Papers
1. Wenqiang Zhang, Hong Jiang,Yikuan Liu,Yue Hu,Athulya Surendran Palakkal,Yujie Zhou, Meng Sun,Enping Du,Wei Gong, Qun Zhang, Jianwen Jiang, Jinqiao Dong, Yan Liu, Dehui Li, Yihan Zhu*, Yong Cui*, Xiangfeng Duan*.2025. Metal-halide porous framework superlattices. Nature. 638(8050):418-424.
2. Gaolei Zhan*#, Brecht Koek#, Yijia Yuan#, Yikuan Liu, Vipin Mishra, Veniero Lenzi, Karol Strutyński, Chunxiao Li, Rongrong Zhang, Xin Zhou, Hwa Seob Choi, Zhen-Feng Cai, Joaquín Almarza, Kunal S Mali, Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, Manuel Melle Franco, Yihan Zhu*, Steven De Feyter*, Kian Ping Loh*. 2025. Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices. Nat. Chem. 1-7.
3. Chengtao Gong#, Yongwu Peng*#, Mengqiu Xu#, Xiaofei Wei#, Guan Sheng, Jialiang Liu, Xiaowei Wu, Xing Han, Fangna Dai, Jinqiao Dong, Zhijie Chen, Yihan Zhu*, Wei Ye*, Yong Cui*. 2025. Selective electrocatalytic synthesis of urea using entangled iron porphyrins in covalent organic frameworks. Nature. Synth. 1-10
4. Xiaoqiu Xu#, Liwei Xia#, Changlin Zheng, Yikuan Liu, Dongyang Yu, Jingjing Li, Shigui Zhong, Cuiyu Li, Huijun Song, Yunzhou Liu, Tulai Sun, Yonghe Li, Yu Han, Jia Zhao, Qiang Lin*, Xiaonian Li*, Yihan Zhu*. 2025. Unravelling nonclassical beam damage mechanisms in metal-organic frameworks by low-dose electron microscopy. Nat. Commun. 16(1):261
5. Ding Xiao#, Zhitong Jin#, Guan Sheng#, Liya Chen, Xuedong Xiao, Tianyu Shan, Jiao Wang, Rahul Navik, Jianping Xu, Lin Zhou, Qing-Hui Guo, Guangfeng Li*, Yihan Zhu*, J Fraser Stoddart*, Feihe Huang*. 2024. Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks. Nat. Chem. 16(11):1906-1914.
6. Jinshu Tian#, Ru Kong#, Bin Deng#, Yi Cheng, Kerou Hu, Zhangnan Zhong, Tulai Sun*, Mingwu Tan, Luwei Chen, Jia Zhao, Yong Wang, Xiaonian Li*, Yihan Zhu*. 2024. Non‐classical Deactivation Mechanism in a Supported Intermetallic Catalyst for Propane Dehydrogenation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 136(41):e202409556.
7. Cheng Cheng#, Yikuan Liu#, Guan Sheng, Xinru Jiang, Xing Kang, Chao Jiang, Yan Liu*, Yihan Zhu*, Yong Cui*. 2024. Construction of Benzoxazine-linked One-dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks Using the Mannich Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63(33):e202403473.
8. Ming Cheng#, Ning Cao#, Zhi Wang#, Ke Wang*, Tiancheng Pu, Yukun Li, Tulai Sun, Xuanyu Yue, Wenkang Ni, Wenxin Dai, Yi He, Yao Shi, Peng Zhang*, Yihan Zhu*, Pengfei Xie*. 2024. Strain-Induced Self-Assembly at Interface of Two-Dimensional Heterostructures Boosts CO2 Reduction to Methanol by H2O. ACS Nano. 18(15):10582-10595.
9. Yonghe Li#, Hui Xu#, Qiaoru Ning, Shiting Li, Jing Wang, Jiexin Wang, Zhongting Hu, Jinshu Tian, Xiaonian Li, Yu Han*, Yihan Zhu*. 2024. Visualizing Structure, Growth, and Dynamics of Li Dendrite in Batteries: From Atomic to Device Scales. Adv. Funct. Mater. 34(36):2401361.
