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Chemistry

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Overview

Yu Fang is affiliated with Shaanxi Normal University in China. Their research spans multiple facets of materials science and engineering, with a focus on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, spectroscopy, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The body of their work includes 290 publications in materials science and 215 in engineering, with significant subfield contributions in materials chemistry (243 publications), electrical and electronic engineering (100), spectroscopy (66), biomedical engineering (58), and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment (55).

The scientist's research topics cover luminescence and fluorescent materials, molecular sensors and ion detection, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies research, and analytical chemistry and sensors.

  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Yu Fang has published extensively in several frequent venues, including The Cambridge Structural Database (25 publications), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (19), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (15), Angewandte Chemie (14), and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (13).

Frequent co-authors in their work include Taihong Liu, Liping Ding, Haonan Peng, Ke Liu, and Rongrong Huang, who have contributed significantly to joint research efforts.

Their recent papers reflect a continuing engagement with catalytic materials and membrane science across prestigious journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Engineering Multilevel Collaborative Catalytic Interfaces with Multifunctional Iron Sites Enabling High-Performance Real Seawater Splitting," 2023, ACS Nano
  • "Antifouling and antibacterial behavior of membranes containing quaternary ammonium and zwitterionic polymers," 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • "In Situ Regulating Cobalt/Iron Oxide-Oxyhydroxide Exchange by Dynamic Iron Incorporation for Robust Oxygen Evolution at Large Current Density," 2023, Advanced Materials
  • "Innovative strategies in design of transition metal-based catalysts for large-current-density alkaline water/seawater electrolysis," 2022, Materials Today Physics
  • "Color-Tunable and ESIPT-Inspired Solid Fluorophores Based on Benzothiazole Derivatives: Aggregation-Induced Emission, Strong Solvatochromic Effect, and White Light Emission," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Construction of g-C3N4/PDI@MOF heterojunctions for the highly efficient visible light-driven degradation of pharmaceutical and phenolic micropollutants

    Yuanyuan Li;Yu Fang;Zhenlei Cao;Najun Li

  • Prebiotics-Encapsulated Probiotic Spores Regulate Gut Microbiota and Suppress Colon Cancer.

    Di-Wei Zheng;Run-Qing Li;Run-Qing Li;Jia-Xin An;Tian-Qiu Xie

  • TiO2 Nanoparticles Anchored onto the Metal–Organic Framework NH2-MIL-88B(Fe) as an Adsorptive Photocatalyst with Enhanced Fenton-like Degradation of Organic Pollutants under Visible Light Irradiation

    Yuanyuan Li;Jun Jiang;Yu Fang;Zhenlei Cao

  • Pyrene-Containing Conjugated Polymer-Based Fluorescent Films for Highly Sensitive and Selective Sensing of TNT in Aqueous Medium

    Gang He;Ni Yan;Jiayu Yang;Hongyue Wang

  • Preparation and properties of chitosan-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) full-IPN hydrogels

    Mingzhen Wang;Yu Fang;Daodao Hu

  • How do liquid mixtures solubilize insoluble gelators? Self-assembly properties of pyrenyl-linker-glucono gelators in tetrahydrofuran-water mixtures

    Ni Yan;Zhiyan Xu;Kevin K Diehn;Srinivasa R Raghavan

  • Non-contact identification and differentiation of illicit drugs using fluorescent films.

    Ke Liu;Congdi Shang;Zhaolong Wang;Yanyu Qi

  • Coordination-Driven Self-Assembled Metallacycles Incorporating Pyrene: Fluorescence Mutability, Tunability, and Aromatic Amine Sensing

    Xingmao Chang;Zhixuan Zhou;Congdi Shang;Gang Wang

  • Fluorescent Sensors for Nitroaromatic Compounds Based on Monolayer Assembly of Polycyclic Aromatics

    Shujuan Zhang;Fengting Lü;Lining Gao;Liping Ding

  • Micelle-Induced Versatile Sensing Behavior of Bispyrene-Based Fluorescent Molecular Sensor for Picric Acid and PYX Explosives

    Liping Ding;Yumei Bai;Yuan Cao;Guijia Ren

  • Pyrenyl-Linker-Glucono Gelators. Correlations of Gel Properties with Gelator Structures and Characterization of Solvent Effects

    Ni Yan;Ni Yan;Zhiyan Xu;Kevin K. Diehn;Srinivasa R. Raghavan

  • Color-Tunable and ESIPT-Inspired Solid Fluorophores Based on Benzothiazole Derivatives: Aggregation-Induced Emission, Strong Solvatochromic Effect, and White Light Emission.

    Yahui Chen;Yu Fang;Hao Gu;Jian Qiang

  • Surface-enhanced molecular spectroscopy (SEMS) based on perfect-absorber metamaterials in the mid-infrared

    Yongqian Li;Lei Su;Chen Shou;Chunmeng Yu

  • Functionality-Oriented Derivatization of Naphthalene Diimide: A Molecular Gel Strategy-Based Fluorescent Film for Aniline Vapor Detection

    Jiayun Fan;Xingmao Chang;Meixia He;Congdi Shang

  • Simple design but marvelous performances: molecular gels of superior strength and self-healing properties

    Zhiyan Xu;Junxia Peng;Ni Yan;Hang Yu

  • Bispyrene/surfactant assemblies as fluorescent sensor platform: detection and identification of Cu2+ and Co2+ in aqueous solution

    Liping Ding;Shihuai Wang;Yuan Liu;Jianhua Cao

  • N-Acetylglucosamine-based efficient, phase-selective organogelators for oil spill remediation

    Somnath Mukherjee;Congdi Shang;Xiangli Chen;Xingmao Chang

  • Monomolecular layers of pyrene as a sensor to dicarboxylic acids

    Lining Gao;Yu Fang;Xiangpeng Wen;Yuangang Li

  • Fluorescent Film Sensor for Vapor-Phase Nitroaromatic Explosives via Monolayer Assembly of Oligo(diphenylsilane) on Glass Plate Surfaces

    Gang He;Guofang Zhang;Fengting Lü;Yu Fang

  • Ultra-low density porous polystyrene monolith: facile preparation and superior application

    Ping Jing;Xiaohua Fang;Junlin Yan;Jie Guo

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin D. Belfield
Kevin D. Belfield New Jersey Institute of Technology
Chuan Zhao
Chuan Zhao University of New South Wales
Renhao Dong
Renhao Dong TU Dresden
Jingcheng Hao
Jingcheng Hao Shandong University
Pi-Tai Chou
Pi-Tai Chou National Taiwan University
Hongmin Ma
Hongmin Ma Shandong University
Yunlong Guo
Yunlong Guo University of Tokyo
Gui Yu
Gui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunqi Liu
Yunqi Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Srinivasa R. Raghavan
Srinivasa R. Raghavan University of Maryland, College Park

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