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Yang Ren is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their research topics focus strongly on areas related to battery and materials innovation, with significant emphasis on:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Shape Memory Alloy Transformations
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials

Ren's recent notable publications include:

  • "Compositionally complex doping for zero-strain zero-cobalt layered cathodes" (2022) published in Nature
  • "A high-energy and long-cycling lithium-sulfur pouch cell via a macroporous catalytic cathode with double-end binding sites" (2020) published in Nature Nanotechnology
  • "Hierarchical crack buffering triples ductility in eutectic herringbone high-entropy alloys" (2021) published in Science
  • "Origin of structural degradation in Li-rich layered oxide cathode" (2022) published in Nature
  • "Tuning the Kinetics of Zinc-Ion Insertion/Extraction in V2O5 by In Situ Polyaniline Intercalation Enables Improved Aqueous Zinc-Ion Storage Performance" (2020) published in Advanced Materials

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, SSRN Electronic Journal, Acta Materialia, Advanced Materials, and Materials Science and Engineering A.

In terms of collaborations, Yang Ren has worked extensively with several coauthors, including Yandong Wang, Jianrong Gao, Zhihua Nie, Ronghui Kou, and Dennis E. Brown.

Best Publications

  • Nanostructured high-energy cathode materials for advanced lithium batteries

    Yang Kook Sun;Zonghai Chen;Hyung Joo Noh;Dong Ju Lee

  • Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics

    Muhtar Ahart;Maddury Somayazulu;R. E. Cohen;P. Ganesh

  • Strong lithium polysulfide chemisorption on electroactive sites of nitrogen-doped carbon composites for high-performance lithium-sulfur battery cathodes.

    Jiangxuan Song;Mikhail L. Gordin;Terrence Xu;Shuru Chen

  • Approaching the capacity limit of lithium cobalt oxide in lithium ion batteries via lanthanum and aluminium doping

    Qi Liu;Qi Liu;Xin Su;Dan Lei;Yan Qin

  • Aqueous Li-ion battery enabled by halogen conversion–intercalation chemistry in graphite

    Chongyin Yang;Ji Chen;Xiao Ji;Travis P. Pollard

  • Preparation and application of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles for wastewater purification

    Y.F. Shen;Y.F. Shen;J. Tang;J. Tang;Z.H. Nie;Y.D. Wang

  • Efficient blue light-emitting diodes based on quantum-confined bromide perovskite nanostructures

    Yang Liu;Jieyuan Cui;Kai Du;He Tian

  • High-content ductile coherent nanoprecipitates achieve ultrastrong high-entropy alloys

    Yao-Jian Liang;Linjing Wang;Yuren Wen;Baoyuan Cheng

  • A high-energy and long-cycling lithium-sulfur pouch cell via a macroporous catalytic cathode with double-end binding sites.

    Chen Zhao;Chen Zhao;Gui-Liang Xu;Zhou Yu;Leicheng Zhang

  • Hierarchical crack buffering triples ductility in eutectic herringbone high-entropy alloys

    Peijian Shi;Runguang Li;Yi Li;Yuebo Wen

  • Ascorbic-acid-assisted recovery of cobalt and lithium from spent Li-ion batteries

    Li Li;Li Li;Jun Lu;Yang Ren;Xiao Xiao Zhang

  • Tuning the Kinetics of Zinc-Ion Insertion/Extraction in V2O5 by In Situ Polyaniline Intercalation Enables Improved Aqueous Zinc-Ion Storage Performance

    Sucheng Liu;He Zhu;Binghao Zhang;Gen Li

  • Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu 2 O particle photocatalyst for CO 2 reduction to methanol

    Yimin A. Wu;Yimin A. Wu;Ian McNulty;Cong Liu;Kah Chun Lau;Kah Chun Lau

  • Building ultraconformal protective layers on both secondary and primary particles of layered lithium transition metal oxide cathodes

    Guiliang Xu;Qiang Liu;Qiang Liu;Kenneth K.S. Lau;Yuzi Liu

  • Magnetic Field-Induced Phase Transformation in NiMnCoIn Magnetic Shape-Memory Alloys—A New Actuation Mechanism with Large Work Output

    Haluk E. Karaca;Haluk E. Karaca;Ibrahim Karaman;Burak Basaran;Yang Ren

  • Understanding Co roles towards developing Co-free Ni-rich cathodes for rechargeable batteries

    Tongchao Liu;Lei Yu;Jiajie Liu;Jun Lu

  • Burning lithium in CS 2 for high-performing compact Li 2 S–graphene nanocapsules for Li–S batteries

    Guoqiang Tan;Rui Xu;Zhenyu Xing;Yifei Yuan

  • Optimizing the coupled effects of Hall-Petch and precipitation strengthening in a Al0.3CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy

    B. Gwalani;Vishal Soni;Michael Lee;SA Mantri

  • (De)Lithiation Mechanism of Li/SeSx (x = 0–7) Batteries Determined by in Situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

    Yanjie Cui;Ali Abouimrane;Jun Lu;Trudy Bolin

  • Constraining CO coverage on copper promotes high-efficiency ethylene electroproduction

    Jun Li;Ziyun Wang;Christopher McCallum;Yi Xu

  • Temperature-induced magnetization reversal in a YVO3 single crystal

    Y Ren;Thomas Palstra;D.I Khomskii;E. Pellegrin

Frequent Co-Authors

Khalil Amine
Khalil Amine Argonne National Laboratory
Yandong Wang
Yandong Wang University of Science and Technology Beijing
Xianran Xing
Xianran Xing University of Science and Technology Beijing
Cheng-Jun Sun
Cheng-Jun Sun Argonne National Laboratory
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nankai University
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Valeri Petkov
Valeri Petkov Central Michigan University
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University
Yuzi Liu
Yuzi Liu Argonne National Laboratory
Gui-Liang Xu
Gui-Liang Xu Argonne National Laboratory

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