ion rechargeable batteries,” J. Power Sources 195, 3333–3337 (2010).
Yuping He, Jianguo Fan, and Yiping Zhao, “Engineering a well-aligned composition-graded CuSi nanorod array by an oblique angle co-deposition technique,” Crystal Growth & Design 10, 4954–4958 (2010).
Ming Au, Yuping He, Yiping Zhao, Hessam Ghassemi, Reza Shahbazian Yassar, Brenda Garcia-Diaz, and Thad Adams, "Silicon and silicon–copper composite nanorods for anodes of Li-ion rechargeable batteries," J. Power Sources 196, 9640– 9647 (2011).
Yuping He, Bo Yang, Kaikun Yang, Cameron Brown, Ramaraja Ramasamy, Howard Wang, Cynthia Lundgren, and Yiping Zhao, "Designing Si-based nanowall arrays by dynamic shadowing growth to tailor the performance of Li-ion battery anodes," Journal of Materials Chemistry 22, 8294–8303 (2012).
Bo Yang, Juraj Irsa, Yuping He, Cynthia Lundgren, and Yiping Zhao, “A chemoelastoplastic analysis of anisotropic swelling in a SnO2 nanowire under lithiation,” Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology 134, 031013 (2012).
Yuping He, Cameron Brown, Cynthia A. Lundgren, and Yiping Zhao, "The growth of CuSi composite nanorod arrays by oblique angle co-deposition, and their structural, electrical, and optical properties," Nanotechnology 23, 365703 (2012).
Yingchao Yang, Yuping He, Yiping Zhao, and Xiaodong Li, "Mechanically robust Si nanorod arrays on Cu/Ti bilayer film coated Si substrate for high performance lithium-ion battery anodes," J. Appl. Phys. 112, 103502 (2012).
S. C. DeCaluwe, B. M. Dhar, L. Huang, Y. He, K. Yang, J. P. Owejan, Y. P. Zhao, A. A. Talin, J. A. Dura and H. Wang, “Pore collapse and regrowth in silicon electrodes for rechargeable batteries,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 11301–11312 (2015).

Antimicrobial Materials

Hang Liu, Karen K. Leonas, and Yiping Zhao, "Antimicrobial properties and release profile of Ampicillin from electrospun Poly(ε-caprolactone) nanofiber yarns," Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics 5, 10 (2010).
Pradip Basnet, George K. Larsen, Ravirajsinh P. Jadeja, Yen-Con Hung, and Yiping Zhao, "α-Fe2O3 nanocolumns and nanorods fabricated by electron beam evaporation for visible light photocatalytic and antimicrobial applications," ACS App. Mater. Interfaces 5, 2085–2095(2013).
Mohammed Meziani, Xiuli Dong, Lu Zhu, Les Jones, Gregory LeCroy, Fan Yang, Shengyuan Wang, Ping Wang, Yiping Zhao, Liju Yang, Ralph Tripp, and Ya-Ping Sun, "Visible-light-activated bactericidal functions of carbon quantum dots," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 10761 - 10766 (2016).
Lu Zhu, Pradip Basnet, Steven R. Larson, Les P. Jones, Jane Y. Howe, Ralph A. Tripp, and Yiping Zhao, "Visible light-induced photoeletrochemical and antimicrobial properties of hierarchical CuBi2O4 by facile hydrothermal synthesis," ChemistrySelect 1, 1518 - 1524 (2016).
Liuyang Zhang, Yiping Zhao, and Xianqiao Wang, "Nanoparticle-mediated mechanical destruction of cell membranes: a coarse-grained molecular dynamics study," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9, 26665 - 26673 (2017).
Lu Zhu, David W. Pearson, Stéphane L. Benoit, Jing Xie, Jitendra Pant, Yanjun Yang, Arnab Mondal, Hitesh Handa, Jane Y. Howe, Yen-Con Hung, Jorge E. Vidal, Robert J. Maier, and Yiping Zhao, "Highly efficient antimicrobial activity of CuxFeyOz nanoparticles against important human pathogens," Nanomaterials 10, 2294 (2020).

