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Electrochemistry

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Publications
(†Equal contributions, *Corresponding authors)
For a complete list, see: Google Scholar

Independent publications since the Yang group established in 2024

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The best is yet to come

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The (mis)uses of Tafel slope

Valentin Briega-Martos, Rafael Guzman-Soriano, Jiahong Jiang, Sungin Kim, Shikai Liu, Juhyung Choi, Wenqi Li, Zhijing Zhang, Haichuan Zhang, Yao Yang*

Nature Catalysis 2025 (Invited Review).

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Operando Heating and Cooling Electrochemical 4D-STEM at Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Sungin Kim†, Shikai Liu†, Valentin Briega-Martos†, Chuqiao Shi†, Katherine Marusak Stephens, Steven E. Zeltmann, Rafael Guzman-Soriano, Wenqi Li, Jiahong Jiang, Zhijing Zhang, Juhyung Choi, Franklin S. Walden II, Nelson L. Marthe Jr., Patrick S. Wellborn, Yaofeng Guo, John Damiano, Yimo Han, Yao Yang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society Under Review

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Epitaxial Growth of Atomic-Layer Cu on Pd Nanocatalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Shikai Liu†, Chuqiao Shi† Chaokai Xu, Haichuan Zhang, Wenqi Li, Valentín Briega-Martos, Qian He, Yimo Han*, and Yao Yang*

Chemistry of Materials 2024

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Preserving surface strain in nanocatalysts via morphology control

Chuqiao Shi†, Zhihua Cheng†, Alberto Leonardi, Yao Yang, Michael Engel,
Matthew R. Jones*, and Yimo Han*

Science Advances 2024, 10, eadp3788.

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Single-Crystal Metals and Oxides as Atomically Precise Energy Materials Platforms for Fundamental Electrocatalysis

Valentín Briega-Martos and Yao Yang*

Accounts of Materials Research 2024, 5, 518-522.

Publications in transition from Post-doc. to Principal Inverstigator

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Dynamic Evolution of Copper Nanowires during CO2 Reduction Probed by Operando Electrochemical 4D-STEM and X-ray Spectroscopy

Yao Yang*, Chuqiao Shi, Julian Feijóo, Jianbo Jin, Chubai Chen, Yimo Han*, and Peidong Yang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 23398–23405.

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Operando Methods: A New Era of Electrochemistry

Yao Yang*, Julian Feijóo, Valentín Briega-Martos, Qihao Li, Mihail Krumov , Stefan Merkens, Giuseppe De Salvo, Andrey Chuvilin, Jianbo Jin, Haowei Huang, Christopher J. Pollock , Miquel B. Salmeron, Cheng Wang, David A. Muller, Héctor D. Abruña, and Peidong Yang

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2023, 42, 101403.

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Operando Electrochemical Liquid-Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (EC-STEM) Studies of Evolving Cu Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction

Yao Yang*, Yu-Tsun Shao, Jianbo Jin, Julian Feijóo, Inwhan Roh, Sheena Louisia, Sunmoon Yu, Maria V. Fonseca Guzman, Chubai Chen, David A. Muller, Héctor D. Abruña*, and Peidong Yang*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2023, 11, 4119 (Cover Story).

Selected Publications and Patents during PhD/Post-doc.

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Operando Studies Reveal Active Cu Nanograins for CO2 Electroreduction.

Yao Yang, Sheena Louisia, Sunmoon Yu, Jianbo Jin, Inwhan Roh, Chubai Chen, Maria V Fonseca Guzman, Julian Feijóo, Peng-Cheng Chen, Hongsen Wang, Christopher J Pollock, Xin Huang, Yu-Tsun Shao, Cheng Wang, David A Muller, Héctor D Abruña, Peidong Yang*

Nature 2023, 614, 262,

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Operando Probing Dynamic Migration of Copper Carbonyl
During CO2 Reduction

YaoYang, Julian Feijóo, Marc Figueras-Valls, Chubai Chen,
Chuqiao Shi, Maria V. Fonseca Guzman, Yves Murhabazi Maombi, Shikai
Liu, Pulkit Jain, Valentín Briega-Martos, Zhengxing Peng, Yu Shan, Geonhui
Lee, Michael Rebarchik, Lang Xu, Christopher J. Pollock, Jianbo Jin, Cheng
Wang, Miquel B. Salmeron, Zhu Chen, Yimo Han, Manos Mavrikakis,
Peidong Yang

Nature Catalysis 2025, Accepted in Principle.

