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Guang Wu is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry. The main areas of study include materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, notably crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, radioactive element chemistry and processing, nanocluster synthesis and applications, advanced condensed matter physics, and coordination chemistry and organometallics.

Guang Wu has contributed to numerous research papers published in several prominent venues. The frequent publication venues for their work include The Cambridge Structural Database, Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallics, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Some recent papers by Guang Wu are:

  • Extraordinary performance of semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors using dielectric excitation, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • Cyano-Functionalized Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Adsorption and Photoreduction Isosite Achieving Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater, 2024, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Electronic properties of the topological kagome metals YV6Sn6 and GdV6Sn6, 2021, Physical Review B
  • Carbon Nanotube-Based Field-Effect Transistor-Type Sensor with a Sensing Gate for Ppb-Level Formaldehyde Detection, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Hybrid Layered Double Perovskite Halides of Transition Metals, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Trevor W. Hayton
  • Greggory T. Kent
  • Gabriel Ménard
  • Ram Seshadri
  • Jochen Autschbach

Best Publications

  • CO2 Copolymers from Epoxides: Catalyst Activity, Product Selectivity, and Stereochemistry Control

    Xiao-Bing Lu;Wei-Min Ren;Guang-Peng Wu

  • A Cu25 Nanocluster with Partial Cu(0) Character.

    Thuy Ai D. Nguyen;Zachary R. Jones;Bryan R. Goldsmith;William R. Buratto

  • Perfectly Alternating Copolymerization of CO2 and Epichlorohydrin Using Cobalt(III)-Based Catalyst Systems

    Guang-Peng Wu;Sheng-Hsuan Wei;Wei-Min Ren;Xiao-Bing Lu

  • A luminescent and biocompatible photoCORM.

    Agustin E Pierri;Alessia Pallaoro;Guang Wu;Peter C Ford

  • Excited-state structure by time-resolved X-ray diffraction.

    Christopher D. Kim;Sebastien Pillet;Guang Wu;Wilfred K. Fullagar

  • An Organometallic Cu20 Nanocluster: Synthesis, Characterization, Immobilization on Silica, and "Click" Chemistry.

    Andrew W. Cook;Zachary R. Jones;Guang Wu;Susannah L. Scott

  • Enhanced asymmetric induction for the copolymerization of CO2 and cyclohexene oxide with unsymmetric enantiopure salenCo(III) complexes: synthesis of crystalline CO2-based polycarbonate

    Guang-Peng Wu;Wei-Min Ren;Yi Luo;Bo Li

  • Chemical and Structural Diversity of Hybrid Layered Double Perovskite Halides

    Lingling Mao;Samuel M. L. Teicher;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Rhys M. Kennard

  • Cyano‐Functionalized Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Adsorption and Photoreduction Isosite Achieving Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater

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  • A One-Pot Synthesis of a Triblock Copolymer from Propylene Oxide/Carbon Dioxide and Lactide: Intermediacy of Polyol Initiators

    Donald J. Darensbourg;Guang-Peng Wu

  • Single-Crystal Linear Polymers Through Visible Light–Triggered Topochemical Quantitative Polymerization

    Letian Dou;Yonghao Zheng;Xiaoqin Shen;Guang Wu

  • Extraordinary performance of semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors using dielectric excitation

    Radislav A. Potyrailo;Steven Go;Daniel Sexton;Xiaxi Li

  • Tandem metal-coordination copolymerization and organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization via water to synthesize diblock copolymers of styrene oxide/CO2 and lactide.

    Guang-Peng Wu;Donald J. Darensbourg;Xiao-Bing Lu

  • Synthesis of a Nitrido-Substituted Analogue of the Uranyl Ion, [N═U═O]+

    Skye Fortier;Guang Wu;Trevor W. Hayton

  • Use of 77Se and 125Te NMR Spectroscopy to Probe Covalency of the Actinide-Chalcogen Bonding in [Th(En){N(SiMe3)2}3]− (E = Se, Te; n = 1, 2) and Their Oxo-Uranium(VI) Congeners

    Danil E. Smiles;Guang Wu;Peter Hrobárik;Trevor W. Hayton

  • Synthesis, molecular and electronic structure of U(V)(O)[N(SiMe3)2]3.

