Shangfeng Yang*, Ilya N. Ioffe, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chlorination-Promoted Skeletal Transformations of Fullerenes”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 1783-1792. (invited review) <PDF>

Jianhua Wu#, Xianjun Zhu#, Yong Guan, Yujing Wang, Fei Jin, Runnan Guan, Fupin Liu, Muqing Chen, Yangchao Tian*, Shangfeng Yang*, “From Cube to Dice: Solvent-Regulated Morphology Engineering of Endohedral Fullerene Microcrystals with Anomalous Photoluminescence Enhancement”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 11350-11354. <PDF>

Yun-Yan Xu#, Han-Rui Tian#, Shu-Hui Li#, Zuo-Chang Chen, Yang-Rong Yao, Shan-Shan Wang, Xin Zhang, Zheng-Zhong Zhu, Shun-Liu Deng, Qianyan Zhang*, Shangfeng Yang*, Su-Yuan Xie*, Rong-Bin Huang, Lan-Sun Zheng, “Flexible decapyrrylcorannulene hosts”, Nature Commun. 2019, 10, 485. <PDF>

Wanpei Hu, Weiran Zhou, Xunyong Lei, Pengcheng Zhou, Mengmeng Zhang, Tao Chen, Hualing Zeng, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Shihe Yang*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Low-Temperature In-situ Amino Functionalization of TiO2 Nanoparticles Sharpens Electron Management Reaping over 21% Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells”, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1806095. <PDF>

Yajuan Liu, Pengfei Gao, Taiming Zhang, Xianjun Zhu, Mengmeng Zhang, Muqing Chen, Pingwu Du, Guan-Wu Wang, Hengxing Ji,* Jinlong Yang,* Shangfeng Yang*, “Azide Passivation of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets: Covalent Functionalization Affords Ambient Stability Enhancement”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1479-1483. <PDF>

Qiang Huang#, Guilin Zhuang#, Hongxing Jia#, Manman Qian, Shengsheng Cui, Shangfeng Yang*, Pingwu Du*, “Photoconductive curved-nanographene/fullerene supramolecular heterojunctions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 6244-6249. <PDF>

Muqing Chen, Runnan Guan, Shangfeng Yang*, “Hybrids of Fullerenes and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials”, Adv. Sci. 2019, 6, 1800941 (invited review). <PDF>

Weiran Zhou, Dan Li, Zhengguo Xiao, Zhilin Wen, Mengmeng Zhang, Wanpei Hu, Xiaojun Wu, Mingtai Wang, Wen-Hua Zhang, Yalin Lu, Shihe Yang*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Zwitterion Coordination Induced Highly Orientational Order of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Film Delivers a Record Open Circuit Voltage Exceeding 1.2 V”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1901026. <PDF>

Pengcheng Zhou, Bairu Li, Zhimin Fang, Weiran Zhou, Mengmeng Zhang, Wanpei Hu, Tao Chen, Zhengguo Xiao,* Shangfeng Yang*, “Nitrogen-Doped Nickel Oxide as Hole Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells”, Solar RRL 2019, 3, 1900164. <PDF>

Jieming Zhen#, Weiran Zhou#, Muqing Chen*,#, Bairu Li, Lingbo Jia, Mingtai Wang, and Shangfeng Yang*, “Pyridine-functionalized Fullerene Additive Enabling Coordination Interactions with CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite towards Highly Efficient Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2019, 7, 2754-2763. <PDF>

Qing Liu#, Xiang Chen#, Wanpei Hu, Mengmeng Zhang, Liming Ding*, Mingtai Wang, Qiquan Qiao, Shangfeng Yang*, “Beyond Metal Oxides: Introducing Low-temperature Solution-processed Ultrathin Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets into Polymer Solar Cells toward Improved Electron Transport”, Solar RRL 2019, 3, 1800299. (inside front cover) <PDF>

Runnan Guan#, Fei Jin#, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Shangfeng Yang*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Stable C92(26) and C92(38) as Well as Unstable C92(50) and C92(23) Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Isomers As Revealed by Chlorination of C92 Fullerene”, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 5393-5396. <PDF>

Chuang Niu, Bai-Ru Li, Zheng-Chun Yin, Shangfeng Yang,* Guan-Wu Wang*, “Electrochemical Benzylation of [60]Fullerene-Fused Lactones: Unexpected Formation of Ring-Opened Adducts and Photovoltaic Performance”, Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7346-7350. <PDF>

Ling Liu#, Qishi Liu#, Zuo Xiao*, Shangfeng Yang*, Yongbo Yuan*, Liming Ding*, “Induced J-aggregation in acceptor alloy enhances photocurrent”, Sci. Bull. 2019, 64, 1083-1086. <PDF>

