News
Year 2021
09/10/2021 Welcome to new group members! Postdoc --- Dr. Junchuan Fang, Ph.D. studnets --- James Akinjide annd Jithu Raj, and M.S./M.E. students --- Josh Ackley and Ian Moorhead.
09/06/2021 Tianyu and Zhengyuan published their work "Regulation of functional groups on graphene quantum dots directs selective CO2 to CH4 conversion" on Nature Communications.
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25640-1
08/02/2021 Jianfang and Zhengyuan published their work "Reconstructing two-dimensional defects in CuO nanowires for efficient CO2 electroreduction to ethylene" on Chemical Communications, as part of themed issue of "Emerging Investigators 2021".
06/21/2021 Zhengyuan published his work "Planar Defect-Driven Electrocatalysis of CO2-to-C2H4 Conversion" on Journal of Materials Chemistry A. It falls into the collection of "Emerging Investigator 2021".
04/15/2021 Tianyu receives the 2020-2021 URC Graduate Student Stipend and Research Cost Program for Faculty—Student Collaboration Award. Congratulations to Tianyu!
03/15/2021 Dr. Wu receives the CEAS Distinguished Researcher Award from College of Engineering and Applied Science to recognize his scholar achievement in the past year 2020.
01/19/2021 The team proposal aiming at developing "Modular Reactors for the Capture and Electro-conversion of CO2 in Various Industrial Processes to Value-Added Chemicals" is recommended for funding by DOE EERE AMO with a total award of $3.2M. The team includes ULL, UC, INL and Giner Inc. See the DOE announcement.
01/04/2021 Three new members join our group this Spring. Two co-advised postdocs between the Sun and Wu groups, Drs. Xiang Lyu and Xiao Shang, and one graduate student, Takeshi Ito. Welcome aboard!
Year 2020
10/01/2020 Yujing and Jianfang published their work on NRR on ACS Applied Energy Materials.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c01834
9/23/2020 Zhengyuan published two papers in JES and Applied Catalysis A: General, respectively.
08/15/2020 The proposal aiming to research the interplay of reactant species transport and C-C coupling reaction kinetics is funded by NSF CBET with funding of ~$450,000.
06/25/2020 The joint project of CO2-to-C2H4 conversion together with ULL has been funded by DOE NETL with a total award of $1.25 M. This project will support our group to develop electrodes for electrochemical CO2 reduction towards industrial application.
05/01/2020 Tianyu's paper "Enhance CO2-to-C2+ products yield through spatial management of CO transport in Cu/ZnO tandem electrodes" is accepted by Journal of Catalysis. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.05.002
04/12/2020 The paper "Tandem Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction into C2+ Products at Simultaneously High Production Efficiency and Rate" is published in Cell Reports Physical Science https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100051.
03/15/2020 Yujing Tian successfully defended her M.S. thesis. She starts a new trip as a research engineer in Foxconn USA.
03/12/2020 jianfang's paper "Confinement of intermediates in blue TiO2 nanotube arrays boosts reaction rate of nitrogen electrocatalysis" is published in ChemCatChem.
01/12/2020 Tianyu's paper "Nickel-nitrogen-carbon molecular catalysts for high rate CO2 electro-reduction to CO: on the role of carbon substrate and reaction chemistry" is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
02/01/2020 The paper "Spontaneous self-intercalation of copper atoms into transition-metal dichalcogenides " in collaboration with Rice University and Wuhan University is published by Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4092
Year 2019
10/09/2019 The paper "Atomic Ru Immobilized on Porous h-BN through Simple Vacuum Filtration for Highly Active and Selective CO2 Methanation" is online in ACS Catalysis, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.9b02197.
09/27/2019 The collaborative paper "Metal-Oxide-Mediated Subtractive Manufacturing of Two-Dimensional Carbon Nitride for High-Efficiency and High-Yield Photocatalytic H2 Evolution" with Jiangsu University is published online in ACS Nano, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04443.
04/09/2019 The paper "Discovering superior basal plane active two-dimensional catalysts for hydrogen evolution" is online in Materials Today, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2019.02.014.
04/01/2019 Dr. Wu receives CEAS Faculty Development Award.
03/31/2019 Two projects were selected for funding through UC Office of Research Collaborative Research Advancement Grants Program - Track 1: Pilot Teams.
