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Yingwen Cheng is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of engineering, focusing notably on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, catalysis, and electronic, optical and magnetic materials.

Their research contributions concentrate on topics including advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and fuel cells and related materials.

Yingwen Cheng has published several papers, some of the most cited among these include:

  • Performance enhancement and degradation mechanism identification of a single-atom Co-N-C catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2020, Nature Catalysis)
  • LixNiO/Ni Heterostructure with Strong Basic Lattice Oxygen Enables Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Pt-like Activity (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • High-Energy and Stable Subfreezing Aqueous Zn-MnO2 Batteries with Selective and Pseudocapacitive Zn-Ion Insertion in MnO2 (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • Carbon Free and Noble Metal Free Ni2Mo6S8 Electrocatalyst for Selective Electrosynthesis of H2O2 (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Elastic NaxMoS2-Carbon-BASE Triple Interface Direct Robust Solid-Solid Interface for All-Solid-State Na-S Batteries (2020, Nano Letters)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Bomin Li
  • Ke Lu
  • Siyuan Gao
  • Fan Xia
  • Bowen An

Their research is often published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Best Publications

  • Reversible aqueous zinc/manganese oxide energy storage from conversion reactions

    Huilin Pan;Yuyan Shao;Pengfei Yan;Yingwen Cheng

  • Design and Synthesis of Hierarchical MnO2 Nanospheres/Carbon Nanotubes/Conducting Polymer Ternary Composite for High Performance Electrochemical Electrodes

    Ye Hou;Yingwen Cheng;Tyler Hobson;Jie Liu

  • Synergistic effects from graphene and carbon nanotubes enable flexible and robust electrodes for high-performance supercapacitors.

    Yingwen Cheng;Songtao Lu;Songtao Lu;Hongbo Zhang;Chakrapani V. Varanasi;Chakrapani V. Varanasi

  • More than the Ions: The Effects of Silver Nanoparticles on Lolium multiflorum

    Liyan Yin;Yingwen Cheng;Benjamin Espinasse;Benjamin P. Colman

  • Performance enhancement and degradation mechanism identification of a single-atom Co–N–C catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    Xiaohong Xie;Cheng He;Boyang Li;Yanghua He

  • Size-Controlled Dissolution of Organic-Coated Silver Nanoparticles

    Rui Ma;Rui Ma;Clément Levard;Clément Levard;Stella M. Marinakos;Yingwen Cheng

  • Significantly improved long-cycle stability in high-rate Li-S batteries enabled by coaxial graphene wrapping over sulfur-coated carbon nanofibers.

    Songtao Lu;Songtao Lu;Yingwen Cheng;Xiaohong Wu;Xiaohong Wu;Jie Liu

  • Highly Reversible Zinc-Ion Intercalation into Chevrel Phase Mo6S8 Nanocubes and Applications for Advanced Zinc-Ion Batteries.

    Yingwen Cheng;Langli Luo;Li Zhong;Junzheng Chen

  • Highly Reversible Mg Insertion in Nanostructured Bi for Mg Ion Batteries

    Yuyan Shao;Meng Gu;Xiaolin Li;Zimin Nie

  • Toxicity Reduction of Polymer-Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles by Sunlight

    Yingwen Cheng;Liyan Yin;Liyan Yin;Shihong Lin;Mark Wiesner

  • Improving the performance of cobalt–nickel hydroxide-based self-supporting electrodes for supercapacitors using accumulative approaches

    Yingwen Cheng;Hongbo Zhang;Chakrapani V. Varanasi;Chakrapani V. Varanasi;Jie Liu

  • Flexible asymmetric supercapacitors with high energy and high power density in aqueous electrolytes

    Yingwen Cheng;Hongbo Zhang;Songtao Lu;Songtao Lu;Chakrapani V. Varanasi;Chakrapani V. Varanasi

  • Silver nanoparticle-alginate composite beads for point-of-use drinking water disinfection

    Shihong Lin;Rixiang Huang;Yingwen Cheng;Jie Liu

  • High performance batteries based on hybrid magnesium and lithium chemistry

    Yingwen Cheng;Yuyan Shao;Ji Guang Zhang;Vincent L. Sprenkle

  • Highly active electrolytes for rechargeable Mg batteries based on a [Mg2(μ-Cl)2]2+ cation complex in dimethoxyethane

    Yingwen Cheng;Ryan M. Stolley;Kee Sung Han;Yuyan Shao

  • Polymeric coatings on silver nanoparticles hinder autoaggregation but enhance attachment to uncoated surfaces.

    Shihong Lin;Yingwen Cheng;Jie Liu;Mark R. Wiesner

  • Antimicrobial nanotechnology: its potential for the effective management of microbial drug resistance and implications for research needs in microbial nanotoxicology

    Deborah Michiko Aruguete;Bojeong Kim;Michael F. Hochella;Yanjun Ma

  • LixNiO/Ni Heterostructure with Strong Basic Lattice Oxygen Enables Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Pt-like Activity

    Ke Lu;Yuzi Liu;Fan Lin;Isvar A. Cordova

  • Aqueous-organic phase-transfer of highly stable gold, silver, and platinum nanoparticles and new route for fabrication of gold nanofilms at the oil/water interface and on solid supports.

    Xingli Feng;Houyi Ma;Shaoxin Huang;Wei Pan

  • Electronegative guests in CoSb3

    Bo Duan;Bo Duan;Jiong Yang;Jiong Yang;James R. Salvador;Yang He

  • Interface Promoted Reversible Mg Insertion in Nanostructured Tin-Antimony Alloys.

    Yingwen Cheng;Yuyan Shao;Lucas R. Parent;Maria L. Sushko

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Liu
Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jie Liu
Jie Liu Duke University
Yuyan Shao
Yuyan Shao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Vincent L. Sprenkle
Vincent L. Sprenkle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chongmin Wang
Chongmin Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Karl T. Mueller
Karl T. Mueller Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yong Wang
Yong Wang Washington State University
Yuzi Liu
Yuzi Liu Argonne National Laboratory
Mark R. Wiesner
Mark R. Wiesner Duke University
Kee Sung Han
Kee Sung Han Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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