Dr. Xiaohui Yang is currently an Associate Professor in our center. He received his M. S. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017 and Ph. D. degree from Chongqing University in 2020. His research interests focus on environmental electrochemistry, including synthesis of functional materials for wastewater treatment and resource utilization. He has secured the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scholar), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (The 70th Batch), Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (Postdoctoral Program), and Special Research Associate Foundation from Chinese Academy of Science. He has published more than 30 SCI papers in Chem. Sci., Appl. Catal. B: Environ., Small, Chem. Eng. J., J. Energy Chem. etc.
1. Yang X.H.; Wang R.; Wang S.; Song C.; Lu S.; Fang L.; Yin F.J.*; Liu H.* Sequential active-site switches in integrated Cu/Fe-TiO2 for efficient electroreduction from nitrate into ammonia. Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 2023, 325, 122360.
2. Yang X.H.; Wan J.; Zhang H.J.; Wang Y.* In situ modification of d-band in core-shell structure for efficient hydrogen storage via electrocatalytic N2 fixation. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 11030.
3. Yang X.H.; Ling F.L.; Su J.F.; Zi X.R.; Zhang H.; Zhang H.J.; Li J.; Zhou M.*; Wang Y.* Insights into the role of cation vacancy for significantly enhanced electrochemical nitrogen reduction. Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 2020, 264, 118477.
4. Yang X.H.; Ling F.L.; Zi X.R.; Wang Y.W.; Zhang H.; Zhang H.J.; Zhou M.*; Guo Z.P.*; Wang Y.* Low-coordinate step atoms via plasma-assisted calcinations to enhance electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia. Small. 2020, 16, 2000421.
5. Yang X.H.; Liu D.; Lu S.Y., Xiang S.Y., Zhang H., Yang Q., Di Y.J., Ma Y.L., Wang R.* New pentlandite-like oxide semiconductors IrIn6XYO8 (X = Ga, In; Y = Ge, Sn, Ti) as potential candidates for photocatalytic water splitting under visible-light irradiation, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 16818-16827.
6. Yang X.H.; Zi X.R.; Wang Y.W.; Zhang H.*; Ma J.L.; Fang L.; Zhang H.J.; Li J.; Wang Y.* A porous heterostructure catalyst for oxygen evolution: synergy between IrP2 nanocrystals and ultrathin P,N-codoped carbon nanosheets. Nanotechnology. 2021, 32, 245402.
7. Yang X.H.; Jiang Y.Q.*; Li Y.D.; Xu X.Z.; Li D.F.; Lin K.F.* Mesoporous silica beads containing active and stable tin species for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidations of cyclic ketones. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater. 2017, 253, 40-48.
8. Gao Y.; Wang R.; Li Y.D.; Han E.S.; Song M.S.; Yang Z.Y.; Guo F.; He Y.Z.*; Yang X.H.* Regulating dynamic equilibrium of active hydrogen for super-efficient nitrate electroreduction to ammonia. Chem. Eng. J. 2023, 474, 145546.
9. Wang R.*; Lu S.Y.; Jiang P.F.; Lu G.X.; Zhang H.; Jia B.; Di Y.J.; Ma Y.L.; Yang X.H.* First-Principles Calculations on Narrow-Band Gap d10 Metal Oxides for Photocatalytic H2 Production: Role of Unusual In2+ Cations in Band Engineering. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 5872–5879.
10. Peng J.Y.; Zhang Q.*; Zhou Y.; Yang X.H.*; Guo F.; Xu J.Q.* Cold plasma-activated Cu-Co catalysts with CN vacancies for enhancing CO2 electroreduction to low-carbon alcohol. J. Energy Chem. 2023, 85, 108-115.
