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[51]. Hongyan Gao, Zhien Wang, Feiyu Yang, Xiaoyu Wang, Siqi Wang, Quan Zhang, Xiaomeng Liu, Yubing Sun, Jing Kong, Jun Yao*, “Graphene-Integrated Mesh Electronics with Converged Multifunctionality for Tracking Multimodal Excitation-Contraction Dynamics in Cardiac Microtissues“, Nature Commun. 15, 2321 (2024). (News highlights: Bioengineer, EurekAlert!, MedicalXpress, etc).


[50]. Tianda Fu†, Shuai Fu†, Siqi Wang, Jun Yao*, “Enabling Reliable Two-terminal Memristor Network by Exploiting the Dynamic Reverse Recovery in a Diode Selector“, Device. 2, 100329 (2024).


[49]. Shuai Fu, Ji-Hoon Park, Hongyan Gao, Tianyi Zhang, Xiang Ji, Tianda Fu, Lu Sun, Jing Kong, Jun Yao*, “Two-Terminal MoS2 Memristor and the Homogeneous Integration with a MoS2 Transistor for Neural Networks“, Nano. Lett. 23, 5869-5876 (2023). [PDF], [SI]


[48]. Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Lu Sun, Jun Yao*, “Generic Air-Gen Effect in Nanoporous Materials for Sustainable Energy Harvesting from Air Humidity“, Adv. Mater. 2300748 (2023). [PDF], [SI] (News highlights: BBC, Washington Post, Boston Global, Guardian, Newsweek, Science Daily, Inverse, Yahoo, etc).


[47]. Yassir Lekbach, Toshiyuki Ueki, Xiaomeng Liu, Trevor Woodard, Jun Yao, Derek R. Lovley, “Microbial Nanowires with Genetically Modified Peptide Ligands to Sustainably Fabricate Electronic Sensing Devices“, Biosens. Bioelectron. 226, 115147 (2023). [PDF], [SI](News highlights: Phys.org, Physicsworld, Bioengineering, EurekAlert!, etc).


[46]. Tianda Fu, Shuai Fu, Jun Yao*, “Recent Progress in Bio-voltage Memristors Working with Ultralow Voltage of Biological Amplitude“, (Review) Nanoscale 15, 4669-4681 (2023). [PDF]


[45]. Tianda Fu, Shuai Fu, Lu Sun, Hongyan Gao, Jun Yao*, “An Effective Sneak-Path Solution Based on a Transient-Relaxation Device“, Adv. Mater. 35, 2207133 (2023). [PDF], [SI]


[44]. Hongyan Gao, Feiyu Yang, Kianoosh Sattari, Xian Du, Tianda Fu, Shuai Fu, Xiaomeng Liu, Jian Lin, Yubing Sun, Jun Yao*, “Bioinspired Two-in-One Nanotransistor Sensor for the Simultaneous Measurements of Electrical and Mechanical Cellular Responses“, Science Adv. 8, eabn2485 (2022). [PDF], [SI] (News highlights: PhysWorld, ScienceMag, PhysOrg, Science Daily, EurekAlert! NASA TechBrief, etc)


[43]. Xiaomeng Liu, Toshiyuki Ueki, Hongyan Gao, Trevor L. Woodard, Kelly P. Nevin, Tianda Fu, Shuai Fu, Lu Sun, Derek R. Lovley*, Jun Yao*, “Microbial Biofilms for Electricity Generation from Water Evaporation and Power to Wearables“, Nature Commun. 13, 4369 (2022). [PDF], [SI] (News highlights: Science Daily, Nanowerk, EurekAlert! etc)


[42]. Tianda Fu, Xiaomeng Liu, Shuai Fu, Trevor Woodard, Hongyan Gao, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao*, “Self-sustained Green Neuromorphic Interfaces“, Nature Commun. 12, 3351 (2021). [PDF], [SI] (News highlights: Phys.org, EurekAlert!, Science Daily, Bioengineener, ScienMag, etc)


[41]. Derek R. Lovley,  Jun Yao, “Intrinsically Conductive Microbial Nanowires for ‘Green’ Electronics with Novel Functions“, (Review) Trends Biotechnol. 39, 940-952 (2021). [PDF]


[40]. Xiaomeng Liu, Tianda Fu, Joy Ward, Hongyan Gao, Bing Yin, Trevor Woodard, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao*, “Multifunctional Protein Nanowire Humidity Sensors for Green Wearable Electronics“, Adv. Electron. Mater. 6, 2000721 (2020). [PDF] [SI]


[39]. Jian Sun, Russell S. Deacon, Xiaochi Liu, Jun Yao, Koji Ishibashi, “Spin Filtering in Germanium/Silicon Core/Shell Nanowires with Pseudo-helical Gap“, Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 052403 (2020). [PDF]


[38]. Alexander F. Smith, Xiaomeng Liu, Trevor L. Woodard, Tianda Fu, Todd Emrick, Juan M. Jiménez, Derek R. Lovley*, Jun Yao*, “Bioelectronic Protein Nanowire Sensors for Ammonia Detection“, Nano Research 13, 1479–1484 (2020). [PDF] [SI] (News highlights: Phys.org, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Bioengineener, Science Bulletin, etc)


