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Yang-Gang Wang is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Energy, with significant contributions in subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The core topics explored in their work include electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced photocatalysis techniques, nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, electrochemical analysis and applications, and ionic liquids properties and applications.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yang-Gang Wang include:

  • Molecular engineering of dispersed nickel phthalocyanines on carbon nanotubes for selective CO2 reduction (2020) - Nature Energy
  • Supported Metal Clusters: Fabrication and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis (2020) - ACS Catalysis
  • Fully exposed palladium cluster catalysts enable hydrogen production from nitrogen heterocycles (2022) - Nature Catalysis
  • Engineering of Coordination Environment and Multiscale Structure in Single-Site Copper Catalyst for Superior Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction (2020) - Nano Letters
  • Crystalline Lattice-Confined Atomic Pt in Metal Carbides to Match Electronic Structures and Hydrogen Evolution Behaviors of Platinum (2022) - Advanced Materials

The frequent co-authors who collaborate with Wang include Jun Li, Guang-Jie Xia, Hao Cao, Zhen Yao, and Zisheng Zhang.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, notably ACS Catalysis, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, and Nano Research. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their investigations covering catalysis and nanomaterial science in energy-related applications.

Best Publications

  • Isolated Single Iron Atoms Anchored on N-Doped Porous Carbon as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Yuanjun Chen;Shufang Ji;Yanggang Wang;Juncai Dong

  • Hollow N-Doped Carbon Spheres with Isolated Cobalt Single Atomic Sites: Superior Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction.

    Yunhu Han;Yang-Gang Wang;Wenxing Chen;Ruirui Xu

  • Heterogeneous Fe 3 single-cluster catalyst for ammonia synthesis via an associative mechanism

    Jin-Cheng Liu;Xue-Lu Ma;Yong Li;Yang-Gang Wang

  • Molecular engineering of dispersed nickel phthalocyanines on carbon nanotubes for selective CO2 reduction

    Xiao Zhang;Xiao Zhang;Yang Wang;Meng Gu;Maoyu Wang

  • Dynamic formation of single-atom catalytic active sites on ceria-supported gold nanoparticles

    Yanggang Wang;Donghai Mei;Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou;Jun Li

  • Supported Metal Clusters: Fabrication and Application in Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Chunyang Dong;Yinlong Li;Danyang Cheng;Mengtao Zhang

  • Electronic structure engineering to boost oxygen reduction activity by controlling the coordination of the central metal

    Yunhu Han;Yanggang Wang;Ruirui Xu;Wenxing Chen

  • Toward Rational Design of Oxide-Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: Atomic Dispersion of Gold on Ceria

    Jin-Cheng Liu;Yang-Gang Wang;Jun Li

  • Highly Efficient Catalysis of Preferential Oxidation of CO in H2-Rich Stream by Gold Single-Atom Catalysts

    Botao Qiao;Botao Qiao;Jiaxin Liu;Yang Gang Wang;Qingquan Lin

  • The role of reducible oxide-metal cluster charge transfer in catalytic processes: new insights on the catalytic mechanism of CO oxidation on Au/TiO2 from ab initio molecular dynamics.

    Yanggang Wang;Yeohoon Yoon;Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou;Jun Li;Jun Li

  • Metal (Hydr)oxides@Polymer Core-Shell Strategy to Metal Single-Atom Materials.

    Maolin Zhang;Yang-Gang Wang;Wenxing Chen;Juncai Dong

  • Theoretical understanding of the stability of single-atom catalysts

    Jin-Cheng Liu;Yan Tang;Yang-Gang Wang;Yang-Gang Wang;Tao Zhang

  • Size-dependent dynamic structures of supported gold nanoparticles in CO oxidation reaction condition

    Yang He;Jin-Cheng Liu;Langli Luo;Yang-Gang Wang

  • Engineering of Coordination Environment and Multiscale Structure in Single-Site Copper Catalyst for Superior Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

    Tingting Sun;Tingting Sun;Yinlong Li;Tingting Cui;Lianbin Xu

  • CO Oxidation on Au/TiO2: Condition-Dependent Active Sites and Mechanistic Pathways

    Yang Gang Wang;David C. Cantu;Mal Soon Lee;Jun Li

  • Shape control of CdSe nanocrystals with zinc blende structure.

    Liping Liu;Zhongbin Zhuang;Ting Xie;Yang-Gang Wang

  • Highly active and stable Rh/MgOAl2O3 catalysts for methane steam reforming

    Y. Wang;Y.H. Chin;R.T. Rozmiarek;B.R. Johnson

  • Theoretical Investigations of Pt1@CeO2 Single-Atom Catalyst for CO Oxidation

    Yan Tang;Yang-Gang Wang;Jun Li

  • N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Single-Site Catalyst for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation

    Jing Wang;Rui You;Chao Zhao;Wei Zhang

  • Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures.

    Xueqin Wei;Xueqin Wei;Junjun Liu;Guang-Jie Xia;Junhong Deng

  • Probing equilibrium of molecular and deprotonated water on TiO2(110)

    Zhi Tao Wang;Yang Gang Wang;Rentao Mu;Yeohoon Yoon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Li
Jun Li National University of Singapore
Roger Rousseau
Roger Rousseau Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dingsheng Wang
Dingsheng Wang Tsinghua University
Jun Li
Jun Li Tsinghua University
Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou
Vassiliki Alexandra Glezakou Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yadong Li
Yadong Li Tsinghua University
Wenxing Chen
Wenxing Chen Beijing Institute of Technology
Lirong Zheng
Lirong Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Meng Gu
Meng Gu Southern University of Science and Technology
Zhongbin Zhuang
Zhongbin Zhuang Beijing University of Chemical Technology

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