Jingyi Zhu, Qishi Liu, Dan Li, Zuo Xiao, Yu Chen*, Yong Hua*, Shangfeng Yang*, Liming Ding*, “A Wide-Bandgap Copolymer Donor for Efficient Fullerene-Free Solar Cells”, ACS Omega 2019, 4, 14800-14804. <PDF>

Zhimin Fang#, Ling Liu#, Zhiming Zhang, Shangfeng Yang*, Fangyang Liu*, Mingzhen Liu*, Liming Ding*, “CsPbI2.25Br0.75 solar cells with 15.9% efficiency”, Sci. Bull. 2019, 64, 507-510. <PDF>

Xiangfeng Wei,# Xiaoqian Liu,# Han Liu, Shangfeng Yang*, Hualing Zeng, Fancheng Meng, Xunyong Lei, Jiehua Liu*, “Exfoliated graphitic carbon nitride self-recognizing CH3NH3PbI3 grain boundaries by hydrogen bonding interaction for improved perovskite solar cells”, Solar Energy 2019, 181, 161-168. <PDF>

Yaxin Gao,# Dan Li,# Zuo Xiao, Xin Qian, Junliang Yang*, Fangyang Liu*, Shangfeng Yang*, Liming Ding*, “High-performance wide-bandgap copolymers with dithieno[3,2-b:20,30-d]pyridin-5(4H)-one units”, Mater. Chem. Front. 2019, 3, 399-402. <PDF>

Qiang Huang, Mengmeng Zhang, Jinyi Wang, Shengda Wang, Yayu Wu, Shangfeng Yang, Pingwu Du*, “A Long π-Conjugated Poly-para-Phenylene-Based Polymeric Segment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 18938-18943. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Oliver Martin, Muqing Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Frank Hauke, Andreas Hirsch*, “Facilely Covalent Bonding Endohedral Sc3N@C80 to Carbon Nanotubes: A Long-Waited Synthetic-Carbon-Allotrope Hybrid”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 8058-8062. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Oliver Martin, Shangfeng Yang, Frank Hauke, and Andreas Hirsch*, “Modular Covalent Graphene Functionalization with C60 and the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C80: A Facile Entry to Inter-Synthetic-Carbon-Allotrope-Hybrids”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 816-820. <PDF>

Zuo Xiao, Shangfeng Yang, Zhou Yang, Junliang Yang, Hin-Lap Yip, Fujun Zhang, Feng He, Tao Wang, Jizheng Wang, Yongbo Yuan,* Huai Yang,* Mingkui Wang,* Liming Ding,* “Carbon-Oxygen-Bridged Ladder-Type Building Blocks for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Acceptors”, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1804790. <PDF>

Majid Hussain, Muqing Chen,* Shangfeng Yang, Guan-Wu Wang*, “Palladium-Catalyzed Heteroannulation of Indole-1-carboxamides with [60]Fullerene and Subsequent Electrochemical Transformations”, Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 8568-8571. <PDF>

Wangwei Chen, Juanjuan Qi, Chao Dong, Junwei Chen, Zhitao Shen, Yonglin He, Shangfeng Yang, Tao Chen, Chong Chen,* Yunliang Li,* Ming-De Li*, Mingtai Wang*, “Solution-processed in-situ growth of CuInS2 nanoparticle films for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells with a dual nature of charge generation”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater.2019, 2, 5231-5242. <PDF>

Ruixiang Peng, Zhiyang Wan, Wei Song, Tingting Yan, Qiquan Qiao, Shangfeng Yang, Ziyi Ge*,? Mingtai Wang*, “Improving Performance of Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells over 13% by Employing Silver Nanowires Doped PEDOT:PSS Composite Electrode”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 42447-42454. <PDF>

Junwei Chen, Juanjuan Qi, Xiaoguang Zhu, Shanwen Tao, Zhiyang Wan, Qiuyuan Zhao, Chao Dong, Getinet Y. Ashebir, Wangwei Chen, Ruixiang Peng, Shangfeng Yang, Mingtai Wang*, “Preferentially oriented large antimony trisulfide single-crystalline cuboids grown on polycrystalline titania film for solar cells”, Commun. Chem. 2019, 2, 121. <PDF>

Xue Jia, Chuantian Zuo, Shuxia Tao, Kuan Sun, Yixin Zhao, Shangfeng Yang, Ming Cheng, Mingkui Wang, Yongbo Yuan, Junliang Yang, Feng Gao, Guichuan Xing, Zhanhua Wei, Lijun Zhang, Hin-Lap Yip, Mingzhen Liu, Qing Shen, Longwei Yin, Liyuan Han, Shengzhong Liu, Lianzhou Wang, Jingshan Luo*, Hairen Tan*, Zhiwen Jin*, Liming Ding*, “CsPb(IxBr1-x)3 solar cells”, Sci. Bull. 2019, 64, 1532-1539. <PDF>

