Education:
BS (2007), zhengzhou University
PhD (2012), Peking University
Research Associate (2012-2017), Manchester University, UK
Professor(2017-), Xiamen University

Principal Research Interests:
Two dimentional materials, Van der Waals heterostructure, Optoelectronics/photocatalysis, Molecularelectronics, Nanochemistry

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Wang W., Xiao Y., Li T., Lu X., Xu N., Cao Y*. Piezo-photovoltaic Effect in Monolayer 2H-MoS2. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15: 3549-3553(2024)

2. Yizhen Lu, Bixuan Li, Na Xu, Zhihua Zhou, Yu Xiao, Yu Jiang, Teng Li, Sheng Hu, Yongji Gong* ,Yang Cao*.One-atom-thick hexagonal boron nitride co-catalyst for enhanced oxygen evolution reactions.Nature Communications. 14,6965(2023).

3. Lijun Zhou, Chongyang Yang, Xiaohui Yang, Jie Zhang,Cong Wang, Wei Wang,Mengyan Li, Xiangchao Lu, Ke Li,Huiping Yang, Han Zhou, Jiajia Chen,Dongping Zhan,Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Jun Cheng, Zhongqun Tian, Andre K. Geim,Yang Cao,* Sheng Hu*.Angstrom-Scale Electrochemistry at Electrodes with Dimensions Commensurable and Smaller than Individual Reacting Species. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, e202314537（2023）

4. Chao-Long Chen, Cong Wang, Xiu-Ying Zheng, Ruihua Zhang,* Yiling Xu, Gui-Lin Zhuang,La-Sheng Long, Lan-Sun Zheng, Xiang-Jian Kong,* and Yang Cao*.Conductive Lanthanide Metal?Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Stability.J. Am. Chem. Soc.145, 16983?16987 (2023).

5. Xiangchao Lu , Wei Wang , Huijie Zhu , Yongsen Wu , Yizhen Lu , Gonglei Shao , Song Liu and Yang Cao*.Tunable diodes made by atomically thin lateral heterojunction.Science China Materials.66 (11) , 4419-4426(2023)

6. Lijun Zhou#, Mengyan Li#, Wei Wang, Cong Wang, Huiping Yang, Yang Cao*.Edge engineering in chemically active two-dimensional materials. Nano Research, 15(11),9890–9905 (2022).

7. Mengru Zhang, Fan Xu, Wenjie Liu, Yaqi Hou, Liyun Su, Xin Zhang, Ruihua Zhang, Lijun Zhou, Xiaomei Yan , Miao Wang*, Xu Hou*, and Yang Cao*. Antibacterial evaporator based on reduced graphene oxide/polypyrrole aerogel for solar-driven desalination. Nano Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4041-4. (2022).

8. Xiang-Chao Lu, Yi-Zhen Lu, Cong Wang, Yang Cao*. Efficient photoelectrodes based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides heterostructures: from design to construction. Rare Metals, 41(4),1142-1159 (2022).

9. Haihong Zheng#, Yizhen Lu#, Kai-Hang Ye#, Jinyuan Hu, Shuai Liu, Jiawei Yan, Yu Ye, Yuxi Guo, Zhan Lin, Jun Cheng*, Yang Cao*. Atomically thin photoanode of InSe/graphene heterostructure. Nat. Commun., 12, 91 (2021).

10. Ruihua Zhang, Mengru Zhang, Hao Yang, Gen Li, Shuming Xing, Mengyan Li, Yiling Xu, Qiuyue Zhang, Sheng Hu, Honggang Liao, and Yang Cao*. Creating Fluorine-Doped MoS2 Edge Electrodes with Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Activity. Small Method, 2100612 (2021).

11. Haihong Zheng#, Mingyang Li#, Jinsong Chen*, Anchang Quan, Kaihang Ye, Hang Ren*, Sheng Hu, Yang Cao*. Strain tuned efficient heterostructure photoelectrodes. Chinese Chemical Letters,33(3), 1450-1454 (2021).

12. Wen He, Lei Zhou , Miao Wang*, Yang Cao*, Xuemei Chen*, Xu Hou*. Structure development of carbon-based solar-driven water evaporation systems. Science Bulletin, 66, 1472-1483 (2021).

13. Peng Yuan, Ruihua Zhang, Elli Selenius, Pengpeng Ruan, Yangrong Yao, Yang Zhou, Sami Malola, Hannu H?kkinen*, Boon K. Teo, Yang Cao* & Nanfeng Zheng*. Solvent-mediated assembly of atom-precise gold–silver nanoclusters to semiconducting one-dimensional materials. Nat. Commun., 11: 2229 (2020).

14. Wei Wang, Lijun Zhou, Sheng Hu, Konstantin S. Novoselov, Yang Cao*. Visualizing Piezoelectricity on 2D Crystals Nanobubbles. Adv Funct Mater., 2005053 (2020).

15. Gonglei Shao#,Yizhen Lu#, Jinhua Hong#, Xiong-Xiong Xue, Jinqiang Huang, Zheyuan Xu, Xiangchao Lu, Yuanyuan Jin, Xiao Liu, Huimin Li, Sheng Hu, Kazu Suenaga, Zheng Han, Ying Jiang, Shisheng Li, Yexin Feng, Anlian Pan*, Yung-Chang Lin*, Yang Cao*, Song Liu*.Seamlessly Splicing Metallic SnxMo1-xS2 at MoS2 Edge for Enhanced Photoelectrocatalytic Performance in Microreactor. Adv. Sci., 7, 2002172 (2020).

16. Jun Yin, Sergey Slizovskiy, Yang Cao, Sheng Hu, Yaping Yang, Inna Lobanova, Benjamin A. Piot, Seok-Kyun Son, Servet Ozdemir, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Kostya S. Novoselov, Francisco Guinea, A. K. Geim*, Vladimir Fal’ko * and Artem Mishchenko*. Dimensional reduction, quantum Hall effect and layer parity in graphite films. Nature Physics. 15, 437-442 (2019).

17. Denis A. Bandurin, Anastasia V. Tyurnina, Geliang L. Yu, ArtemMishchenko, Viktor Zólyomi, Sergey V. Morozov, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Roman V. Gorbachev, Zakhar R. Kudrynskyi, Sergio Pezzini, Zakhar D. Kovalyuk, UliZeitler, Konstantin S. Novoselov, AmaliaPatanè, Laurence Eaves, Irina V. Grigorieva, Vladimir I. Fal'ko, Andre K. Geim* &Yang Cao*. High electron mobility, quantum Hall effect and anomalous optical response in atomically thin InSe. Nature Nanotechnol., 12, 223-227 (2017).

18. Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, G. L. Yu, K. Khestanova, A. Rooney, E. Prestat, A. V. Kretinin, P. Blake, M. B. Shalom, G. Balakrishnan, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, B. A. Piot, M. Potemski, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. J. Haigh, A. K. Geim, R. V. Gorbachev*. Quality heterostructures from two dimensional crystals unstable in air by their assembly in inert atmosphere. Nano Letters, 15, 4914-4921 (2015).

19. Artem Mishchenko#, Yang Cao#, Geliang Yu#, Colin R. Woods, Roman V. Gorbachev, Kostya S. Novoselov, Andre K. Geim, Leonid S. Levitov*. Nonlocal Response and Anamorphosis: the Case of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus. Nano Letters, 15, 6991-6995 (2015)