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Professor Wang’s advanced materials and catalysis research group has been focusing its efforts on the basic science and applied research for the design and development of heterogeneous catalysis and energy conversion materials. They strive to pursue green energy technologies and the beautiful fundamental science that make these technologies a reality.
(i) The use of biomass as renewable raw materials conforms to the conception of Green Chemistry. Besides the sustainability of the bio-carbon, the conversion of biomass to functional materials provided an effective route to add to the value of fabricated products. We focus on exploring the novel and green methods to synthesize carbon materials with controllable morphology, porous structure, and functional surface on the basis of biomass and derivatives.
Selected Publications:
(1) Gong, Y. T.; Xie, L.; Chen, C. H.; Liu, J. R.; Antonietti, M.*; Wang, Y.*, Bottom-up Hydrothermal Carbonization for the Precise Engineering of Carbon Materials, Prog. Mater. Sci., 2023, 132, 101048.
(2) Zhang, X.; Chen, C. H.*; Tang, C. Y.; Wang, Y.*, Morphological Control of Biochar with Emerging Functionalities by Thermodynamic and Kinetic Approaches, Acc. Mater. Res., 2022, 3, 525-539.
(3) Chen, C. H.; Mao, S. J.; Tan, C. L.*; Wang, Z.; Ge, Y. Y.; Ma, Q. L.; Zhang, X.; Qi, G. D.; Xu, J.; Fan, Z. X.; Wang, Y*. General synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbonaceous hybrid nanostructures with molecularly dispersed polyoxometallates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 15556-15562.
(4) Chen, C. H.; Wang, H. Y.; Han, C. L.; Deng, J.; Wang, J.; Li, M. M.; Tang, M. H. Jin, H. Y.; Wang, Y.*, Asymmetric flask-like hollow carbonaceous nanoparticles fabricated by the synergistic interaction between soft template and biomass. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 2657-2663.
(5) Zhang, P. F.; Yuan, J. Y.*; Tim-Patrick,F.; Antonietti, M.; Li, H. R.; Wang, Y.* Improving hydrothermal carbonization by poly(ionic liquid)s. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 6028-6032.
(ii) We are also committed to developed N-doped carbon based composites supported metal and non-noble metal as low-cost and highly efficient catalysts. Moreover, the mechanisms of reactions have been investigated both experimentally and with density functional theory (DFT) modeling. To be sure, the synthesis strategy provides a versatile platform to introduce various metal species on nitrogen-doped carbon with targeted and improved properties for diverse catalytic reactions.
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Selected Publications:
(1) Wang, Z.; Wang, C. P.; Mao, S. J.*; Lu, B.; Chen, Y. Z.; Zhang, X.; Chen, Z. R.; Wang, Y.*, Decoupling the Electronic and Geometric Effects of Pt Catalysts in Selective Hydrogenation Reaction, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 3561.
(2) Ning, H. H.; Chen, Y. Z.; Wang, Z. Z.; Mao, S. J.*; Chen, Z. R.; Gong, Y. T.; Wang, Y.* Selective upgrading of biomass-derived benzylic ketones by (formic acid)-Pd/HPC-NH2 system with high efficiency under ambient conditions, Chem, 2021, 7,3069-3084.
(3) Wang, Z. Z.; Liang, S. P.; Meng, X. Y.; Mao, S. J.*; Lian, X.; Wang, Y.* Ultrasmall PdAu alloy nanoparticles anchored on amine-functionalized hierarchically porous carbon as additive-free catalysts for highly efficient dehydrogenation of formic acid. Appl. Catal. B Environ., 2021, 291, 120140.
(4) Wang, C. P.; Mao, S. J.*; Wang, Z.; Chen, Y. Z.; Yuan, W. T.; Ou Y.; Zhang, H.; Gong, Y. T.; Wang, Y.; Mei, B. B.; Jiang, Z.; Wang, Y.* Insight into Single-atom Induced Unconventional Size-dependence over CeO2-supported Pt Catalysts, Chem., 2020, 6, 752-765.
(5) Xu, X.; Li, Y.; Gong, Y. T.; Zhang, P. F.; Li, H. R.; Wang, Y.* Synthesis of palladium nanoparticles supported on mesoporous N-doped carbon and their catalytic ability for biofuel upgrade. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 16987-16990.
(iii) As growing demand for energy in the future, energy conversion and storage are of great interest in our research group. Due to green chemistry, electric energy gained hot research concentration and will experience fast growth. Thus, electrical catalysts for 1) water splitting 2) fuel cell are our focused highlights.
Selected Publications:
(1) Chen, J. D.; Chen, C. H.; Qin, M. K.; Lin, B. B.; Mao, Q.; Yang, H. B.; Liu, B.*, Wang, Y.*, Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 5382.
(2) Wang, J.; Wei, Z. Z.; Mao, S. J.; Li, H. R.; Wang, Y.*, Highly uniform Ru nanoparticles over N-doped carbon: pH and temperature-universal hydrogen release from water reduction, Energ. Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 800-806.
(3) Wang, J.; Xu, F.; Jin, H. Y.; Chen, Y. Q.; Wang, Y.*, Non-noble metal-based carbon composites in hydrogen evolution reaction: fundamentals to applications, Adv. Mater., 2017, 29, 1605838.
(4) Wang, S. P.; Wang, J.; Zhu, M. L.; Bao, X. B.; Xiao, B. Y.; Su, D. F.; Li, H. R.; Wang, Y.* Molybdenum carbide-modified nitrogen-doped carbon vesicle encap-sulating nickel nanoparticles: A highly efficient, low-cost catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15753-15759.
(5) Jin, H. Y.; Wang, J.; Su, D. F.; Wei, Z. Z.; Pang, Z. F.; Wang, Y.* In-situ cobalt-cobalt oxide/N-doped carbon hybrids as superior bi-functional electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 2688.
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