Ju Wang, Yaxin Gao, Zuo Xiao, Xianyi Meng, Lixiu Zhang, Ling Liu, Chuantian Zuo, Shangfeng Yang, Yingping Zou,* Junliang Yang,* Shengwei Shi,* Liming Ding*, “A wide-bandgap copolymer donor based on a phenanthridin-6(5H)-one unit”, Mater. Chem. Front. 2019, 3, 2686-2689. <PDF>

Nadezhda B. Tamm, Runnan Guan, Shangfeng Yang, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chlorination-Promoted Cage Transformation of IPR C92 Discovered via Trifluoromethylation under Formation of Non-classical C92(NC)(CF3)22”, Chem. Asian J. 2019, 14, 2108-2111. <PDF>

Guoqi Ji, Wenchao Zhao, Junfeng Wei, Linpeng Yan, Yunfei Han, Qun Luo,* Shangfeng Yang, Jianhui Hou,* Chang-Qi Ma,* “Influence of the Surface Morphology of a ZnO Cathode Buffer Layer on the Photovoltaic Performance and Long-Term Stability of Doctor-Blade-Coated Inverted Polymer Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2019, 7, 212-220. <PDF>

Yafeng Xu, Wenyong Chen, Linhua Hu, Xu Pan, Shangfeng Yang, Qing Shen, Jun Zhu,* “Template deposition of Sb2S3 for solid-state sensitized solar cells”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2019, 784, 947-953. <PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Author Profile, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57,?6972. <PDF>

Xianjun Zhu, Taiming Zhang, Daochuan Jiang, Hengli Duan, Zijun Sun, Mengmeng Zhang, Hongchang Jin, Runnan Guan, Yajuan Liu, Muqing Chen, Hengxing Ji, Pingwu Du, Wensheng Yan, Shiqiang Wei, Yalin Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selectively bonding sacrificial C60 molecules”, Nature Commun. 2018, 9, 4177. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Fei Jin, Runnan Guan, Jing Huang, Muqing Chen, Qunxiang Li, Shangfeng Yang*, “Blending Non-Group-IIIB Transition Metal and Rare-Earth Metal into a C80 Fullerene Cage with D5h Symmetry”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10273-10277. <PDF>

Fei Jin, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Sergey I. Troyanov, Shangfeng Yang*, “Steering the Geometry of Butterfly-Shaped Dimetal Carbide Cluster within a Carbon Cage via Trifluoromethylation of Y2C2@C82(6)”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3496-3499 (cover). <PDF>

Dan Li, Zuo Xiao, Shizhe Wang, Xinjian Geng, Shangfeng Yang*, Junfeng Fang*, Huai Yang*, Liming Ding*, “A Thieno[3,2-c]Isoquinolin-5(4H)-one Building Block for Efficient Thick-Film Solar Cells”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1800397.<PDF>

Bairu Li#, Jieming Zhen#, Yangyang Wan, Xunyong Lei, Qing Liu, Yajuan Liu, Lingbo Jia, Xiaojun Wu, Hualing Zeng, Wenfeng Zhang, Guan-Wu Wang, Muqing Chen*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Anchoring Fullerene Derivative onto Perovskite Film via Grafting Pyridine toward Enhanced Electron Transport in High-Efficiency Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 32471-32482. <PDF>

Xiang Chen, Qing Liu, Mengmeng Zhang, Huanxin Ju, Junfa Zhu, Qiquan Qiao, Mingtai Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, “Noncovalent phosphorylation of graphene oxide with improved hole transport in high-ef?ciency polymer solar cells”, Nanoscale 2018, 10, 14840-14846. <PDF>

Jian Guan, Xiongwu Zhong, Xiang Chen, Xianjun Zhu, Panlong Li, Yalin Lu, Yan Yu*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Expanding Pore Sizes of ZIF-8-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Microporous Carbon via C60 Embedding: toward Improved Anode Performance for Lithium-Ion Battery”, Nanoscale 2018, 10, 2473-2480. <PDF>

Weiran Zhou, Pengcheng Zhou, Xunyong Lei, Zhimin Fang, Mengmeng Zhang, Qing Liu, Tao Chen, Hualing Zeng, Liming Ding,* Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Shangfeng Yang*, “Phase Engineering of Perovskite Materials for High-efficiency Solar Cells: Rapid Conversion of CH3NH3PbI3 to Phase-pure CH3NH3PbCl3 via Hydrochloric Acid Vapor Annealing Post-treatment”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 1897-1908. <PDF>

Jian Guan,# Jianhua Wu,# Daochuan Jiang, Xianjun Zhu, Runnan Guan, Xunyong Lei, Pingwu Du, Hualing Zeng, Shangfeng Yang*, “Synergistically Enhancing Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production Activities of MoS2 and C60 via Hybridization Affording a van der Waals Heterostructure”, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2018,43, 8698-8706.<PDF>