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Inverse kinetic isotope effects in the oxygen reduction reaction at platinum single crystals

Yao Yang, Rishi G Agarwal, Phillips Hutchison, Rubén Rizo, Alexander V Soudackov, Xinyao Lu, Enrique Herrero*, Juan M Feliu*, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer*, James M Mayer*, Héctor D Abruña*

Nature Chemistry 2023, 15, 271.

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Octahedral spinel electrocatalysts for alkaline fuel cells

Yao Yang, Yin Xiong, Megan E Holtz, Xinran Feng, Rui Zeng, Gary Chen, Francis J DiSalvo, David A Muller, Héctor D Abruña

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019, 116, 244425.

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A Completely Precious-Metal-Free Alkaline Fuel Cell with Enhanced Performance Using a Carbon-Coated Nickel Anode

Yunfei Gao†, Yao Yang†, Roberto Schimmenti, Ellen Murray, Hanqing Peng, Yingming Wang, Chuangxin Ge, Wenyong Jiang, Gongwei Wang, Francis J DiSalvo, David A Muller, Manos Mavrikakis, Li Xiao*, Héctor D Abruña*, Lin Zhuang*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022, 119, e2119883119.

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Revealing the Atomic Ordering of Binary Intermetallics Using In Situ Heating Techniques at Multilength Scales

Yin Xiong†, Yao Yang†, Howie Joress, Elliot Padgett, Unmukt Gupta, Venkata Yarlagadda, David N Agyeman-Budu, Xin Huang, Thomas E Moylan, Rui Zeng, Anusorn Kongkanand, Fernando A Escobedo, Joel D Brock, Francis J DiSalvo*, David A Muller*, Héctor D Abruña*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019, 116, 1974.

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In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Synergistic Co−Mn Oxide Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Yao Yang, Ying Wang, Yin Xiong, Xin Huang, Luxi Shen, Rong Huang, Hongsen Wang, James P Pastore, Seung-Ho Yu, Li Xiao, Joel D Brock, Lin Zhuang*, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 1463.

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Elucidating Cathodic Corrosion Mechanisms with Operando Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy

Yao Yang†, Yu-Tsun Shao†, Xinyao Lu, Yan Yang, Hsin-Yu Ko, Robert A DiStasio Jr, Francis J DiSalvo, David A Muller*, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 15698.

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Operando Resonant Soft X‑ray Scattering Studies of Chemical Environment and Interparticle Dynamics of Cu Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction

Yao Yang, Inwhan Roh, Sheena Louisia, Chubai Chen, Jianbo Jin, Sunmoon Yu, Miquel B Salmeron, Cheng Wang*, Peidong Yang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 8927.

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Operando High-Energy-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Evolving Cu Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

Julian Feijóo, Yao Yang, Maria V Fonseca Guzman, Alfred Vargas, Chubai Chen, Christopher J Pollock, Peidong Yang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 20208.

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Chemical and Structural Evolution of AgCu Catalysts in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Peng-Cheng Chen†, Chubai Chen†, Yao Yang†, Arifin Luthfi Maulana, Jianbo Jin, Julian Feijoo, and Peidong Yang*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 10116.

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Cobalt-Based Nitride-Core Oxide-Shell Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts

Yao Yang†, Rui Zeng†, Yin Xiong, Francis J DiSalvo, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 19241.