[37]. Tianda Fu, Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Joy E. Ward, Xiaorong Liu, Bing Yin, Zhongrui Wang, Ye Zhuo, David J. F. Walker, J. Joshua Yang, Jianhan Chen, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao*, “Bioinspired Bio-voltage Memristors“, Nature Commun. 11, 1861 (2020). [PDF] [SI] (News highlights: Phys.org, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Technology Networks, Science Bulletin, etc)


[36]. Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Joy E. Ward, Xiaorong Liu, Bing Yin, Tianda Fu, Jianhan Chen, Derek R. Lovley, Jun Yao*, “Power Production from Ambient Humidity Using Protein Nanowires“, Nature 578, 550–554 (2020).  (News highlights: Nature Podcast, Science, Phys.org, EurekAlert!, ScienceDaily, MSN.com, Yahoo!, Popular Science, MASSLIVE, Tech Times, New Atlas, Big Think, etc)


[34]. Masiar Sistani, Jovian Delaforce, Roman B. G. Kramer, Nicolas Roch, Minh Anh Luong, Martien I. den Hertog, Eric Robin, Jürgen Smoliner, Jun Yao, Charles M. Lieber, Cecile Naud, Alois Lugstein, Olivier Buisson, “Highly Transparent Contacts to the 1D Hole Gas in Ultrascaled Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires“, ACS Nano, 13, 14145-14151 (2019). [PDF] [SI]


[34]. Hongyan Gao, Bing Yin, Siyu Wu, Xiaomeng Liu, Tianda Fu, Cheng Zhang, Jian Lin, Jun Yao*, “Deterministic Assembly of Three-Dimensional Suspended Nanowire Structures“, Nano Lett. 19, 5647-5652 (2019). [PDF] [SI]


[33]. Rui Wang, Russell S. Deacon, Jian Sun, Jun Yao, Charles M. Lieber, Koji Ishibashi, “Gate Tunable Hole Charge Qubit Formed in a Ge/Si Nanowire Double Quantum Dot Coupled to Microwave Photons“, Nano Lett. 19, 1052-1060 (2019). [PDF] [SI]


[32]. M. Sistani, M. A. Luong, M. I. den Hertog, E. Robin, M. Spies, B. Fernandez, Jun Yao, E. Bertagnolli, A. Lugstein, “Monolithic Axial and Radial Metal-Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures, Nano Lett. 18, 7692-7697 (2018). [PDF] [SI]


[31]. Bing Yin, Xiaomeng Liu, Hongyan Gao, Tianda Fu, Jun Yao*, “Bioinspired and Bristled Microparticles for Ultrasensitive Pressure and Strain Sensors“, Nature Commun. 9, 5161 (2018). [PDF] [SI] (The Behind-the-Scenes Story)


[30]. Jian Sun, Russell S. Deacon, Rui Wang, Jun Yao, Charles M. Lieber,  Koji Ishibashi, “Helical Hole State in Multiple Conduction Modes in Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowire, Nano Lett. 18, 6144–6149 (2018). [PDF] [SI]

Prior to UMass Amherst



[29]. Thomas Schuhmann*, Jun Yao*, Guosong Hong, Tian-Ming Fu, Charles M. Lieber, “Syringe-Injectable Electronics with a Plug-and-play Input/Output interface“, Nano Lett. 17, 5836−5842 (2017).

[28]. Rui Wang, Russell S. Deacon, Jun Yao, Charles M. Lieber and Koji Ishibashi, “Electrical modulation of weak-antilocalization and spin-orbit interaction in dual gated Ge/Si core/shell nanowires,” Semicond. Sci. Technol. 32, 094002 (2017).

[27]. Yunlong Zhao*, Jun Yao*, Lin Xu, Max Mankin, Yinbo Zhu, Heng-An Wu, Liqiang Mai, Qingjie Zhang, Charles M. Lieber, “Shape-controlled deterministic assembly of nanowire”, Nano Lett. 16, 2644-2650 (2016).

[26]. Jun Yao, Hao Yan, Shamik Das, James Klemic, James Ellenbogen, and Charles M. Lieber, “Nanowire nanocomputer as a finite-state machine”, ProcNatl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 1259-1264 (2014).

[25]. Wooyoung Shim*, Jun Yao*, and Charles M. Lieber, “Programmable resistive-switch nanowire transistor logic circuits”, Nano Lett. 14, 5430-5436 (2014).

[24]. Andrew P. Higginbotham, F. Kuemmeth, T. W. Larsen, Jun Yao, Hao Yan, Charles M. Lieber, and Charles M. Marcus, “Antilocalization of coulomb blockage in a Ge/Si nanowire”, PhysRev. Lett. 112, 216806 (2014).

[23]. Andrew P. Higginbotham, T. W. Larsen, Jun Yao, Hao Yan, Charles M. Lieber, and Charles M. Marcus, “Hole spin coherence in a Ge/Si heterostructure nanowire”, Nano Lett. 14, 3582-3586 (2014).