Zhimin Fang, Shizhe Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Liming Ding*, “CsAg2Sb2I9 solar cells”, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 1690-1693.<PDF>

Qishi Liu, Zuo Xiao, Ting Li, Shangfeng Yang,* Wei You,* Mingkui Wang,* Liming Ding,* “Understanding the side-chain effects on A-D-A acceptors: in-plane and out of-plane”, Mater. Chem. Front. 2018, 2, 1563-1567. <PDF>

Xiangfeng Wei,# Mengmeng Zhang,# Xiaoqian Liu, Fang Chen, Xunyong Lei, Han Liu, Fancheng Meng, Hualing Zeng, Shangfeng Yang*, and Jiehua Liu*, “Semitransparent CH3NH3PbI3 Films Achieved by Solvent Engineering for Annealing- and Electron Transport Layer-Free Planar Perovskite Solar Cells”, Solar RRL 2018, 2, 1700222.<PDF>

Zhiqiang Zhao, Qing Liu, Wenfeng Zhang*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Conductivity Enhancement of PEDOT:PSS Film via Sulfonic Acid Modification: Application as Transparent Anode for ITO-free Polymer Solar Cells”, SCIENCE CHINA Chem. 2018, 61, 1179-1186.<PDF>

Sally Mabrouk#, Mengmeng Zhang#, Mao Liang*, Zhihui Wang*, Behzad Bahrami, Yungen Wu, Jinhua Wu, Qiquan Qiao*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole-based hole transport materials for perovskite solar cells with efficiencies over 18%”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 7950-7958.<PDF>

Olga N. Mazaleva, Ilya N. Ioffe, Fei Jin, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Experimental and Theoretical Approach to Variable Chlorination-Promoted Skeletal Transformations in Fullerenes: The Case of C102”, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 4222-4225 (front cover). <PDF>

Zuo Xiao, Shangfeng Yang, Zhou Yang, Junliang Yang, Hin-Lap Yip, Fujun Zhang, Feng He, Tao Wang, Jizheng Wang, Yongbo Yuan,* Huai Yang,* Mingkui Wang,* Liming Ding,* “Carbon-Oxygen-Bridged Ladder-Type Building Blocks for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Acceptors”, Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1804790.<PDF>

Shengsheng Cui, Guilin Zhuang, Dapeng Lu, Qiang Huang, Hongxing Jia, Ya Wang, Shangfeng Yang, Pingwu Du*, “A Three-Dimensional Capsule-Like Carbon Nanocage as A Novel Segment Model of Capped Zigzag [12,0] Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Selective Complexation with Fullerene C70”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9330-9335.<PDF>

Lijian Zhang, Chunyan Wu, Weifeng Liu, Shangfeng Yang, Mingtai Wang, Tao Chen*, Changfei Zhu*, “Sequential Deposition Route to Efficient Sb2S3 Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 21320-21326.<PDF>

Rongfeng Tang, Xiaomin Wang, Chenhui Jiang, Shiang Li, Guoshun Jiang, Shangfeng Yang, Changfei Zhu*, Tao Chen*, “Vacuum assisted solution processing for highly efficient Sb2S3 solar cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 16322-16327.<PDF>

Rongfeng Tang, Xiaomin Wang, Chenhui Jiang, Shiang Li, Weifeng Liu, Huanxin Ju, Shangfeng Yang, Changfei Zhu*, Tao Chen*, “n-Type Doping of Sb2S3 Light Harvesting Film Enabling High Efficiency Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 30314-30321.<PDF>

Xihong Ding, Haibin Chen, Yahan Wu, Shuang Ma, Songyuan Dai,* Shangfeng Yang, Jun Zhu*, “Triple Cation NH3+C2H4NH2+C2H4NH3+-induced Phase-stable Inorganic α-CsPbI3 Perovskite Films for Use in Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 18258-18266.<PDF>

Haiying Zheng, Liangzheng Zhu, Linhua Hu, Shangfeng Yang, Shuanghong Chen, Ahmed Alsaedi, Tasawar Hayat, Yang Huang*, Xu Pan*, Songyuan Dai*, “Promoting the perovskite crystal growth to achieve highly efficient and stable solar cells by introducing acetamide additive”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 9930-9937.<PDF>

Yafeng Xu, Wenyong Chen, Xihong Ding, Xu Pan, Linhua Hu, Shangfeng Yang, Jun Zhu*, Songyuan Dai*, “An Ultrathin SiO2 Blocking Layer to Suppress Interfacial Recombination for Efficient Sb2S3 Sensitized Solar Cells”, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 1370-1377.<PDF>

