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Feature Publications

Science, 371, 1129 (2021)

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ACS Energy Lett. 5, 47(2020)

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Sci. Adv. 3(7), e1700704 (2017)

Publications

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  1. Kaihua Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zhiruo Zhou, Jing Guo, Hao Liu, Yaxin Zhai*, Yifan Yao, Kun Yang*, Zebing Zeng*, "Facile Access to Phosphorus Ylide-fused Heteroarenes Possessing Tunable Optoelectronic Properties and High Nonlinear Optical Performances", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. e202418520, (2024).

  2. Jifei Wang*, Guozheng Nie, Wenjin Huang, Yuanyuan Guo, Ying Li, Zhangqiang Yang, Yan Chen, Kang Ding, Ye Yang, Weike Wang, Le-Man Kuang, Kaike Yang, Dongsheng Tang*, Yaxin Zhai*, "Reconstruction and Solidification of Dion–Jacobson Perovskite Top and Buried Interfaces for Efficient and Stable Solar Cells", Nano Letters  24, 38, 11873–11881 (2024). (Cover)

  3. Xiaolin Zhu#*, Yihui Jia#, Yuhan Liu, Jingyi Xu*, Huarui He, Siyue Wang, Yang Shao, Yaxin Zhai*, Yongfa Zhu*, "Enhancing Built-in Electric Fields via Molecular Symmetry Modulation in Supramolecular Photocatalysts for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63, e202405962 (2024).

  4. Haigen Nie, Die Hu, Zhiyao Zeng, Yan Fan, Yaxin Zhai, Xin-Long Ni*"Cucurbit[8]uril-regulated face-to-face dimerization assembly enhanced photosensitization and photocatalysis", Science China Chemistry 67,1605 (2024).

  5. Weiqi Gao, Songlong Liu, Yang Chen, Kaixin Niu, Zheyi Lu, Zhiwei Li, Zhiyao Zeng, Yulong Xiao, Yaxin Zhai, Yuan Liu*, Yiliu Wang*, "Solid-State Anion Exchange Enabled by Pluggable vdW Assembly for In Situ Halide Manipulation in Perovskite Monocrystalline Film", Small, 2402159 (2024).

  6. Hong Wang, Baipeng Yin, Junli Bai, Xiao Wei, Wenjin Huang, Qingda Chang, Hao Jia, Rui Chen, Yaxin Zhai, Yuchen Wu*, Chuang Zhang*, “Giant Magneto-Photoluminescence at Ultralow Field in Organic Microcrystal Arrays for on-chip Optical Magnetometer", Nature Communications 15, 3995 (2024).

  7. Shuo Wang, Qian Zhao, Abhijit Hazarika, Simiao Li, Yue Wu, Yaxin Zhai, Xihan Chen, Joseph M. Luther & Guoran Li, "Thermal tolerance of perovskite quantum dots dependent on A-site cation and surface ligand", Nature Communications 14, 2216 (2023).

  8. Qian Zhao, Shuo Wang, Young-Hoon Kim, Shekhar Mondal, Qingqing Miao, Simiao Li, Danya Liu, Miao Wang, Yaxin Zhai, Jianbo Gao, Abhijit Hazarik, Guo-RanLi, "Advantageous properties of halide perovskite quantum dots towards energy-efficient sustainable applications", Green Energy & Environment 9, 949 (2024).

  9. Chuanxiao Xiao*†, Yaxin Zhai†, Zhaoning Song†, Kang Wang, Changlei Wang, Chun-Sheng Jiang, Matthew C. Beard, Yanfa Yan, and Mowafak Al-Jassim, "Operando Characterizations of Light-Induced Junction Evolution in Perovskite Solar Cells",ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15 (17), 20909 (2023).

  10. Y. Kim, R. Song, J. Hao, Y. Zhai, L. Yan, T. Moot, A. F. Palmstrom, R. Brunecky, W. You, J. J. Berry, J. L. Blackburn, M. C. Beard, V. Blum, J. M. Luther. "The Structural Origin of Chiroptical Properties in Perovskite Nanocrystals with Chiral Organic Ligands", Adv. Funct. Mater. 2200454 (2022).

  11. X. Chen, H. Lu, K. Wang, Y. Zhai, V. Lunin, P. C Sercel, M. C Beard, “Tuning Spin-Polarized Lifetime in Two-Dimensional Metal–Halide Perovskite through Exciton Binding Energy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 46, 19438–19445 (2021).

  12. S. Sourabh, V. R. Whiteside, I. R. Sellers, Y. Zhai, K. Wang, M. C. Beard, V. Yeddu, M. T. Bamidele, and D. Y. Kim, “Hot carrier redistribution, electron-phonon interaction, and their role in carrier relaxation in thin film metal-halide perovskites”, Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 095402 (2021).

