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Yongjun Tian

Yongjun Tian

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Materials Science

D-Index
65
Citations
21387
World Ranking
5517
National Ranking
1678

Overview

Yongjun Tian is affiliated with Yanshan University in China and specializes in Materials Science and Engineering. Their scholarly contributions focus primarily on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with additional emphasis on Mechanics of Materials and Geophysics.

The core topics of their research encompass:

  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
  • Advanced Materials and Composites
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Tian's publication record includes papers published in multiple venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Physical Review B
  • Science China Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Research

Significant recent publications include:

  • Hierarchically structured diamond composite with exceptional toughness, 2020, Nature
  • Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond, 2022, Nature
  • Prediction of high-Tc superconductivity in ternary lanthanum borohydrides, 2021, Physical Review B
  • Ultrastrong conductive in situ composite composed of nanodiamond incoherently embedded in disordered multilayer graphene, 2022, Nature Materials
  • Direct Observation of Room-Temperature Dislocation Plasticity in Diamond, 2020, Matter

Frequent collaborators in Tian's research include the following coauthors, with collaboration counts indicating sustained joint work:

  • Bo Xu
  • Zhisheng Zhao
  • Anmin Nie
  • Zhongyuan Liu
  • Dongli Yu

These collaborations have contributed to a wide array of publications that reflect Tian's engagement with interdisciplinary topics within materials science and engineering. The research outputs span experimental studies on diamond composites, investigations into superconductivity, and exploration of nanomaterials, highlighting a comprehensive approach to advanced material systems.

Best Publications

  • Microscopic theory of hardness and design of novel superhard crystals

    Yongjun Tian;Bo Xu;Zhisheng Zhao

  • Unique Lead Adsorption Behavior of Activated Hydroxyl Group in Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide

    Qiuming Peng;Jianxin Guo;Qingrui Zhang;Jianyong Xiang

  • Hardness of covalent crystals.

    Faming Gao;Julong He;Erdong Wu;Shimin Liu

  • Nanotwinned diamond with unprecedented hardness and stability

    Quan Huang;Dongli Yu;Bo Xu;Wentao Hu

  • Ultrahard nanotwinned cubic boron nitride.

    Yongjun Tian;Bo Xu;Dongli Yu;Yanming Ma

  • Semimetallic Two-Dimensional Boron Allotrope with Massless Dirac Fermions

    Xiang-Feng Zhou;Xiang-Feng Zhou;Xiao Dong;Xiao Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Qiang Zhu

  • Ab initio investigations of optical properties of the high-pressure phases of ZnO

    Jian Sun;Hui-Tian Wang;Julong He;Yongjun Tian

  • Flexible All‐Solid‐State Supercapacitors based on Liquid‐Exfoliated Black‐Phosphorus Nanoflakes

    Chunxue Hao;Bingchao Yang;Fusheng Wen;Jianyong Xiang

  • Peanut shell derived hard carbon as ultralong cycling anodes for lithium and sodium batteries

    Weiming Lv;Fusheng Wen;Jianyong Xiang;Jing Zhao

  • Ionicities of boron-boron bonds in B(12) icosahedra.

    Julong He;Erdong Wu;Huitian Wang;Riping Liu

  • Novel Superhard Carbon: C-Centered Orthorhombic C 8

    Zhisheng Zhao;Bo Xu;Xiang-Feng Zhou;Li-Min Wang

  • Large-scale synthesis of nitrogen-rich carbon nitride microfibers by using graphitic carbon nitride as precursor

    Yuanchun Zhao;Zheng Liu;Weiguo Chu;Li Song

  • Te-Doped Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors.

    Bingchao Yang;Bensong Wan;Bensong Wan;Qionghua Zhou;Yue Wang

  • Hierarchically structured diamond composite with exceptional toughness

    Yonghai Yue;Yonghai Yue;Yufei Gao;Wentao Hu;Bo Xu

  • Coherent interfaces govern direct transformation from graphite to diamond

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  • Tetragonal allotrope of group 14 elements.

    Zhisheng Zhao;Fei Tian;Xiao Dong;Quan Li

  • Hardness of covalent compounds: Roles of metallic component and d valence electrons

    Xiaoju Guo;Lei Li;Zhongyuan Liu;Dongli Yu

  • Liquid-Exfoliated Black Phosphorous Nanosheet Thin Films for Flexible Resistive Random Access Memory Applications

    Chunxue Hao;Fusheng Wen;Jianyong Xiang;Shijun Yuan

  • First-principles study of electronic structure and optical properties of heterodiamond BC 2 N

    Jian Sun;Xiang-Feng Zhou;Ya-Xian Fan;Jing Chen

  • Turbostratic carbon nitride prepared by pyrolysis of melamine

    Y. C. Zhao;D. L. Yu;H. W. Zhou;Y. J. Tian

  • Tetragonal Allotrope of Group 14 Elements.

    Yongjun Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Xu
Bo Xu Yanshan University
Zhongyuan Liu
Zhongyuan Liu Yanshan University
Zhisheng Zhao
Zhisheng Zhao Yanshan University
Hui-Tian Wang
Hui-Tian Wang Nanjing University
Li-Min Wang
Li-Min Wang Yanshan University
Riping Liu
Riping Liu Yanshan University
Guoying Gao
Guoying Gao Yanshan University
Yanbin Wang
Yanbin Wang University of Chicago
Artem R. Oganov
Artem R. Oganov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Dechang Jia
Dechang Jia Harbin Institute of Technology

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