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Overview

Ying Dai is affiliated with Shandong University in China and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Materials Science and Energy. Their work spans multiple subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of areas focused on catalytic and energy conversion processes, including:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

Ying Dai has published several papers in prominent venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Cu2O Nanoparticles with Both {100} and {111} Facets for Enhancing the Selectivity and Activity of CO2 Electroreduction to Ethylene, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Light-Promoted CO2 Conversion from Epoxides to Cyclic Carbonates at Ambient Conditions over a Bi-Based Metal-Organic Framework, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • An organometal halide perovskite supported Pt single-atom photocatalyst for H2 evolution, 2022, Energy & Environmental Science
  • TiO2/Ti3C2 as an efficient photocatalyst for selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde, 2021, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Photoreforming of plastic waste poly (ethylene terephthalate) via in-situ derived CN-CNTs-NiMo hybrids, 2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Ying Dai frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Baibiao Huang, Zhaoke Zheng, Zeyan Wang, Peng Wang, and Hefeng Cheng.

Their papers often appear in recurring publication venues such as:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Physical Review B
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Small
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Ag@AgCl: A Highly Efficient and Stable Photocatalyst Active under Visible Light

    Peng Wang;Baibiao Huang;Xiaoyan Qin;Xiaoyang Zhang

  • Oxygen vacancy induced band-gap narrowing and enhanced visible light photocatalytic activity of ZnO.

    Junpeng Wang;Zeyan Wang;Baibiao Huang;Yandong Ma

  • Engineering BiOX (X = Cl, Br, I) nanostructures for highly efficient photocatalytic applications

    Hefeng Cheng;Baibiao Huang;Ying Dai

  • Plasmonic photocatalysts: harvesting visible light with noble metal nanoparticles

    Peng Wang;Baibiao Huang;Ying Dai;Myung-Hwan Whangbo

  • Evidence of the existence of magnetism in pristine VX₂ monolayers (X = S, Se) and their strain-induced tunable magnetic properties.

    Yandong Ma;Ying Dai;Meng Guo;Chengwang Niu

  • Facile in situ synthesis of visible-light plasmonic photocatalysts M@TiO2 (M = Au, Pt, Ag) and evaluation of their photocatalytic oxidation of benzene to phenol

    Zhaoke Zheng;Baibiao Huang;Xiaoyan Qin;Xiaoyang Zhang

  • Lithiated MoO3 Nanobelts with Greatly Improved Performance for Lithium Batteries

    Liqiang Mai;Liqiang Mai;Bin Hu;Wen Chen;Yanyuan Qi

  • Electronic and magnetic properties of perfect, vacancy-doped, and nonmetal adsorbed MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 monolayers

    Yandong Ma;Ying Dai;Meng Guo;Chengwang Niu

  • Highly Efficient Visible-Light Plasmonic Photocatalyst Ag@AgBr

    Peng Wang;Baibiao Huang;Xiaoyang Zhang;Xiaoyan Qin

  • One-Step Synthesis of the Nanostructured AgI/BiOI Composites with Highly Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performances

    Hefeng Cheng;Baibiao Huang;Ying Dai;Xiaoyan Qin

  • Energy transfer in plasmonic photocatalytic composites.

    Xiang-Chao Ma;Ying Dai;Lin Yu;Bai-Biao Huang

  • In-Situ-Reduced Synthesis of Ti³⁺ Self-Doped TiO₂/g-C₃N₄ Heterojunctions with High Photocatalytic Performance under LED Light Irradiation.

    Kai Li;Shanmin Gao;Shanmin Gao;Qingyao Wang;Hui Xu

  • High performance ZIF-8/6FDA-DAM mixed matrix membrane for propylene/propane separations

    Chen Zhang;Ying Dai;Justin R. Johnson;Oguz Karvan

  • Composite of CH3NH3PbI3 with Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Highly Efficient and Stable Visible-Light Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution in Aqueous HI Solution

    Yaqiang Wu;Peng Wang;Xianglin Zhu;Qianqian Zhang

  • In situ ion exchange synthesis of the novel Ag/AgBr/BiOBr hybrid with highly efficient decontamination of pollutants

    Hefeng Cheng;Baibiao Huang;Peng Wang;Zeyan Wang

  • Electronic and Optical Properties of Pristine and Vertical and Lateral Heterostructures of Janus MoSSe and WSSe

    Fengping Li;Wei Wei;Pei Zhao;Baibiao Huang

  • Synthesis of Highly Efficient Ag@AgCl Plasmonic Photocatalysts with Various Structures

    Peng Wang;Baibiao Huang;Zaizhu Lou;Xiaoyang Zhang

  • Crystal Faces of Cu2O and Their Stabilities in Photocatalytic Reactions

    Zhaoke Zheng;Baibiao Huang;Zeyan Wang;Meng Guo

  • Ab Initio Prediction and Characterization of Mo2C Monolayer as Anodes for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries.

    Qilong Sun;Ying Dai;Yandong Ma;Tao Jing

  • Two-dimensional Janus PtSSe for photocatalytic water splitting under the visible or infrared light

    Rui Peng;Yandong Ma;Baibiao Huang;Ying Dai

  • Graphene adhesion on MoS₂ monolayer: an ab initio study.

    Yandong Ma;Ying Dai;Meng Guo;Chengwang Niu

Frequent Co-Authors

Baibiao Huang
Baibiao Huang Shandong University
Zeyan Wang
Zeyan Wang Shandong University
Xiaoyang Zhang
Xiaoyang Zhang Shandong University
Xiaoyan Qin
Xiaoyan Qin Shandong University
Myung-Hwan Whangbo
Myung-Hwan Whangbo North Carolina State University
Zhaoke Zheng
Zhaoke Zheng Shandong University
Kesong Yang
Kesong Yang University of California, San Diego
Hefeng Cheng
Hefeng Cheng Shandong University
Liangzhi Kou
Liangzhi Kou Queensland University of Technology
Run Long
Run Long Beijing Normal University

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