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Overview

Gang Wu is a researcher affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

The scientist's research topics include advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal properties of materials, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, advancements in battery materials, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, advanced battery materials and technologies, and chalcogenide semiconductor thin films.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gang Wu include:

  • Shuo-Wang Yang
  • Xiaojian Tan
  • Guoqiang Liu
  • Jun Jiang
  • Peng Sun

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Materials

Selected recent publications by Gang Wu include:

  • "Hierarchical assembly of donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and air," 2024, Nature Synthesis
  • "Three-Component Donor−π-Acceptor Covalent-Organic Frameworks for Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "High-Performance Industrial-Grade p-Type (Bi,Sb)2Te3 Thermoelectric Enabled by a Stepwise Optimization Strategy," 2023, Advanced Materials
  • "Prolonging the cycling lifetime of lithium metal batteries with a monolithic and inorganic-rich solid electrolyte interphase," 2023, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Correlating charge and thermoelectric transport to paracrystallinity in conducting polymers," 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Derived from Polyaniline, Iron, and Cobalt

    Gang Wu;Karren Leslie More;Christina Johnston;Piotr Zelenay

  • Superconductivity at 43 K in SmFeAsO1-xFx.

    X. H. Chen;T. Wu;G. Wu;R. H. Liu

  • Recent advances in non-precious metal catalysis for oxygen-reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte fuel cells

    Frédéric Jaouen;Eric Proietti;Michel Lefèvre;Régis Chenitz

  • Single Atomic Iron Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: Particle Size Control and Thermal Activation.

    Hanguang Zhang;Sooyeon Hwang;Maoyu Wang;Zhenxing Feng

  • Atomically dispersed manganese catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells

    Jiazhan Li;Jiazhan Li;Mengjie Chen;David A. Cullen;Sooyeon Hwang

  • Nanostructured Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Gang Wu;Piotr Zelenay

  • Achievements, challenges and perspectives on cathode catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells for transportation

    Xiao Xia Wang;Mark T. Swihart;Gang Wu

  • Nitrogen-Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

    Xiao Xia Wang;Xiao Xia Wang;David A. Cullen;Yung‐Tin Pan;Sooyeon Hwang

  • Transition metal (Fe, Co, Ni, and Mn) oxides for oxygen reduction and evolution bifunctional catalysts in alkaline media

    Hannah Osgood;Surya V. Devaguptapu;Hui Xu;Jaephil Cho

  • Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites.

    Yuxuan Wang;Hongyang Su;Yanghua He;Ligui Li

  • Neutron-Diffraction Measurements of Magnetic Order and a Structural Transition in the Parent BaFe 2 As 2 Compound of FeAs-Based High-Temperature Superconductors

    Q. Huang;Y. Qiu;Y. Qiu;Wei Bao;M. A. Green;M. A. Green

  • Highly active atomically dispersed CoN 4 fuel cell cathode catalysts derived from surfactant-assisted MOFs: carbon-shell confinement strategy

    Yanghua He;Sooyeon Hwang;David A. Cullen;M. Aman Uddin

  • Carbon nanocomposite catalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions: From nitrogen doping to transition-metal addition

    Gang Wu;Ana Santandreu;William Kellogg;Shiva Gupta

  • Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement

    Yanghua He;Shengwen Liu;Cameron Priest;Qiurong Shi

  • Enhanced photovoltaic performance of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells through interfacial engineering using self-assembling monolayer.

    Lijian Zuo;Zhuowei Gu;Tao Ye;Weifei Fu

  • Performance enhancement and degradation mechanism identification of a single-atom Co–N–C catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    Xiaohong Xie;Cheng He;Boyang Li;Yanghua He

  • Experimental Observation of Redox-Induced Fe–N Switching Behavior as a Determinant Role for Oxygen Reduction Activity

    Qingying Jia;Qingying Jia;Nagappan Ramaswamy;Nagappan Ramaswamy;Hasnain Hafiz;Hasnain Hafiz;Urszula Tylus;Urszula Tylus

  • Synthesis–structure–performance correlation for polyaniline–Me–C non-precious metal cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction in fuel cells

    Gang Wu;Christina M. Johnston;Nathan H. Mack;Kateryna Artyushkova

  • Silicon-based anodes for lithium-ion batteries: Effectiveness of materials synthesis and electrode preparation

    Anix Casimir;Hanguang Zhang;Ogechi Ogoke;Joseph C. Amine

  • Metal (Ni, Co)‐Metal Oxides/Graphene Nanocomposites as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts

    Xien Liu;Wen Liu;Minseong Ko;Minjoon Park

  • High-performance fuel cell cathodes exclusively containing atomically dispersed iron active sites

    Hanguang Zhang;Hoon T. Chung;David A. Cullen;Stephan Wagner

  • Nitrogen-Doped Graphene-Rich Catalysts Derived from Heteroatom Polymers for Oxygen Reduction in Nonaqueous Lithium–O2 Battery Cathodes

    Gang Wu;Nathan H. Mack;Wei Gao;Shuguo Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jinghui Zhang
Jinghui Zhang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Hongzheng Chen
Hongzheng Chen Zhejiang University
Shaoqian Li
Shaoqian Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
John Easton
John Easton St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
James R. Downing
James R. Downing St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Xianhui Chen
Xianhui Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Michael Rusch
Michael Rusch St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Qing Li
Qing Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ah-Lim Tsai
Ah-Lim Tsai The University of Texas at Austin
Piotr Zelenay
Piotr Zelenay Los Alamos National Laboratory

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