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Yong Wang is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States, focusing predominantly on research in engineering, materials science, and energy. Their scholarly interests include renewable energy, sustainability, materials chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering, with notable work also in organic chemistry and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research centers on topics such as electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and advanced battery technologies. Additional areas of study include catalytic processes in materials science, nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, and ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction.

Frequent publication venues for Yong Wang include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie

Yong Wang has coauthored extensively with several researchers, with collaborators including Shanjun Mao, Xiaozhong Zheng, Minkai Qin, Bing Lü, and Menghui Qi.

Key recent papers from this scientist include:

  • Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A Janus Fe-SnO2 Catalyst that Enables Bifunctional Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Tailoring a local acid-like microenvironment for efficient neutral hydrogen evolution, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Strong Oxide-Support Interaction over IrO2/V2O5 for Efficient pH-Universal Water Splitting, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Sequential Superassembly of Nanofiber Arrays to Carbonaceous Ordered Mesoporous Nanowires and Their Heterostructure Membranes for Osmotic Energy Conversion, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • An overview of hydrogen production technologies

    Jamie D. Holladay;Jianli Hu;David L. King;Yong Wang

  • Thermally stable single-atom platinum-on-ceria catalysts via atom trapping

    John Jones;Haifeng Xiong;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Eric J. Peterson

  • Activation of surface lattice oxygen in single-atom Pt/CeO2 for low-temperature CO oxidation

    Lei Nie;Donghai Mei;Haifeng Xiong;Bo Peng

  • Nitrogen-doped graphene and its electrochemical applications

    Yuyan Shao;Sheng Zhang;Mark H. Engelhard;Guosheng Li

  • Catalytic fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass

    Changjun Liu;Huamin Wang;Ayman M. Karim;Junming Sun

  • Production of levulinic acid and use as a platform chemical for derived products

    Joseph J Bozell;L Moens;D.C Elliott;Y Wang

  • Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

    Stephanie L. Candelaria;Yuyan Shao;Wei Zhou;Xiaolin Li

  • Novel catalyst support materials for PEM fuel cells : current status and future prospects

    Yuyan Shao;Jun Liu;Yong Wang;Yuehe Lin

  • Enhanced activity and stability of Pt catalysts on functionalized graphene sheets for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction

    Rong Kou;Yuyan Shao;Donghai Wang;Mark H. Engelhard

  • Recent Advances in Hydrotreating of Pyrolysis Bio-Oil and Its Oxygen-Containing Model Compounds

    Huamin Wang;Jonathan L. Male;Yong Wang;Yong Wang

  • Recent Advances in Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to Chemicals

    Junming Sun;Yong Wang

  • Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Water Electrolyzers and Reversible Fuel Cells: Status and Perspective

    Seh Kyu Park;Yuyan Shao;Jun Liu;Yong Wang;Yong Wang

  • Making Li‐Air Batteries Rechargeable: Material Challenges

    Yuyan Shao;Fei Ding;Jie Xiao;Jian Zhang

  • Electrocatalysts for Nonaqueous Lithium–Air Batteries: Status, Challenges, and Perspective

    Yuyan Shao;Seh Kyu Park;Jie Xiao;Jiguang Zhang

  • Stabilization of Electrocatalytic Metal Nanoparticles at Metal−Metal Oxide−Graphene Triple Junction Points

    Rong Kou;Yuyan Shao;Donghai Mei;Zimin Nie

  • Review of developments in portable hydrogen production using microreactor technology.

    Jamelyn D. Holladay;Yong Wang;Evan Jones

  • Carbon-supported bimetallic Pd–Fe catalysts for vapor-phase hydrodeoxygenation of guaiacol

    Junming Sun;Ayman M. Karim;He Zhang;Libor Kovarik

  • Highly durable graphene nanoplatelets supported Pt nanocatalysts for oxygen reduction

    Yuyan Shao;Sheng Zhang;Chongmin Wang;Zimin Nie

  • Tuning Pt-CeO2 interactions by high-temperature vapor-phase synthesis for improved reducibility of lattice oxygen.

    Xavier Isidro Pereira-Hernández;Andrew DeLaRiva;Valery Muravev;Deepak Kunwar

  • Ammonia-Treated Ordered Mesoporous Carbons as Catalytic Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Xiqing Wang;Je Seung Lee;Qing Zhu;Jun Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Liu
Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Charles H. F. Peden
Charles H. F. Peden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yuyan Shao
Yuyan Shao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Libor Kovarik
Libor Kovarik Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Feng Gao
Feng Gao Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Donghai Mei
Donghai Mei Tianjin Polytechnic University
Mark H. Engelhard
Mark H. Engelhard Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Abhaya K. Datye
Abhaya K. Datye University of New Mexico
Jian Zhi Hu
Jian Zhi Hu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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