Yingke Ren, Xihong Ding, Jun Zhu,Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, Zhao-Qian Li, Xiaoxiao Xu, Shangfeng Yang, Mingguang Kong, Song-Yuan Dai*, “A Bi-functional additive for linking PI2 and decreasing defects in organo-halide perovskites”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2018, 758, 171-176.<PDF>

Christin Schlesier, Lukas Spree, Aram Kostanyan, Rasmus Westerstrom, Ariane Brandenburg, Anja U. B. Wolter, Shangfeng Yang, Thomas Greber, Alexey A. Popov*, “Strong carbon cage influence on the single molecule magnetism in Dy-Sc nitride clusterfullerenes”, Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 9730-9733 (inside front cover).<PDF>

Junwei Chen, Zhiyang Wana, Jiandang Liu, Shengquan Fu, Fapei Zhang, Shangfeng Yang, Shanwen Tao, Mingtai Wang*, Chong Chen*, “Growth of compact CH3NH3PbI3 films governed by crystallization in PbI2 matrix for efficient planar perovskite solar cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 8649-8658. <PDF>

Ashish Dubey, Nirmal Adhikari, Sally Mabrouk, Fan Wu, Ke Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Qiquan Qiao*, “Strategic Review on Processing Routes towards Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 2406-2431 (invited review). <PDF>

Yafeng Xu, Qing Ye, Wenyong Chen, Xu Pan, Linhua Hu, Shangfeng Yang, Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, Jun Zhu*, Songyuan Dai*, “Solution Processed CuSbS2 Solar Cells Based on Metal Organic Molecular Solution Precursors”, J. Mater. Sci. 2018, 53, 2016-2025. <PDF>

Ying-Ke Ren, Xiao-Qiang Shi, Xi-Hong Ding, Jun Zhu,* Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, Zhao-Qian Li, Xiao-Xiao Xu, Shang-Feng Yang, Song-Yuan Dai*, “Facile Fabrication of Perovskite Layers with Large Grain through Solvent Exchange Approach”, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 348-353. <PDF>

Hina Naz, Rai Nauman Ali*, Qing Liu, Shangfeng Yang, Bin Xiang, “Niobium doped zinc oxide nanorods as an Electron Transport Layer for High-performance Inverted Polymer Solar Cells”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2018, 512, 548-554. <PDF>

Qing Ye, Yafeng Xu, Wengyong Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Jun Zhu, Jian Weng*, “Enhanced photovoltaic performance of Sb2S3-sensitized solar cells through surface treatments”, Applied Surface Science 2018, 440, 294-299. <PDF>

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>

Fupin Liu, Cong-Li Gao, Qingming Deng, Xianjun Zhu, Aram Kostanyan, Rasmus Westerstr?m, Song Wang, Yuan-Zhi Tan, Jun Tao, Su-Yuan Xie,* Alexey A. Popov,* Thomas Greber,* Shangfeng Yang*, “Triangular Monometallic Cyanide Cluster Entrapped in Carbon Cage with Geometry-Dependent Molecular Magnetism”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14764-14771. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Song Wang, Xing Lu, Yuanzhi Tan, Jing Huang, Fupin Liu, Qunxiang Li, Suyuan Xie, Shangfeng Yang*, “Entrapping a Group-VB Transition Metal, Vanadium, within an Endohedral Metallofullerene: VxSc3-xN@Ih-C80 (x=1, 2)”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 207-214. <PDF>

Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “New Isolated-Pentagon-Rule and Skeletally Transformed Isomers of C100 Fullerene Identified by Structure Elucidation of Chlorides”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 3451-3454. <PDF>

Xiang Chen, Qing Liu, Qiliang Wu, Pingwu Du, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Shangfeng Yang*, “Incorporating Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g-C3N4) Quantum Dots into Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Leads to Efficiency Enhancement”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 1719-1728 (inside back cover). <PDF>

Jieming Zhen#, Qing Liu#, Xiang Chen, Dan Li, Yalin Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Ethanolamine-Functionalized Fullerene as an Efficient Electron Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Inverted Polymer Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 8072-8079. <PDF>

Qiliang Wu#, Weiran Zhou#, Qing Liu, Pengcheng Zhou, Tao Chen, Yalin Lu, Qiquan Qiao, Shangfeng Yang*, “Solution-Processable Ionic Liquid as an Independent or Modifying Electron Transport Layer for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 34464-34473. <PDF>

Qing Liu#, Jieming Zhen#, Weiran Zhou, Xiang Chen, Dan Li, Shangfeng Yang*, “Efficiency Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cells by Applying an Alcohol-Soluble Fullerene Aminoethanol Derivative as a Cathode Buffer Layer”, Org. Electron. 2016, 39, 191-198. <PDF>

Qiliang Wu, Pengcheng Zhou, Weiran Zhou, Xiangfeng Wei, Tao Chen, Shangfeng Yang*, “Acetate Salts as Non-Halogen Additives to Improve Perovskite Film Morphology for High-Efficiency Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 15333-15340. <PDF>

