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  • 2019 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hailiang Wang is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research focuses on areas related to engineering, materials science, and energy, with key subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, catalysis, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of their work cover CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, perovskite materials and applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in battery materials, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and advanced battery materials and technologies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wang include Conor L. Rooney, Bo Shang, Haining Chen, Yueshen Wu, and Nia J. Harmon.

The scientist's publications have appeared predominantly in several notable venues, including:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Nano Energy

Representative recent papers authored by Wang include:

  • Molecular engineering of dispersed nickel phthalocyanines on carbon nanotubes for selective CO2 reduction, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Direct electrosynthesis of methylamine from carbon dioxide and nitrate, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Accessing Organonitrogen Compounds via C-N Coupling in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • In Situ Observation of the pH Gradient near the Gas Diffusion Electrode of CO2 Reduction in Alkaline Electrolyte, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • CO2 doping of organic interlayers for perovskite solar cells, 2021, Nature

Wang was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Co3O4 nanocrystals on graphene as a synergistic catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

    Yongye Liang;Yanguang Li;Hailiang Wang;Jigang Zhou

  • MoS2 Nanoparticles Grown on Graphene: An Advanced Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Yanguang Li;Hailiang Wang;Liming Xie;Yongye Liang

  • An Advanced Ni–Fe Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation

    Ming Gong;Yanguang Li;Hailiang Wang;Yongye Liang

  • N-doping of graphene through electrothermal reactions with ammonia.

    Xinran Wang;Xiaolin Li;Li Zhang;Youngki Yoon

  • Graphene-Wrapped Sulfur Particles as a Rechargeable Lithium–Sulfur Battery Cathode Material with High Capacity and Cycling Stability

    Hailiang Wang;Yuan Yang;Yongye Liang;Joshua Tucker Robinson

  • Mn3O4−Graphene Hybrid as a High-Capacity Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Hailiang Wang;Li-Feng Cui;Yuan Yang;Hernan Sanchez Casalongue

  • Ultrasmall Reduced Graphene Oxide with High Near-Infrared Absorbance for Photothermal Therapy

    Joshua T. Robinson;Scott M. Tabakman;Yongye Liang;Hailiang Wang

  • Ni(OH)2 Nanoplates Grown on Graphene as Advanced Electrochemical Pseudocapacitor Materials

    Hailiang Wang;Hernan Sanchez Casalongue;Yongye Liang;Hongjie Dai

  • Simultaneous Nitrogen Doping and Reduction of Graphene Oxide

    Xiaolin Li;Hailiang Wang;Joshua T. Robinson;Hernan Sanchez

  • Room-temperature all-semiconducting sub-10-nm graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors.

    Xinran Wang;Yijian Ouyang;Xiaolin Li;Hailiang Wang

  • An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube–graphene complexes

    Yanguang Li;Wu Zhou;Wu Zhou;Hailiang Wang;Liming Xie

  • Covalent hybrid of spinel manganese-cobalt oxide and graphene as advanced oxygen reduction electrocatalysts.

    Yongye Liang;Hailiang Wang;Jigang Zhou;Yanguang Li

  • Advanced zinc-air batteries based on high-performance hybrid electrocatalysts

    Yanguang Li;Ming Gong;Yongye Liang;Ju Feng

  • Domino electroreduction of CO 2 to methanol on a molecular catalyst

    Yueshen Wu;Zhan Jiang;Xu Lu;Yongye Liang

  • Solvothermal reduction of chemically exfoliated graphene sheets.

    Hailiang Wang;Joshua Tucker Robinson;Xiaolin Li;Hongjie Dai

  • Strongly coupled inorganic/nanocarbon hybrid materials for advanced electrocatalysis.

    Yongye Liang;Yanguang Li;Hailiang Wang;Hongjie Dai

  • Facile synthesis of high-quality graphene nanoribbons

    Liying Jiao;Xinran Wang;Georgi Diankov;Hailiang Wang

  • Strongly coupled inorganic–nano-carbon hybrid materials for energy storage

    Hailiang Wang;Hongjie Dai

  • Highly selective and active CO 2 reduction electrocatalysts based on cobalt phthalocyanine/carbon nanotube hybrid structures

    Xing Zhang;Zishan Wu;Xiao Zhang;Liewu Li

  • Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst Based on Strongly Coupled Cobalt Oxide Nanocrystals and Carbon Nanotubes

    Yongye Liang;Hailiang Wang;Peng Diao;Wesley Chang

  • MoS2 Nanoparticles Grown on Graphene: An Advanced Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Yanguang Li;Hailiang Wang;Liming Xie;Yongye Liang

  • Covalent Hybrid of Spinel Manganese-Cobalt Oxide and Gra-phene as Advanced Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

    Yongye Liang;Hailiang Wang;Jigang Zhou;Yanguang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong
Yongye Liang
Yongye Liang Southern University of Science and Technology
Yanguang Li
Yanguang Li Soochow University
Guosong Hong
Guosong Hong Stanford University
Gary W. Brudvig
Gary W. Brudvig Yale University
Xinran Wang
Xinran Wang Nanjing University
Xiaolin Li
Xiaolin Li Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jigang Zhou
Jigang Zhou Canadian Light Source (Canada)
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Judy J. Cha
Judy J. Cha Yale University

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