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X. Q. Yan, W. Y. Zhou, L. F. Sun, Y. Gao, D. F. Liu, J. X. Wang, Z. P. Zhou, H. J. Yuan, L. Song, L. F. Liu, G. Wang, S. S. Xie, The influence of hydrogen on the growth of gallium catalyzed silicon oxide nanowires, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 66, 701 (2005).

X. Q. Yan, X. M. Huang, S. Uda and M. W. Chen, Effect of heavy boron doping on pressure-induced phase transitions in single-crystal silicon, Applied Physics Letters, 87, 191911 (2005).

X. Q. Yan, W. J. Li, T. Goto and M. W. Chen, Raman spectroscopy of pressure-induced amorphous boron carbide, Applied Physics Letters, 88, 131905 (2006).

X. Q. Yan, W. J. Li, T. Goto and M. W. Chen, Raman spectroscopy of pressure-induced amorphous boron carbide, Applied Physics Letters, 88, 131905 (2006).

X. Q. Yan, Y. S. Gu, X. M. Zhang, Y. H. Huang, J. J. Qi, Y. Zhang, T. Fujita, M. W. Chen, Doping effect on high-pressure structural stability of ZnO nanowires, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 1164-1167 (2009)..

X. Q. Yan, Z. Tang, L. Zhang, J. J. Guo, C. Q. Jin, Y. Zhang, T. Goto, J. W. McCauley, and M. W. Chen, Depressurization amorphization of single-crystal boron carbide, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075505 (2009)..

M. W. Chen, X. Q. Yan, Comment on “Grain boundary mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel”, Science, 308, 356c (2005).

ZhimingBai, Xiaoqin Yan, Xiang Chen, Hanshuo Liu, YanweiShen and Yue Zhang, ZnO nanowire array ultraviolet photodetectors with self-powered properties, Current Applied Physics, 2013, 13,165-169.

Yanguang Zhao, Xiaoqin Yan, Zhuo Kang, Xiaofei Fang, Xin Zheng, Lanqing Zhao, Hongwu Du, Yue Zhang, Zinc oxide nanowires based electrochemical biosensor for L-lactic acid amperometric detection, J. Nanopart. Res. 2014, 16: 2398..