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Combinatorial Studies of Palladium-Based Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Fuel Cells

Yao Yang†, Guanyu Chen†, Rui Zeng, Andres Molina Villarino, Francis J DiSalvo, R Bruce van Dover*, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 8, 3980.

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Metal−Organic-Framework-Derived Co−Fe Bimetallic Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Fuel Cells

Yin Xiong†, Yao Yang†, Francis J DiSalvo, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 10744.

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A Strategy for Increasing the Efficiency of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Mn-Doped Cobalt Ferrites

Yin Xiong†, Yao Yang†, Xinran Feng, Francis J DiSalvo, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 4412.

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Pt-Decorated Composition-Tunable Pd-Fe@Pd/C Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Yin Xiong†, Yao Yang†, Francis J DiSalvo, Héctor D Abruña*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, 7248.

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Nonprecious Transition Metal Nitrides as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Fuel Cells

Rui Zeng†, Yao Yang†, Xinran Feng, Huiqi Li, Lauryn M Gibbs, Francis J DiSalvo, Héctor D Abruña

Science Advances 2022, 8, eabj1584.

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Synergistic Mn-Co Catalyst Outperforms Pt on High-Rate Oxygen Reduction for Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Ying Wang, Yao Yang, Shuangfeng Jia, Xiaoming Wang, Kangjie Lyu, Yanqiu Peng, He Zheng, Xing Wei, Huan Ren, Li Xiao*, Jianbo Wang, David A Muller, Héctor D Abruña*, Bing Joe Hwang, Juntao Lu, Lin Zhuang*

Nature Communications 2019, 10, 1506.

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High-loading Composition-Tolerant Co-Mn Spinel Oxides with Performance beyond 1 W/cm2 in Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Yao Yang†, Hanqing Peng†, Yin Xiong, Qihao Li, Juntao Lu, Li Xiao, Francis J DiSalvo, Lin Zhuang*, Héctor D Abruña*

ACS Energy Letters 2019, 4, 1251.

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Metal Monolayers on Command: Underpotential Deposition at Nanocrystal Surfaces: A Quantitative Operando Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy Study

Yao Yang, Yu-Tsun Shao, Francis J DiSalvo, David A Muller*, Héctor D Abruña*

ACS Energy Letters 2022, 7, 1292.

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Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline-Based Energy Technologies

Yao Yang, Cheyenne R Peltier, Rui Zeng, Roberto Schimmenti, Qihao Li, Xin Huang, Zhifei Yan, Georgia Potsi, Ryan Selhorst, Xinyao Lu, Weixuan Xu, Mariel Tader, Alexander V Soudackov, Hanguang Zhang, Mihail Krumov, Ellen Murray, Pengtao Xu, Jeremy Hitt, Linxi Xu, Hsin-Yu Ko, Brian G Ernst, Colin Bundschu, Aileen Luo, Danielle Markovich, Meixue Hu, Cheng He, Hongsen Wang, Jiye Fang, Robert A DiStasio Jr, Lena F Kourkoutis, Andrej Singer, Kevin JT Noonan, Li Xiao, Lin Zhuang, Bryan S Pivovar, Piotr Zelenay, Enrique Herrero, Juan M Feliu, Jin Suntivich, Emmanuel P Giannelis, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Tomás Arias, Manos Mavrikakis, Thomas E Mallouk, Joel D Brock, David A Muller, Francis J DiSalvo, Geoffrey W Coates, Héctor D Abruña*

Chemical Reviews 2021, 122, 6117-6321.

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Operando Methods in Electrocatalysis

Yao Yang†, Yin Xiong†, Rui Zeng, Xinyao Lu, Mihail Krumov, Xin Huang, Weixuan Xu, Hongsen Wang, Francis J DiSalvo, Joel D Brock, David A Muller, Héctor D Abruña*

ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 1136.

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[US Patent] Apparatus comprising manganese-cobalt spinel oxide/carbon catalyst

U.S. Patent, 2022, 11394033.

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[US Patent] Titanium disulfide-sulfur composites

U.S. Patent, 2022, 11417884.

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