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Yang Shao-Horn

Yang Shao-Horn

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2025
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Chemistry
USA
2026

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Best Female Scientists

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138
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83154
World Ranking
256
National Ranking
162

Materials Science

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144
Citations
90695
World Ranking
197
National Ranking
83

Chemistry

D-Index
143
Citations
91255
World Ranking
176
National Ranking
83

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to design principles for catalytic activity for oxygen electrocatalysis for electrochemical energy storage for clean energy.
  • 2018 - Faraday Medal, Electrochemistry Group, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yang Shao-Horn is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a significant body of research focused primarily on engineering and materials science. Their work spans several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, automotive engineering, and catalysis.

The main topics explored in Yang Shao-Horn's research include:

  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Yang Shao-Horn has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Energy & Environmental Science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Yang Shao-Horn are:

  • "Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Ultra-high-voltage Ni-rich layered cathodes in practical Li metal batteries enabled by a sulfonamide-based electrolyte," 2021, Nature Energy
  • "Moving beyond 99.9% Coulombic efficiency for lithium anodes in liquid electrolytes," 2021, Nature Energy
  • "The passivity of lithium electrodes in liquid electrolytes for secondary batteries," 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces," 2020, Nature Catalysis

Yang Shao-Horn collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors including:

  • Livia Giordano
  • Yirui Zhang
  • Jiayu Peng
  • Jeffrey C. Grossman
  • Graham Leverick

Throughout their career, Yang Shao-Horn has received several recognitions and honors. These include:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2020)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2018) for contributions to design principles for catalytic activity for oxygen electrocatalysis for electrochemical energy storage for clean energy
  • Faraday Medal, Electrochemistry Group, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2014)

Best Publications

  • A perovskite oxide optimized for oxygen evolution catalysis from molecular orbital principles.

    Jin Suntivich;Kevin J. May;Hubert A. Gasteiger;John B. Goodenough

  • Synthesis and Activities of Rutile IrO2 and RuO2 Nanoparticles for Oxygen Evolution in Acid and Alkaline Solutions

    Youngmin Lee;Jin Suntivich;Kevin J. May;Erin E. Perry

  • Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries

    Jin Suntivich;Hubert A. Gasteiger;Hubert A. Gasteiger;Naoaki Yabuuchi;Haruyuki Nakanishi

  • Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Mechanisms and Properties Governing Ion Conduction

    John Christopher Bachman;Sokseiha Muy;Alexis Grimaud;Hao-Hsun Chang

  • Conductive MOF electrodes for stable supercapacitors with high areal capacitance

    Dennis Sheberla;John Christopher Bachman;Joseph S. Elias;Cheng-Jun Sun

  • Activating lattice oxygen redox reactions in metal oxides to catalyse oxygen evolution

    Alexis Grimaud;Oscar Diaz-Morales;Binghong Han;Wesley T. Hong

  • Toward the rational design of non-precious transition metal oxides for oxygen electrocatalysis

    Wesley T. Hong;Marcel Risch;Kelsey Stoerzinger;Alexis Jules Louis Grimaud

  • Hydrogen Oxidation and Evolution Reaction Kinetics on Platinum: Acid vs Alkaline Electrolytes

    Wenchao Sheng;Hubert A. Gasteiger;Yang Shao-Horn

  • Perovskites in catalysis and electrocatalysis

    Jonathan Hwang;Reshma R. Rao;Livia Giordano;Livia Giordano;Yu Katayama;Yu Katayama

  • Double perovskites as a family of highly active catalysts for oxygen evolution in alkaline solution.

    Alexis Grimaud;Kevin J. May;Christopher E. Carlton;Yueh-Lin Lee

  • Platinum−Gold Nanoparticles: A Highly Active Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Lithium−Air Batteries

    Yi-Chun Lu;Zhichuan Xu;Hubert A. Gasteiger;Shuo Chen

  • Instability of Pt ∕ C Electrocatalysts in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells A Mechanistic Investigation

    P. J. Ferreira;Y. Shao-Horn;D. Morgan

  • High-power lithium batteries from functionalized carbon-nanotube electrodes

    Seung Woo Lee;Naoaki Yabuuchi;Betar M. Gallant;Shuo Chen

  • Recommended Practices and Benchmark Activity for Hydrogen and Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Water Splitting and Fuel Cells.

    Chao Wei;Reshma R. Rao;Jiayu Peng;Botao Huang

  • Instability of Supported Platinum Nanoparticles in Low-Temperature Fuel Cells

    Y. Shao-Horn;W. C. Sheng;S. Chen;Paulo J Ferreira

  • Electrode–Electrolyte Interface in Li-Ion Batteries: Current Understanding and New Insights

    Magali Gauthier;Thomas J. Carney;Alexis Grimaud;Livia Giordano

  • Lithium–oxygen batteries: bridging mechanistic understanding and battery performance

    Yi-Chun Lu;Betar M. Gallant;David G. Kwabi;Jonathon R. Harding

  • Carbon nanotube/manganese oxide ultrathin film electrodes for electrochemical capacitors.

    Seung Woo Lee;Junhyung Kim;Shuo Chen;Paula T. Hammond

  • Anionic redox processes for electrochemical devices.

    Alexis Grimaud;W. Hong;Y. Shao-Horn;J.-M. Tarascon

  • Layer-by-layer assembly of all carbon nanotube ultrathin films for electrochemical applications.

    Seung Woo Lee;Byeong Su Kim;Shuo Chen;Yang Shao-Horn

  • Instability of Pt/C Electrocatalysts in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: A Mechanistic Investigation

    Yang Shao-Horn;Paulo Ferreira

  • High-Power Lithium Batteries from Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Electrodes

    Seung Woo Lee;Naoaki Yabuuchi;Betar Gallant;Paula Hammond

Frequent Co-Authors

Livia Giordano
Livia Giordano University of Milano-Bicocca
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger Oregon State University
Yi-Chun Lu
Yi-Chun Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Michael D. Biegalski
Michael D. Biegalski Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dane Morgan
Dane Morgan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hubert A. Gasteiger
Hubert A. Gasteiger Technical University of Munich
Hans M. Christen
Hans M. Christen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Seung Woo Lee
Seung Woo Lee Korea University
Naoaki Yabuuchi
Naoaki Yabuuchi Yokohama National University

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