Wetting of Nanostructures

J. G. Fan, X. J. Tang, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Water contact angles of vertically aligned Si nanorod arrays,” Nanotechnology 15, 501–504 (2004).
J.-G. Fan, D. Dyer, G.-G. Zhang, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Nano-carpet effect: pattern formation during the wetting of vertically aligned nanorod array,” Nano Letters 4, 2133–2138 (2004).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Characterization of watermarks formed in nano-carpet effect,” Langmuir 22, 3662–3671 (2006).
Y.-P. Zhao and J.-G. Fan, “Clusters of bundled nanorods in nanocarpet effect,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 103123 (2006).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Spreading of a water droplet on a vertically aligned Si nanorod array surface,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 013102 (2007).
J.-G. Fan, J.-X. Fu, A. Collins, and Y-P Zhao, “The effect of the shape of nanorod arrays on the nanocarpet effect,” Nanotechnology 19, 045713 (2008).
J.-G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, “Freezing a water droplet on an aligned Si nanorod array substrate,” Nanotechnology 19, 155707 (2008).
J. G. Fan and Y.-P. Zhao, "Nanocarpet effect induced superhydrophobicity," Langmuire 26, 8245–8250 (2010).
Aisha Leh, Hartmann N'guessan, Jianguo Fan, Prashant Badahur, Rafael Tadmor, Yiping Zhao, "On the role of the three-phase contact line in surface deformation," Langmuir 28, 5795–5801 (2012).

Thin Film Growth

Experiment

H.-N. Yang, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Noise-induced roughening evolution of amorphous Si films grown by thermal evaporation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3774 (1996).
Y.-P. Zhao, J. T. Drotar, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Roughening in plasma etch fronts of Si(100),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4882 (1999).
Y.-P. Zhao, J. B. Fortin, G. Bonvallet, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Kinetic roughening in vapor deposition polymerization of linear-chain polymer films,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3229 (2000).
Y.-P. Zhao, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, Reply to Das Sarma's Comment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2697 (2001).
T. Karabacak, Y.-P. Zhao, Jason T. Drotar, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Growth-front roughening in amorphous silicon films by sputtering,” Phys. Rev. B 64, 085323 (2001).
T. Karabacak, Y.-P. Zhao, Jason T. Drotar, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Kinetic roughening in silicon nitride films growth by PECVD,” Phys. Rev. B 66, 075329 (2002).

Theory

H.-N. Yang, Y.-P. Zhao, A. Chan, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Sampling-induced hidden cycles in correlated random rough surface,” Phys. Rev. B 56, 4224 (1997).
Jason T. Drotar, Y.-P. Zhao, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Numerical analysis of the noisy Kuramoto-Sivashisky equation in 2+1 dimensions,” Phys. Rev. E 59, 177 (1999).
Y.-P. Zhao, A.R. Hopper, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Monte Carlo simulation of the initial growth stage in vapor deposition polymerization,” Phys. Rev. E 60, 4310 (1999).
Jason T. Drotar, Y.-P. Zhao, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Mechanisms for plasma and reactive ion etch-front roughening,” Phys. Rev. B 61, 3012 (2000).
Jason T. Drotar, Y.-P. Zhao, T.-M. Lu and G.-C. Wang, “Surface roughening in shadowing growth and etching in 2+1 dimensions,” Phys. Rev. B 62, 2118 (2000).
Jason T. Drotar, Y.-P. Zhao, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Surface-roughening in low-pressure chemical vapor deposition,” Phys. Rev. B 64, 125411 (2001).
Y.-P. Zhao, Jason T. Drotar, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Morphology transition during low pressure chemical vapor deposition,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 136102 (2001).
Wade Bowie and Y.-P. Zhao, “Monte Carlo simulation of vapor deposition polymerization,” Surf. Sci. Lett. 563, L245–L250 (2004).
S. Tangirala, D. P. Landau, and Y.-P. Zhao, ‘‘Dynamic scaling study of vapor deposition polymerization: a Monte Carlo approach,” Phys. Rev. E 81, 011605 (2010).

