Publications

Sun, Y., T. Wu, Z. Bao, J. Moon, Z. Huang, Z. Chen, H. Chen, et al. “Defect Engineering of Ceria Nanocrystals for Enhanced Catalysis via a High-Entropy Oxide Strategy.” ACS Central Science 8, no. 8 (August 24, 2022): 1081–90. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.2c00340.

Venkatraman, K., J. A. Hachtel, and M. Chi. “Visualizing magnetic fields at the atomic scale.” Matter 5, no. 8 (August 3, 2022): 2414–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2022.05.010.

Zachman, Michael J., Victor Fung, Felipe Polo-Garzon, Shaohong Cao, Jisue Moon, Zhennan Huang, De-En Jiang, Zili Wu, and Miaofang Chi. “Measuring and directing charge transfer in heterogenous catalysts.” Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (June 2022): 3253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30923-2.

Jiang, X., X. Zhang, S. C. Purdy, Y. He, Z. Huang, R. You, Z. Wei, et al. “Multiple Promotional Effects of Vanadium Oxide on Boron Nitride for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane.” JACS Au 2, no. 5 (May 23, 2022): 1096–1104. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00542.

Okejiri, F., J. Fan, Z. Huang, K. M. Siniard, M. Chi, F. Polo-Garzon, Z. Yang, and S. Dai. “Ultrasound-mediated synthesis of nanoporous fluorite-structured high-entropy oxides toward noble metal stabilization.” IScience 25, no. 5 (May 20, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104214.

Janssen, Annemieke, Zhiheng Lyu, Marc Figueras-Valls, Hsin-Yun Chao, Yifeng Shi, Veronica Pawlik, Miaofang Chi, Manos Mavrikakis, and Younan Xia. “Phase-Controlled Synthesis of Ru Nanocrystals via Template-Directed Growth: Surface Energy versus Bulk Energy.” Nano Letters 22, no. 9 (May 2022): 3591–97. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c05009.

Chen, Yizhen, Rachita Rana, Zhennan Huang, Fernando D. Vila, Tyler Sours, Jorge E. Perez-Aguilar, Xiao Zhao, et al. “Atomically Dispersed Platinum in Surface and Subsurface Sites on MgO Have Contrasting Catalytic Properties for CO Oxidation.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13, no. 17 (May 2022): 3896–3903. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00667.

Yao, Yonggang, Qi Dong, Alexandra Brozena, Jian Luo, Jianwei Miao, Miaofang Chi, Chao Wang, et al. “High-entropy nanoparticles: Synthesis-structure-property relationships and data-driven discovery.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 376, no. 6589 (April 2022): eabn3103. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn3103.

Sun, Yifan, Felipe Polo-Garzon, Zhenghong Bao, Jisue Moon, Zhennan Huang, Hao Chen, Zitao Chen, et al. “Manipulating Copper Dispersion on Ceria for Enhanced Catalysis: A Nanocrystal-Based Atom-Trapping Strategy.” Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 9, no. 8 (March 2022): e2104749. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202104749.

Shi, Yifeng, Roberto Schimmenti, Shangqian Zhu, Kartik Venkatraman, Ruhui Chen, Miaofang Chi, Minhua Shao, Manos Mavrikakis, and Younan Xia. “Solution-Phase Synthesis of PdH_0.706 Nanocubes with Enhanced Stability and Activity toward Formic Acid Oxidation.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 144, no. 6 (February 2022): 2556–68. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c10199.

Cui, Mingjin, Chunpeng Yang, Sooyeon Hwang, Menghao Yang, Sean Overa, Qi Dong, Yonggang Yao, et al. “Multi-principal elemental intermetallic nanoparticles synthesized via a disorder-to-order transition.” Science Advances 8, no. 4 (January 2022): eabm4322. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4322.

Zachman, Michael J., Zhenzhong Yang, Yingge Du, and Miaofang Chi. “Robust Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Lithium in Battery Materials by Center-of-Mass Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy.” ACS Nano 16, no. 1 (January 2022): 1358–67. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c09374.

Chen, Yizhen, Rachita Rana, Tyler Sours, Fernando D. Vila, Shaohong Cao, Thomas Blum, Jiyun Hong, et al. “A Theory-Guided X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Approach for Identifying Active Sites in Atomically Dispersed Transition-Metal Catalysts.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, no. 48 (December 2021): 20144–56. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c07116.

