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Ruquan Ye is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Energy, Materials Science, and Engineering. Within these broad areas, Ye concentrates on the subfields of Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Catalysis.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications, Covalent Organic Framework Applications, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Ruquan Ye has published research extensively, with notable papers including:

  • MnO2-Based Materials for Environmental Applications, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Strain Enhances the Activity of Molecular Electrocatalysts via Carbon Nanotube Supports, 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • Recent Progresses in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper-Based Catalysts toward Multicarbon Products, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Self-Reporting and Photothermally Enhanced Rapid Bacterial Killing on a Laser-Induced Graphene Mask, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Confined Growth of Silver-Copper Janus Nanostructures with {100} Facets for Highly Selective Tandem Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction, 2022, Advanced Materials

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ye include Ben Zhong Tang, Libei Huang, Yun Mi Song, Jianjun Su, and Weihua Guo.

The scholar's research appears regularly in prominent publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Nano
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Small

Best Publications

  • Laser-induced porous graphene films from commercial polymers

    Jian Lin;Zhiwei Peng;Yuanyue Liu;Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda

  • Laser-Induced Graphene by Multiple Lasing: Toward Electronics on Cloth, Paper, and Food

    Yieu Chyan;Ruquan Ye;Yilun Li;Swatantra Pratap Singh

  • Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots

    Ruquan Ye;Changsheng Xiang;Jian Lin;Zhiwei Peng

  • Laser-Induced Graphene: From Discovery to Translation.

    Ruquan Ye;Ruquan Ye;Dustin K. James;James M. Tour

  • Flexible Boron-Doped Laser-Induced Graphene Microsupercapacitors.

    Zhiwei Peng;Ruquan Ye;Jason A. Mann;Dante Zakhidov

  • Clusterization-triggered emission: Uncommon luminescence from common materials

    Haoke Zhang;Zheng Zhao;Paul R. McGonigal;Ruquan Ye

  • Laser-Induced Graphene Formation on Wood.

    Ruquan Ye;Yieu Chyan;Jibo Zhang;Yilun Li

  • High-Performance Pseudocapacitive Microsupercapacitors from Laser-Induced Graphene

    Lei Li;Jibo Zhang;Zhiwei Peng;Yilun Li

  • M3C (M: Fe, Co, Ni) Nanocrystals Encased in Graphene Nanoribbons: An Active and Stable Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions.

    Xiujun Fan;Zhiwei Peng;Ruquan Ye;Haiqing Zhou

  • Flexible and Stackable Laser-Induced Graphene Supercapacitors

    Zhiwei Peng;Jian Lin;Ruquan Ye;Errol L. G. Samuel

  • Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots/Graphene Hybrid Nanoplatelets as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

    Huilong Fei;Huilong Fei;Ruquan Ye;Ruquan Ye;Gonglan Ye;Gonglan Ye;Yongji Gong;Yongji Gong

  • MnO2 -Based Materials for Environmental Applications.

    Ruijie Yang;Yingying Fan;Ruquan Ye;Yuxin Tang

  • High-Performance Hydrogen Evolution from MoS2(1-x)P x Solid Solution

    Ruquan Ye;Paz Del Angel-Vicente;Yuanyue Liu;M. Josefina Arellano-Jimenez

  • In Situ Formation of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals Embedded in Laser-Induced Graphene

    Ruquan Ye;Zhiwei Peng;Tuo Wang;Yunong Xu

  • Laser-Induced Graphene

    Ruquan Ye;Dustin K. James;James M. Tour

  • Recent Progresses in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper-Based Catalysts toward Multicarbon Products

    Jinli Yu;Juan Wang;Yangbo Ma;Jingwen Zhou

  • Advanced electrolytes for high-performance aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

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  • Covalently Grafting Cobalt Porphyrin onto Carbon Nanotubes for Efficient CO 2 Electroreduction

    Minghui Zhu;Jiacheng Chen;Libei Huang;Ruquan Ye

  • Self-Reporting and Photothermally Enhanced Rapid Bacterial Killing on a Laser-Induced Graphene Mask.

    Libei Huang;Siyu Xu;Zhaoyu Wang;Ke Xue

  • Bandgap Engineering of Coal-Derived Graphene Quantum Dots

    Ruquan Ye;Zhiwei Peng;Andrew Metzger;Jian Lin

  • Synthesis, solvatochromism, aggregation-induced emission and cell imaging of tetraphenylethene-containing BODIPY derivatives with large Stokes shifts.

    Rongrong Hu;C. F. Azael Gomez-Duran;Jacky Wing Yip Lam;Jose L. Belmonte-Vazquez

  • In Situ Monitoring Apoptosis Process by a Self-Reporting Photosensitizer.

    Tianfu Zhang;Yuanyuan Li;Zheng Zheng;Ruquan Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Tour
James M. Tour Rice University
Ben Zhong Tang
Ben Zhong Tang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Zhiwei Peng
Zhiwei Peng City University of Hong Kong
Boris I. Yakobson
Boris I. Yakobson Rice University
Jacky Wing Yip Lam
Jacky Wing Yip Lam Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Huilong Fei
Huilong Fei Hunan University
Yuanyue Liu
Yuanyue Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Yang Yang
Yang Yang University of Central Florida
Ryan T. K. Kwok
Ryan T. K. Kwok Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zonglong Zhu
Zonglong Zhu City University of Hong Kong

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