Fei Jin, Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Ilya N. Ioffe, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Monometalic Cyanide Cluster Fullerene, YCN@C82(6)(CF3)16/18”, Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 12523-12526. <PDF>

Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “New Giant Fullerenes Identified as Chloro Derivatives: Isolated-Pentagon-Rule C108(1771)Cl12 and C106(1155)Cl24 as well as Non-classical C104Cl24”, Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 5741-5743. <PDF>

Song Wang#, Jing Huang#, Congli Gao, Fei Jin, Qunxiang Li, Suyuan Xie, Shangfeng Yang*, “Singly Bonded Monoadduct Rather than Methanofullerene: Manipulating Simultaneously the Reactivity and Addition Pattern of Metal Nitride Clusterfullerene via One Endohedral Metal Atom Substitution”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 8309-8315. <PDF>

Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “The first experimentally confirmed isolated pentagon rule (IPR) isomers of higher fullerene C98 captured as chlorides, C98(248)Cl22 and C98(116)Cl20”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 5138-5141. <PDF>

Song Wang, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Unusual Chlorination Patterns of Three IPR Isomers of C88 Fullerene in C88(7)Cl12/24, C88(17)Cl22, and C88(33)Cl12/14”, Chem. Asian J. 2016, 11, 77-80. <PDF>

Sally Mabrouk, Ashish Dubey, Wenfeng Zhang, Nirmal Adhikari, Behzad Bahrami, Md Nazmul Hasan, Shangfeng Yang*, Qiquan Qiao*, “Increased Efficiency for Perovskite Photovoltaics via Doping the PbI2 Layer”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 24577-24582. <PDF>

Baohua Wang, King Young Wong, Shangfeng Yang, Tao Chen*, “Crystallinity and Defect State Engineering in Organo-Lead Halide Perovskite for High-Efficiency Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 3806-3812. <PDF>

Dapeng Lu, Haotian Wu, Peng Xu, Yafei Dai, Hong Shi, Xiang Shao, Shangfeng Yang, Jinlong Yang, Pingwu Du*, “Cycloparaphenylene Nanoring with Graphenic Hexabenzocoronene Sidewalls: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Direct Observation by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 7164-7167. <PDF>

Hongxing Jia, Zijun Sun, Daochuan Jiang, Shangfeng Yang, Pingwu Du*, “An Iron?? Porphyrin-Based Conjugated Network Wrapped around Carbon Nanotubes as a Noble-Metal-Free?? Electrocatalyst for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction”, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2016, 3, 821-827. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Song Wang, Fupin Liu, Yuanzhi Tan, Xianjun Zhu, Suyuan Xie, Shangfeng Yang*, “Capturing the Long-Sought Small-Bandgap Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C82 with Low Kinetic Stability”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3119-3123. <PDF>

Jian Guan, Xiang Chen, Tao Wei, Fupin Liu, Song Wang, Qing Yang, Yalin Lu, and Shangfeng Yang*, “Directly Bonded Hybrid of Graphene Nanoplatelets and Fullerene: Solid-State Mechanochemical Synthesis and Application as Carbon-based Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, 3, 4139-4146. <PDF>

Qiliang Wu, Cong Xue, Yi Li, Pengcheng Zhou, Weifeng Liu, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Changfei Zhu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 as a Low Cost Inorganic Hole Transporting Material for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 28466?28473. <PDF>

Fei Xia, Qiliang Wu, Pengcheng Zhou, Yi Li, Xiang Chen, Qing Liu, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Yalin Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Efficiency enhancement of inverted structure perovskite solar cells via oleamide doping of PCBM electron transport layer”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 13659-13665. <PDF>

Zhiqiang Zhao, Qiliang Wu, Fei Xia, Xiang Chen, Yawei Liu, Wenfeng Zhang, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai* and Shangfeng Yang* “Improving the Conductivity of PEDOT:PSS Hole Transport Layer in Polymer Solar Cells via Copper(II) Bromide Salt Doping”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 1439-1448. <PDF>

Tao Wei, Fupin Liu, Song Wang, Xianjun Zhu, Alexey A. Popov*, Shangfeng Yang*, “An Expanded Family of Dysprosium-Scandium Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: The Role of Lanthanide Metal on the Carbon Cage Size Distribution”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 5750-5759. (Inside Front Cover, Hot paper).<PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Tao Wei, Kerstin Scheurell, Erhard Kemnitz,* Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chlorination-promoted Skeletal Cage Transformations of C88 Fullerene by C2 Losses and a Stone-Wales C–C Bond Rotation”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15138 – 15141.<PDF>

