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Yu Zhang is a researcher affiliated with Nanjing University in China, specializing in materials science and engineering. The primary fields of study encompass materials science with a focus on engineering aspects, including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, biomaterials, polymers and plastics, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their research covers several main topics, prominently featuring advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, flame retardant materials and properties, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) synthesis and applications, and covalent organic framework applications.

Yu Zhang has contributed to multiple research publications, notable recent papers include:

  • Coordination environment dependent selectivity of single-site-Cu enriched crystalline porous catalysts in CO2 reduction to CH4, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Single Metal Site and Versatile Transfer Channel Merged into Covalent Organic Frameworks Facilitate High-Performance Li-CO2 Batteries, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Stepped Channels Integrated Lithium-Sulfur Separator via Photoinduced Multidimensional Fabrication of Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Predesign of Catalytically Active Sites via Stable Coordination Cluster Model System for Electroreduction of CO2 to Ethylene, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Silk-based flexible electronics and smart wearable Textiles: Progress and beyond, 2023, Chemical Engineering Journal

Frequent co-authors in their work include Ya-Qian Lan, Long-Zhang Dong, Shun-Li Li, Yifa Chen, and Annan He.

Yu Zhang's research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemical Communications
  • Cell Reports Physical Science

Best Publications

  • Intrinsic peroxidase-like activity of ferromagnetic nanoparticles

    Lizeng Gao;Jie Zhuang;Leng Nie;Jinbin Zhang

  • Preparation and characterization of magnetite nanoparticles coated by amino silane

    Ming Ma;Yu Zhang;Wei Yu;Hao-ying Shen

  • Biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles using the bacteria Rhodopseudomonas capsulata

    Shiying He;Zhirui Guo;Yu Zhang;Song Zhang

  • Size dependence of specific power absorption of Fe3O4 particles in AC magnetic field

    Ming Ma;Ya Wu;Jie Zhou;Yongkang Sun

  • Co3O4 Nanoparticles with Multi-Enzyme Activities and Their Application in Immunohistochemical Assay

    Jinlai Dong;Lina Song;Jun-Jie Yin;Weiwei He

  • Anti-leukemia activity of PVP-coated silver nanoparticles via generation of reactive oxygen species and release of silver ions

    Dawei Guo;Lingying Zhu;Zhihai Huang;Haixia Zhou

  • Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle-embedded encapsulated microbubbles as dual contrast agents of magnetic resonance and ultrasound imaging.

    Fang Yang;Yixin Li;Zhongping Chen;Yu Zhang

  • Polyoxometalate-based materials for sustainable and clean energy conversion and storage

    Yu Zhang;Jiang Liu;Shun-Li Li;Zhong-Min Su

  • Biological Synthesis of Gold Nanowires Using Extract of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata

    Shiying He;Yu Zhang;Zhirui Guo;Ning Gu

  • Fluorescence Modified Chitosan-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for High-Efficient Cellular Imaging

    Yuqing Ge;Yu Zhang;Shiying He;Fang Nie

  • Linear aggregation of gold nanoparticles in ethanol

    Jianhui Liao;Yu Zhang;Wei Yu;Lina Xu

  • An improved way to prepare superparamagnetic magnetite-silica core-shell nanoparticles for possible biological application

    Yongkang Sun;Lei Duan;Zhirui Guo;Yun DuanMu

  • Decomposing phenol by the hidden talent of ferromagnetic nanoparticles

    Jinbin Zhang;Jie Zhuang;Lizeng Gao;Yu Zhang

  • Facile growth of homogeneous Ni(OH) 2 coating on carbon nanosheets for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor applications

    Mingjiang Xie;Zhicheng Xu;Shuyi Duan;Zhengfang Tian;Zhengfang Tian

  • Two dimensional oxygen-vacancy-rich Co3O4 nanosheets with excellent supercapacitor performances.

    Kun Xiang;Zhicheng Xu;Tingting Qu;Zhengfang Tian;Zhengfang Tian

  • The impact of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles on the soil bacterial community

    Shiying He;Youzhi Feng;Hongxuan Ren;Yu Zhang

  • Coordination environment dependent selectivity of single-site-Cu enriched crystalline porous catalysts in CO2 reduction to CH4.

    Yu Zhang;Long-Zhang Dong;Shan Li;Xin Huang

  • Preparation and characterization of water-soluble monodisperse magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles via surface double-exchange with DMSA

    Z.P. Chen;Y. Zhang;S. Zhang;J.G. Xia

  • Effect of surface charge and agglomerate degree of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles on KB cellular uptake in vitro.

    Yuqing Ge;Yu Zhang;Jingguang Xia;Ming Ma

  • Microwave-assisted conversion of biomass wastes to pseudocapacitive mesoporous carbon for high-performance supercapacitor

    Xiangkun Bo;Kun Xiang;Yu Zhang;Yu Shen

  • Lactoferrin-conjugated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as a specific MRI contrast agent for detection of brain glioma in vivo.

    Hui Xie;Yanhong Zhu;Weili Jiang;Qing Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Ning Gu
Ning Gu Southeast University
Xuefeng Guo
Xuefeng Guo Nanjing University
Degang Fu
Degang Fu Southeast University
Zhongping Chen
Zhongping Chen University of California, Irvine
Kunji Chen
Kunji Chen Nanjing University
Weiping Ding
Weiping Ding Nanjing University
Yiping Cui
Yiping Cui Southeast University
Xiyun Yan
Xiyun Yan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yixiang Cheng
Yixiang Cheng Nanjing University
Jingdong Luo
Jingdong Luo City University of Hong Kong

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