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Yang Yang is affiliated with Hunan University in China and focuses their research on materials science, environmental science, and energy. Their work broadly addresses challenges related to advanced photocatalysis techniques, microplastics and plastic pollution, and recycling and waste management techniques. Further areas of interest include quantum dots synthesis and properties, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, and perovskite materials and applications.

Yang Yang has contributed to multiple recent research publications that span important environmental and materials chemistry topics. These include:

  • Complete Photocatalytic Mineralization of Microplastic on TiO2 Nanoparticle Film (2020, iScience)
  • Biofilm on microplastics in aqueous environment: Physicochemical properties and environmental implications (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Recent advances in photocatalytic degradation of plastics and plastic-derived chemicals (2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A)
  • From trash to treasure: Chemical recycling and upcycling of commodity plastic waste to fuels, high-valued chemicals and advanced materials (2022, Journal of Energy Chemistry)
  • Kinetics of microplastic generation from different types of mulch films in agricultural soil (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)

Their research has appeared frequently in specific academic journals such as:

  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Yang Yang often collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Liwu Zhang
  • Jianbing Zhang
  • Jiang Tang
  • Kejian Li
  • Sugang Meng

Their expertise spans key subfields such as materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, pollution, electrical and electronic engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their research clusters around advanced photocatalysis, plastic pollution, and waste management technologies contribute to interdisciplinary environmental solutions.

Best Publications

  • Construction of iodine vacancy-rich BiOI/Ag@AgI Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalysts for visible-light-driven tetracycline degradation: Transformation pathways and mechanism insight

    Yang Yang;Zhuotong Zeng;Chen Zhang;Danlian Huang

  • Boron nitride quantum dots decorated ultrathin porous g-C3N4: Intensified exciton dissociation and charge transfer for promoting visible-light-driven molecular oxygen activation

    Yang Yang;Chen Zhang;Danlian Huang;Guangming Zeng

  • Ti3C2 Mxene/porous g-C3N4 interfacial Schottky junction for boosting spatial charge separation in photocatalytic H2O2 production

    Yang Yang;Zhuotong Zeng;Guangming Zeng;Danlian Huang

  • Facile assembled biochar-based nanocomposite with improved graphitization for efficient photocatalytic activity driven by visible light

    Shujing Ye;Min Yan;Xiaofei Tan;Jie Liang

  • 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.

    Yang Yang;Xin Li;Chengyun Zhou;Weiping Xiong

  • BiOX (X = Cl, Br, I) photocatalytic nanomaterials: Applications for fuels and environmental management.

    Yang Yang;Chen Zhang;Cui Lai;Guangming Zeng

  • Sulfur doped carbon quantum dots loaded hollow tubular g-C3N4 as novel photocatalyst for destruction of Escherichia coli and tetracycline degradation under visible light

    Wenjun Wang;Zhuotong Zeng;Guangming Zeng;Chen Zhang

  • 1D porous tubular g-C3N4 capture black phosphorus quantum dots as 1D/0D metal-free photocatalysts for oxytetracycline hydrochloride degradation and hexavalent chromium reduction

    Wenjun Wang;Qiuya Niu;Guangming Zeng;Chen Zhang

  • Semiconductor/boron nitride composites: Synthesis, properties, and photocatalysis applications

    Chengyun Zhou;Cui Lai;Chen Zhang;Guangming Zeng

  • Molecular engineering of polymeric carbon nitride for highly efficient photocatalytic oxytetracycline degradation and H2O2 production

    Yang Yang;Guangming Zeng;Danlian Huang;Chen Zhang

  • In Situ Grown Single-Atom Cobalt on Polymeric Carbon Nitride with Bidentate Ligand for Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Refractory Antibiotics

    Yang Yang;Guangming Zeng;Danlian Huang;Chen Zhang

  • Biofilm on microplastics in aqueous environment: Physicochemical properties and environmental implications

    Siying He;Meiying Jia;Yinping Xiang;Biao Song

  • Facile construction of hierarchical flower-like Z-scheme AgBr/Bi2WO6 photocatalysts for effective removal of tetracycline: Degradation pathways and mechanism

    Danlian Huang;Jing Li;Guangming Zeng;Wenjing Xue

  • Dual optimization approach to Mo single atom dispersed g-C3N4 photocatalyst: Morphology and defect evolution

    Chen Zhang;Deyu Qin;Yin Zhou;Fanzhi Qin

  • Assembly of AgI nanoparticles and ultrathin g-C3N4 nanosheets codecorated Bi2WO6 direct dual Z-scheme photocatalyst: An efficient, sustainable and heterogeneous catalyst with enhanced photocatalytic performance

    Wenjing Xue;Danlian Huang;Jing Li;Guangming Zeng

  • Insight into the energy band alignment of magnetically separable Ag2O/ZnFe2O4 p-n heterostructure with rapid charge transfer assisted visible light photocatalysis

    Hai Guo;Huai-Yuan Niu;Chao Liang;Cheng-Gang Niu

  • Prussian blue analogue derived magnetic Cu-Fe oxide as a recyclable photo-Fenton catalyst for the efficient removal of sulfamethazine at near neutral pH values

    Min Cheng;Yang Liu;Danlian Huang;Cui Lai

  • Integrating the plasmonic effect and p-n heterojunction into a novel Ag/Ag2O/PbBiO2Br photocatalyst: Broadened light absorption and accelerated charge separation co-mediated highly efficient visible/NIR light photocatalysis

    Hai Guo;Cheng-Gang Niu;Da-Wei Huang;Ning Tang

  • Alkali Metal-Assisted Synthesis of Graphite Carbon Nitride with Tunable Band-Gap for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Performance

    Wenjun Wang;Piao Xu;Ming Chen;Guangming Zeng

  • Adsorption behavior of engineered carbons and carbon nanomaterials for metal endocrine disruptors: Experiments and theoretical calculation.

    Chen Zhang;Wenjun Wang;Abing Duan;Guangming Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Danlian Huang
Danlian Huang Hunan University
Chen Zhang
Chen Zhang Hunan University
Weiping Xiong
Weiping Xiong Hunan University
Min Cheng
Min Cheng Hunan University
Cui Lai
Cui Lai Hunan University
Cheng-Gang Niu
Cheng-Gang Niu Hunan University
Dongbo Wang
Dongbo Wang Hunan University
Piao Xu
Piao Xu Hunan University
Hou Wang
Hou Wang Hunan University
Longlu Wang
Longlu Wang Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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