    Skye Fortier;Jessie L. Brown;Nikolas Kaltsoyannis;Guang Wu

  • Mechanistic Insights into Water-Mediated Tandem Catalysis of Metal-Coordination CO2/Epoxide Copolymerization and Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization: One-Pot, Two Steps, and Three Catalysis Cycles for Triblock Copolymers Synthesis

    Guang-Peng Wu;Donald J. Darensbourg

  • Ligand-Exchange-Induced Growth of an Atomically Precise Cu29 Nanocluster from a Smaller Cluster

    Thuy-Ai D. Nguyen;Zachary R. Jones;Domenick F. Leto;Guang Wu

  • Alternating copolymerization of CO2 and styrene oxide with Co(III)-based catalyst systems: differences between styrene oxide and propylene oxide

    Guang-Peng Wu;Sheng-Hsuan Wei;Wei-Min Ren;Xiao-Bing Lu

  • Temperature-Dependent Polarization in Field-Effect Transport and Photovoltaic Measurements of Methylammonium Lead Iodide

    John G. Labram;Douglas H. Fabini;Erin E. Perry;Anna J. Lehner

  • A photoCORM nanocarrier for CO release using NIR light.

    Agustin E. Pierri;Agustin E. Pierri;Po-Ju Huang;John V. Garcia;James G. Stanfill

  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a Uranyl β-Diketiminate Complex

    Trevor W. Hayton;Guang Wu

  • Chelate Bis(imino)pyridine Cobalt Complexes: Synthesis, Reduction, and Evidence for the Generation of Ethene Polymerization Catalysts by Li+ Cation Activation

    Nina Kleigrewe;Winfried Steffen;Tobias Blömker;Gerald Kehr

  • A Complete Family of Terminal Uranium Chalcogenides, [U(E)(N{SiMe3}2)3]− (E = O, S, Se, Te)

    Jessie L. Brown;Skye Fortier;Richard A. Lewis;Guang Wu

  • Role of the co-catalyst in the asymmetric coupling of racemic epoxides with CO2 using multichiral Co(III) complexes: product selectivity and enantioselectivity

    Wei-Min Ren;Guang-Peng Wu;Fei Lin;Jing-Yang Jiang

  • Bonding Trends Traversing the Tetravalent Actinide Series: Synthesis, Structural, and Computational Analysis of AnIV(Aracnac)4 Complexes (An = Th, U, Np, Pu; Aracnac = ArNC(Ph)CHC(Ph)O; Ar = 3,5-tBu2C6H3)

    David D. Schnaars;Andrew J. Gaunt;Trevor W. Hayton;Matthew B. Jones

  • Synthesis of a phosphorano-stabilized U(IV)-carbene via one-electron oxidation of a U(III)-Ylide adduct

    Skye Fortier;Justin R. Walensky;Guang Wu;Trevor W. Hayton

  • Nickel α‐Keto‐β‐Diimine Initiators for Olefin Polymerization

    Jason D. Azoulay;Rene S. Rojas;Abigail V. Serrano;Hisashi Ohtaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Hayton
Trevor W. Hayton University of California, Santa Barbara
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri University of California, Santa Barbara
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael L. Chabinyc
Michael L. Chabinyc University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter C. Ford
Peter C. Ford University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony K. Cheetham
Anthony K. Cheetham University of Cambridge
Nikolas Kaltsoyannis
Nikolas Kaltsoyannis University of Manchester
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Jochen Autschbach
Jochen Autschbach University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Susannah L. Scott
Susannah L. Scott University of California, Santa Barbara

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