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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For extraordinary contributions in organic and hybrid electronic materials, interfacial engineering, and novel device design that have led to highly efficient organic and hybrid solar cells, digital memory devices, vertical transistors, and organic LEDs
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For extraordinary contributions to organic electronic materials, interface processing, and novel devices, which have led to highly efficient solar cells, digital memory devices, and organic displays.  

Overview

Yang Yang is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focused on engineering, materials science, and energy. Within these broad domains, their specific subfields of study include electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and catalysis.

The main topics of their research reflect a concentration on energy conversion and advanced materials, with notable emphasis on electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies, and advanced photocatalysis techniques. Their work also encompasses advancements in battery materials, catalytic processes in materials science, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, and technological developments in battery materials and technologies.

Yang Yang has contributed numerous publications across various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Small

Their recent papers include:

  • Recent advances in application of graphitic carbon nitride-based catalysts for degrading organic contaminants in water through advanced oxidation processes beyond photocatalysis: A critical review (2020, Water Research)
  • Molecular engineering of polymeric carbon nitride for highly efficient photocatalytic oxytetracycline degradation and H2O2 production (2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental)

Yang Yang has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jinfa Chang
  • Donggang Guo
  • Lu Liu
  • Xiaodong Zhang
  • Guanzhi Wang

Their contributions to scientific knowledge have been recognized with fellowship honors. They were named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2015, noted for contributions to organic electronic materials, interface processing, and novel devices such as solar cells, digital memory devices, and organic displays. The same year, they were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for significant work in organic and hybrid electronic materials, interfacial engineering, and device design covering organic and hybrid solar cells, digital memory devices, vertical transistors, and organic LEDs.

Best Publications

  • Edge-oriented MoS2 nanoporous films as flexible electrodes for hydrogen evolution reactions and supercapacitor devices.

    Yang Yang;Huilong Fei;Gedeng Ruan;Changsheng Xiang

  • High-Performance Pseudocapacitive Microsupercapacitors from Laser-Induced Graphene

    Lei Li;Jibo Zhang;Zhiwei Peng;Yilun Li

  • Porous Cobalt‐Based Thin Film as a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydrogen Generation and Oxygen Generation

    Yang Yang;Huilong Fei;Gedeng Ruan;James M. Tour

  • Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution on Amorphous Nickel–Cobalt Binary Oxide Nanoporous Layers

    Yang Yang;Huilong Fei;Gedeng Ruan;Changsheng Xiang

  • Designing CO2 reduction electrode materials by morphology and interface engineering

    Fuping Pan;Yang Yang

  • MoS2/TiO2 heterostructures as nonmetal plasmonic photocatalysts for highly efficient hydrogen evolution

    Limin Guo;Zhenzhong Yang;Kyle Marcus;Zhao Li

  • Dual-Doping and Synergism toward High-Performance Seawater Electrolysis.

    Jinfa Chang;Guanzhi Wang;Zhenzhong Yang;Boyang Li

  • Stable, high-performance, dendrite-free, seawater-based aqueous batteries.

    Huajun Tian;Zhao Li;Guangxia Feng;Zhenzhong Yang

  • Three-dimensional Zn-based alloys for dendrite-free aqueous Zn battery in dual-cation electrolytes

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  • Vertically aligned mixed V2O5-TiO2 nanotube arrays for supercapacitor applications

    Yang Yang;Doohun Kim;Min Yang;Patrik Schmuki

  • Improving Pd–N–C fuel cell electrocatalysts through fluorination-driven rearrangements of local coordination environment

    Jinfa Chang;Guanzhi Wang;Maoyu Wang;Qi Wang

  • Enhancing Electron Transfer and Electrocatalytic Activity on Crystalline Carbon-Conjugated g-C3N4

    Wenhan Niu;Kyle Marcus;Le Zhou;Zhao Li

  • Nanocomposite of Polyaniline Nanorods Grown on Graphene Nanoribbons for Highly Capacitive Pseudocapacitors

    Lei Li;Abdul-Rahman O. Raji;Huilong Fei;Yang Yang

  • S-Doped MoP Nanoporous Layer Toward High-Efficiency Hydrogen Evolution in pH-Universal Electrolyte

    Kun Liang;Srimanta Pakhira;Zhenzhong Yang;A. Nijamudheen

  • Cobalt nanoparticles embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for the hydrogen evolution reaction.

    Huilong Fei;Yang Yang;Zhiwei Peng;Gedeng Ruan

  • Surface-Modified Porous Carbon Nitride Composites as Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Zn-Air Batteries

    Wenhan Niu;Zhao Li;Kyle Marcus;Le Zhou

  • Apically Dominant Mechanism for Improving Catalytic Activities of N-Doped Carbon Nanotube Arrays in Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery

    Wenhan Niu;Srimanta Pakhira;Kyle Marcus;Zhao Li

  • Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage

    Wenhan Niu;Yang Yang

  • Interface synergism and engineering of Pd/Co@N-C for direct ethanol fuel cells

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  • Three-dimensional nanoporous Fe2O3/Fe3C-graphene heterogeneous thin films for lithium-ion batteries

    Yang Yang;Xiujun Fan;Xiujun Fan;Gilberto Casillas;Zhiwei Peng

  • Hydrothermally Formed Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Ni(OH)2 Thin-Film Supercapacitors

    Yang Yang;Lei Li;Gedeng Ruan;Huilong Fei

  • Enhanced Cycling Stability of Lithium‐Ion Batteries Using Graphene‐Wrapped Fe3O4‐Graphene Nanoribbons as Anode Materials

    Lei Li;Anton Kovalchuk;Huilong Fei;Zhiwei Peng

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Tour
James M. Tour Rice University
Xiaohui Wang
Xiaohui Wang Tsinghua University
Huilong Fei
Huilong Fei Hunan University
Longtu Li
Longtu Li Tsinghua University
Yingge Du
Yingge Du Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Zhenzhong Yang
Zhenzhong Yang Tsinghua University
Patrik Schmuki
Patrik Schmuki University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Zhiwei Peng
Zhiwei Peng City University of Hong Kong
Gunuk Wang
Gunuk Wang Korea University
Yongho Sohn
Yongho Sohn University of Central Florida

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