10. Xinru Sheng#, Zeju Wang#, Guan Sheng#, Chongzhi Zhu, Ding Xiao, Tianyu Shan, Xuedong Xiao, Ming Liu, Guangfeng Li*, Yihan Zhu*, Jonathan L Sessler*, Feihe Huang*. 2024. Three-Dimensional Crystalline Organic Framework Stabilized by Molecular Mortise-and-Tenon Jointing. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146(18):12547-12555.
11. Yikuan Liu, Xiaona Liu, An Su, Chengtao Gong, Shenwei Chen, Liwei Xia, Chengwei Zhang, Xiaohuan Tao, Yue Li, Yonghe Li, Tulai Sun, Mengru Bu, Wei Shao, Jia Zhao, Xiaonian Li, Yongwu Peng*, Peng Guo*, Yu Han*, Yihan Zhu*. 2024. Revolutionizing the Structural Design and Determination of Covalent–Organic Frameworks: Principles, Methods, and Techniques. Chem. Soc. Rev. 53(1):502–44.
12. Wei Shao#, Xiaoqiu Xu#, Wenjing Zheng, Zhi Wang, Qianqian Pan, Xuelu Liu, Weijian Tao, Fanxin Liu, Chongzhi Zhu, Ping-Heng Tan, Haiming Zhu, Huijun Song, Yu Han, Tulai Sun, Jia Zhao, Xiaonian Li*, and Yihan Zhu*. 2024. “Microfaceting: A New Logic for Hot-Carrier Energy Harvesting in Hybrid Plasmonic Nanostructures.” Joule.8(1):141-156.
13. Xuedong Xiao#, Ding Xiao#, Guan Sheng#, Tianyu Shan, Jiao Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Yikuan Liu, Guangfeng Li*, Yihan Zhu*, Jonathan L. Sessler*, and Feihe Huang*. 2023. “Formation of Polyrotaxane Crystals Driven by Dative Boron–Nitrogen Bonds.” Sci. Adv. 9(27):1169.
14. Yu Zhou, Xinyu Zhang, Guan Sheng, Shengda Wang, Muqing Chen, Guilin Zhuang*, Yihan Zhu*, and Pingwu Du*. 2023. “A Metal-Free Photoactive Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosolenoid with Broad Absorption in Visible Region for Efficient Photocatalysis.” Nat. Commun. 14(1):5831.
15. Huijun Song, Xiaoqiu Xu, Jingjing Chen, Yinling Zhang, Jia Zhao, Chongzhi Zhu, Hong Zhang, Yong Peng, Qiaoli Chen, Guan Sheng, Tulai Sun, Yu Han, Xiaonian Li, and Yihan Zhu*. 2023. “Evoking Cooperative Geometric and Electronic Interactions at Nanometer Coherent Interfaces toward Enhanced Electrocatalysis.” Adv. Func. Mater. 33(32):2301490.
16. Jiaying Wang, Yikuan Liu, Hanfei Li, Ruihua He, Yang Guo, Jiahui Xu, Ziwei Yu, Xiaogang Liu, Weiping Liu, Zhiyuan Liu*, Yihan Zhu*, and Juan Wang*. 2023. “Progressively Oriented Attachment-Enabled Ultralong Single-Crystalline Upconversion Nanowires for Multidirectional Strain Sensing.” ACS Nano 17(13):12316–24.
17. Baoyu Liu*, Weijian Lu, Yikuan Liu, Qilong Feng, Yi Huang, Jin Shang, Yihan Zhu*, and Jinxiang Dong. 2023. “Synthesis of Dodecylbenzene via the Alkylation of Benzene and 1-Dodecene over Mesopore Beta Zeolites.” AIChE Journal 69(11):e18201.
