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A. PI Solely-Authored Papers:

Materials Horizons emerging investigator series: Professor Derek Ho, City University of Hong Kong, China

D Ho*

Materials Horizons, 10, 2723-2725, 2023. (DOI) (PDF) (Media) (Media PDF)

The piezoionic effect: biomimetic transduction mechanism for sensing, actuation, interface, and energy harvesting

D Ho*

ChemElectroChem, 2023, 11, e202300268. (DOI) (PDF) | Author Interview (DOI) (PDF)

B. Highlighted Papers:

Micro-redoxcapacitor: a hybrid architecture out of the notorious energy-power density dilemma

Z Cao, H Hu*, and D Ho*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2111805. (DOI) (PDF) (Media)

Hexagonal Co9S8: experimental and mechanistic study of enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution of a new crystallographic phase

T Bin, L Sun*, and D Ho*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2210298. (DOI) (PDF)

Piezoionics: mechanical-to-ionic transduction for sensing, biointerface, and energy harvesting

K Chen and D Ho*

Aggregate, accepted. (DOI) (Media) (Media PDF)

The adatom concentration profile: a paradigm for understanding two-dimensional MoS2 morphological evolution in chemical vapor deposition growth

J Xu, D Srolovitz*, and D Ho*

ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 6839. (DOI) (Media)

Bean pod-inspired ultra-sensitive and self-healing pressure sensor based on laser induced graphene and polystyrene microspheres sandwiched structure

Q Tian, W Yan, Y Li, and D Ho*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020, 12, 9710. (DOI) (PDF)

C. Selected Publications in Sensors:

Piezoionics: mechanical-to-ionic transduction for sensing, biointerface, and energy harvesting

K Chen and D Ho*

Aggregate, accepted. (DOI) (PDF) (Media) (Chinese)

Bean pod-inspired ultra-sensitive and self-healing pressure sensor based on laser induced graphene and polystyrene microspheres sandwiched structure

Q Tian, W Yan, Y Li, and D Ho*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020, 12, 9710. (DOI) (PDF)

d-Band center optimization of Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets for ultra-high NO2 gas sensitivity at room temperature

Y Wang, J Fu, H Hu, and D Ho*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022, 29, 101133. (DOI)

Atomic plasma grafting: precise control of functional groups on Ti3C2Tx MXene for room temperature gas sensor 

Y Wang, J Fu, J Xu, H Hu, and D Ho*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023, 15, 9. (DOI)

Battery-sensor hybrid: a new gas sensing paradigm with complete energy self-sufficiency

W Yan, L. Ma, J. Xu, Y. Guo, H. Hu, C. Zhi, and D Ho*

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2021, 13, 46507(DOI)

The adatom concentration profile: a paradigm for understanding two-dimensional MoS2 morphological evolution in chemical vapor deposition growth

J Xu, D Srolovitz*, and D Ho*

ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 6839. (DOI) (Media)

Precursor concentration ratio: the key to controllable lateral to standing MoO2 flake transition

J Xu and D Ho*

Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 6052. (DOI)

Modulation of reaction mechanism via S:Mo: a rational strategy for large-area MoS2 growth

J Xu and D Ho*

Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 3249. (DOI)

Multi-length scale hierarchical architecture overcoming pressure sensing range-speed tradeoff for skin electronics

Q Tian, W Yan, T Chen, and D Ho*

Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021, 9, 17129. (DOI) (PDF)

Construction of an alkaline phosphatase-specific two-photon probe and its imaging application in living cells and tissues

H Zhang, P Xiao, Y T Wong, W Shen, M Chhabra, R Peltier, Y Jiang, Y He, J He, Y Tan, Y Xie, D Ho, Y W Lam, J Sun, and H Sun

Biomaterials, 2017, 140, 220.

D. Selected Publications in Energy:

Micro-redoxcapacitor: a hybrid architecture out of the notorious energy-power density dilemma

Z Cao, H Hu*, and D Ho*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2111805. (DOI) (PDF) (Media)

Hexagonal Co9S8: experimental and mechanistic study of enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution of a new crystallographic phase

T Bin, L Sun*, and D Ho*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2210298. (DOI) (PDF)

Interlayer injection of low-valence Zn atoms to activate MXene-based micro-redoxcapacitors with battery-type voltage plateaus

Z Cao, D Ho, C Zhi* and H Hu*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 2303060. (DOI)

Thick-network electrode: enabling dual working voltage plateaus of Zn-ion micro-battery with ultrahigh areal capacity

Y Wu, N He, G Liang, C Zhang, C. Liang, D Ho, M Wu*, and H Hu*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 202301734.

Wood-like low-tortuosity thick electrode for micro-redoxcapacitor with ultrahigh areal energy density and steady power output

J Zhang, K Wang, P Lu, J Gao, Z Cao, F Mo, D Ho, Bo Li, and H Hu*

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 2310775.

Texture exposure of unconventional (101)Zn Facet: enabling dendrite-free Zn deposition on metallic zinc anodes

W Fang, X Yu, D Ho, H Hu* et al.

Advanced Energy Materials

Order-disorder engineering of RuO2 nanosheets towards pH-universal oxygen evolution

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zeng*, and D Ho*

Materials Horizons, 2023, 10, 2904. (DOI)

A high-energy aqueous Zn || NO2 electrochemical cell: a new strategy for NO2 fixation and electric power generation

L Ma, S Chen, W Yan, G Zhang, Y Ying, H Huang, D Ho*, W Huang, and C Zhi*

Energy & Environmental Science, 2023, 10, 1039. (DOI)

Framework structure engineering of polymeric carbon nitrides and its recent applications

T Bin, D Ho*, J Qin, J Hu, Z Chen, D Voiry, Q Wang, and Z Zeng

Progress in Materials Science, 2022, 101056. (DOI)

Interlayer structure engineering of MXene-based capacitor-type electrode for hybrid micro-supercapacitor towards battery-level energy density

W Cheng, J Fu, H Hu, and D Ho*

Advanced Science, 2021, 2100775. (DOI) (Media)

Dual defocused laser pyrolysis: a lasing-centric strategy for defect and morphological optimization in microsupercapacitor electrodes

W Yan, H Hu, L Wang* and D Ho*

Small Methods, 2022, 6, 2101616. (DOI) (PDF)

E. Additional Information:

Personal Profiles/IDs:

Google Scholar Profile

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1636-9032

Scopus Author ID: 23492313800

ResearcherID: P-6486-2018

Journals (Impact Factor):

- Progress in Materials Science (39.6)

- Energy & Environmental Science (38.5)

- Advanced Energy Materials (29.7)

- Aggregate (22.9)

- Energy Storage Materials (20.8)

- Advanced Functional Materials (19.9)

- ACS Nano (18.0)

- Advanced Science (17.5)

- Materials Horizons (15.7)

- Small Methods (14.2)

- Biomaterials (12.5)

- Journal of Materials Chemistry A (11.7)

- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (10.4)

- Chemistry of Materials (10.2)

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