Scattering from Rough Surfaces

Experiment

Y. P. Zhao, H.-N. Yang, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Extraction of real-space correlation function of a rough surface by light scattering using diode array detectors,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 3063 (1996).
Y.-P. Zhao, Y.-J. Wu, H.-N. Yang, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “In situ real-time study of chemical etching process of Si(100) using light scattering,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 221 (1996).
Y.-P. Zhao, C.-F. Cheng, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Power law behavior in diffraction from fractal surfaces,” Surf. Sci. Lett. 409, L703 (1998).
Y.-P. Zhao, Irene Wu, C.-F. Cheng, Ueyn Block, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Characterization of random rough surfaces by in-plane light scattering,” J. Appl. Phys. 84, 2571 (1998).
Y.-P. Zhao, C.-F. Cheng, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Characterization of pitting corrosion in aluminum films by light scattering,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 2432 (1998).
T. Karabacak, Y.-P. Zhao, M. Stowe, B. Quayle, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Large angle in-plane light scattering from rough surfaces,” Appl. Opt. 39, 4658 (2000).
T. Karabacak, Y.-P. Zhao, T. Liew, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Anisotropic scaling of hard disk surface structures,” J. Appl. Phys. 88, 3361 (2000).
Jason T. Drotar, B. Q. Wei, Y.-P. Zhao, G. Ramanath , P. M. Ajayan, T.-M. Lu, and G.-C. Wang, “Reflection high-energy electron diffraction from carbon nanotubes,” Phys. Rev. B. 64, 125417 (2001).

Theory

Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Diffraction from non-Gaussian rough surfaces,” Phys. Rev. B 55, 13938 (1997).
T.-M. Lu, G.-C. Wang, and Y.-P. Zhao, “Beyond intensity oscillation,” Surface Science Review and Letter 5, 899 (1998).
Y.-P. Zhao, H.-N. Yang, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Diffraction from diffusion barrier induced mound structures in epitaxial growth fronts,” Phys. Rev. B 57, 1922 (1998).
Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu, “Diffraction from anisotropic random rough surfaces,” Phys. Rev. B 58, 7300 (1998).

Roughness Effect on Electric Property of Thin Films

Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, T.-M. Lu, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson, “Surface roughness effect on capacitance and leakage current of an insulating film,” Phys. Rev. B 60, 9157 (1999).
M. Li, Y.-P. Zhao, and G.-C. Wang, “In-situ measurement of thickness dependence of electrical resistance of ultrathin Co films on SiO2/Si(111) substrate,” J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 18, 2992 (2000).
G. Palasantzas, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, T.-M. Lu, J. Barnas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson, “Electrical conductivity and thin films growth dynamics,” Phys. Rev. B 61, 11109 (2000).
H.-D. Liu, Y.-P. Zhao, G. Ramanath , S. P. Murarka, and G.-C. Wang, “In-situ measurement of thickness dependent of electrical resistance of ultrathin Cu films on thick SiO2/Si(100) substrate,” Thin Solid Films 384, 151–156 (2001).
Y.-P. Zhao, B. Q. Wei, P. M. Ajayan, G. Ramanath , T.-M. Lu, G.-C. Wang, A. Rubio, and S. Roche, “Frequency-dependent electrical transport in carbon nanotubes,” Phys. Rev. B 64, 201402(R) (2001).

Roughness Effect on Magnetic Property of Thin Films

M. Li, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang and H.-G. Min, “Effect of surface roughness on magnetization reversal of Co films on plasma-etched Si(100) substrates,” J. Appl. Phys. 83, 6287 (1998).
Y.-P. Zhao, G. Palasantzas, G.-C. Wang, and J. Th. M. De Hosson, “Surface/interface roughness induced demagnetizing effect in thin magnetic films,” Phys. Rev. B 60, 1216 (1999).
G. Palasantzas, Y.-P. Zhao, G.-C. Wang, and J. Th. M. De Hosson, “Roughness effects on magnetic properties of thin films,” Physica B 283, 199 (2000).
Y.-P. Zhao, R. M. Gamache, G.-C. Wang, T.-M. Lu, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson, “Effect of surface roughness on magnetic domain wall thickness, domain size, and coercivity,” J. Appl. Phys. 89, 1325 (2001).