  13. E. Amerling, Y. Zhai, B. W Larson, Y. Yao, B. Fluegel, Z. R. Owczarczyk, H. Lu, L. Whittaker-Brooks, V. Blum, J. Blackburn, “Charge transfer states and carrier generation in 1D organolead iodide semiconductors”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 14977-14990 (2021).

  14. Y. Kim †, Y. Zhai †, H. Lu †, X. Pan, E. A. Gaulding, S. P. Harvey, L. M. Wheeler, J. J. Berry, Z. Valy Vardeny, M. C. Beard, J. M. Luther, “Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity enabling a room temperature Spin-LED”, Science, 371, 1129 (2021).

  15. J. Xue, R. Wang, X. Chen, C. Yao, X. Jin, K.-L. Wang, W. Huang, T. Huang, Y. Zhao, Y. Zhai, D. Meng, S. Tan, R. Liu, Z.-K. Wang, C. Zhu, K. Zhu, M. C. Beard, Y. Yan and Y. Yang, “Reconfiguration of the Band-edge States of Photovoltaic Perovskites by Conjugated Organic Cations”, Science, 371, 636-640 (2021).

  16. G. M. Carroll, R. Limpens, G. F. Pach, Y. Zhai, M. C. Beard, E. M. Miller, and N. R. Neale, “Suppressing Auger Recombination in Multiply Excited Colloidal Silicon Nanocrystals with Ligand-Induced Hole Traps”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125, 4, 2565–2574 (2021).

  17. Y.-H. Kim, Y. Zhai, E. Gaulding, S. Habisreutinger, T. Moot, B. Rosales, H. Lu, A. Hazarika, R. Brunecky, L. M. Wheeler, J. Berry, M. C. Beard, J. Luther, “Strategies to Achieve High Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Colloidal Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanocrystals”, ACS Nano, 14, 8816 (2020).

  18. Y. Zhai, K. Wang, F. Zhang, C. Xiao, A. Rose, K. Zhu and M. C. Beard, “Individual Electron and Hole Mobilities in Lead Halide Perovskites Revealed by Noncontact Methods”, ACS Energy Lett. 5, 47−55 (2020).

  19. J. Wang, C. Zhang, R. McLaughlin, H. Liu, Y. Zhai, X. Liu, H. Guo, R. Tsuchikawa, V. Deshpande, D. Sun, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Spin-optoelectronic devices based on hybrid organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites”, Nat. Commun. 10(1), 129 (2019).

  20. Y. Zhang, R. Wang, Y. Li, Z. Wang, S. Hu, X. Yan, Y. Zhai, C. Zhang, and C.-X. Sheng, “Optical Properties of Two-Dimensional Perovskite Films of (C6H5C2H4NH3)2[PbI4] and (C6H5C2H4NH3)2 (CH3NH3)2[Pb3I10]”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10 (1), 13 (2019).

  21. D. Sun, Y. Zhai, K. J van Schooten, C. Zhang, M. Kavand, H. Malissa, M. Groesbeck, R. Menon, C. Boehme, Z. V. Vardeny, “Sign reversal of magnetoresistance and inverse spin hall effect in doped conducting polymers”, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 30 (48), 484003 (2018).

  22. X. Chen, H. Lu, Z. Li, Y. Zhai, P. Ndione, J. Berry, K. Zhu, Y. Yang, and M. Beard, “Impact of layer thickness on the charge carrier and spin coherence lifetime in 2D layered perovskite single crystals”, ACS Energy Lett. 3(9), 2273 (2018).

  23. A. Chanana, Y. Zhai, S. Baniya, C. Zhang, Z. V. Vardeny, A. Nahata, “Color selective control of Terahertz radiation using hybrid lead-halide perovskites”, Nat. Commun. 8(1),1328 (2017).

  24. Y. Zhai, S. Baniya, C. Zhang, J. Li, P. M. Haney, C.-X. Sheng, E. Ehrenfreund, Z. V. Vardeny, “Giant Rashba-splitting in 2D organic-inorganic halide perovskites measured by transient spectroscopies”, Sci. Adv. 3(7), e1700704 (2017).

  25. E. Lafalce, C. Zhang, Y. Zhai, D. Sun, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Enhanced emissive and lasing characteristics of nano-crystalline MAPbBr3 films grown via anti-solvent precipitation” J. Appl. Phys. 120, 143101 (2016).

  26. S. Baniya, Z. Pang, D. Sun, Y. Zhai, O. Kwon, H. Choi, B. Choi, S. Lee, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Magnetic field effect in organic light-emitting diodes based on electron donor–acceptor exciplex chromophores doped with fluorescent emitters”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 6930 (2016).

  27. Y. Zhai, C.-X. Sheng, C. Zhang, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Ultrafast spectroscopy of photoexcitations in organometal trihalide perovskites”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 26(10), 1617 (2016).

