Professor WANG, Ying(王莹教授)

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location    Room 359 Science Centre

Phone No.    (852) 3943 3586

Email    ying.b.wang@cuhk.edu.hk

Research Group    Wang Research Group Website

0000-0002-6240-5535

 

 

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, Electrode Kinetics, CO2 Conversion, Electrolyzer Engineering, Electrochemical Synthesis

 

Professional Activities

Early Career Editorial Board, Transactions of Tianjin University
Early Career Editorial Board, Chinese Chemical Letters

 

Honours and Awards

2023 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cheung Research Excellence Award 2023, United College, CUHK
2022 Young Researcher Award, 2022, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022 Excellent Young Scientists (Hong Kong and Macao), 2022, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2022 “Innovators under 35” Asia Pacific, 2022, MIT Technology Reviews

 

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 J. Wang1, Z. Zhang1, W. Wu, Y. Liu, B. Dong, Y Wang*, Y-H. Wang*, Unraveling how local environments impact multicarbon product electrosynthesis in active carbon solutions, ACS Energy Lett., 2024, 9, 110
2 Z. Zhang, Q. Lu, J. Sun, G. Li, W. Wu, Z. Xu, L. Xu, Y. Wang*, Unravelling the carbonate issue through the regulation of mass transport and charge transfer in mild acid, Chem. Sci., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3SC06583A
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W. Wu, Q. Lu, G. Li, Y. Wang*, How to extract kinetic information from Tafel analysis in electrocatalysis, J. Chem. Phy., 2023, 159, 221501
4 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., 2022, 5, 564