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Yun Kuang is affiliated with Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China. The scientist's research spans multiple fields, including Energy, Engineering, and Medicine, with a focused expertise in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The primary research topics covered by Yun Kuang include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Yun Kuang has contributed to scientific literature with numerous papers appearing in several journals. Notable publication venues with multiple articles include Catalysts, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Small, Angewandte Chemie, and Nanoscale.

Examples of recent publications are:

  • Layered double hydroxide-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction: identification and tailoring of active sites, and superaerophobic nanoarray electrode assembly (2021, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • Microwave chemistry, recent advancements, and eco-friendly microwave-assisted synthesis of nanoarchitectures and their applications: a review (2020, Materials Today Nano)
  • Eliminating over-oxidation of ruthenium oxides by niobium for highly stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in acidic media (2023, Joule)
  • Electroreduction of CO2 to Formate on a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst at High Pressures with High Energy Conversion Efficiency (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • An Artificial Electrode/Electrolyte Interface for CO2 Electroreduction by Cation Surfactant Self-Assembly (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Xiaoming Sun (42 joint works), Daojin Zhou (22 joint works), Guoping Yang (19 joint works), Qi Pei (11 joint works), and Yaping Li (10 joint works).

Best Publications

  • Solar-driven, highly sustained splitting of seawater into hydrogen and oxygen fuels

    Yun Kuang;Yun Kuang;Michael J. Kenney;Yongtao Meng;Yongtao Meng;Wei Hsuan Hung;Wei Hsuan Hung

  • Tuning Electronic Structure of NiFe Layered Double Hydroxides with Vanadium Doping toward High Efficient Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

    Pengsong Li;Xinxuan Duan;Yun Kuang;Yun Kuang;Yaping Li

  • Boosting oxygen evolution of single-atomic ruthenium through electronic coupling with cobalt-iron layered double hydroxides

    Pengsong Li;Maoyu Wang;Xinxuan Duan;Lirong Zheng

  • Layered double hydroxide-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction: identification and tailoring of active sites, and superaerophobic nanoarray electrode assembly.

    Daojin Zhou;Pengsong Li;Xiao Lin;Adam McKinley

  • Single-Crystalline Ultrathin Co3O4 Nanosheets with Massive Vacancy Defects for Enhanced Electrocatalysis

    Zhao Cai;Zhao Cai;Yongmin Bi;Enyuan Hu;Wen Liu;Wen Liu

  • Eliminating over-oxidation of ruthenium oxides by niobium for highly stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in acidic media

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  • NiFe Hydroxide Lattice Tensile Strain: Enhancement of Adsorption of Oxygenated Intermediates for Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis

    Daojin Zhou;Daojin Zhou;Shiyuan Wang;Yin Jia;Xuya Xiong

  • Microwave chemistry, recent advancements, and eco-friendly microwave-assisted synthesis of nanoarchitectures and their applications: a review

    Anuj Kumar;Anuj Kumar;Yun Kuang;Zheng Liang;Xiaoming Sun

  • Bright quantum dots emitting at ∼1,600 nm in the NIR-IIb window for deep tissue fluorescence imaging.

    Mingxi Zhang;Mingxi Zhang;Jingying Yue;Ran Cui;Ran Cui;Zhuoran Ma

  • Introducing Fe 2+ into Nickel–Iron Layered Double Hydroxide: Local Structure Modulated Water Oxidation Activity

    Zhao Cai;Zhao Cai;Daojin Zhou;Maoyu Wang;Seong-Min Bak

  • Ternary NiCoP nanosheet arrays: An excellent bifunctional catalyst for alkaline overall water splitting

    Yingjie Li;Haichuan Zhang;Ming Jiang;Yun Kuang

  • A general route via formamide condensation to prepare atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon electrocatalysts for energy technologies

    Guoxin Zhang;Guoxin Zhang;Yin Jia;Cong Zhang;Xuya Xiong

  • NiCoFe-Layered Double Hydroxides/N-Doped Graphene Oxide Array Colloid Composite as an Efficient Bifunctional Catalyst for Oxygen Electrocatalytic Reactions

    Daojin Zhou;Zhao Cai;Xiaodong Lei;Weiliang Tian;Weiliang Tian

  • Electroreduction of CO2 to Formate on a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst at High Pressures with High Energy Conversion Efficiency.

    Jiachen Li;Yun Kuang;Yun Kuang;Yongtao Meng;Xin Tian

  • A safe and non-flammable sodium metal battery based on an ionic liquid electrolyte

    Hao Sun;Guanzhou Zhu;Xintong Xu;Xintong Xu;Meng Liao

  • Single‐Crystalline Ultrathin Nickel Nanosheets Array from In Situ Topotactic Reduction for Active and Stable Electrocatalysis

    Yun Kuang;Guang Feng;Pengsong Li;Yongmin Bi

  • Understanding the incorporating effect of Co2+/Co3+ in NiFe-layered double hydroxide for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

    Yongmin Bi;Zhao Cai;Zhao Cai;Daojin Zhou;Yang Tian

  • Superaerophobic Ultrathin Ni–Mo Alloy Nanosheet Array from In Situ Topotactic Reduction for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Qian Zhang;Pengsong Li;Daojin Zhou;Zheng Chang

  • Layered double hydroxides with atomic-scale defects for superior electrocatalysis

    Qixian Xie;Zhao Cai;Zhao Cai;Pengsong Li;Daojin Zhou

  • In situ fabrication of porous MoS2 thin-films as high-performance catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution.

    Zhiyi Lu;Haichuan Zhang;Wei Zhu;Xiaoyou Yu

  • Phosphorus oxoanion-intercalated layered double hydroxides for high-performance oxygen evolution

    Ma Luo;Zhao Cai;Zhao Cai;Cheng Wang;Yongmin Bi

  • Effects of redox-active interlayer anions on the oxygen evolution reactivity of NiFe-layered double hydroxide nanosheets

    Daojin Zhou;Zhao Cai;Yongmin Bi;Weiliang Tian;Weiliang Tian

  • High‐Performance Water Electrolysis System with Double Nanostructured Superaerophobic Electrodes

    Wenwen Xu;Zhiyi Lu;Pengbo Wan;Yun Kuang

  • Constructing Earth‐abundant 3D Nanoarrays for Efficient Overall Water Splitting – A Review

    Mohammed‐Ibrahim Jamesh;Yun Kuang;Yun Kuang;Xiaoming Sun

  • An Artificial Electrode/Electrolyte Interface for CO2 Electroreduction by Cation Surfactant Self‐Assembly

    Yang Zhong;Yan Xu;Jun Ma;Cheng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoming Sun
Xiaoming Sun Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Wen Liu
Wen Liu Peking University
Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong
Xue Duan
Xue Duan Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Lirong Zheng
Lirong Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Junfeng Liu
Junfeng Liu Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Yingjie Li
Yingjie Li Anhui University of Technology
Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang Wuhan University
Xiaodong Lei
Xiaodong Lei Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Hailiang Wang
Hailiang Wang Yale University

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