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Peng Yu is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China. Their academic work spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Materials Science and Engineering.

The main fields of study for Peng Yu include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

More specifically, their research engages several subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Peng Yu's work covers a number of scientific topics. Key focus areas include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

The scientist has authored multiple peer-reviewed papers, among which the most recent and cited works are:

  • "Amorphizing noble metal chalcogenide catalysts at the single-layer limit towards hydrogen production," 2022, published in Nature Catalysis
  • "Van der Waals engineering of ferroelectric heterostructures for long-retention memory," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Elimination of unstable residual lead iodide near the buried interface for the stability improvement of perovskite solar cells," 2023, published in Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Penta-PdPSe: A New 2D Pentagonal Material with Highly In-Plane Optical, Electronic, and Optoelectronic Anisotropy," 2021, published in Advanced Materials
  • "Second harmonic generation in 2D layered materials," 2020, published in 2D Materials

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Zheng Liu
  • Guowei Yang
  • Jiantian Zhang
  • Weina Zhao
  • Chao Zhu

Peng Yu has published extensively in several venues, with a higher number of publications appearing in:

  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nature Communications
  • Nanotechnology
  • Advanced Functional Materials

In addition to journal articles, Peng Yu has contributed to book publications, notably a title published by Springer Nature entitled Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions, released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP2S6 ultrathin flakes.

    Fucai Liu;Lu You;Kyle L. Seyler;Xiaobao Li

  • PdSe2: Pentagonal Two-Dimensional Layers with High Air Stability for Electronics.

    Akinola D. Oyedele;Shize Yang;Liangbo Liang;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • High‐Electron‐Mobility and Air‐Stable 2D Layered PtSe2 FETs

    Yuda Zhao;Jingsi Qiao;Jingsi Qiao;Zhihao Yu;Peng Yu

  • Extraordinarily Strong Interlayer Interaction in 2D Layered PtS2.

    Yuda Zhao;Jingsi Qiao;Peng Yu;Zhixin Hu

  • Atomically thin noble metal dichalcogenide: a broadband mid-infrared semiconductor.

    Xuechao Yu;Peng Yu;Di Wu;Bahadur Singh

  • A Stable Bifunctional Catalyst for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Iron–Cobalt Nanoparticles Embedded in a Nitrogen‐Doped 3D Carbon Matrix

    Xu Liu;Lei Wang;Peng Yu;Chungui Tian

  • Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: Ba3P3O10X (X = Cl, Br).

    Peng Yu;Li-Ming Wu;Liu-Jiang Zhou;Ling Chen

  • High-quality monolayer superconductor NbSe 2 grown by chemical vapour deposition

    Hong Wang;Xiangwei Huang;Junhao Lin;Jian Cui;Jian Cui

  • Earth abundant materials beyond transition metal dichalcogenides: A focus on electrocatalyzing hydrogen evolution reaction

    Peng Yu;Peng Yu;Fengmei Wang;Tofik Ahmed Shifa;Xueying Zhan

  • Two-dimensional non-volatile programmable p–n junctions

    Dong Li;Mingyuan Chen;Zhengzong Sun;Peng Yu

  • High Mobility 2D Palladium Diselenide Field-Effect Transistors with Tunable Ambipolar Characteristics.

    Wai Leong Chow;Wai Leong Chow;Peng Yu;Fucai Liu;Jinhua Hong

  • Domain Control in Multiferroic BiFeO3 through Substrate Vicinality

    Ying Hao Chu;Maria P. Cruz;Chan Ho Yang;Lane W. Martin

  • 3R MoS2 with Broken Inversion Symmetry: A Promising Ultrathin Nonlinear Optical Device.

    Jia Shi;Jia Shi;Peng Yu;Fucai Liu;Peng He

  • Altered white matter microstructure in the corpus callosum in Huntington's disease: implications for cortical "disconnection".

    H. Diana Rosas;Stephanie Y. Lee;Alexander C. Bender;Alexandra K. Zaleta

  • Nonlinear photoresponse of type-II Weyl semimetals.

    Junchao Ma;Qiangqiang Gu;Yinan Liu;Jiawei Lai

  • Porous Graphitic Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Cornstalk Biomass for Advanced Supercapacitors

    Lei Wang;Guang Mu;Chungui Tian;Li Sun

  • Lithiation-induced amorphization of Pd3P2S8 for highly efficient hydrogen evolution

    Xiao Zhang;Zhimin Luo;Peng Yu;Yongqing Cai

  • Large-Area and High-Quality 2D Transition Metal Telluride.

    Jiadong Zhou;Fucai Liu;Junhao Lin;Junhao Lin;Junhao Lin;Xiangwei Huang

  • Characterization of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer MDA-MB-231 Cell Spheroid Model

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  • Noncentrosymmetric inorganic open-framework chalcohalides with strong middle IR SHG and red emission: Ba3AGa5Se10Cl2 (A = Cs, Rb, K).

    Peng Yu;Liu-Jiang Zhou;Ling Chen

  • Self-gating in semiconductor electrocatalysis

    Yongmin He;Qiyuan He;Luqing Wang;Chao Zhu

  • High-Yield Exfoliation of Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Ternary Chalcogenide Nanosheets for Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescence DNA Sensors

    Chaoliang Tan;Peng Yu;Yanling Hu;Yanling Hu;Junze Chen

  • Fast Photoresponse from 1T Tin Diselenide Atomic Layers

    Peng Yu;Xuechao Yu;Wanglin Lu;Hsin Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Zheng Liu
Zheng Liu Nanyang Technological University
Junhao Lin
Junhao Lin Southern University of Science and Technology
Hsin Lin
Hsin Lin Academia Sinica
Honggang Fu
Honggang Fu Heilongjiang University
Chungui Tian
Chungui Tian Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Jiadong Zhou
Jiadong Zhou Beijing Institute of Technology
Fucai Liu
Fucai Liu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Kazu Suenaga
Kazu Suenaga Osaka University
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides Vanderbilt University
Wu Zhou
Wu Zhou University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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