18. Qilong Feng, Chongzhi Zhu, Guan Sheng, Tulai Sun, Yonghe Li, Yihan Zhu*.2023. “Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Material Microstructures to Physicochemical Properties.” Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, 39(3): 221001.
19. Chengtao Gong, Hao Wang, Guan Sheng, Xiaokang Wang, Xiaoqiu Xu, Jian Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Yikuan Liu, Yinling Zhang, Fangna Dai*, Liangjun Chen, Nanjun Li, Guodong Xu, Jianhong Jia, Yihan Zhu*, and Yongwu Peng*. 2022. “Synthesis and Visualization of Entangled 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks with High-Valency Stereoscopic Molecular Nodes for Gas Separation.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61(32):e202204899.
20. Li, Liuxiao, Qinbai Yun, Chongzhi Zhu, Guan Sheng, Jun Guo, Bo Chen, Meiting Zhao, Zhicheng Zhang, Zhuangchai Lai, Xiao Zhang, Yongwu Peng*, Yihan Zhu*, and Hua Zhang*. 2022. “Isoreticular Series of Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks with the kgd Topology and Controllable Micropores.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144(14):6475–82.
21. Jieqiong Shan, Chao Ye, Chongzhi Zhu, Juncai Dong, Wenjie Xu, Ling Chen, Yan Jiao, Yunling Jiang, Li Song, Yaning Zhang, Mietek Jaroniec, Yihan Zhu*, Yao Zheng*, and Shi-Zhang Qiao*. 2022. “Integrating Interactive Noble Metal Single-Atom Catalysts into Transition Metal Oxide Lattices.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144(50):23214–22.
22. Jinyi Wang#, Yihan Zhu#, Guilin Zhuang#, Yayu Wu, Shengda Wang, Pingsen Huang, Guan Sheng, Muqing Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Thomas Greber, and Pingwu Du. 2022. “Synthesis of a Magnetic π-Extended Carbon Nanosolenoid with Riemann Surfaces.” Nat. Commun. 13(1):1239.
23. Zhicheng Zhang#, Guigao Liu#, Xiaoya Cui#, Yue Gong#, Ding Yi#, Qinghua Zhang, Chongzhi Zhu, Faisal Saleem , Bo Chen, Zhuangchai Lai , Qinbai Yun, Hongfei Cheng, Zhiqi Huang, Yongwu Peng , Zhanxi Fan, Bing Li, Wenrui Dai, Wei Chen,Yonghua Du , Lu Ma, Cheng-Jun Sun, Inhui Hwang, Shuangming Chen , Li Song, Feng Ding*, Lin Gu*, Yihan Zhu*, Hua Zhang*. 2021. Evoking ordered vacancies in metallic nanostructures toward a vacated Barlow packing for high-performance hydrogen evolution. Sci. Adv. 7(13): eabd6647.
24. Wenxian Liu#, Dong Zheng#, Tianqi Deng, Qiaoli Chen, Chongzhi Zhu, Chengjie Pei, Hai Li, Fangfang Wu, Wenhui Shi, Shuo-Wang Yang, Yihan Zhu*, and Xiehong Cao*. 2021. Boosting Electrocatalytic Activity of 3d-Block Metal (Hydro)oxides by Ligand-Induced Conversion. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 10614–10619.
25. Shihui Zou*, Baohui Lou, Kunran Yang, Wentao Yuan, Chongzhi Zhu, Yihan Zhu*, Yonghua Du*, Linfang Lu, Juanjuan Liu , Weixin Huang, Bo Yang*, Zhongmiao Gong, Yi Cui, Yong Wang , Lu Ma, Jingyuan Ma, Zheng Jiang, Liping Xiao, Jie Fan*. 2021. “Grafting nanometer metal/oxide interface towards enhanced low-temperature acetylene semi - hydrogenation.” Nat. Commun. 12:5770.
