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, 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 |
| 3 |
W. Wu, Q. Lu, G. Li, Y. Wang*, How to extract kinetic information from Tafel analysis in electrocatalysis, J. Chem. Phy., 2023, 159, 221501
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| 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 |