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Overview

Yang Peng is affiliated with Soochow University in China and has established a research profile primarily within the fields of Engineering and Energy. Their work spans several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research focuses on advanced topics such as CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and advancements in battery materials. Additional areas of work include advanced battery materials and technologies, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and ionic liquids properties and applications.

Peng has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable publications appearing in frequent venues including SSRN Electronic Journal, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Small, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and the Chemical Engineering Journal. The productivity pattern indicates a strong engagement with journals at the intersection of materials science and energy research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peng include Zhao Deng, Zhihe Wei, Yuebin Lian, Yanhui Su, and Hao Sun, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts within this research network.

Representative recent publications by Yang Peng include:

  • Topotactically Transformed Polygonal Mesopores on Ternary Layered Double Hydroxides Exposing Under-Coordinated Metal Centers for Accelerated Water Dissociation, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Geometric Modulation of Local CO Flux in Ag@Cu2O Nanoreactors for Steering the CO2RR Pathway toward High-Efficacy Methane Production, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Atomic Ir-doped NiCo layered double hydroxide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for highly efficient and durable water splitting, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Breaking the Linear Scaling Relationship by Compositional and Structural Crafting of Ternary Cu-Au/Ag Nanoframes for Electrocatalytic Ethylene Production, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to alcohols by modulating the molecular geometry and Cu coordination in bicentric copper complexes, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Methane Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Current Records, Surprise Findings, and Challenges

    Yang Peng;Vaiva Krungleviciute;Vaiva Krungleviciute;Ibrahim Eryazici;Joseph T. Hupp

  • High-performance lithium sulfur batteries enabled by a synergy between sulfur and carbon nanotubes

    Amir Abdul Razzaq;Yuanzhou Yao;Rahim Shah;Pengwei Qi

  • Unpaired 3d Electrons on Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Centres in Coordination Polymers Regulate both Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) Activity and Selectivity for Use in Zinc–Air Batteries

    Yuebin Lian;Wenjuan Yang;Chufeng Zhang;Hao Sun

  • Morphological and Electronic Tuning of Ni 2 P through Iron Doping toward Highly Efficient Water Splitting

    Hao Sun;Yuxiang Min;Wenjuan Yang;Yuebin Lian

  • A hierarchical nickel–carbon structure templated by metal–organic frameworks for efficient overall water splitting

    Hao Sun;Yuebin Lian;Cheng Yang;Likun Xiong

  • Carved nanoframes of cobalt–iron bimetal phosphide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient overall water splitting

    Yuebin Lian;Hao Sun;Xuebin Wang;Pengwei Qi

  • Topotactically Transformed Polygonal Mesopores on Ternary Layered Double Hydroxides Exposing Under-Coordinated Metal Centers for Accelerated Water Dissociation.

    Hao Sun;Ling Chen;Yuebin Lian;Wenjuan Yang

  • Reaction of hydrogen or ammonia with unsaturated germanium or tin molecules under ambient conditions: oxidative addition versus arene elimination.

    Yang Peng;Jing-Dong Guo;Bobby D. Ellis;Zhongliang Zhu

  • Diarylstannylene Activation of Hydrogen or Ammonia with Arene Elimination

    Yang Peng;Bobby D. Ellis;Xinping Wang;Philip P. Power

  • Selective reduction of CO2 by conductive MOF nanosheets as an efficient co-catalyst under visible light illumination

    Wei Zhu;Chufeng Zhang;Qin Li;Likun Xiong

  • Electrostatic charge transfer for boosting the photocatalytic CO2 reduction on metal centers of 2D MOF/rGO heterostructure

    Qiaoqiao Mu;Wei Zhu;Xian Li;Chufeng Zhang

  • Geometric Modulation of Local CO Flux in Ag@Cu 2 O Nanoreactors for Steering the CO 2 RR Pathway toward High‐Efficacy Methane Production

    Likun Xiong;Likun Xiong;Xiang Zhang;Ling Chen;Zhao Deng

  • Reversible Reactions of Ethylene with Distannynes Under Ambient Conditions

    Yang Peng;Bobby D. Ellis;Xinping Wang;James C. Fettinger

  • Synthesis and photocatalytic property of SnO2/TiO2 nanotubes composites.

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  • Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to alcohols by modulating the molecular geometry and Cu coordination in bicentric copper complexes

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  • Atomic Ir-doped NiCo layered double hydroxide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for highly efficient and durable water splitting

    Ronglei Fan;Qiaoqiao Mu;Zhihe Wei;Yang Peng

  • Simultaneously high gravimetric and volumetric methane uptake characteristics of the metal-organic framework NU-111

    Yang Peng;Yang Peng;Gadipelli Srinivas;Gadipelli Srinivas;Christopher E. Wilmer;Ibrahim Eryazici

  • Breaking the Linear Scaling Relationship by Compositional and Structural Crafting of Ternary Cu–Au/Ag Nanoframes for Electrocatalytic Ethylene Production

    Likun Xiong;Xiang Zhang;Hao Yuan;Juan Wang

  • Octahedral gold-silver nanoframes with rich crystalline defects for efficient methanol oxidation manifesting a CO-promoting effect

    Likun Xiong;Zhongti Sun;Xiang Zhang;Liang Zhao

  • Addition of Hydrogen or Ammonia to a Low‐Valent Group 13 Metal Species at 25 °C and 1 Atmosphere

    Zhongliang Zhu;Xinping Wang;Yang Peng;Hao Lei

  • Addition of H2 to distannynes under ambient conditions

    Yang Peng;Marcin Brynda;Bobby D. Ellis;James C. Fettinger

  • Carborane-based metal-organic framework with high methane and hydrogen storage capacities

    Robert D. Kennedy;Vaiva Krungleviciute;Vaiva Krungleviciute;Daniel J. Clingerman;Joseph E. Mondloch

  • Phase and Morphology Transformation of MnO2 Induced by Ionic Liquids toward Efficient Water Oxidation

    Gangbin Yan;Yuebin Lian;Yindong Gu;Cheng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip P. Power
Philip P. Power University of California, Davis
James C. Fettinger
James C. Fettinger University of California, Davis
Zhongfan Liu
Zhongfan Liu Peking University
Jun Guo
Jun Guo Peking University
Taner Yildirim
Taner Yildirim National Institute of Standards and Technology
Joseph T. Hupp
Joseph T. Hupp Northwestern University
Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha Northwestern University
Mark H. Rümmeli
Mark H. Rümmeli Soochow University
Peter Y. Zavalij
Peter Y. Zavalij University of Maryland, College Park
Jou-Hyeon Ahn
Jou-Hyeon Ahn Gyeongsang National University

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