Yi Yu
Assistant Professorã€PI
Physical Science and Technology
Shanghai Tech University
China
Biography
2004.9-2008.7, B.S., Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2008.9-2013.7, Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2014.1-2017.1, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, 2017.1-present, Assistant Professorã€PI, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
Research Interest
1. Materials: Structural study of materials using advanced electron microscopy, unraveling the relationship between the structure and physical/chemical property on atomic-level. The interested materials include novel low-dimensional nanostructures, renewable energy materials, etc. 2. Methods: Development of experimental and theoretical methods on atomic-level imaging and spectroscopy.
Publications
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Atomically Thin Two-dimensional Organic-inorganic Hybrid Perovskites. L. Dou*, A. B. Wong*, Y. Yu*, M. Lai, N. Kornienko, S. W. Eaton, A. Fu, C. G. Bischak, J. Ma, T. Ding, N. S. Ginsberg, L.-W. Wang, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Yang. Science, 349, 1518, 2015. (* equal contribution)
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Atomic Structure of Ultrathin Gold Nanowires. Y. Yu, F. Cui, J. Sun, P. Yang. Nano Lett., 16, 3078, 2016.
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Anisotropic Phase Segregation and Migration of Pt in Nanocrystals En Route to Nanoframe Catalysts. Z. Niu, N. Becknell, Y. Yu, D. Kim, C. Chen, N. Kornienko, G. A. Somorjai, P. Yang. Nature Mater. 15, 1188, 2016.
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Ultrathin Colloidal Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires. D. Zhang*, Y. Yu*, Y. Bekenstein*, A. B. Wong, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Yang. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 13155, 2016. (* equal contribution)
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Atomic Resolution Imaging of Halide Perovskites. Y. Yu, D. Zhang, C. Kisielowski, L. Dou, N. Kornienko, Y. Bekenstein, A. B. Wong, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Yang. Nano Lett., 16, 7530, 2016.
