Energy Storage

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).