Research Areas

At present, She is mainly engaged in the research of energy catalysis, including biomass conversion and electrocatalysis, synchrotron radiation X-ray absorption spectroscopy, etc., the design, preparation and structure-activity relationship of metal-related nanocrystals, single atoms and stress-controlled catalytic materials

Publications

[1] Ying Yang,* Shuai Shao,1 Feng Yang, Dale L. Brewe, Shangwei Guo, Dongcheng Ren, and Shijie Haoa,* , Conversion of cellulose to high yield glucose in water over sulfonated mesoporous carbon fibers with optimized acidity, Green Chemistry, 2021, 23, 4477-4489. IF = 10.182 CAS Region 1 TOP

[2] Shuai Shao, Ying Yang,* Keju Sun,* Songtao Yang, Ang Li,* Xinruo Luo, Shijie Hao, and Yangchuan Ke, Electron-rich ruthenium single-atom alloy for aqueous levulinic acid hydrogenation, ACS Catalysis, 2021, 12146-12158. IF = 13.084 CAS Region
1 TOP
[3] Zelin Li, Ying Yang,* Shuangxi Wang, Lin Gu, and Shuai Shao, High density single ruthenium atoms anchored on oxygen vacancy-rich g-C3N4-C-TiO2 heterostructural nanosphere for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 46608-46619. IF = 9.229 CAS Region I
[4] Shuai Shao, Ying Yang,* Shangwei Guo, Shijie Hao, Feng Yang, Suoying Zhang, Yang Ren, Yangchuan Ke*, Highly active and stable Co nanoparticles embedded in nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon nanofibers for aqueous-phase levulinic acid hydrogenation, Green Energy and Environment, 2021, 6, 567-577. IF = 8.207 CAS Region I

[5] Ying Yang, Wen Zhang, Feng Yang, Dehong Zeng, Biao Zhou, Xin Zhang, Ru nanoparticles dispersed on magnetic yolk-shell nanoarchitectures with Fe3O4 core and sulfoacid-containing periodic mesoporous organosilica shell as bifunctional catalysts for direct conversion of cellulose to isosorbide, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 2199-2206. IF = 7.790 CAS Region II

[6] Ying Yang, Feng Yang, Hongru Hu, Sungsik Lee, Yue Wang, Shijie Hao, Dilute NiO/carbon nanofiber composites derived from metal organic framework fibers as electrode materials for supercapacitors, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017, 307, 583-592. IF = 13.273 CAS Region
1 TOP
[7] Dehong Zeng, Ying Yang,* Feng Yang, Fangmin Guo, Senjie Yang, Baijun Liu, Shijie Hao and Yang Ren, Versatile NiO/mesoporous carbon nanodisks: Controlled synthesis from hexagon shaped heterobimetallic metal-organic frameworks, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 11851-11857. IF = 7.790 CAS Region II

[8] Ying Yang, Cheng-Jun Sun, Dennis E. Brown, Liqiang Zhang, Feng Yang, Hairui Zhao, Yue Wang, Xiaohui Ma, Xin Zhang, Yang Ren, A smart strategy to fabricate Ru nanoparticle inserted porous carbon nanofibers as highly efficient levulinic acid hydrogenation catalysts, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 3558-3566. IF = 10.182 CAS Region
1 TOP
[9] Ying Yang, Wen Zhang, Dennis E. Brown, Yang Ren, Feng Yang, Sungsik Lee, Qiang Gao, Xin Zhang, Versatile nickel-tungsten bimetallics/carbon nanofiber catalysts for direct conversion of cellulose to ethylene glycol, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 3949-3955. IF = 10.182 CAS Region 1 TOP