  28. J. Jung, C. Hao Lin, Y. J. Yoon, S. T Malak, Y. Zhai, E. L Thomas, Z. V. Vardeny, V. V Tsukruk, and Z. Lin, “Crafting core/graded shell-shell quantum dots with suppressed re-absorption and tunable stokes shift as high optical gain materials”, Angew. Chem. 128 (16), 5155 (2016).

  29. C. H. Lin, E. Lafalce, J. Jung, M. J. Smith, S. T. Malak, S. Aryal, Y. J. Yoon, Y. Zhai, Z. Lin, Z. V. Vardeny, and V. V.Tsukruk, “Core/alloyed-shell quantum dot robust solid films with high optical gains”, ACS Photonics 3(4), 647 (2016).

  30. C.-X Sheng, Y. Zhai, U. Huynh, C. Zhang, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Ultrafast photomodulation spectroscopy of π-conjugated polymers, nanotubes and organometal trihalide perovskites; a comparison”, Synth. Metals 216, 31 (2016).

  31. C. Zhang, D. Sun, C-X. Sheng, Y. Zhai, K. Mielczarek, A. Zakhidov, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Magnetic field effects in hybrid perovskite devices”, Nat. Phys. 11, 427 (2015).

  32. Y. Zhai, C.-X. Sheng, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Singlet fission of hot excitons in π-conjugated polymers”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 373, 20140327 (2015).

  33. C.-X. Sheng, C. Zhang, Y. Zhai, K. Mielczarek, W. Wang, W. Ma, A. Zakhidov, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Exciton versus free carrier photogeneration in organometal trihalide perovskites probed by broadband ultrafast polarization memorydynamics”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 11660(2015).

  34. C.-X Sheng, Y. Zhai, E. Olejnik, C. Zhang, D. Sun, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Laser action and photoexcitations dynamics in PbI2 films”, Opt. Mater. Express 5, 530 (2015).

  35. G. Hukic-Markosian, Y. Zhai, D. E. Montanari, S. Ott, A. Braun, D. Sun, Z. V. Vardeny, and M. H. Bartl, “Magneticproperties of periodically organized cobalt frameworks”, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 013906 (2014).

  36. B. Cui, Y. Xu, G. Ji, H. Wang, W. Zhao, Y. Zhai, D. Li, and D. Liu, “A single-molecule diode with significantrectification and negative differential resistance behavior”, Org. Electron. 15, 484 (2014).

  37. G. Ji, D. Li, C. Fang, Y. Xu, Y. Zhai, B. Cui, and D. Liu, “Effect of contact interface configuration on electronictransport in (C20)2-based molecular junctions” Phys. Lett. A 376, 773 (2012).

  38. Y. Zhai, G. Ji, C. Fang, B. Cui, P. Zhao, and D. Liu, “Negative differential resistance in molecular devices: the role of molecule-electrode coupling”, Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 54, 1455 (2011).

  39. B. Cui, C. Fang, Y. Zhai, S. Yin, and D. Liu, “The inversely proportional relationship in the asymmetric transport of a diblock co-oligomer junction”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 133101 (2011).

  40. Y. Xu, C. Fang, B. Cui, G. Ji, Y. Zhai, and D. Liu, “Gated electronic currents modulation and designs of logic gates with single molecular field effect transistors”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 043304 (2011).

  41. J. Ma, Y. Zhai, D. Li, C. Fang, and D. Liu, “Pulse compression in diode-pumped doubly Q-switched Nd: GdVO4 laser with both V3+: YAG and Co2+: LMA saturable absorber”, Laser Physics, 21 (4), 680 (2011).

  42. G. Ji, Y. Zhai, C. Fang, Y. Xu, B. Cui, and D. Liu, “The electronic transport properties in C60 molecular devices with different contact distances”, Phys. Lett. A 375, 1602 (2011).

  43. J. Ma, D. Li, Y. Zhai, and P. Zhao, “Negative differential resistance in a molecular junction of carbon nanotube and benzene”, Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 54, 1433 (2011).

  44. P. Zhao, C. Fang, Y. Wang, Y. Zhai, and D. Liu, “First-principles study of the switching characteristics of the phenoxynaphthacenequinone-based optical molecular switch with carbon nanotube electrodes”, Physica E 41, 474 (2009).

  45. P. Zhao, P. Wang, Z. Zhang, C. Fang, Y. Wang, Y. Zhai, and D. Liu, “Electronic transport properties of a diarylethene-based molecular switch with single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes: The effect of chirality”, Solid State Commun. 149, 928 (2009).

 

Book Chapters

 

  1. Yaxin Zhai, “Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of 3D and 2D HOIPs”, Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites; Physical Properties and Applications, Vol. 2, Chapter 3. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. (2022).

  2. C. Zhang, D. Sun, C. X. Sheng, Y. Zhai, and Z. V. Vardeny, “Magnetic Field Effects in Organic and Hybrid Materials with Spin-Orbit Coupling”, World Scientific Reference on Spin in Organics, Vol. 3, Chapter 9. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. (2018).

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