Yong Wang Source Confirmed

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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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90 h-index 611 pubs 37,507 cited

Research Areas

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Carbon Based Materials Heterogeneous Catalysis Energy Storage Materials Nanomaterials Synthesis and Applications Water Splitting Catalysis Green Energy Technologies

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Yong Wang is a Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where his research group, the Advanced Materials and Catalysis Group (AMCG), focuses on the design and development of heterogeneous catalysis, energy storage, and energy conversion carbon-based materials. His work aims to advance green energy technologies through fundamental scientific inquiry.

Professor Wang has a distinguished publication record, with over 140 journal articles and 40 patents. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 90, over 600 total publications, and more than 37,000 citations. He has received federal funding for his research, including a $50,000 NSF grant for the development of amplifying sensors using bent DNA molecules, where he served as Principal Investigator.

His recent publications span topics such as enhancing hydrogen evolution activity in water splitting through reversible hydrogen spillover and tailored microenvironments, the interaction between oxide supports and catalytic performance, and the decoupling of electronic and geometric effects in catalytic reactions. He also contributed to a review on the beneficial effects of green tea EGCG on skin wound healing.

Metrics

  • h-index: 90
  • Publications: 611
  • Citations: 37,507

Selected Publications

  • Single-Atom Ru-Triggered Lattice Oxygen Redox Mechanism for Enhanced Acidic Water Oxidation (2025) DOI
  • Bimetallic Pt-Ni alloy confined within moderated carbon vacancy enriched g-C3N4 for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution (2025) DOI
  • Mesoporous Single-Crystalline Particles as Robust and Efficient Acidic Oxygen Evolution Catalysts (2025) DOI
  • Electrocatalytic CO2 hydrogenation to C2+ alcohols catalysed by Pr–Cu oxide heterointerfaces (2025) DOI
  • Dynamic reconstruction of Cu-doped SnO2 for efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate (2024) DOI
  • Nonlinear optimal frequency control for dynamic vibration absorber and its application (2024) DOI
  • Chromium Promotes Phase Transformation to Active Oxyhydroxide for Efficient Oxygen Evolution (2024) DOI
  • Improving Generation Performance of <sup>1</sup>O<sub>2</sub> by Atomic Doping for Efficient Catalytic Advanced Oxidation Processes (2024) DOI
  • Constructing Heteronuclear Bridging Atoms toward Bifunctional Electrocatalysis (2024) DOI
  • Engineering of bimetallic Au–Pd alloyed particles on nitrogen defects riched g-C3N4 for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production (2024) DOI
  • Nitric Acid‐Mediated Artificial Urea Photo‐Synthesis With N<sub>2</sub> And CO<sub>2</sub> (2024) DOI
  • Solar-Blind Photodetector Arrays Fabricated by Weaving Strategy (2024) DOI
  • Regulating <i>d</i>‐Orbital Hybridization of Subgroup‐IVB Single Atoms for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction (2024) DOI
  • Phosphorus-doped CoFe2O4 nanoparticles decorated nitrogen-doped graphene for efficient and stable electrocatalytic water splitting (2024) DOI
  • Mediating trade-off between activity and selectivity in alkynes semi-hydrogenation via a hydrophilic polar layer (2024) DOI

Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total

NSF PI

I-Corps: Development of Bent DNA Molecules as Amplifying Sensors

I-Corps $50,000

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