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Overview

Wenling Gu is affiliated with Central China Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to research in materials science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and engineering. Their work spans across several subfields, notably materials chemistry, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy and environmental sustainability, and electrochemistry.

Their research primarily focuses on advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, electrochemical sensors and biosensors, nanocluster synthesis and applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, electrochemical analysis and applications, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Boron-doped Fe-N-C single-atom nanozymes specifically boost peroxidase-like activity, 2020, Nano Today
  • Interface engineering for enhancing electrocatalytic oxygen evolution of NiFe LDH/NiTe heterostructures, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Tuning the spin state of Fe single atoms by Pd nanoclusters enables robust oxygen reduction with dissociative pathway, 2022, Chem
  • Densely Isolated FeN4 Sites for Peroxidase Mimicking, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Cascade Reaction System Integrating Single-Atom Nanozymes with Abundant Cu Sites for Enhanced Biosensing, 2020, Analytical Chemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wenling Gu include:

  • Chengzhou Zhu
  • Liuyong Hu
  • Weiqing Xu
  • Yu Wu
  • Lei Jiao

The scientist has published notably in the following venues:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Nano Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical

Best Publications

  • When Nanozymes Meet Single-Atom Catalysis.

    Lei Jiao;Hongye Yan;Yu Wu;Wenling Gu

  • Glucose Oxidase-Integrated Metal-Organic Framework Hybrids as Biomimetic Cascade Nanozymes for Ultrasensitive Glucose Biosensing.

    Weiqing Xu;Lei Jiao;Hongye Yan;Yu Wu

  • Boron-doped Fe-N-C single-atom nanozymes specifically boost peroxidase-like activity

    Lei Jiao;Weiqing Xu;Yu Zhang;Yu Wu

  • Interface engineering for enhancing electrocatalytic oxygen evolution of NiFe LDH/NiTe heterostructures

    Liuyong Hu;Xiong Zeng;Xiaoqian Wei;Hengjia Wang

  • Densely Isolated FeN4 Sites for Peroxidase Mimicking

    Lei Jiao;Jiabin Wu;Hong Zhong;Yu Zhang

  • Oxidase-Like Fe-N-C Single-Atom Nanozymes for the Detection of Acetylcholinesterase Activity.

    Yu Wu;Lei Jiao;Xin Luo;Weiqing Xu

  • Cascade Reaction System Integrating Single-Atom Nanozymes with Abundant Cu Sites for Enhanced Biosensing.

    Yu Wu;Jiabin Wu;Lei Jiao;Weiqing Xu

  • Single-Atom Iron Boosts Electrochemiluminescence.

    Wenling Gu;Hengjia Wang;Lei Jiao;Yu Wu

  • Nanozyme-involved biomimetic cascade catalysis for biomedical applications

    Xiaoli Cai;Lei Jiao;Hongye Yan;Yu Wu

  • Introducing Ratiometric Fluorescence to MnO2 Nanosheet-Based Biosensing: A Simple, Label-Free Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor Programmed by Cascade Logic Circuit for Ultrasensitive GSH Detection

    Daoqing Fan;Changshuai Shang;Wenling Gu;Erkang Wang

  • Single-atom catalysts boost signal amplification for biosensing.

    Lei Jiao;Weiqing Xu;Yu Wu;Hongye Yan

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks Enhance Biomimetic Cascade Catalysis for Biosensing.

    Weiqing Xu;Lei Jiao;Yu Wu;Liuyong Hu

  • Secondary-Atom-Doping Enables Robust Fe–N–C Single-Atom Catalysts with Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Xin Luo;Xiaoqian Wei;Hengjia Wang;Wenling Gu

  • Highly-defective Fe-N-C catalysts towards pH-Universal oxygen reduction reaction

    Xiaoqian Wei;Xin Luo;Hengjia Wang;Wenling Gu

  • Hierarchically Porous S/N Codoped Carbon Nanozymes with Enhanced Peroxidase-like Activity for Total Antioxidant Capacity Biosensing.

    Yifeng Chen;Lei Jiao;Hongye Yan;Weiqing Xu

  • Stabilized, superparamagnetic functionalized graphene/Fe3O4@Au nanocomposites for a magnetically-controlled solid-state electrochemiluminescence biosensing application.

    Wenling Gu;Xi Deng;Xiaoxiao Gu;Xiaofang Jia

  • Tuning Atomically Dispersed Fe Sites in Metal-Organic Frameworks Boosts Peroxidase-Like Activity for Sensitive Biosensing.

    Weiqing Xu;Yikun Kang;Lei Jiao;Yu Wu

  • Modulating interfacial electronic structure of CoNi LDH nanosheets with Ti3C2T MXene for enhancing water oxidation catalysis

    Liuyong Hu;Minyi Li;Xiaoqian Wei;Hengjia Wang

  • MXene-induced electronic optimization of metal-organic framework-derived CoFe LDH nanosheet arrays for efficient oxygen evolution

    Liuyong Hu;Runshi Xiao;Xia Wang;Xiaosi Wang

  • PdBi Single-Atom Alloy Aerogels for Efficient Ethanol Oxidation

    Hengjia Wang;Lei Jiao;Lirong Zheng;Qie Fang

  • Polydopamine-Capped Bimetallic AuPt Hydrogels Enable Robust Biosensor for Organophosphorus Pesticide Detection.

    Yu Wu;Lei Jiao;Weiqing Xu;Wenling Gu

  • Noble-metal-free Co3S4–S/G porous hybrids as an efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction

    Wenling Gu;Liuyong Hu;Wei Hong;Xiaofang Jia

Frequent Co-Authors

Chengzhou Zhu
Chengzhou Zhu Central China Normal University
Lei Jiao
Lei Jiao Tsinghua University
Erkang Wang
Erkang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dan Du
Dan Du Washington State University
Yuehe Lin
Yuehe Lin Washington State University
Lirong Zheng
Lirong Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Gu
Lin Gu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liang Huang
Liang Huang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Zhi Yuan Wang
Zhi Yuan Wang Carleton University
Shaojun Dong
Shaojun Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences

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