[22]. Jun Yao, Hao Yan, and Charles M. Lieber, “A nanoscale combing technique for the large-scale assembly of highly aligned nanowires”, Nature Nanotechnol. 8, 329-335 (2013).

[21]. Jun Yao*, Jian Lin*, Yanhua Dai, Gedeng Ruan, Zheng Yan, Lei Li, Zhong Lin, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Highly transparent nonvolatile resistive memory devices from silicon oxide and graphene”, Nature Commun. 3, 1101 (2012).

[20]. Lei Ren, Qi Zhang, Jun Yao, Zhengzong Sun, Ryosuke Kaneko, Zheng Yan, Sebastien Nanot, Zhong Jin, Iwao Kawayama, Masayoshi Tonouchi, James M. Tour, and Junichiro Kono, “Terahertz and infrared spectroscopy of gated large-area graphene”, Nano Lett. 12, 3711-3715 (2012).

[19]. Zheng Yan, Jun Yao, Zhengzong Sun, Yu Zhu, and James M. Tour, “Controlled ambipolar-to-unipolar conversion in graphene field-effect transistor through surface coating with poly(ethylene imine)/poly(ethylene glycol) films”, Small 8, 59-62 (2012).

[18]. Jun Yao, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “In situ probing of the conducting filament in a silicon oxide resistive switch”,  SciRep. 2, 242 (2012).

[17]. Zhengzong Sun, Cary L. Pint, Daniela C. Marcano, Chenguang Zhang, Jun Yao, Gedeng Ruan, Zheng Yan, Yu Zhu, Robert H. Hauge, and James M. Tour, “Toward hybrid superlattices in graphene”, Nature Commun. 2, 559 (2011).

[16]. Zheng Yan, Zhiwei Peng, Zhengzong Sun, Jun Yao, Yu Zhu, Zheng Liu, Pulickel Ajayan, and James M. Tour, “Growth of bilayer graphene on insulating substrates”, ACS Nano 5, 8187-8192 (2011).

[15]. Jun Yao, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Silicon oxide: a non-innocent surface for molecular electronics and nanoelectronics”, JAm. Chem. Soc. 133, 941-948, 2011.

[14]. Zhong Jin, Jun Yao, Carter Kittrell, and James M. Tour, “Large-Scale growth and characterizations of nitrogen-doped monolayer graphene sheets”, ACS Nano 5, 4112-4117, (2011).

[13]. Zheng Yan, Zhengzong Sun, Wei Lu, Jun Yao, Yu Zhu, and James M. Tour, “Controlled modulation of electronic properties of graphene by self-assembled monolayers on SiO2 substrates”, ACS Nano 5, 1535-1540, 2011.

[12]. Jun Yao, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Intrinsic resistive switching and memory effects in silicon oxide”, ApplPhys. A 102, 835-839, 2011.

[11]. Yu Zhu, Wei Lu, Zhengzong Sun, Dmitry V. Kosynkin, Jun Yao, and James M. Tour, “High throughput preparation of large area transparent electrodes using non-functionalized graphene nanoribbons”, ChemMater. 23, 935-939, 2011.

[10]. Zhengzong Sun, Zheng Yan, Jun Yao, Elvira Beitler, Yu Zhu, and James M. Tour, “Growth of graphene from solid carbon source”, Nature 468, 549-552, 2010.

[9]. Jun Yao, Zhengzong Sun, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Resistive switches from silicon oxide”, Nano Lett. 10, 4105-4110, 2010.

[8]. Noe T. Alvarez, Christopher E. Hamilton, Cary L. Pint, Alvin Orbaek, Jun Yao, Andrew L. Frosinini, Andrew R. Barron, James M. Tour, and Robert H. Hauge, “Wet catalyst-support films for production of vertical aligned carbon nanotubes”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2, 1851-1856, 2010.

[7]. Jun Yao, Zhong Jin, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Two-terminal nonvolatile memories from single-walled carbon nanotubes”, ACS Nano 12, 4122-4126, 2009.

[6]. Jun Yao, Lin Zhong, Zengxing Zhang, Tao He, Patrick J. Wheeler, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Resistive switching in nanogap systems on SiO2 substrates”, Small 24, 2910-2915, 2009.

[5]. Zengxing Zhang, Zhengzong Sun, Jun Yao, and James M. Tour, “Transforming carbon nanotube devices into nanoribbon devices”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 13460-13463, 2009.

[4]. Jun Yao, Lin Zhong, Douglas Natelson, and James M. Tour, “Etching-dependent reproducible memory switching in vertical SiO2 structures”, ApplPhys. Lett. 93, 253101, 2008.

[3]. Tao He, Meng Lu, Jun Yao, and James M. Tour, “Reversible modulation of conductance in silicon device via UV/Visible-light irradiation”, AdvMater. 20, 4541-4546, 2008.

[2]. Jun Yao and Zhongqin Yang, “Spin accumulation in a ballistic Rashba bar”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 033314, 2006.

[1]. Jun Yao, Yu-Chang Chen, Massimiliano Di Ventra, and Zhongqin Yang, “Effect of atomic geometry on shot noise in aluminum quantum point contacts”, PhysRev. B 73, 233407, 2006.