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Yonghua Du is affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Within these areas, their subfields of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Advanced battery technologies research, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Advanced Battery Technologies Research.

Yonghua Du has authored several notable papers, including the following recent publications:

  • "Covalency competition dominates the water oxidation structure-activity relationship on spinel oxides" (2020) in Nature Catalysis
  • "Pivotal role of reversible NiO6 geometric conversion in oxygen evolution" (2022) in Nature
  • "Metal Atom-Doped Co3O4 Hierarchical Nanoplates for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution" (2020) in Advanced Materials
  • "Tuning of lattice oxygen reactivity and scaling relation to construct better oxygen evolution electrocatalyst" (2021) in Nature Communications
  • "Spatially separating redox centers on 2D carbon nitride with cobalt single atom for photocatalytic H2O2 production" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Shibo Xi
  • Seong-Min Bak
  • Lu Ma
  • Bo Chen
  • Hua Zhang

Yonghua Du's work has been published predominantly in several scientific venues known for materials science and catalysis research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Chemical and structural origin of lattice oxygen oxidation in Co–Zn oxyhydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

    Zhen-Feng Huang;Jiajia Song;Yonghua Du;Shibo Xi

  • High phase-purity 1T′-MoS 2 - and 1T′-MoSe 2 -layered crystals

    Yifu Yu;Yifu Yu;Gwang-Hyeon Nam;Qiyuan He;Xue-Jun Wu

  • Iron-facilitated dynamic active-site generation on spinel CoAl2O4 with self-termination of surface reconstruction for water oxidation

    Tianze Wu;Shengnan Sun;Jiajia Song;Shibo Xi

  • In Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Copper and Copper Oxide Surfaces during Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction: Identification of CuIII Oxides as Catalytically Active Species

    Yilin Deng;Albertus D. Handoko;Yonghua Du;Shibo Xi

  • Defect Engineering of Oxygen-Deficient Manganese Oxide to Achieve High-Performing Aqueous Zinc Ion Battery

    Ting Xiong;Zhi Gen Yu;Haijun Wu;Yonghua Du

  • Single-Atomic Cu with Multiple Oxygen Vacancies on Ceria for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4

    Yifei Wang;Zheng Chen;Peng Han;Yonghua Du

  • Covalency competition dominates the water oxidation structure–activity relationship on spinel oxides

    Yuanmiao Sun;Hanbin Liao;Jiarui Wang;Bo Chen

  • Necklace-like Multishelled Hollow Spinel Oxides with Oxygen Vacancies for Efficient Water Electrolysis.

    Shengjie Peng;Shengjie Peng;Feng Gong;Linlin Li;Deshuang Yu

  • Silica–Ceria sandwiched Ni core–shell catalyst for low temperature dry reforming of biogas: Coke resistance and mechanistic insights

    S. Das;J. Ashok;Z. Bian;N. Dewangan

  • A Graphene‑Supported Single‑Atom FeN 5 Catalytic Site for Efficient Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction

    Huinian Zhang;Huinian Zhang;Jing Li;Shibo Xi;Yonghua Du

  • Preparation of High-Percentage 1T-Phase Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanodots for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution.

    Chaoliang Tan;Zhimin Luo;Apoorva Chaturvedi;Yongqing Cai

  • Unique P ? Co ? N Surface Bonding States Constructed on g-C3N4 Nanosheets for Drastically Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of H2 Evolution

    Chunmei Li;Chunmei Li;Chunmei Li;Yonghua Du;Danping Wang;Shengming Yin

  • Enlarged CoO Covalency in Octahedral Sites Leading to Highly Efficient Spinel Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Ye Zhou;Shengnan Sun;Jiajia Song;Shibo Xi

  • Metal Atom-Doped Co 3 O 4 Hierarchical Nanoplates for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution

    Song Lin Zhang;Bu Yuan Guan;Xue Feng Lu;Shibo Xi

  • Tuning of lattice oxygen reactivity and scaling relation to construct better oxygen evolution electrocatalyst.

    Zhen-Feng Huang;Zhen-Feng Huang;Shibo Xi;Jiajia Song;Jiajia Song;Shuo Dou

  • A Flexible Microwave Shield with Tunable Frequency-Transmission and Electromagnetic Compatibility

    Hualiang Lv;Hualiang Lv;Zhihong Yang;Samuel Jun Hoong Ong;Chao Wei

  • Post-synthesis modification of a metal–organic framework to construct a bifunctional photocatalyst for hydrogen production

    Tianhua Zhou;Yonghua Du;Armando Borgna;Jindui Hong

  • Spatially separating redox centers on 2D carbon nitride with cobalt single atom for photocatalytic H2O2 production.

    Chiheng Chu;Qianhong Zhu;Zhenhua Pan;Srishti Gupta

  • Exceptionally active iridium evolved from a pseudo-cubic perovskite for oxygen evolution in acid.

    Yubo Chen;Haiyan Li;Jingxian Wang;Yonghua Du

  • Copper Single Atoms Anchored in Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon as Efficient pH-Universal Catalysts for the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

    Wenjie Zang;Tong Yang;Haiyuan Zou;Shibo Xi

  • Tailoring the Co 3d-O 2p Covalency in LaCoO3 by Fe Substitution To Promote Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Yan Duan;Shengnan Sun;Shibo Xi;Xiao Ren

  • Bimetallic Ni–Cu catalyst supported on CeO2 for high-temperature water–gas shift reaction: Methane suppression via enhanced CO adsorption

    E.T. Saw;U. Oemar;X.R. Tan;Y. Du

Frequent Co-Authors

Shibo Xi
Shibo Xi Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Zhichuan J. Xu
Zhichuan J. Xu Nanyang Technological University
Armando Borgna
Armando Borgna Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Rong Xu
Rong Xu Nanyang Technological University
Lin Gu
Lin Gu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongxin Chen
Zhongxin Chen National University of Singapore
Xiaoxu Zhao
Xiaoxu Zhao Peking University
Kian Ping Loh
Kian Ping Loh National University of Singapore

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