1.新材料的合成与探索，以及材料的结构、物性表征。 2.新型拓扑材料的单晶生长和物性研究：包括拓扑绝缘体wely 半金属等材料。 3.热电材料的单晶生长和热电性能研究：包括热电氧化物材料，半导体合金材料。

(1) Binbin Zhang, Yangyang Lv, Songtao Dong, Lunyong Zhang, Shuhua Yao*, Y. B. Chen*, Shan-Tao Zhang, Jian Zhou, Yan-Feng Chen

Depotassiation of K0.62RhO2 and Electronic Property of the end-product K0.32RhO2 Single Crystal

Solid State Communications 230, 1, (2016)

(2) Songtao Dong, B. B. Zhang, Ye Xiong, Yangyang Lv, ShuHua Yao*, Yanbin Chen*, Jian Zhou , Shan-Tao Zhang, Yan-Feng Chen

Anisotropic Electrical and Thermal conductivity in Bi2AE2Co2O8+δ [AE=Ca, Sr1-xBax (x=0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0)] single crystals

Journal of Applied Physics 118, 125108 (2015)

(3) Yangyang Lv Liwang Ye, Zhaojun Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Zhihuang Xu, Xinxin Zhuang*, Shuhua Yao* and Genbo Su

Growth habit and optical properties of g-CuI single crystals via a temperature difference method

RSC Advance 5, 71514 (2015)

(4) Binbin Zhang, NaNa Zhang, Song-Tao Dong, Yangyang Lv, Y. B. Chen, Shuhua Yao*, Shan-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Bin Gu, Jian Zhou**, Ilde Guedes, Dehong Yu, Yan-Feng Chen

Lattice dynamics of KxRhO2 single crystals

AIP Advance 5, 087111 (2015)

(5) Song-Tao Dong,Yang-Yang Lv, Bin-Bin Zhang,Fan Zhang,Shuhua Yao,*Y. B. Chen,** Jian Zhou, Shan-Tao Zhang,Zheng-Bin Gu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Strongly correlation of growth mode and electrical property of BiCuSeO single crystals with growth temperature

CrystEngComm. 17, 6136-6141 (2015)

(6) Wei Zhang, Michael Saliba, David T. Moore, Sandeep K. Pathak, Maximilian T. Horantner1, Thomas Stergiopoulos, Samuel D. Stranks, Giles E. Eperon, Jack A. Alexander-Webber, Antonio Abate, Aditya Sadhanala, Shuhua Yao, Yulin Chen, Richard H. Friend, Lara A. Estroff, Ulrich Wiesner.

Ultrasmooth organic–inorganic perovskite thin-film formation and crystallization for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells

Nature Communications 2015 DOI:10.1038/ncomms7142

(7) Lunyong Zhang, Qifeng Liang, Ye Xiong, Binbin Zhang, Lei Gao, Handong Li, Y. B. Chen*, Jian Zhou, Shan-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Bin Gu, Shu-hua Yao*, Zhiming Wang, Yuan Lin, and Yan-Feng Chen

Tunable semimetallic state in compressive-strained SrIrO3 films revealed by transport behavior

Physical Review B 91, 035110 (2015)

(8) Song-Tao Dong, Ning Sun, Bin-Bin Zhang, Fan Zhang, Shu-Hua Yao*, Jian Zhou, Shan-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Bin Gu, Y. B. Chen*, and Yan-Feng Chen

Crystal growth, structure, and dielectric properties of layered cobaltates La2-xSrxCoO4 (x = 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6) single crystal

Materials Reaserch Bulletin 61, 352 (2014).

(9) Weijia Zhou, Dongman Hou, Yuanhua Sang, Shuhua Yao, Jian Zhou, Hong Liu and Shaowei Chen*

MoO2 nanobelts@nitrogen self-doped MoS2 nanosheets as effective electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2, 11358 (2014)

(10) S.T.Dong, B.B. Zhang, L.Y. Zhang, Y.B. Chen*, Jian Zhou, Shan-TaoZhang, S.H. Yao*, Yan-Feng Chen.

Growth, structure and physical properties of gadolinium doped Sr2IrO4 single crystal

Physics Letters A 378, 2777 (2014)

(11) Bin-Bin Zhang, Song-Tao Dong, Shu-Hua Yao*, Y. B. Chen*, Shan-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Bin Gu, Jian Zhou, Ming-Hui Lu, Yan-Feng Chen, and Y. G. Shi.

Electrical, magnetic, and magneto-electrical properties in quasi-two-dimensional K0.58RhO2 single crystals doped with rare-earth elements

Applied Physics Letters 105, 062408 (2014).

(12) Song-Tao Dong, Bin-Bin Zhang, Lun-Yong Zhang, Y. B. Chen*, Shu-Hua Yao*, Jian Zhou, Shan-Tao Zhang, Zheng-Bin Gu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Metal-Semiconductor-Transition observed from Bi2 Ca(Sr,Ba)2Co2O8+δSingle Crystals

Applied Physics Letters 105, 042105 (2014)

(13) N. Sun, S. T. Dong, B. B. Zhang, Y. B. Chen, J. Zhou, S. T. Zhang, Z. B. Gu, S. H. Yao*, Y. F. Chen*

Intrinsically modified thermoelectric performance of alkaline-earth isovalently substituted [Bi2AE2O4][CoO2]y single crystals

Journal of Applied Physics 114, 043705 (2013).

(14) B. B. Zhang, J. Zhou, Y. B. Chen, S. T. Zhang, Z. B. Gu, S. T. Dong, S. H. Yao*, and Y. F. Chen

High Temperature Solution Growth, Chemical Depotassiation and Growth Mechanism of KxRhO2 Crystals

CrystEngComm. 15, 5050–5056 (2013).

(15) S. H. Yao, B. Zhou, M. H. Lu, Z. K. Liu, Y. B. Chen, J. Analytics, C. Brüne, W. H. Dang, S. K. Mo, Z. X. Shen, I. R. Fisher, L. Molemkamp, H. L. Peng, Z. Hussain, and Y. L. Chen

Observing electronic structures on ex-situ topological insulator thin films

Phys. Statuts Solidi. RRL 7，130-132, (2013)

(16) S. H. Yao, B. B. Zhang, J. Zhou, Y. B. Chen, S. T. Zhang, Z. B. Gu, S. T. Dong, and Y. F. Chen*

Structure and physical properties of K0.63RhO2 single crystals

AIP ADVANCES 2, 042140 (2012)

(17) Shuhua Yao, Yuanhua Sang, Dehong Yu, Maxim Avdeev

Low Temperature Neutron Diffraction on Congruent and Near Stoichiometric LiNbO3

Modern Physics Letters B 26, 1250142 (2012).

(18) S. H. Yao, J.Y. Wang, H. Liu, T.Yan, D. H. Yu, Y.F. Chen

Mechanism of the abnormal thermal expansion of nearly stoichiometric LiNbO3

Journal of Crystal Growth 318, 951 (2011).

(19) Shuhua Yao, Xiaobo Hu, Tao Yan, Hong Liu, Jiyang Wang, Feifei Zheng and Xiaoyong Qin.

Twinning structures in near stoichiometric lithium niobate single crystals.

Journal of Applied Crystallography 43, 276 (2010) .

(20) S. H. Yao, F. F. Zheng, H. Liu, J. Y. Wang, H. J. Zhang, and T. Yan.

Synthesis of LiNbO3 nanopowders through a wet chemical route by using commercial niobium hydroxide as starting material.

Cryst. Res. Technol. 44, 1235 (2009).