Research Areas

New Materials and Catalyst Engineering

Publications

[1] Fan Yang, Cheng Chi, Chunxia Wang, Ying Wang,* Yongfeng Li,* High Graphite N Content in Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as an Efficient Metal-free Catalyst for Reduction of Nitroarenes in Water. Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 4254-4262.

[2] Fan Yang, Sen Dong, Chunxia Wang, Yongfeng Li,* Controllable synthesis of Pd/PdO nanocomposite as catalyst for hydrogenation of nitroarenes to anilines in water. RSC Advances, 2016,6, 52620-52626. br>
[3] Fan Yang, Andong Feng, Chunxia Wang, Sen Dong, Cheng Chi, Xilai Jia, Liqiang Zhang, Yongfeng Li,* Graphene oxide/carbon nanotubes-Fe3O4 support Pd nanoparticles for hydrogenation of nitroarenes and C-H activation. RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 16911-16916.

[4] Fan Yang, Chunxia Wang, Sen Dong, Cheng Chia, Xilai Jia, Liqiang Zhang, Yongfeng Li,* Plasma synthesis of Pd/PdO supported on porous graphene as electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation. Materials Letters, 2016, 174, 192-196.

[5] Fan Yang, Md. Akhtaruzzaman,* Ashraful Islam, Structure-activity relationship of naphthalene based donor-π-acceptor organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: remarkable improvement of open-circuit photovoltage. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012, 22, 22550-22557.