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Australia
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
56538
World Ranking
1302
National Ranking
39

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Yao Zheng is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in energy and engineering fields. Their work predominantly focuses on renewable energy, sustainability, catalysis, materials chemistry, and electrochemistry.

Their research covers several subfields including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment; electrical and electronic engineering; catalysis; materials chemistry; and electrochemistry. The main topics of study involve electrocatalysts for energy conversion, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced battery technologies research, advanced photocatalysis techniques, fuel cells and related materials, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and ionic liquids properties and applications.

Yao Zheng has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Shi-Zhang Qiao, Yan Jiao, Mietek Jaroniec, Kenneth Davey, and Cheng Tang.

The scientist has published in key venues including:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Catalysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yao Zheng include:

  • "Tailoring Acidic Oxygen Reduction Selectivity on Single-Atom Catalysts via Modification of First and Second Coordination Spheres," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Nickel ferrocyanide as a high-performance urea oxidation electrocatalyst," 2021, Nature Energy
  • "Electrocatalytic Refinery for Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Short-Range Ordered Iridium Single Atoms Integrated into Cobalt Oxide Spinel Structure for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Boosting electrocatalytic CO2-to-ethanol production via asymmetric C-C coupling," 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Design of electrocatalysts for oxygen- and hydrogen-involving energy conversion reactions

    Yan Jiao;Yao Zheng;Mietek Jaroniec;Shi Zhang Qiao;Shi Zhang Qiao

  • Hydrogen evolution by a metal-free electrocatalyst

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Yihan Zhu;Lu Hua Li

  • Advancing the Electrochemistry of the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction through Combining Experiment and Theory

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Mietek Jaroniec;Shi Zhang Qiao

  • Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis

    Huanyu Jin;Chunxian Guo;Xin Liu;Jinlong Liu

  • Graphitic carbon nitride materials: controllable synthesis and applications in fuel cells and photocatalysis

    Yao Zheng;Jian Liu;Ji Liang;Ji Liang;Mietek Jaroniec

  • The Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Solution: From Theory, Single Crystal Models, to Practical Electrocatalysts.

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Anthony Vasileff;Shi-Zhang Qiao;Shi-Zhang Qiao

  • Two-step boron and nitrogen doping in graphene for enhanced synergistic catalysis.

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Yan Jiao;Lei Ge;Mietek Jaroniec

  • Molecule-Level g-C3N4 Coordinated Transition Metals as a New Class of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Electrode Reactions

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Yihan Zhu;Qiran Cai

  • Origin of the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction activity of graphene-based catalysts: a roadmap to achieve the best performance.

    Yan Jiao;Yao Zheng;Yao Zheng;Mietek Jaroniec;Shi Zhang Qiao

  • Activity origin and catalyst design principles for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution on heteroatom-doped graphene

    Yan Jiao;Yao Zheng;Kenneth Davey;Shi-Zhang Qiao

  • Toward Design of Synergistically Active Carbon-Based Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Lu Hua Li;Tan Xing

  • Nanoporous Graphitic-C3N4@Carbon Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Jun Chen;Jian Liu

  • High Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity of an Anomalous Ruthenium Catalyst

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Yihan Zhu;Lu Hua Li

  • Surface and interface engineering of noble-metal-free electrocatalysts for efficient energy conversion processes

    Yun Pei Zhu;Chunxian Guo;Yao Zheng;Shi-Zhang Qiao

  • Understanding the Roadmap for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Multi-Carbon Oxygenates and Hydrocarbons on Copper-Based Catalysts

    Yao Zheng;Anthony Vasileff;Xianlong Zhou;Yan Jiao

  • Tailoring Acidic Oxygen Reduction Selectivity on Single-Atom Catalysts via Modification of First and Second Coordination Spheres.

    Cheng Tang;Ling Chen;Haijing Li;Laiquan Li

  • Building Up a Picture of the Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Transition Metal Single-Atom Catalysts.

    Xin Liu;Yan Jiao;Yao Zheng;Mietek Jaroniec

  • Surface and Interface Engineering in Copper-Based Bimetallic Materials for Selective CO2 Electroreduction

    Anthony Vasileff;Chaochen Xu;Yan Jiao;Yao Zheng

  • Facile Oxygen Reduction on a Three‐Dimensionally Ordered Macroporous Graphitic C3N4/Carbon Composite Electrocatalyst

    Ji Liang;Yao Zheng;Jun Chen;Jian Liu

  • Transition-Metal-Doped RuIr Bifunctional Nanocrystals for Overall Water Splitting in Acidic Environments.

    Jieqiong Shan;Tao Ling;Kenneth Davey;Yao Zheng

  • Nanostructured metal-free electrochemical catalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction.

    Yao Zheng;Yan Jiao;Mietek Jaroniec;Yonggang Jin

Frequent Co-Authors

Shi-Zhang Qiao
Shi-Zhang Qiao University of Adelaide
Yan Jiao
Yan Jiao University of Adelaide
Mietek Jaroniec
Mietek Jaroniec Kent State University
Anthony Vasileff
Anthony Vasileff University of Adelaide
Kenneth Davey
Kenneth Davey University of Adelaide
Zongping Shao
Zongping Shao Curtin University
Ran Ran
Ran Ran Nanjing Tech University
Cheng Tang
Cheng Tang Tsinghua University
Yihan Zhu
Yihan Zhu Zhejiang University of Technology
Lei Ge
Lei Ge University of Southern Queensland

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