Zhiqiang Zhao, Xiang Chen, Qing Liu, Qiliang Wu, Fei Xia, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Shangfeng Yang*, “Zwitterion Doping of PEDOT:PSS Hole Transport Layer Affording Efficiency Enhancement in Polymer Solar Cells”, Org. Electron. 2015, 27, 232-239.<PDF>

Tao Wei, Shangfeng Yang*, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Two successive C2 losses from C86 fullerene upon chlorination with the formation of non-classical C84Cl30 and C82Cl30”, Chem. Asian J. 2015, 10, 559-562.<PDF>

Jianhe Guo, Ying Xu, Xi Chen, Shangfeng Yang*, “Single-Crystalline C60 Microplates: Preparation, Characterization, and Application as Catalyst Supports for Methanol Oxidation”, Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 2015, 23, 424-430.<PDF>

Rasmus Westerstrom, Anne-Christine Uldry, Roland Stania, Jan Dreiser, Cinthia Piamonteze, Matthias Muntwiler, Fumihiko Matsui, Stefano Rusponi, Harald Brune, Alexey Popov, Shangfeng Yang, Bernard Delley, Thomas Greber*, “Surface aligned magnetic moments and hysteresis of an endohedral single-molecule magnet on a metal”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015, 144, 087201.<PDF>

Ilya N. Ioffe, Shangfeng Yang*, Song Wang, Erhard Kemnitz*, Lev. N. Sidorov, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “C100 is Converted into C94Cl22 via Three Chlorination-Promoted C2 Losses Under Formation and Elimination of Cage Heptagons”, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 4904-4907. (Hot paper)<PDF>

Nadezhda B. Tamm, Shangfeng Yang, Tao Wei, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Five Isolated Pentagon Rule Isomers of Higher Fullerene C94 Captured as Chlorides and CF3 Derivatives: C94(34)Cl14, C94(61)Cl20, C94(133)Cl22, C94(42)(CF3)16, and C94(43)(CF3)18”, Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 2494-2496.<PDF>

Yi Li, Jun Zhu*, Yang Huang, Junfeng Wei, Feng Liu, Zhipeng Shao, Linhua Hu, Shuanghong Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Junwang Tang,* Jianxi Yao, Songyuan Dai,*, “Efficient inorganic solid solar cell composed of perovskite and PbS quantum dots”, Nanoscale 2015, 7, 9902-9907.<PDF>

Liwei Hui, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Zhiyu Huang, Xiang Chen, Fei Xia, Shangfeng Yang, Haitao Liu, Lihua Yang*, “Surface Disinfection Enabled by a Layer-by-Layer Thin Film of Polyelectrolyte-Stabilized Reduced Graphene Oxide upon Solar Near-Infrared Irradiation”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 10511-10517.<PDF>

Feng Li, Xiaoning Li, Shangfeng Yang, Zhengping Fu*, Yalin Lu*, “Improved electrochemical performance via tailoring {116} faceted single crystalline anatase nanosheets”, CrystEngComm 2015, 17, 4377-4382.<PDF>

Yuanxin Du, Zhuchen Tao, Jian Guan, Zijun Sun, Wencong Zeng, Pengchao Wen, Kun Ni, Jianglin Ye, Shangfeng Yang, Pingwu Du, Yanwu Zhu*, “Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of α-Fe2O3/Activated Graphene Composites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for Reduction of Cr(VI)”, RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 81438-81444.<PDF>

Tao Li, Zhipeng Huo*, Songyuan Dai*, Jun Zhu, Changneng Zhang, Xu Pan, Yang Huang, Shangfeng Yang, Bing Zhang, Jianxi Yao, “Stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell using ionic gel electrolyte with low molecular mass organogelator”, Mater. Chem. Phys. 2015, 152, 62-68.<PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Song Wang, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chlorination of IPR C100 Fullerene Affords Unconventional C96Cl20 with Non-classical Cage Containing Three Heptagons”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 54, 2460-2463. <PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Song Wang, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “The most stable isomers of giant fullerenes C102 and C104 captured as chlorides, C102(603)Cl18/20 and C104(234)Cl16/18/20/22”, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 6875-6878. <PDF>

Fupin Liu, Song Wang, Jian Guan, Tao Wei, Minxiang Zeng, Shangfeng Yang*, “Putting a Terbium-Monometallic Cyanide Cluster into the C82 Fullerene Cage: TbCN@C2(5)-C82”, Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 5201-5205.<PDF>

Xu Ying, Xiang Chen, Fupin Liu, Xi Chen, Jianhe Guo, Shangfeng Yang*, “Ultrasonication-Switched Preparation of Dice- and Cubic-Shaped Fullerene Crystals and Their Applications as Catalyst Supports for Methanol Oxidation”, Mater. Horiz. 2014, 2, 411-418 (cover).<PDF>

