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Cheng Yang is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and focuses on research within the fields of engineering and materials science. The primary subfields of study include electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering.

Their work mainly revolves around advanced battery technologies and materials, with specific attention to electrocatalysts for energy conversion and supercapacitor materials. The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advanced battery materials and technologies
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Supercapacitor materials and fabrication
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Cheng Yang has published extensively, with frequent contributions to prominent journals. The top publication venues include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Small
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Some recent papers illustrate the scope and evolution of their research. These include:

  • Tip-Enhanced Electric Field: A New Mechanism Promoting Mass Transfer in Oxygen Evolution Reactions, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Polymorph Evolution Mechanisms and Regulation Strategies of Lithium Metal Anode under Multiphysical Fields, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Grafted MXene/polymer electrolyte for high performance solid zinc batteries with enhanced shelf life at low/high temperatures, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • A Versatile Cation Additive Enabled Highly Reversible Zinc Metal Anode, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • A method for quantitatively separating the piezoelectric component from the as-received "Piezoelectric" signal, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Cheng Yang's research activities. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Feiyu Kang
  • Haojie Zhu
  • Peichao Zou
  • Yiming Sui
  • Rui Yao

Best Publications

  • Exceptional performance of hierarchical Ni–Fe oxyhydroxide@NiFe alloy nanowire array electrocatalysts for large current density water splitting

    Caiwu Liang;Peichao Zou;Adeela Nairan;Yongqi Zhang

  • Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction.

    Gang Ou;Yushuai Xu;Bo Wen;Rui Lin

  • Facile synthesis of multiple enzyme-containing metal–organic frameworks in a biomolecule-friendly environment

    Xiaoling Wu;Jun Ge;Cheng Yang;Miao Hou

  • Facile synthesis of Li4Ti5O12/C composite with super rate performance

    Baohua Li;Cuiping Han;Yan-Bing He;Cheng Yang

  • Gassing in Li(4)Ti(5)O(12)-based batteries and its remedy.

    Yan-Bing He;Yan-Bing He;Baohua Li;Ming Liu;Chen Zhang

  • Chemical composition, crystal size and lattice structural changes after incorporation of strontium into biomimetic apatite.

    Z.Y. Li;W.M. Lam;C. Yang;B. Xu

  • Silver Nanowires: From Scalable Synthesis to Recyclable Foldable Electronics

    Cheng Yang;Hongwei Gu;Wei Lin;Matthew Ming Fai Yuen

  • Tip‐Enhanced Electric Field: A New Mechanism Promoting Mass Transfer in Oxygen Evolution Reactions

    Peng Liu;Bo Chen;Caiwu Liang;Wentao Yao

  • Polymorph Evolution Mechanisms and Regulation Strategies of Lithium Metal Anode under Multiphysical Fields.

    Peichao Zou;Peichao Zou;Yiming Sui;Houchao Zhan;Chunyang Wang

  • Directing lateral growth of lithium dendrites in micro-compartmented anode arrays for safe lithium metal batteries.

    Peichao Zou;Yang Wang;Sum Wai Chiang;Xuanyu Wang

  • A reduced graphene oxide/mixed-valence manganese oxide composite electrode for tailorable and surface mountable supercapacitors with high capacitance and super-long life

    Yang Wang;Wenhui Lai;Ni Wang;Zhi Jiang

  • Grafted MXene/polymer electrolyte for high performance solid zinc batteries with enhanced shelf life at low/high temperatures

    Ze Chen;Xinliang Li;Donghong Wang;Qi Yang

  • Scalable fabrication of MnO2 nanostructure deposited on free-standing Ni nanocone arrays for ultrathin, flexible, high-performance micro-supercapacitor

    Zijin Su;Cheng Yang;Binghe Xie;Ziyin Lin

  • A Versatile Cation Additive Enabled Highly Reversible Zinc Metal Anode

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  • An ultrafast, high capacity and superior longevity Ni/Zn battery constructed on nickel nanowire array film

    Chao Xu;Jie Liao;Cheng Yang;Ruozheng Wang

  • Co-electro-deposition of the MnO2–PEDOT:PSS nanostructured composite for high areal mass, flexible asymmetric supercapacitor devices

    Zijin Su;Cheng Yang;Chengjun Xu;Haoyi Wu

  • An Ultralong, Highly Oriented Nickel-Nanowire-Array Electrode Scaffold for High-Performance Compressible Pseudocapacitors.

    Chao Xu;Ziheng Li;Cheng Yang;Peichao Zou

  • Polydopamine tethered enzyme/metal–organic framework composites with high stability and reusability

    Xiaoling Wu;Cheng Yang;Jun Ge;Zheng Liu

  • Future paper based printed circuit boards for green electronics: fabrication and life cycle assessment†

    Jingping Liu;Cheng Yang;Haoyi Wu;Ziyin Lin

  • Combining Fast Li-Ion Battery Cycling with Large Volumetric Energy Density: Grain Boundary Induced High Electronic and Ionic Conductivity in Li4Ti5O12 Spheres of Densely Packed Nanocrystallites

    Chao Wang;Shuan Wang;Yan-Bing He;Linkai Tang

  • Flexible asymmetric supercapacitors based on ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets with outstanding electrochemical performance and aesthetic property.

    Shan Shi;Chengjun Xu;Cheng Yang;Yanyi Chen

  • Effects of unfolded and intercalated halloysites on mechanical properties of halloysite-epoxy nanocomposites

    Youhong Tang;Youhong Tang;Shiqiang Deng;Lin Ye;Cheng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Feiyu Kang
Feiyu Kang Tsinghua University
Ching-Ping Wong
Ching-Ping Wong Georgia Institute of Technology
Ziyin Lin
Ziyin Lin Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew Ming Fai Yuen
Matthew Ming Fai Yuen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hui Wu
Hui Wu Tsinghua University
Youhong Tang
Youhong Tang Flinders University
Quan-Hong Yang
Quan-Hong Yang Tianjin University
Baohua Li
Baohua Li Tsinghua University
Bing Xu
Bing Xu Brandeis University
Hong Jin Fan
Hong Jin Fan Nanyang Technological University

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