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Kuo-Wei Huang is a researcher affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their work spans multiple interrelated fields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry with significant contributions to materials chemistry and renewable energy sectors.

The main fields of study Huang is involved in include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Within these main fields, their research further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Catalysis

Huang's work covers various key topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

They have authored numerous papers with recent notable publications including:

  • Surface Modification of 2D Photocatalysts for Solar Energy Conversion, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Limitations of Ammonia as a Hydrogen Energy Carrier for the Transportation Sector, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon (C2+) products: challenges and perspectives, 2023, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Mixed-dimensional MXene-hydrogel heterostructures for electronic skin sensors with ultrabroad working range, 2020, Science Advances
  • Enabling storage and utilization of low-carbon electricity: power to formic acid, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science

Huang frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Priyanka Chakraborty
  • Théo P. Gonçalves
  • Indranil Dutta
  • Zhiping Lai
  • Chunhui Zhou

Their research contributions have been published extensively across multiple venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Advanced Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • Formic Acid as a Hydrogen Energy Carrier

    Jörg Eppinger;Kuo-Wei Huang

  • Ultralong cycle stability of aqueous zinc-ion batteries with zinc vanadium oxide cathodes.

    Lulu Wang;Kuo-Wei Huang;Jitao Chen;Junrong Zheng

  • Imaging defects and their evolution in a metal–organic framework at sub-unit-cell resolution

    Lingmei Liu;Zhijie Chen;Jianjian Wang;Jianjian Wang;Daliang Zhang

  • Crystalline 2D Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for High-Flux Organic Solvent Nanofiltration

    Digambar B Shinde;Guan Sheng;Xiang Li;Mayur Ostwal

  • N-annulated perylene as an efficient electron donor for porphyrin-based dyes: enhanced light-harvesting ability and high-efficiency Co(II/III)-based dye-sensitized solar cells.

    Jie Luo;Mingfei Xu;Renzhi Li;Kuo-Wei Huang

  • CoP nanosheet assembly grown on carbon cloth: A highly efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen generation

    Xiulin Yang;Ang-Yu Lu;Yihan Zhu;Mohamed Nejib Hedhili

  • Limitations of Ammonia as a Hydrogen Energy Carrier for the Transportation Sector

    Sudipta Chatterjee;Rajesh Kumar Parsapur;Kuo-Wei Huang

  • Kinetically blocked stable heptazethrene and octazethrene : closed-shell or open-shell in the ground state?

    Yuan Li;WeeKuan Heng;Byungsun Lee;Naoki Aratani

  • An Air‐Stable Copper Reagent for Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylthiolation of Aryl Halides

    Zhiqiang Weng;Weiming He;Chaohuang Chen;Richmond Lee

  • Stable tetrabenzo-Chichibabin's hydrocarbons: tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms.

    Zebing Zeng;Youngmo Sung;Nina Bao;Davin Tan

  • Mixed-dimensional MXene-hydrogel heterostructures for electronic skin sensors with ultrabroad working range

    Yichen Cai;Jie Shen;Chi-Wen Yang;Yi Wan

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Allenoates by Guanidine-Catalyzed Isomerization of 3-Alkynoates

    Hongjun Liu;Dasheng Leow;Kuo-Wei Huang;Choon-Hong Tan

  • Highly acid-durable carbon coated Co3O4 nanoarrays as efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

    Xiulin Yang;Henan Li;Ang-Yu Lu;Shixiong Min

  • Copper-mediated C-H activation/C-S cross-coupling of heterocycles with thiols

    Sadananda Ranjit;Richmond Lee;Dodi Heryadi;Chao Shen

  • Catalytic mechanisms of direct pyrrole synthesis via dehydrogenative coupling mediated by PNP-Ir or PNN-Ru pincer complexes: crucial role of proton-transfer shuttles in the PNP-Ir system

    Shuanglin Qu;Yanfeng Dang;Chunyu Song;Mingwei Wen

  • Strongly coupled CdS/graphene quantum dots nanohybrids for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution: unraveling the essential roles of graphene quantum dots

    Yonggang Lei;Cheng Yang;Jianhua Hou;Fang Wang

  • Enabling storage and utilization of low-carbon electricity: power to formic acid

    Sudipta Chatterjee;Indranil Dutta;Yanwei Lum;Zhiping Lai

  • Continuous electrical pumping membrane process for seawater lithium mining

    Zhen Li;Chunyang Li;Xiaowei Liu;Li Cao

  • High-Sulfur-Vacancy Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide as a High Current Electrocatalyst in Hydrogen Evolution.

    Ang-Yu Lu;Xiulin Yang;Chien-Chih Tseng;Shixiong Min

  • High-flux water desalination with interfacial salt sieving effect in nanoporous carbon composite membranes

    Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Shuyu Chen;Tengfei Liang;Tengfei Liang;Qiang Zhang

  • Dibenzoheptazethrene Isomers with Different Biradical Characters: An Exercise of Clar’s Aromatic Sextet Rule in Singlet Biradicaloids

    Zhe Sun;Sangsu Lee;Kyu Hyung Park;Xiaojian Zhu

  • Asymmetric Mannich reaction of fluorinated ketoesters with a tryptophan-derived bifunctional thiourea catalyst.

    Xiao Han;Jacek Kwiatkowski;Feng Xue;Kuo-Wei Huang

  • Soluble and stable heptazethrenebis(dicarboximide) with a singlet open-shell ground state.

    Zhe Sun;Kuo-Wei Huang;Jishan Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jishan Wu
Jishan Wu National University of Singapore
Zhiping Lai
Zhiping Lai King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Choon-Hong Tan
Choon-Hong Tan Nanyang Technological University
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Jingjing Chang
Jingjing Chang Xidian University
Zhiyong Jiang
Zhiyong Jiang Henan University
Lain-Jong Li
Lain-Jong Li National University of Singapore
Jun Ding
Jun Ding National University of Singapore
Pei-Yu Chiou
Pei-Yu Chiou University of California, Los Angeles
Yixin Lu
Yixin Lu National University of Singapore

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