Assistant Professor
Room 359 Science Centre
(852) 3943 3586
Education
| 2011-2015 | D.Phil. | Oxford University |
| 2010-2011 | M.Sc. | University of Warwick |
| 2006-2010 | B. Eng. | Wuhan Institute of Technology |
Position
| Since 2019 | Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2018–2019 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto |
| 2016–2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2014–2015 | Research Assistant, Nanyang Technological University |
Research Interests
| 1. | Electrocatalysis of CO2 conversion |
| 2. | Electrode Kinetics |
| 3 | Energy Storage |
Professional Activities
| Early Career Editorial Board, Transactions of Tianjin University | |
| Early Career Editorial Board, Chinese Chemical Letters |
Honours and Awards
| 2022 | MIT Technology Reviews Innovators 35 Under 35 Asia Pacific |
| 2022 | China’s Excellent Young Scientist (Hong Kong and Macau) |
Research Grants
| 1. | National Natural Science Foundation of China：基於高效電催化二氧化碳還原體系的研究 |
| 2. | Research Grants Council General Research Fund: Small Molecule as Efficient Catalyst for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Hydrocarbons |
| 3. | Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme: Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Ethanol Under Acidic Conditions |
| 4. | CUHK Academic Equipment Grant: High Performance Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry |
| 5. | CUHK Direct Grant: Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2 in Neutral Conditions |
Representative Publications
| 1. | Y. Xie1, P. Ou1, X. Wang1, Z. Xu, Y. C. Li, Z. Wang, J. E. Huang, J. Wicks, C. McCallum, N. Wang, Y. Wang, T. Chen, T. B. Lo, D. Sinton, J. C. Yu, Y. Wang*, E. H. Sargent*, High Carbon Utilization in CO2 Electrolysis to Multi-Carbon Products in Acidic Media, Nat. Catal., accepted |
| 2. | Z. Zhang, Y. Xie, Y. Wang*, What Matters in the Emerging Application of CO2 Electrolysis, Curr. Opin. Electrochem., accepted. DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2022.101012 |
| 3. | Y. Chen1, W. Li1, Y. Yao, P. Gogoi, X. Deng, Y. Xie, Z. Yang, Y. Wang*, Y. C. Li*, Enabling Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Zinc Air Battery with Bipolar Membrane, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 12257. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c24328 |
| 4. | Li, L. Xu, A. W. M. Chan, Z. Hu*, Y. Wang*, J. C. Yu*, Direct Hydrogen Peroxide Synthesis on a Sn-doped CuWO4/Sn Anode and an Air-Breathing Cathode, Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 63. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c02787 |
| 5. | X. Wang1, P. Ou1, J. Wicks1, Y. Xie1, Y. Wang1, J. Li, J. Tam, D. Ren, J. Y. Howe, Z. Wang, A. Ozden, Y. Zou Finfrock, Y. Xu, A. Sedighian Rasouli, K. Bertens, A. Ip, M. Graetzel, D. Sinton, E. H. Sargent*, Gold-in-copper at low *CO coverage enables efficient electromethanation of CO2, Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 3378. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23699-4 |