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Hongbin Yang is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on energy and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, plant science, materials chemistry, and catalysis.

The main topics of Hongbin Yang's work include electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, catalytic processes in materials science, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced battery technologies research, fuel cells and related materials, and carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis.

Hongbin Yang has published numerous research papers, including:

  • Atomically dispersed antimony on carbon nitride for the artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide (2021, Nature Catalysis)
  • Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Coordination Engineering of Single-Atom Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: A Review (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Identification of the Electronic and Structural Dynamics of Catalytic Centers in Single-Fe-Atom Material (2020, Chem)
  • Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Trifunctional Electrocatalysts with Tailored Coordination Environment for Flexible Rechargeable Zn-Air Battery and Self-Driven Water Splitting (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)

Frequent co-authors contributing to their scientific output include Bin Liu, Jincheng Zhang, Jie Ding, Weizheng Cai, and Yanqiang Huang.

Yang's work has been published extensively in various scientific venues, notably:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (6 publications)
  • Nano Letters (5 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (5 publications)
  • Advanced Energy Materials (3 publications)
  • Food Chemistry X (3 publications)

The combination of fields and topics covered by Hongbin Yang highlights a focus on the development and analysis of catalytic materials and processes aimed at energy conversion and sustainability. Their work actively spans from fundamental material chemistry and catalysis to application-oriented research in batteries, fuel cells, and carbon dioxide reduction.

Best Publications

  • Carbon-Based Dots Co-doped with Nitrogen and Sulfur for High Quantum Yield and Excitation-Independent Emission†

    Yongqiang Dong;Hongchang Pang;Hong Bin Yang;Chunxian Guo

  • Atomically dispersed Ni(i) as the active site for electrochemical CO2 reduction

    Hong Bin Yang;Hong Bin Yang;Sung Fu Hung;Song Liu;Song Liu;Kaidi Yuan

  • Single Cobalt Atoms Anchored on Porous N-Doped Graphene with Dual Reaction Sites for Efficient Fenton-like Catalysis

    Xuning Li;Xiang Huang;Shibo Xi;Shu Miao

  • Identification of catalytic sites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in N-doped graphene materials: Development of highly efficient metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst

    Hong Bin Yang;Jianwei Miao;Sung Fu Hung;Jiazang Chen

  • Atomically dispersed antimony on carbon nitride for the artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide

    Zhenyuan Teng;Qitao Zhang;Hongbin Yang;Kosaku Kato

  • Layered graphene/quantum dots for photovoltaic devices.

    Chun Xian Guo;Hong Bin Yang;Zhao Min Sheng;Zhi Song Lu

  • Carbon nanotube catalysts: recent advances in synthesis, characterization and applications.

    Yibo Yan;Jianwei Miao;Zhihong Yang;Fang-Xing Xiao

  • One-step and high yield simultaneous preparation of single- and multi-layer graphene quantum dots from CX-72 carbon black

    Yongqiang Dong;Congqiang Chen;Xin Ting Zheng;Xin Ting Zheng;Lili Gao

  • Enabling Direct H2O2 Production in Acidic Media through Rational Design of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalyst

    Jiajian Gao;Hong bin Yang;Xiang Huang;Sung Fu Hung

  • Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting

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  • Layered Structure Causes Bulk NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide Unstable in Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Rong Chen;Sung-Fu Hung;Daojin Zhou;Jiajian Gao

  • Orbital coupling of hetero-diatomic nickel-iron site for bifunctional electrocatalysis of CO2 reduction and oxygen evolution

    Zhiping Zeng;Zhiping Zeng;Li Yong Gan;Hong Bin Yang;Xiaozhi Su

  • NiFe Hydroxide Lattice Tensile Strain: Enhancement of Adsorption of Oxygenated Intermediates for Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis

    Daojin Zhou;Daojin Zhou;Shiyuan Wang;Yin Jia;Xuya Xiong

  • Identification of Surface Reactivity Descriptor for Transition Metal Oxides in Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Hua Bing Tao;Liwen Fang;Jiazang Chen;Hong Bin Yang

  • Elucidating the Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction Reaction over a Model Single-Atom Nickel Catalyst

    Song Liu;Song Liu;Song Liu;Hong Bin Yang;Sung Fu Hung;Jie Ding

  • Hierarchical Ni-Mo-S nanosheets on carbon fiber cloth: A flexible electrode for efficient hydrogen generation in neutral electrolyte.

    Jianwei Miao;Fang-Xing Xiao;Hong Bin Yang;Si Yun Khoo

  • Coordination Engineering of Single‐Atom Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: A Review

    Jincheng Zhang;Hongbin Yang;Bin Liu

  • Coordination engineering of iridium nanocluster bifunctional electrocatalyst for highly efficient and pH-universal overall water splitting

    Qilun Wang;Cong Qiao Xu;Wei Liu;Sung Fu Hung

  • Identification of the Electronic and Structural Dynamics of Catalytic Centers in Single-Fe-Atom Material

    Xuning Li;Xuning Li;Chang Su Cao;Sung Fu Hung;Ying Rui Lu

  • CeO2 nanoparticles/graphene nanocomposite-based high performance supercapacitor

    Yi Wang;Chun Xian Guo;Chun Xian Guo;Jiehua Liu;Tao Chen

  • Selective photoelectrochemical oxidation of glycerol to high value-added dihydroxyacetone

    Dong Liu;Jin-Cheng Liu;Weizheng Cai;Jun Ma

  • Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Trifunctional Electrocatalysts with Tailored Coordination Environment for Flexible Rechargeable Zn–Air Battery and Self-Driven Water Splitting

    Zheye Zhang;Xiaoxu Zhao;Shibo Xi;Lili Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Chang Ming Li
Chang Ming Li Suzhou University of Science and Technology
Bin Liu
Bin Liu National University of Singapore
Chun Xian Guo
Chun Xian Guo Suzhou University of Science and Technology
Yanqiang Huang
Yanqiang Huang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Hao Ming Chen
Hao Ming Chen National Taiwan University
Fang-Xing Xiao
Fang-Xing Xiao Fuzhou University
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhisong Lu
Zhisong Lu Southwest University
Shibo Xi
Shibo Xi Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Mary B. Chan-Park
Mary B. Chan-Park Nanyang Technological University

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