Wenfeng Zhang, Xianghong Bi, Xuemei Zhao, Zhiqiang Zhao, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Yalin Lu*,Shangfeng Yang*, “Isopropanol-treated PEDOT:PSS as electron transport layers in polymer solar cells”,Org. Electron. 2014, 15, 3445-3451.<PDF>

Minghua Li*, Zhixiong Liu, Juling Ruan, Xiang Chen, Fangda Xu, Xia Chen, Xing Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Noncovalently grafting sulfonic acid onto graphene oxide toward improved hole transport in polymer solar cells”, RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 53999-54006.<PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Tao Wei, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Chlorination of two isomers of C86 fullerene. Molecular structures of C86(16)Cl16, C86(17)Cl18, C86(17)Cl20 and C86(17)Cl22”, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20,14198-14200.<PDF>

Tao Wei, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Shangfeng Yang*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “New trifluoromethylated derivatives of metal nitride clusterfullerenes: Sc3N@Ih-C80(CF3)14 and Sc3N@D5h-C80(CF3)16”, Chem. Asian J. 2014, 9, 2449-2452. <PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Tao Wei, Song Wang, Erhard Kemnitz*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “Structures of Chlorinated Fullerenes, IPR C96Cl20 and Non-classical C94Cl28 and C92Cl32: Evidence of the Existence of Three New Isomers of C96”, Chem. Asian J. 2014, 9, 3102-3105. <PDF>

Xuemei Zhao, Chenhui Xu, Haitao Wang, Fei Chen, Wenfeng Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhao, Liwei Chen, Shangfeng Yang*, “Application of Biuret, Dicyandiamide and Urea as New Cathode Buffer Layers of Polymer Solar Cells: Efficiency Enhanced by the Amino Group”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 4329-4337. <PDF>

Shangfeng Yang*, Tao Wei, Erhard Kemnitz, Sergey I. Troyanov*, “First Isomers of Pristine C104 Fullerene Structurally Confirmed as Chlorides, C104(258)Cl16 and C104(812)Cl24”, Chem. Asain J. 2014, 9, 79-82. (VIP paper). <PDF>

Fupin Liu, Tao Wei, Song Wang, Jian Guan, Xing Lu, Shangfeng Yang*, “A Bent Tb2C2 Cluster Encaged in a Cs(6)-C82 Cage: Synthesis, Isolation and X-ray Crystallographic Study”, Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 2014, 22, 215-226. <PDF>

Lixin Xie, Xuemei Zhao, Zhiqiang Zhao, Jieming Zhen, Muqing Chen, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai, Shangfeng Yang*, “Rhodanine-containing fullerene derivative as a new acceptor in polymer solar cells with enhanced light absorption”, The Journal of University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学学报) 2014, 44, 100-105. <PDF>

Feng Li, Xiaoning Li, Shangfeng Yang, Zhengping Fu*, Yalin Lu*, “{116} faceted anatase single-crystalline nanosheet arrays: facile synthesis and enhanced electrochemical performances”, Nanoscale 2014, 6, 12434-12439.<PDF>

Rasmus Westerstrom, Jan Dreiser, Cinthia Piamonteze, Matthias Muntwiler, Stephen Weyeneth, Karl Kraemer, Shi-Xia Liu, Silvio Decurtins, Alexey Popov, Shangfeng Yang, Lothar Dunsch, Thomas Greber*, “Tunneling, Remanence and Frustration in Dysprosium based Endohedral Single Molecule Magnets”, Phys. Rev. B 2014, 89, 060406.<PDF>

Zhipeng Shao, Xu Pan*, Haiwei Chen, Li Tao, Wenjun Wang, Yong Ding, Bin Pan, Shangfeng Yang, Songyuan Dai*, “Polymer based photocathodes for panchromatic tandem dye-sensitized solar cells”, Energy Envir. Sci. 2014, 7, 2647-2651. <PDF>

Feng Liu, Jun Zhu,* Junfeng Wei, Yi Li, Mei Lv, Shangfeng Yang, Bing Zhang, Jianxi Yao Songyuan Dai*, “Numerical simulation: Toward the design of high-efficiency planar perovskite solar cells”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 104, 253508. <PDF>

Jan Dreiser*, Rasmus Westerstr?m, Cinthia Piamonteze, Frithjof Nolting, Stefano Rusponi, Harald Brune, Shangfeng Yang, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch, Thomas Greber*, “X-ray Induced Demagnetization of Single-Molecule Magnets”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 105, 032411. <PDF>

Jingzhe Li, Fantai Kong*, Guohua Wu, Wangchao Chen, Fuling Guo, Bing Zhang, Jianxi Yao, Shangfeng Yang, Songyuan Dai*, Pan Xu, “Di-n-alkylphosphinic acids as coadsorbents for Metal-free organic dye-sensitized solar cells”, Synth. Met. 2014, 6, 188-193.<PDF>