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Yi Yu is a researcher affiliated with ShanghaiTech University in China, focusing on engineering and materials science. Their research portfolio comprises contributions to multiple specialized subfields, notably electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, and automotive engineering.

The scientist's main areas of investigation include advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, perovskite materials and applications, advanced battery technologies research, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion.

Yi Yu has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Wei Liu, Xiangchen Hu, Biao Yuan, Wenbo Zhai, and Zeyu Wang.

Among their recent publications are the following:

  • Two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures, 2020, Nature
  • Recent progress on synthesis of ZIF-67-based materials and their application to heterogeneous catalysis, 2020, Green Energy & Environment
  • Engineering Lattice Disorder on a Photocatalyst: Photochromic BiOBr Nanosheets Enhance Activation of Aromatic C-H Bonds via Water Oxidation, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Atomic Tuning of Single-Atom Fe-N-C Catalysts with Phosphorus for Robust Electrochemical CO2 Reduction, 2022, Nano Letters
  • All-Solid-State Batteries with a Limited Lithium Metal Anode at Room Temperature using a Garnet-Based Electrolyte, 2020, Advanced Materials

Yi Yu's research has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nano Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ACS Nano

Best Publications

  • Atomic structure of sensitive battery materials and interfaces revealed by cryo–electron microscopy

    Yuzhang Li;Yanbin Li;Allen Pei;Kai Yan

  • Synergistic geometric and electronic effects for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide using gold–copper bimetallic nanoparticles

    Dohyung Kim;Joaquin Resasco;Yi Yu;Abdullah Mohamed Asiri

  • Atomically thin two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites

    Letian Dou;Letian Dou;Andrew B. Wong;Andrew B. Wong;Yi Yu;Yi Yu;Yi Yu;Minliang Lai

  • Solution-Phase Synthesis of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires

    Dandan Zhang;Samuel W. Eaton;Yi Yu;Letian Dou

  • MXene (Ti3C2) Vacancy-Confined Single-Atom Catalyst for Efficient Functionalization of CO2

    Di Zhao;Zheng Chen;Wenjuan Yang;Shoujie Liu;Shoujie Liu

  • Electrochemical Activation of CO2 through Atomic Ordering Transformations of AuCu Nanoparticles

    Dohyung Kim;Chenlu Xie;Nigel Becknell;Yi Yu

  • Bacteria photosensitized by intracellular gold nanoclusters for solar fuel production.

    Hao Zhang;Hao Liu;Zhiquan Tian;Zhiquan Tian;Dylan Lu;Dylan Lu

  • Synthesis of Composition Tunable and Highly Luminescent Cesium Lead Halide Nanowires through Anion-Exchange Reactions

    Dandan Zhang;Yiming Yang;Yehonadav Bekenstein;Yi Yu

  • Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells

    Yao Gao;Enzheng Shi;Shibin Deng;Stephen B. Shiring

  • Two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures.

    Enzheng Shi;Biao Yuan;Stephen B. Shiring;Yao Gao

  • A Molecular Surface Functionalization Approach to Tuning Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction.

    Zhi Cao;Dohyung Kim;Dachao Hong;Yi Yu

  • Growth and Anion Exchange Conversion of CH3NH3PbX3 Nanorod Arrays for Light-Emitting Diodes.

    Andrew Barnabas Wong;Minliang Lai;Samuel Wilson Eaton;Yi Yu

  • Ultralow thermal conductivity in all-inorganic halide perovskites

    Woochul Lee;Huashan Li;Andrew B. Wong;Andrew B. Wong;Dandan Zhang;Dandan Zhang

  • Hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion

    Eva M. Nichols;Eva M. Nichols;Joseph J. Gallagher;Chong Liu;Chong Liu;Yude Su

  • Anisotropic phase segregation and migration of Pt in nanocrystals en route to nanoframe catalysts.

    Zhiqiang Niu;Nigel Becknell;Yi Yu;Yi Yu;Dohyung Kim

  • Ultrathin Colloidal Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires

    Dandan Zhang;Yi Yu;Yehonadav Bekenstein;Andrew B. Wong

  • Stabilization of 4H hexagonal phase in gold nanoribbons

    Zhanxi Fan;Michel Bosman;Xiao Huang;Ding Huang

  • Tandem Catalysis for CO2 Hydrogenation to C2–C4 Hydrocarbons

    Chenlu Xie;Chen Chen;Yi Yu;Ji Su

  • Synthesis of Ultrathin Copper Nanowires Using Tris(trimethylsilyl)silane for High-Performance and Low-Haze Transparent Conductors.

    Fan Cui;Fan Cui;Yi Yu;Yi Yu;Letian Dou;Letian Dou;Jianwei Sun;Jianwei Sun

  • Control of Architecture in Rhombic Dodecahedral Pt-Ni Nanoframe Electrocatalysts

    Nigel Becknell;Nigel Becknell;Yoonkook Son;Dohyung Kim;Dongguo Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley
Letian Dou
Letian Dou Purdue University West Lafayette
Chen Chen
Chen Chen Chongqing University
Stephen R. Leone
Stephen R. Leone University of California, Berkeley
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Zhiqiang Niu
Zhiqiang Niu Nankai University
Chong Liu
Chong Liu University of California, Los Angeles
Lin-Wang Wang
Lin-Wang Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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