22. Cheng’ao Liu,#, Yanping Cui#, Yao Zhou*,“The recent progress of single-atom catalysts on amorphous substrates for electrocatalysis”, Energy Mater. 2025, 5, 500001.
21. Ming-Hui Li, Jing Li, Xiao-Yu Zheng , Yao Zhou*,“Local environment regulation of transition metal dichalcogenide-based single-atom catalysts”, Rare Met., 2024, 43, 4019–4037.
20. Jiadong Zhou#, Chao Zhu#, Yao Zhou#, et al., “Composition and phase engineering of metal chalcogenides and phosphorous chalcogenides”, Nat. Mater., 2023, 22, 450–458.
19. Ran Nian, Erhong Song, Youwei Wang, Yao Zhou*, Jianjun Liu*, “Dynamic coordination transformation of active sites in single-atom MoS2 catalysts for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis”, Energy Environ. Sci., 2022, 15: 2071.
18. Yao Zhou, Wei Hao, Xiaoxu Zhao, Jiadong Zhou, Huimei Yu, Bo Lin, Zheng Liu, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shuzhou Li, Hong Jin Fan, “Electronegativity-induced charge balancing to boost stability and activity of amorphous electrocatalysts”, Adv. Mater., 2022, 34: 2100537.
17. Hua Tan, Yao Zhou*, Shizhang Qiao, Hong Jin Fan*, Metal organic framework (MOF) in aqueous energy devices, Mater. Today, 2021, 48: 270;
16. Yao Zhou, Jing Zhang, Erhong Song, Junhao Lin, Jiadong Zhou, Kazu Suenaga, Wu Zhou, Zheng Liu, Jianjun Liu, Jun Lou, Hong Jin Fan, Enhanced performance of in-plane transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by configuring local atomic structures, Nat. Commun., 2020, 11: 2253;
15. Yao Zhou, Erhong Song, Wei Chen, Carlo U. Segre, et al., Dual-metal interbonding as the chemical facilitator for single-atom dispersions, Adv. Mater., 2020, 32: 2003484;
14. Yao Zhou, Erhong Song, Jiadong Zhou, Junhao Lin, Ruguang Ma, Youwei Wang, Wujie Qiu, Ruxiang Shen, Kazutomo Suenaga, Qian Liu, Jiacheng Wang, Zheng Liu, Jianjun Liu, Auto-optimizing hydrogen evolution catalytic activity of ReS2 through intrinsic charge, ACS Nano, 2018, 12: 4486;
13. Yao Zhou, Zhenzhen Zhou, Ruxiang Shen, Ruguang Ma, Qian Liu, Guozhong Cao, Jiacheng Wang, Correlating electrocatalytic oxygen reduction activity with d-band centers of metallic nanoparticles, Energy Storage Mater., 2018, 13: 189;
12. Yao Zhou, Hong Jin Fan, Progress and Challenge of Amorphous Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting , ACS Mater. Lett., 2020, 3: 136;
11. Bo Lin#, Yao Zhou#, Baorong Xu, Chao Zhu, Wu Tang, Yingchun Niu, Jun Di, Pin Song, Jiadong Zhou, Xiao Luo, Lixing Kang, Ruihuan Duan, Qundong Fu, Haishi Liu, Ronghua JIn, Chao Xue, Qiang Chen, Guidong Yang, Kalman Varga, Quan Xu, Yonghui Li, Zheng Liu, Fucai Liu, 2D PtS nanoreactangles/g-C3N4 nanosheets with a metal sulfide-support interaction effect for high-efficiency photocatalytic H2 evolution, Mater. Horizons, 2020, 8: 612;
10. Yao Zhou, Ruguang Ma, Pengxi Li, Yongfang Chen, Qian Liu, Guozhong Cao, Jiacheng Wang*, Ditungsten carbide nanoparticles encapsulated by ultrathin graphitic layers with excellent hydrogen evolution electrocatalytic properties, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4: 8204;
9. Yao Zhou, Ruguang Ma, Stephanie L. Candelaria, Jiacheng Wang, Qian Liu, Evan Uchaker, Pengxi Li, Yongfang Chen, Guozhong Cao*, Phosphorus/sulfur Co-doped porous carbon with enhanced specific capacitance for supercapacitor and improved catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction, J. Power Sources, 2016, 314: 39;
8. Yao Zhou, Stephanie L Candelaria, Qian Liu, Evan Uchaker, Guozhong Cao, Porous carbon with high capacitance and graphitization through controlled addition and removal of sulfur-containing compounds, Nano Energy, 2015, 12: 567.
7. Rui Gao#, Yao Zhou#, Xiangfeng Liu, Jiacheng Wang, “N-doped defective carbon layer encapsulated W2C as a multifunctional cathode catalyst for high performance Li-O2 Battery”, Electrochimica Acta, 2017, 245, 430.
6. Yao Zhou, Stephanie L Candelaria, Qian Liu, Yunxia Huang, Evan Uchaker and Guozhong Cao, “Sulfur-rich carbon cryogel for supercapacitor with improved conductivity and wettability”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 8472.
5. Yao Zhou, Qian Liu, Hu Zhou and Jiandong Zhuang. “Yttrium oxide-assisted CRN synthesis of silicon oxynitride powders with controlled morphology", J.Am. Ceram. Soc., 2013, 96, 3650.
4. Yao Zhou, Qian Liu, Hu Zhou. “Synthesis of pure rod-like α-Si3N4 Powder with in situ C/SBA-15 composite”, Ceram. Int., 2012, 38, 6059.
3. Jiadong Zhou, Junhao Lin, Xiangwei Huang, Yao Zhou et al., “A library of atomically thin metal chalcogenides”, Nature, 2018, 556, 7701.
2. Jiadong Zhou, Junhao Lin, Hunter Sims, Chongyun Jiang, Chunxiao Cong, John A Brehm, Zhaowei Zhang, Lin Niu, Yu Chen, Yao Zhou, et al., “Synthesis of Co‐Doped MoS2 Monolayers with Enhanced Valley Splitting”, Adv. Mater., 2020, 32, 1906536.
1. Ruguang Ma, Yao Zhou, Yongfang Chen, et al., “Ultrafine molybdenum carbide nanoparticles composited with carbon as a highly active hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 127, 14936.