26. Jieqiong Shan, Chao Ye, Shuangming Chen, Tulai Sun, Yan Jiao, Lingmei Liu, Chongzhi Zhu, Li Song,Yu Han, Mietek Jaroniec, Yihan Zhu*, Yao Zheng*, and Shi-Zhang Qiao*. 2021. Short-Range Ordered Iridium Single Atoms Integrated into Cobalt Oxide Spinel Structure for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 5201−5211.
27. Baoyu Liu*, Jiajin Huang, Zhantu Liao, Chongzhi Zhu, Qiaoli Chen, Guan Sheng, Yihan Zhu*, Yi Huang, and Jinxiang Dong. 2021. “Integrating Pore Interconnectivity and Adaptability in a Single Crystal Hierarchical Zeolite for Liquid Alkylation.” AIChE Journal 67(6):e17177.
28. Xianlong Zhou#, Juncai Dong#, Yihan Zhu#, Lingmei Liu#, Yan Jiao, Huan Li, Yu Han, Kenneth Davey,Qiang Xu, Yao Zheng,* and Shi-Zhang Qiao*. 2021. Molecular Scalpel to Chemically Cleave Metal−Organic Frameworks for Induced Phase Transition. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 6681−6690.
29. Dikui Zhou#, Zhihong Zhang#, Yihan Zhu#, Yiqun Xiao, Qingqing Ding, Luoyuan Ruan,Yiran Sun, Zhibin Zhang, Chongzhi Zhu, Zongping Chen, Yongjun Wu, Yuhui Huang,Guan Sheng, Jixue Li, Dapeng Yu, Enge Wang, Zhaohui Ren,* Xinhui Lu,* Kaihui Liu,*and Gaorong Han*. 2021. “Pattern-Potential-Guided Growth of Textured Macromolecular Films on Graphene/High-Index Copper.” Adv. Mater. 33, 2006836.
30. Qiaoli Chen, Christian Dwyer, Guan Sheng, Chongzhi Zhu, Xiaonian Li, Changlin Zheng,* and Yihan Zhu*. 2020. Imaging Beam-Sensitive Materials by Electron Microscopy, Adv. Mater., 32, e1907619.
31. Wei Shao#, Qianqian Pan#, Qiaoli Chen#, Chongzhi Zhu, Weijian Tao, Haiming Zhu, Huijun Song, Xuelu Liu, Ping-Heng Tan, Guan Sheng, Tulai Sun, Xiaonian Li, and Yihan Zhu*. 2020. Symmetry Breaking in Monometallic Nanocrystals toward Broadband and Direct Electron Transfer Enhanced Plasmonic Photocatalysis, Adv. Func. Mater., 31, 2006738.
32. Jieqiong Shan#, Chunxian Guo#, Yihan Zhu#, Shuangming Chen, Li Song, Mietek Jaroniec, Yao Zheng*, and Shi-Zhang Qiao*. 2019. “Charge-Redistribution-Enhanced Nanocrystalline Ru@IrOx Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution in Acidic Media.” Chem 5(2):445–59.
33. Lisha Yu, Xiaoqiang Shang, Hao Chen, Liping Xiao, Yihan Zhu*, Jie Fan*. 2019. A tightly-bonded and flexible mesoporous zeolite-cotton hybridhemostat. Nat Commun. 10(1): p.1932.
34. Daliang Zhang*, Yihan Zhu, Lingmei Liu, Xiangrong Ying, Chia-En Hsiung, Rachid Sougrat, Kun Li*, YuHan*. 2018. Atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy of electron Beam sensitive crystalline materials. Science. 359(6376): p.675–679.
35. Xin Gao#, Yihan Zhu#, Ding Yi, Jingyuan Zhou, Shishu Zhang, Chen Yin, Feng Ding, Shuqing Zhang, Xiaohui Yi, Jizheng Wang, Lianming Tong, Yu Han, Zhongfan Liu, and Jin Zhang. 2018. “Ultrathin Graphdiyne Film on Graphene through Solution-Phase van Der Waals Epitaxy.” Sci. Adv. 4(7): p.6378.
