Shangfeng Yang*, Tao Wei, Fei Jin, “When metal clusters meet carbon cages: Endohedral clusterfullerenes”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 5005-5058. (invited review) <PDF>

Fei Jin, Song Wang, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Shangfeng Yang*, Sergey I. Troyanov, “Synthesis, Isolation and Trifluoromethylation of Two Isomers of C84-based Monometallic Cyanide Clusterfullerenes: Interplay between the Endohedral Cluster with the Exohedral Addend”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 11990-11994.<PDF>

Xianjun Zhu#, Taiming Zhang#, Zijun Sun, Huanlin Chen, Jian Guan, Xiang Chen, Hengxing Ji*, Pingwu Du*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Black Phosphorus Revisited: A Missing Metal-free Elemental Photocatalyst for Visible Light Hydrogen Evolution”, Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 1605776.<PDF>

Fei Jin, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Skeletal Transformation of a Classical Fullerene C88 into a Nonclassical Fullerene Chloride C84Cl30 Bearing Quaternary Sequentially Fused Pentagons”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4651-4654. <PDF>

Fupin Liu#, Song Wang#, Cong-Li Gao, Qingming Deng, Xianjun Zhu, Aram Kostanyan, Rasmus Westerstrom, Fei Jin, Su-Yuan Xie,* Alexey A. Popov,* Thomas Greber,* Shangfeng Yang*, “Monometallic Clusterfullerene Single-Molecule Magnet Containing Strained Fused-Pentagon Stabilized by a Nearly Linear Metal Cyanide Cluster”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1830-1834. <PDF>

Pengcheng Zhou, Zhimin Fang, Weiran Zhou, Qiquan Qiao, Mingtai Wang, Tao Chen*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Nonconjugated Polymer Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) as an Efficient Interlayer Promoting Electron Transport for Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b12135. <PDF>

Sheng-Peng Jiang, Mengmeng Zhang, Cheng-Yu Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Guan-Wu Wang*, “Cascade Radical Reaction of N-Sulfonyl-2-allylanilines with [60]Fullerene: Synthesis and Functionalization of (2-Indolinyl)methylated Hydrofullerenes ”, Org. Lett.2017, 9, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02343. <PDF>

Xiang Chen, Huanlin Chen, Jian Guan, Jieming Zhen, Zijun Sun, Pingwu Du, Yalin Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “A facile mechanochemical route to covalently bonded graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and fullerene hybrid toward enhanced visible light photocatalytic hydrogen production”, Nanoscale 2017, 9, 5615-5623. <PDF>

Fei Jin, Shangfeng Yang*, Maria A. Fritz, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chloro Derivatives of Isomers of a Giant Fullerene C104: C104(234)Cl16/18, C104(812)Cl12/24, and C104(811)Cl28”, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 4761-4764.<PDF>

Fei Jin, Shangfeng Yang*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers of Fullerene C98 Captured as Chloro Derivatives”, Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 4780-4783. <PDF>

Fupin Liu#, Fei Jin#, Song Wang, Alexey A. Popov, Shangfeng Yang*, “Pyramidal TiTb2C Cluster Encapsulated within the Popular Ih(7)-C80 Fullerene”, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2017, 468, 203-208. <PDF>

Weiran Zhou, Jieming Zhen, Qing Liu, Zhimin Fang, Dan Li, Pengcheng Zhou, Tao Chen*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Successive surface engineering of TiO2 compact layer via dual modification of fullerene derivatives affording hysteresis-suppressed high-performance perovskite solar cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 1724-1733. <PDF>

Dan Li, Qing Liu, Jieming Zhen, Zhimin Fang, Xiang Chen, Shangfeng Yang*, “Imidazole-Functionalized Fullerene as a Vertically Phase-Separated Cathode Interfacial Layer of Inverted Ternary Polymer Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 2720-2729. <PDF>

Zuo Xiao, Xue Jia, Dan Li, Shizhe Wang, Xinjian Geng, Feng Liu,* Junwu Chen,* Shangfeng Yang,* Thomas P. Russell, Liming Ding*, “26 mA cm-2 Jsc from organic solar cells with a low-bandgap nonfullerene acceptor”, Science Bulletin 2017, 62, 1494-1496. <PDF>

Dapeng Lu, Guilin Zhuang, Haotian Wu, Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang, Pingwu Du*, “Large π-Extended Carbon Nanoring Based on Nanographene Unit: Bottom-up Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Its Selective Complexation with Fullerene C70”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 158 -162. <PDF>

Ying-Ke Ren, Xi-Hong Ding, Ya-Han Wu, Jun Zhu,* Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, Ya-Feng Xu, Zhao-Qian Li, Shang-Feng Yang, Song-Yuan Dai*, “Temperature-assisted Rapid Nucleation: A Facile Method to Optimize the Film Morphology for Perovskite Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 20327-20333. <PDF>

Sally Mabrouk, Behzad Bahrami, Ashim Gurung, Nirmal Adhikari, Ashish Dubey, Shangfeng Yang, Qiquan Qiao*, “Higher Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells Using Additives of LiI, LiTFSI and BMImI in the PbI2 Precursor”, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2017, 5, DOI: 10.1039/SE-ART-09-2017-000435. <PDF>

Yu-Cheng Shao, L. Andrew Wray*, Shih-Wen Huang, Yi-Sheng Liu, Wang Song, Shangfeng Yang, Yi-De Chuang*, Jinghua Guo, Way-Faung Pong, “The key energy scales of Gd-based metallofullerene determined by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectroscopy”, Sci. Rep. 2017, 7, 8125 . <PDF>

Xiaomin Wang, Jianmin Li, Weifeng Liu, Shangfeng Yang, Changfei Zhu, Tao Chen*, “A fast chemical approach towards Sb2S3 film with a large grain size for high-performance planar heterojunction solar cells”, Nanoscale 2017, 9, 3386-3390. <PDF>

Yan Zhang, Jianmin Li, Guoshun Jiang, Weifeng Liu, Shangfeng Yang, Changfei Zhu*, Tao Chen*, “Selenium-Graded Sb2(S1-xSex)3 for Planar Heterojunction Solar Cell Delivering a Certified Power Conversion Efficiency of 5.71%”, Solar RRL 2017, 1, 1700017. <PDF>

Eman A. Gaml#, Ashish Dubey#, Khan Mamun Reza, Md Nazmul Hasan, Nirmal Adhikari, Hytham Elbohy, Behzad Bahrami, Hamdy Zeyada, Shangfeng Yang, Qiquan Qiao*, “Alternative benzodithiophene (BDT) based polymeric hole transport layer for efficient perovskite solar cells”, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2017, 168, 8-13. <PDF>

Nataliya A. Samoylova, Stanislav M. Avdoshenko, Denis S. Krylov, Hannah R. Thompson, Amelia C. Kirkhorn, Marco Rosenkranz, Sandra Schiemenz, Frank Ziegs, Anja U. B. Wolter, Shangfeng Yang, Steven Stevenson,* Alexey A. Popov*, “Confining the spin between two metal atoms within the carbon cage: Redox-active metal-metal bonds in dimetallofullerenes and their stable cation radicals”, Nanoscale 2017, 9, 7977-7990.<PDF>