Yuen Wu

Research interests

Publications

• Identification of Fenton-like active Cu sites by heteroatom modulation of electronic density

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 10.1073/pnas.2119492119

• Synergy between Palladium Single Atoms and Nanoparticles via Hydrogen Spillover for Enhancing CO2 Photoreduction to CH4

  Advanced Materials · 2022 · 10.1002/adma.202200057

• Amorphization-induced surface electronic states modulation of cobaltous oxide nanosheets for lithium-sulfur batteries

  Nature Communications · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23349-9

• Compressive Strain Modulation of Single Iron Sites on Helical Carbon Support Boosts Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202109058

• General Design Concept for Single‐Atom Catalysts toward Heterogeneous Catalysis

  Advanced Materials · 2021 · 10.1002/adma.202004287

• Stimuli‐Responsive Manganese Single‐Atom Nanozyme for Tumor Therapy via Integrated Cascade Reactions

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2021 · 10.1002/anie.202017152

• Recent Progress on Two-Dimensional Materials

  Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica · 2021 · 10.3866/pku.whxb202108017

• Single Ru Atoms Stabilized by Hybrid Amorphous/Crystalline FeCoNi Layered Double Hydroxide for Ultraefficient Oxygen Evolution

  Advanced Energy Materials · 2020 · 10.1002/aenm.202002816

• Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host–guest strategy

  Nature Chemistry · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0473-9

• N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Single-Site Catalyst for Low-Temperature CO Oxidation

  ACS Catalysis · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c00097

• Engineering the electronic structure of single atom Ru sites via compressive strain boosts acidic water oxidation electrocatalysis

  Nature Catalysis · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0246-2

• Review of Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: From Nanoscale Engineering to Atomic Design

  Chem · 2019 · 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.03.002

• A general synthesis approach for amorphous noble metal nanosheets

  Nature Communications · 2019 · 10.1038/s41467-019-12859-2

• Trifunctional Self‐Supporting Cobalt‐Embedded Carbon Nanotube Films for ORR, OER, and HER Triggered by Solid Diffusion from Bulk Metal

  Advanced Materials · 2019 · 10.1002/adma.201808043

• Thermal Emitting Strategy to Synthesize Atomically Dispersed Pt Metal Sites from Bulk Pt Metal

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019 · 10.1021/jacs.8b09834

• Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe–N4 Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells

  ACS Catalysis · 2019 · 10.1021/acscatal.8b04381

• Identification of single-atom active sites in carbon-based cobalt catalysts during electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

  Nature Catalysis · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-018-0203-5

• Direct transformation of bulk copper into copper single sites via emitting and trapping of atoms

  Nature Catalysis · 2018 · 10.1038/s41929-018-0146-x

• In Situ Thermal Atomization To Convert Supported Nickel Nanoparticles into Surface‐Bound Nickel Single‐Atom Catalysts

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2018 · 10.1002/anie.201808049

• Synergistic effect of well-defined dual sites boosting the oxygen reduction reaction

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2018 · 10.1039/c8ee02656d

• Regulation of Coordination Number over Single Co Sites: Triggering the Efficient Electroreduction of CO2

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2017 · 10.1002/anie.201712451

• Ionic Exchange of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Access Single Nickel Sites for Efficient Electroreduction of CO 2

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02736

• Design of N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Sites: A Stable and Active Pt-Free Catalyst for Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b10385

• Hierarchical Fe-doped NiOx nanotubes assembled from ultrathin nanosheets containing trivalent nickel for oxygen evolution reaction

  Nano Energy · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.05.044

• Uncoordinated Amine Groups of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Anchor Single Ru Sites as Chemoselective Catalysts toward the Hydrogenation of Quinoline

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017 · 10.1021/jacs.7b01686

• Atomically Dispersed Copper–Platinum Dual Sites Alloyed with Palladium Nanorings Catalyze the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201709803

• Single Cobalt Atoms with Precise N‐Coordination as Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2016 · 10.1002/anie.201604802

• Porous Molybdenum Phosphide Nano‐Octahedrons Derived from Confined Phosphorization in UIO‐66 for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2016 · 10.1002/anie.201604315

• Hollow Zn/Co ZIF Particles Derived from Core–Shell ZIF‐67@ZIF‐8 as Selective Catalyst for the Semi‐Hydrogenation of Acetylene

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2015 · 10.1002/anie.201504242

• Syntheses of Water-Soluble Octahedral, Truncated Octahedral, and Cubic Pt–Ni Nanocrystals and Their Structure–Activity Study in Model Hydrogenation Reactions

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja302606d

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