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Overview

Yu Huang is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics of study:

  • Nanopore and nanochannel transport studies
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Surface modification and superhydrophobicity
  • Advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials
  • Fuel cells and related materials
  • Analytical chemistry and sensors
  • Membrane-based ion separation techniques

Yu Huang's recent publications include:

  • External Stimuli Responsive Liquid-Infused Surfaces Switching between Slippery and Nonslippery States: Fabrications and Applications, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Recent Advances in Photocatalysis Based on Bioinspired Superwettabilities, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Biocompatible and Biodegradable Polymer Optical Fiber for Biomedical Application: A Review, 2021, Biosensors
  • Integration of water collection and purification on cactus- and beetle-inspired eco-friendly superwettable materials, 2021, Water Research
  • An anti-UV superhydrophobic material with photocatalysis, self-cleaning, self-healing and oil/water separation functions, 2020, Nanoscale

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Fan Xia
  • Xiaoding Lou
  • Fengyu Li
  • Lei Jiang
  • Weiqi Zhang

The scientist has published regularly in several notable venues, indicating a broad research interest and impact across multiple disciplines. The top venues where their research appears most frequently are:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Small
  • ACS Nano
  • Matter
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Yu Huang's research contributions are situated at the intersection of material innovation and biomedical applications, with a notable emphasis on surface engineering and sensing technologies. Their work in biomedical engineering and materials chemistry provides insights into developing functional materials with applications ranging from sensors to energy harvesting and environmental technologies.

Best Publications

  • Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices

    Xiangfeng Duan;Yu Huang;Yi Cui;Jianfang Wang

  • Van der Waals heterostructures and devices

    Yuan Liu;Nathan O. Weiss;Xidong Duan;Hung-Chieh Cheng

  • Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers

    Xiangfeng Duan;Yu Huang;Ritesh Agarwal;Charles M. Lieber

  • Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks

    Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Qingqiao Wei;Charles M. Lieber

  • Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks.

    Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Yi Cui;Lincoln J. Lauhon

  • Approaching the Schottky-Mott limit in van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions.

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Jian Guo;Enbo Zhu;Lei Liao

  • Graphene nanomesh

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  • General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities

    Huilong Fei;Juncai Dong;Yexin Feng;Christopher S. Allen

  • High-performance transition metal–doped Pt3Ni octahedra for oxygen reduction reaction

    Xiaoqing Huang;Zipeng Zhao;Liang Cao;Yu Chen

  • Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

    Mufan Li;Zipeng Zhao;Tao Cheng;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Van der Waals integration before and beyond two-dimensional materials

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan

  • Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage

    Hongtao Sun;Lin Mei;Lin Mei;Junfei Liang;Zipeng Zhao

  • Holey graphene frameworks for highly efficient capacitive energy storage

    Yuxi Xu;Zhaoyang Lin;Xing Zhong;Xiaoqing Huang

  • High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

    Lei Liao;Yung Chen Lin;Mingqiang Bao;Rui Cheng

  • Technology roadmap for flexible sensors

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  • Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors

    Yuan Liu;Xidong Duan;Hyeon-Jin Shin;Seongjun Park

  • Lateral epitaxial growth of two-dimensional layered semiconductor heterojunctions

    Xidong Duan;Chen Wang;Jonathan C. Shaw;Rui Cheng

  • Highly efficient gate-tunable photocurrent generation in vertical heterostructures of layered materials

    Woo Jong Yu;Yuan Liu;Hailong Zhou;Anxiang Yin

  • Electroluminescence and Photocurrent Generation from Atomically Sharp WSe2/MoS2 Heterojunction p–n Diodes

    Rui Cheng;Dehui Li;Hailong Zhou;Chen Wang

  • Flexible solid-state supercapacitors based on three-dimensional graphene hydrogel films.

    Yuxi Xu;Zhaoyang Lin;Xiaoqing Huang;Yuan Liu

  • Gallium Nitride Nanowire Nanodevices

    Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Yi Cui;Charles M. Lieber

  • Vertically stacked multi-heterostructures of layered materials for logic transistors and complementary inverters

    Woo Jong Yu;Zheng Li;Hailong Zhou;Yu Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangfeng Duan
Xiangfeng Duan University of California, Los Angeles
Zhen-Yu Chen
Zhen-Yu Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wu-Tung Cheng
Wu-Tung Cheng Mentor Graphics
Wing-Tak Wong
Wing-Tak Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Zipeng Zhao
Zipeng Zhao Beijing Institute of Technology
Yujing Li
Yujing Li Beijing Institute of Technology
Aimin Xu
Aimin Xu University of Hong Kong
Lei Liao
Lei Liao Hunan University
Paul M. Vanhoutte
Paul M. Vanhoutte University of Hong Kong
Imran Shakir
Imran Shakir University of California, Los Angeles

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