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Chia-Kuang Tsung

Chia-Kuang Tsung

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
18626
World Ranking
6815
National Ranking
2045

Overview

Chia-Kuang Tsung was affiliated with Boston College in the United States and conducted extensive research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work contributed significantly to both materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry, with additional insight into electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's publications focused on several main topics, including:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications

Tsung's research was published in a variety of scientific journals, with multiple papers appearing in the following venues:

  • Nanoscale
  • Nano Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nature Communications

They collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Lien-Yang Chou
  • Benjamin P. Williams
  • Wei-Shang Lo
  • Wenyu Huang
  • Allison P. Young

Selected papers from their recent research portfolio include:

  • Metal-Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Engineering a homogeneous alloy-oxide interface derived from metal-organic frameworks for selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Hierarchically encapsulating enzymes with multi-shelled metal-organic frameworks for tandem biocatalytic reactions, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Heterogeneous Metal Azolate Framework-6 (MAF-6) Catalysts with High Zinc Density for Enhanced Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Conversion, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Probing Interactions between Metal-Organic Frameworks and Freestanding Enzymes in a Hollow Structure, 2020, Nano Letters

Best Publications

  • Thermally stable Pt/mesoporous silica core–shell nanocatalysts for high-temperature reactions

    Sang Hoon Joo;Jeong Young Park;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Yusuke Yamada

  • Optimized Metal-Organic-Framework Nanospheres for Drug Delivery: Evaluation of Small-Molecule Encapsulation

    Jia Zhuang;Chun Hong Kuo;Lien Yang Chou;De Yu Liu

  • Imparting functionality to biocatalysts via embedding enzymes into nanoporous materials by a de novo approach: size-selective sheltering of catalase in metal-organic framework microcrystals.

    Fa Kuen Shieh;Shao Chun Wang;Chia I. Yen;Chang Cheng Wu

  • Metal-Organic Framework-Based Enzyme Biocomposites.

    Weibin Liang;Peter Wied;Francesco Carraro;Christopher J Sumby

  • Yolk–Shell Nanocrystal@ZIF-8 Nanostructures for Gas-Phase Heterogeneous Catalysis with Selectivity Control

    Chun-Hong Kuo;Yang Tang;Lien-Yang Chou;Brian T. Sneed

  • Sub-two nanometer single crystal Au nanowires

    Ziyang Huo;Chia-kuang Tsung;Wenyu Huang;Xiaofeng Zhang

  • Sub-10 nm Platinum Nanocrystals with Size and Shape Control: Catalytic Study for Ethylene and Pyrrole Hydrogenation

    Chia-Kuang Tsung;John N. Kuhn;Wenyu Huang;Cesar Aliaga

  • Nanocrystal bilayer for tandem catalysis

    Yusuke Yamada;Yusuke Yamada;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Wenyu Huang;Wenyu Huang;Ziyang Huo

  • Favoring the unfavored: Selective electrochemical nitrogen fixation using a reticular chemistry approach

    Hiang Kwee Lee;Hiang Kwee Lee;Charlynn Sher Lin Koh;Yih Hong Lee;Chong Liu

  • Strategies for Improving the Functionality of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks: Tailoring Nanoarchitectures for Functional Applications.

    Yusuf Valentino Kaneti;Saikat Dutta;Saikat Dutta;Md. S. A. Hossain;Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky

  • Facile RAFT Precipitation Polymerization for the Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Well-Defined, Double Hydrophilic Block Copolymers and Nanostructured Hydrogels

    Zesheng An;Qihui Shi;Wei Tang;Chia-Kuang Tsung

  • Room-Temperature Formation of Hollow Cu2O Nanoparticles

    Ling-I Hung;Ling-I Hung;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Wenyu Huang;Peidong Yang

  • Shielding against Unfolding by Embedding Enzymes in Metal–Organic Frameworks via a de Novo Approach

    Fu Siang Liao;Wei Shang Lo;Yu Shen Hsu;Chang Cheng Wu

  • Core–Shell Catalysts of Metal Nanoparticle Core and Metal–Organic Framework Shell

    Pan Hu;Joseph V. Morabito;Chia-Kuang Tsung

  • Dendrimer Templated Synthesis of One Nanometer Rh and Pt Particles Supported on Mesoporous Silica: Catalytic Activity for Ethylene and Pyrrole Hydrogenation

    Wenyu Huang;John N. Kuhn;Chia-Kuang Tsung;Yawen Zhang

  • Selective shortening of single-crystalline gold nanorods by mild oxidation.

    Chia-Kuang Tsung;Xiaoshan Kou;Qihui Shi;Jinping Zhang

  • Sum Frequency Generation and Catalytic Reaction Studies of the Removal of Organic Capping Agents from Pt Nanoparticles by UV−Ozone Treatment

    Cesar Aliaga;Jeong Y. Park;Yusuke Yamada;Hyun Sook Lee

  • Converting homogeneous to heterogeneous in electrophilic catalysis using monodisperse metal nanoparticles

    Cole A. Witham;Wenyu Huang;Chia-Kuang Tsung;John N. Kuhn

  • Glutathione- and cysteine-induced transverse overgrowth on gold nanorods.

    Xiaoshan Kou;Shuzhuo Zhang;Zhi Yang;Chia-Kuang Tsung

  • Engineering a homogeneous alloy-oxide interface derived from metal-organic frameworks for selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid

    Yu Te Liao;Van Chi Nguyen;Nozomu Ishiguro;Allison P. Young

  • Evolution of structure and chemistry of bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts under reaction conditions.

    Feng Tao;Michael E. Grass;Yawen Zhang;Derek R. Butcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenyu Huang
Wenyu Huang Iowa State University
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley
Jianfang Wang
Jianfang Wang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kevin C.-W. Wu
Kevin C.-W. Wu National Taiwan University
Xing Yi Ling
Xing Yi Ling Nanyang Technological University
Paolo Scardi
Paolo Scardi University of Trento
Jie Fan
Jie Fan Zhejiang University
James W. Evans
James W. Evans Iowa State University

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