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Overview

Yuqin Zou is affiliated with Hunan University in China and conducts research primarily within the fields of Energy and Engineering. Their work encompasses various subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The researcher's main topics cover a spectrum of specialized areas such as:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Yuqin Zou has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Operando Identification of the Dynamic Behavior of Oxygen Vacancy-Rich Co3O4 for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Defect Engineering on Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries (2020), published in Advanced Materials
  • Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions (2020), published in Nature Chemistry
  • Activity Origins and Design Principles of Nickel-Based Catalysts for Nucleophile Electrooxidation (2020), published in Chem
  • Combined anodic and cathodic hydrogen production from aldehyde oxidation and hydrogen evolution reaction (2021), published in Nature Catalysis

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Shuangyin Wang (109 coauthored works)
  • Yuxuan Lu (42 coauthored works)
  • Chung-Li Dong (38 coauthored works)
  • Leitao Xu (32 coauthored works)
  • Yucheng Huang (28 coauthored works)

The scientist's publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (13 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (12 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (11 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (8 publications)
  • Advanced Functional Materials (7 publications)

Yuqin Zou's research contributions represent a significant engagement with advanced materials and catalysis, focusing on energy conversion processes including electrocatalysis and battery technologies, as well as the synthesis and reduction of key chemical species like CO2 and ammonia. The combination of interdisciplinary subfields reflects an integrated approach to challenges in sustainability and catalysis.

Best Publications

  • Operando Identification of the Dynamic Behavior of Oxygen Vacancy-Rich Co3O4 for Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Zhaohui Xiao;Yu-Cheng Huang;Chung-Li Dong;Chao Xie

  • Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions

    Chen Chen;Xiaorong Zhu;Xiaojian Wen;Yangyang Zhou

  • Defect Engineering on Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries.

    Yiqiong Zhang;Yiqiong Zhang;Li Tao;Chao Xie;Dongdong Wang

  • Recent Progress on Layered Double Hydroxides and Their Derivatives for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

    Yanyong Wang;Dafeng Yan;Samir El Hankari;Yuqin Zou

  • Activity Origins and Design Principles of Nickel-Based Catalysts for Nucleophile Electrooxidation

    Wei Chen;Chao Xie;Yanyong Wang;Yuqin Zou

  • Water-Plasma-Enabled Exfoliation of Ultrathin Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets with Multivacancies for Water Oxidation.

    Rong Liu;Yanyong Wang;Dongdong Liu;Yuqin Zou

  • Oxygen Reduction Reaction in a Droplet on Graphite: Direct Evidence that the Edge Is More Active than the Basal Plane†

    Anli Shen;Yuqin Zou;Qiang Wang;Robert A. W. Dryfe

  • Defect chemistry in heterogeneous catalysis: recognition, understanding and utilization

    Chao Xie;Dafeng Yan;hao li;Shiqian Du

  • Defect Engineering for Fuel‐Cell Electrocatalysts

    Wei Li;Dongdong Wang;Yiqiong Zhang;Li Tao

  • NiO nanosheets grown on graphene nanosheets as superior anode materials for Li-ion batteries

    Yuqin Zou;Yong Wang

  • Electrochemical Oxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural on Nickel Nitride/Carbon Nanosheets: Reaction Pathway Determined by In Situ Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy.

    Nana Zhang;Yuqin Zou;Li Tao;Wei Chen

  • Heterogeneous‐Interface‐Enhanced Adsorption of Organic and Hydroxyl for Biomass Electrooxidation

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  • Deciphering the alternating synergy between interlayer Pt single-atom and NiFe layered double hydroxide for overall water splitting

    Wei Chen;Binbin Wu;Yanyong Wang;Wang Zhou

  • Tailoring Competitive Adsorption Sites by Oxygen-Vacancy on Cobalt Oxides to Enhance the Electrooxidation of Biomass.

    Yuxuan Lu;Tianyang Liu;Chung-Li Dong;Chunming Yang

  • Unveiling the Electrooxidation of Urea: Intramolecular Coupling of the N-N Bond.

    Wei Chen;Leitao Xu;Xiaorong Zhu;Yu-Cheng Huang

  • Insight into the design of defect electrocatalysts: From electronic structure to adsorption energy

    Chao Xie;Dafeng Yan;Wei Chen;Yuqin Zou

  • Tuning the Selective Adsorption Site of Biomass on Co 3 O 4 by Ir Single Atoms for Electrosynthesis

    Yuxuan Lu;Tianyang Liu;Chung Li Dong;Yu Cheng Huang

  • Zirconium-Regulation-Induced Bifunctionality in 3D Cobalt–Iron Oxide Nanosheets for Overall Water Splitting

    Liangliang Huang;Dawei Chen;Dawei Chen;Gan Luo;Ying‐Rui Lu

  • Identifying the Geometric Site Dependence of Spinel Oxides for the Electrooxidation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural

    Yuxuan Lu;Chung-Li Dong;Yu-Cheng Huang;Yuqin Zou

  • Platinum Modulates Redox Properties and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Adsorption Kinetics of Ni(OH)2 for Biomass Upgrading.

    Bo Zhou;Yingying Li;Yuqin Zou;Wei Chen

  • Sn@CNT nanostructures rooted in graphene with high and fast Li-storage capacities.

    Yuqin Zou;Yong Wang

  • Recent Advances on Black Phosphorus for Energy Storage, Catalysis, and Sensor Applications.

    Hanwen Liu;Kui Hu;Dafeng Yan;Ru Chen

  • Low-temperature synthesis of small-sized high-entropy oxides for water oxidation

    Dongdong Wang;Zhijuan Liu;Shiqian Du;Yiqiong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuangyin Wang
Shuangyin Wang Hunan University
Li Tao
Li Tao Hunan University
Chung-Li Dong
Chung-Li Dong Tamkang University
Yafei Li
Yafei Li Nanjing Normal University
Robert A. W. Dryfe
Robert A. W. Dryfe University of Manchester
Jilei Liu
Jilei Liu Hunan University
Qinghua Liu
Qinghua Liu University of Science and Technology of China
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nankai University
Ian A. Kinloch
Ian A. Kinloch University of Manchester
San Ping Jiang
San Ping Jiang Curtin University

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