Recent research focus in our group:
Focus 1. Functional thin-films, two-dimensional layered materials and heterostructures
Wafer-scale few-layer 2D black phosphorus (BP) are achieved by a controlled pulsed laser deposition (PLD) strategy for high-performance field-effect transistor (FET) arrays fabrication.
Zehan Wu, Yongxin Lyu, Yi Zhang, Ran Ding , Beining Zheng, Zhibin Yang, Shu Ping Lau , Xian Hui Chen* , and Jianhua Hao*, "Large-scale growth of few-layer two-dimensional black phosphorus", Nature Materials, 20, 1203 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01001-7
A wet-transfer method using ethylene–vinyl acetate (EVA) and an ethylene glycol (EG) solution is developed to transfer high-crystallinity, large-area PLD-grown BP films onto silicon substrates.
Yuqian Zhao†, Jianfeng Mao†, Zehan Wu, Weng Fu Io, Sin-Yi Pang, Yifei Zhao, and Jianhua Hao*, "A clean transfer approach to prepare centimetre-scale black phosphorus crystalline multilayers on silicon substrates for field-effect transistors", Nature Commun., 15, 6795 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51140-z
Robust out-of-plane ferroelectricity in 2D vdW CuCrP2S6 at room temperature is directly observed and systematically analyzed.
Weng Fu Io, Sin-Yi Pang, Lok Wing Wong, Yuqian Zhao, Ran Ding, Jianfeng Mao, Yifei Zhao, Feng Guo, Shuoguo Yuan, Jiong Zhao, Jiabao Yi, and Jianhua Hao*, “Direct observation of intrinsic room-temperature ferroelectricity in 2D layered CuCrP2S6”, Nature Commun., 14, 7304 (2023).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43097-2
2. Luminescence and phosphors for photonic and biomedical applications
The developed MHPe@MYE smart phosphor exhibits adaptive photoluminescence variations with neuromorphic characteristics, enabling an alternative way of all-optical physical reservoir computing.
Yifei Zhao, Man Li, Man Chung Wong, Xun Han, Feng Guo, Yuan Liu, Xinyue Lao, Zhaoying Dang, Sin-Yi Pang, Zehan Wu, Shi Ye*, and Jianhua Hao*, “Smart phosphor with neuromorphic behaviors enabling full-photoluminescent Write and Read for all-optical physical reservoir computing”, Nature Commun. 16, 7516 (2025).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62745-3
Nb2C-Pt@HA-PEG-mediated SCT effectively ameliorates advanced atherosclerosis.
Qianqian Bai, Xinyue Lao, Sin-Yi Pang, Yifei Zhao, Yuan Liu, Xiao Yu Tian, and Jianhua Hao*, “Plaque-targeted delivery of fluoride-free MXene nanozyme for alleviating atherosclerosis via sonocatalytic therapy”, Adv. Mater. 2025, 2420189.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202420189
The quantum dots luminescence and microfluidic biochip with machine vision algorithm-assisted intelligent biosensing platform have been designed and manufactured for point-of-care tumor markers diagnostics.
Yuan Liu, Xinyue Lao, Man-Chung Wong, Menglin Song, Yifei Zhao, Yingjin Ma, Qianqian Bai, and Jianhua Hao*, “Intelligent point-of-care biosensing platform based on luminescent nanoparticles and microfluidic biochip with machine vision algorithm analysis”, Nano-Micro Lett. 17, 215 (2025).
DOI: 10.1007/s40820-025-01745-w
A mechano-optical artificial synapse that combines Mechanoluminescence (ML) material with Photostimulated luminescence (PSL) phosphor is constructed to enable in-sensor computing.
Jiaxing Guo†, Feng Guo†, Huijun Zhao†, Hang Yang, Xiaona Du, Fei Fan, Weiwei Liu, Yang Zhang*, Dong Tu*, and Jianhua Hao*, “In-sensor computing with visual-tactile perception enabled by mechano-optical artificial synapse”, Adv. Mater. 37, 2419405 (2025).
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202419405
A 10 × 10 devices array based on the ZnO/CsPbBr3 heterojunction demonstrated optically induced negative photoconductivity (Neg-PC) enhancement, Neg-PC suppression, and Neg-PC to positive photoconductivity (Pos-PC) transformation under both UV and green light stimulation.
Xun Han†, Juan Tao†, Yegang Liang, Feng Guo, Zhangsheng Xu, Wenqiang Wu, Jiahui Tong, Mengxiao Chen*, Caofeng Pan*, and Jianhua Hao*, “Ultraweak light-modulated heterostructure with bidirectional photoresponse for static and dynamic image perception”, Nature Commun., 15, 10430 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54845-3
A frequency converting and digital modulation of the light was derived from the ferroelectric BTO:Er films.
Haisheng Chen, Jiaying Shen, Xiaona Du, Songhua Cai, Feng Guo, Weng Fu Io, Tianhong Zhou, Zhengang Dong, Taiyu Bian, Jiaxing Guo, Weiwei Liu, Yang Zhang*, Zhenping Wu*, and Jianhua Hao*, “Frequency converting and digital modulation of light derived from lanthanide for signal encoding and logic computing”, InfoMat. 6, e12547, (2024).
DOI: 10.1002/inf2.12547