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Research Yang Group

Energy Materials Lab

The Energy Materials Lab led by Dr. Ankun Yang seeks to develop novel materials and designs for use in next-generation energy storage devices.

The lab focuses on nanoscale fundamentals, scalable processes and applications.

Research Areas

Alkali metal plasmonics

 

Related Papers

Low-loss plasmonics with nanostructured potassium and sodium-potassium liquid alloys [PDF][SI]

Z. Gao, A. Wildenborg, C.A.Kocoj, E. Liu, C. Sheofsky, A. Rawashdeh, H. Qu, P. Guo, J.Y. Suh, A. Yang

Nano Letters 23 (15), 7150-7156 (2023)


High-quality surface plasmon polaritons in large-area sodium nanostructures [PDF][SI]

A. Rawashdeh*, A. Wildenborg*, E. Liu, Z. Gao, D.A. Czaplewski, H. Qu, J.Y. Suh, A. Yang

Nano Letters 23 (2), 469-475 (2023)


Sodium surface lattice plasmons [PDF][SI]

A. Rawashdeh, S. Lupa, W. Welch and A. Yang

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 25148 (2021)


Energy Storage

 

Related Papers

Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities

A. Yang*, G. Zhou*, X. Kong, R.A. Vila, A. Pei, Y. Wu, X. Yu, X. Zheng, C.-L. Wu, B. Liu, H. Chen, Y. Xu, D. Chen, Y. Li, S. Fakra, H.Y. Hwang, J. Qin, S. Chu, Y. Cui

Nature Nanotechnology 15, 231-237 (2020)

See also:

D. Zhou, G. Wang, Supercool Sulfur

A. Yang, Liquid or solid sulfur matters


Supercooled liquid sulfur maintained in three-dimensional current collector for high-performance Li-S batteries

G. Zhou*, A. Yang*, G. Gao*, X. Yu, J. Xu, C. Liu, Y. Ye, A. Pei, Y. Wu, Y. Peng, Y. Li, Z. Liang, K. Liu, L.-W. Wang, Y. Cui

Science Advances 6, 21, eaay5098 (2020)


Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets

G. Zhou*, A. Yang*, Y. Wang, G. Gao, A. Pei, X. Yu, Y. Zhu, L. Zong, B. Liu, J. Xu, N. Liu, J. Zhang, Y. Li, L.-W. Wang, H.Y. Hwang, M.L. Brongersma, S. Chu, Y. Cui

Nature Communications 11, 606 (2020)


Direct electrochemical generation of super-cooled sulphur microdroplets well below its melting temperature

N. Liu*, G. Zhou*, A. Yang, X. Yu, F. Shi, J. Sun, J. Zhang, B. Liu, C.-L. Wu, X. Tao, Y. Sun, Y. Cui, S. Chu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(3), 765-770 (2019)


Photonics

 

Related Papers

Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays

A. Yang, T.B. Hoang, M. Dridi, C. Deeb, M.H. Mikkelsen, G.C. Schatz, T.W. Odom

Nature Communications 6, 6939 (2015)


Unidirectional lasing from template-stripped two-dimensional plasmonic crystals

A. Yang, Z. Li, M. Knudson, A.J. Hryn, W. Wang, K. Aydin, T.W. Odom

ACS Nano 9, 11582-11588 (2015)


Band-edge engineering for controlled multi-modal nanolasing in plasmonic superlattices

D. Wang, A. Yang, W. Wang, Y. Hua, R.D. Schaller, G.C. Schatz, T.W. Odom

Nature Nanotechnology 12, 889-894 (2017)


Hetero-oligomer nanoparticle arrays for plasmon-enhanced hydrogen sensing

A. Yang, M.D. Huntington, M.F. Cardinal, S.S. Masango, R.P. Van Duyne, T.W. Odom

ACS Nano 8, 7639-7647 (2014)


Programmable and reversible plasmon mode engineering

A. Yang, A.J. Hryn, M.R. Bourgeois, W.K. Lee, J. Hu, G.C. Schatz, T.W. Odom

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 14201-14206 (2016)


Others: 2D Materials and thermal management

 

Related Papers

Reversible and selective intercalation through the top surface of few-layer MoS2

J. Zhang*, A. Yang*, X. Wu*, J. Groep, P. Tang, S. Li, B. Liu, F. Shi, J. Wan, Q. Li, Y. Sun, Z. Lu, X. Zheng, G. Zhou, C.-L. Wu, S.-C. Zhang, M.L. Brongersma, J. Li, Y. Cui

Nature Communications 9, 5289 (2018)


Thermal management in nanofiber-based face mask

A. Yang, L. Cai, R. Zhang, J. Wang, P.-C. Hsu, H. Wang, G. Zhou, J. Xu, Y. Cui

Nano Letters 17(6), 3506-3510 (2017)


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