Liu, Xiaoming, Regina Garcia-Mendez, Andrew R. Lupini, Yongqiang Cheng, Zachary D. Hood, Fudong Han, Asma Sharafi, et al. “Local electronic structure variation resulting in Li 'filament' formation within solid electrolytes.” Nature Materials 20, no. 11 (November 2021): 1485–90. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01019-x.

Zhang, Yu, Zhiheng Lyu, Zitao Chen, Shangqian Zhu, Yifeng Shi, Ruhui Chen, Minghao Xie, et al. “Maximizing the Catalytic Performance of Pd@Au_x Pd_1-x Nanocubes in H₂ O₂ Production by Reducing Shell Thickness to Increase Compositional Stability.” Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English) 60, no. 36 (September 2021): 19643–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202105137.

Zhang, Q., W. Arnold, Z. D. Hood, Y. Li, R. Dewees, M. Chi, Z. Chen, Y. Chen, and H. Wang. “Li0.625Al0.125H0.25Cl0.75O0.25Superionic Conductor with Disordered Rock-Salt Structure.” ACS Applied Energy Materials 4, no. 8 (August 23, 2021): 7674–80. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01011.

Yao, Y., Z. Huang, L. A. Hughes, J. Gao, T. Li, D. Morris, S. E. Zeltmann, et al. “Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys.” Matter 4, no. 7 (July 7, 2021): 2340–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.04.014.

Zachman, Michael J., Jacob Madsen, Xiang Zhang, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Toma Susi, and Miaofang Chi. “Interferometric 4D-STEM for Lattice Distortion and Interlayer Spacing Measurements of Bilayer and Trilayer 2D Materials.” Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany) 17, no. 28 (July 2021): e2100388. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202100388.

Gao, Wenpei, Ahmed O. Elnabawy, Zachary D. Hood, Yifeng Shi, Xue Wang, Luke T. Roling, Xiaoqing Pan, Manos Mavrikakis, Younan Xia, and Miaofang Chi. “Atomistic insights into the nucleation and growth of platinum on palladium nanocrystals.” Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (June 2021): 3215. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23290-x.

Qiu, Jichuan, Zitao Chen, Miaofang Chi, and Younan Xia. “Swelling-Induced Symmetry Breaking: A Versatile Approach to the Scalable Production of Colloidal Particles with a Janus Structure.” Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English) 60, no. 23 (June 2021): 12980–84. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202102164.

Liu, Y., L. L. Wang, Q. Zheng, Z. Huang, X. Wang, M. Chi, Y. Wu, et al. “Site Mixing for Engineering Magnetic Topological Insulators.” Physical Review X 11, no. 2 (May 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021033.

Li, T., Y. Yao, Z. Huang, P. Xie, Z. Liu, M. Yang, J. Gao, et al. “Author Correction: Denary oxide nanoparticles as highly stable catalysts for methane combustion (Nature Catalysis, (2021), 4, 1, (62-70), 10.1038/s41929-020-00554-1).” Nature Catalysis 4, no. 5 (May 1, 2021): 439. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-021-00613-1.

Blum, Thomas, Jeffery Graves, Michael J. Zachman, Felipe Polo-Garzon, Zili Wu, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Xiaoqing Pan, and Miaofang Chi. “Machine Learning Method Reveals Hidden Strong Metal-Support Interaction in Microscopy Datasets.” Small Methods 5, no. 5 (May 2021): e2100035. https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202100035.

Ding, L., C. Hu, E. Feng, C. Jiang, I. A. Kibalin, A. Gukasov, M. Chi, N. Ni, and H. Cao. “Neutron diffraction study of magnetism in van der Waals layered MnBi2n Te3n+1.” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54, no. 17 (April 29, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/abe0dd.

Upadhyay, N. K., T. Blum, P. Maksymovych, N. V. Lavrik, N. Davila, J. A. Katine, A. V. Ievlev, M. Chi, Q. Xia, and J. J. Yang. “Engineering Tunneling Selector to Achieve High Non-linearity for 1S1R Integration.” Frontiers in Nanotechnology 3 (April 15, 2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnano.2021.656026.