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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)

B. Selected Papers in Piezoionics:

Ion-selective mobility differential amplifier: enhancing pressure-induced voltage response in hydrogels

K Yang, Y Duan, Z Ma, J Xu, D Wang, B Li, Z Zeng, D Ho*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, 2, 2025. (DOI) (PDF)

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

D Ho* (Top Viewed Article of ChemElectroChem in 2023)

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

A universal framework for the effect of operating parameters on piezoionic voltage generation
J Xu, Q Li, and D Ho*
Materials Horizons, 11, 5709-5721, 2025. (DOI)

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

K Chen and D Ho*

Aggregate, 5, 1, 2024, e425. (DOI) (Media) (Media PDF)

C. Selected Publications in Sensors:

MXene hydrogels for soft multifunctional sensing: a synthesis-centric review

U Amara, L Xu, I Hussain, K Yang, H Hu*, and D Ho*

Small, 21, 1, 2024. (DOI)

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)

D. Selected Papers in Energy:

Poloxamer pre-solvation sheath ion encapsulation strategy for zinc anode-electrolyte interfaces

K Yang, H Fu, Y Duan, Z Ma, D Wang, B Li, H Park, and D Ho*

ACS Energy Letters, 9, 1, 2024. (DOI)

Ultrahigh energy and power density in Ni-Zn aqueous battery via superoxide activated three-electron transfer

Y Duan, K Yang*, B Li, Z Gong, X Peng, L He*, D Ho*

Nano-Micro Letters, 17, 79, 2025. (DOI)

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)

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)

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)

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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)

- Nano-Micro Letters (31.6)

- 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)

- Angewandte Chemie International Edition (16.6)

- 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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