36. Yihan Zhu*, Jim Ciston, Bin Zheng, Xiaohe Miao, Cory Czarnik,Yichang Pan, Rachid Sougrat, Zhiping Lai, Chia-En Hsiung, Kexin Yao, Ingo Pinnau, Ming Pan*, Yu Han*. 2017. Unravelling surface and interfacial structures of a metal-organic framework by transmission electron microscopy. Nat. Mater. 16(5): p.532-536.
37. Yuheng Zhou#, Yihan Zhu#, Zhi-Qiang Wang#, Shihui Zou, Guicen Ma, Ming Xia, Xueqian Kong, Liping Xiao, Xue-Qing Gong, and Jie Fan. 2017. “Catalytic Activity Control via Crossover between Two Different Microstructures.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139(39):13740–48.
38. Yao Zheng#, Yan Jiao#, Yihan Zhu#, Lu Hua Li, Yu Han, Ying Chen, Mietek Jaroniec, and Shi-Zhang Qiao. 2016. “High Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity of an Anomalous Ruthenium Catalyst.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138(49):16174–81.
39. Liang Wang#, Yihan Zhu#, Jian-Qiang Wang, Fudong Liu, Jianfeng Huang, Xiangju Meng, Jean-Marie Basset, Yu Han, and Feng-Shou Xiao. 2015. “Two-Dimensional Gold Nanostructures with High Activity for Selective Oxidation of Carbon–Hydrogen Bonds.” Nat. Commun. 6(1): p.6957.
40. Yihan Zhu, Jiating He, Cheng Shang, Xiaohe Miao, Jianfeng Huang, Zhipan Liu, Hongyu Chen, and Yu Han. 2014. “Chiral Gold Nanowires with Boerdijk–Coxeter–Bernal Structure.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136(36):12746–52.
41. Yihan Zhu, Qingxiao Wang, Lan Zhao, Baiyang Teng, Weimin Lu, and Yu Han. 2012. “Atomic Resolution Imaging of Nanoscale Structural Ordering in a Complex Metal Oxide Catalyst.” Chem. Mater. 24(16):3269–78.
42. Yihan Zhu, Qingxiao Wang, Lan Zhao, and Yu Han. 2012. “Direct Observation of Surface Reconstruction and Termination on a Complex Metal Oxide Catalyst by Electron Microscopy.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51(17):4176–80.
Books & Chapters
1. “Handbook of Synthetic Methodologies and Protocols of Nanomaterials : Volume 4: Characterization Methods for Nanostructures.”, 2019, edited by Yihan Zhu and Yu Han, World Scientific Publishing.
2. Ning, Shoucong, Yifei Yuan, Wang Li, Wei Shao, Anmin Nie, and Yihan Zhu. 2019. “Characterization of Nanomaterials by Electron Microscopy.” Pp. 35–173 in Handbook of Synthetic Methodologies and Protocols of Nanomaterials, World Scientific Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. World Scientific Publishing.
3. Tulai Sun, Yonghe Li, Yikuan Liu, Bin Deng, Ciqi Liao, and Yihan Zhu. 2022. Advanced scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis: Applications to nanomaterials.Encyclopedia of Nanomaterials (First Edition), 183-209.
4. Yanhang Ma, Lu Han, Zheng Liu, Alvaro Mayoral, Isabel Díaz, Peter Oleynikov, Tetsu Ohsuna, Yu Han, Ming Pan, Yihan Zhu, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Shunai Che, and Osamu Terasaki. 2019. “Microscopy of Nanoporous Crystals.” Pp. 1391–1450 in Springer Handbook of Microscopy, Springer Handbooks, edited by P. W. Hawkes and J. C. H. Spence. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
5. Yu Han, Yihan Zhu, Daliang Zhang. 2014. “Microscopy of Nanoporous Crystals.” Pp. 1–28 in Advanced Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials, edited by Qiang Zhang and Fei Wei. Wiley-VCH Publishing.