1/20/2019 Dr. Linping Sun from Changchun University of Technology joins our group as a visiting professor. Welcome Dr. Sun!
1/17/2019 The paper "Doping nanoscale graphene domain improves magnetism in hexagonal boron nitride" is published in Advanced Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805778
Year 2018
12/27/2018 The invited review paper entitled "Emerging Carbon‐Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide into Value‐Added Chemicals" is on-line in Advanced Materials website: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804257
10/2/2018 Jianfang Zhang from Hefei University of Technology joins our group as a visiting PhD student. He will stay in UC for 2 year to perform N2 fixation research. Welcome Jianfang!
8/15/2018 Zhengyuan Li from Rice University joins our group as the 2nd PhD student. He will perform research on the CH4 activation and conversion . Yujing Tan joins us a MS student. She is studying N2 fixation with 2D materials. Welcome Zhengyuan and Yujing!
07/23/2018 The paper entitled "Reflux pretreatment-mediated sonication: A new universal route to obtain 2D quantum dots" is published in Materials Today.
06/1/2018 Dr. Wu receives the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award .
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5/1/2018 Dr. Wu receives the New Faculty Development Award from office of Research, University of Cincinnati.
03/25/2018 The paper entitled "Electrochemical CO2 Reduction with Atomic Iron‐Dispersed on Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene" is online in Advanced Energy Materials.
03/15/2018 Dr. Wu wins the University Research Council Faculty Research Cost Support Award.
03/10/2018 Dr. Xiaojie She from Jiangsu University joins our group as a postdoc.
Year 2017
12/15/2017 Our paper entitled "Cryo-mediated exfoliation and fracturing of layered materials into 2D quantum dots" is published in Science Advances.
10/4/2017 Dr. Jingjie Wu presented "Atomic carbon based electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction" in 232nd ECS meeting, National Harbor, MD.
09/15/2017 The paper titled "Self-optimizing, highly surface-active layered metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution" was selected as Cover Page in Nature Energy.
08/15/2017 The first Ph.D. student Tianyu Zhang from East China University of Science and Technology joins the group.
08/15/2017 The Atomic Materials for Catalysis Research Group led by Dr. Jingjie Wu is officially launched in University of Cincinnati.
07/11/2017 Dr. Jingjie Wu was invited to attend DOE listening day in San Diego.
09/10/2021 Welcome to new group members! Postdoc --- Dr. Junchuan Fang, Ph.D. studnets --- James Akinjide annd Jithu Raj, and M.S./M.E. students --- Josh Ackley and Ian Moorhead.
09/06/2021 Tianyu and Zhengyuan published their work "Regulation of functional groups on graphene quantum dots directs selective CO2 to CH4 conversion" on Nature Communications.
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25640-1
08/02/2021 Jianfang and Zhengyuan published their work "Reconstructing two-dimensional defects in CuO nanowires for efficient CO2 electroreduction to ethylene" on Chemical Communications, as part of themed issue of "Emerging Investigators 2021".
06/21/2021 Zhengyuan published his work "Planar Defect-Driven Electrocatalysis of CO2-to-C2H4 Conversion" on Journal of Materials Chemistry A. It falls into the collection of "Emerging Investigator 2021".
04/15/2021 Tianyu receives the 2020-2021 URC Graduate Student Stipend and Research Cost Program for Faculty—Student Collaboration Award. Congratulations to Tianyu!
03/15/2021 Dr. Wu receives the CEAS Distinguished Researcher Award from College of Engineering and Applied Science to recognize his scholar achievement in the past year 2020.
01/19/2021 The team proposal aiming at developing "Modular Reactors for the Capture and Electro-conversion of CO2 in Various Industrial Processes to Value-Added Chemicals" is recommended for funding by DOE EERE AMO with a total award of $3.2M. The team includes ULL, UC, INL and Giner Inc. See the DOE announcement.
01/04/2021 Three new members join our group this Spring. Two co-advised postdocs between the Sun and Wu groups, Drs. Xiang Lyu and Xiao Shang, and one graduate student, Takeshi Ito. Welcome aboard!
Year 2020
10/01/2020 Yujing and Jianfang published their work on NRR on ACS Applied Energy Materials.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c01834
9/23/2020 Zhengyuan published two papers in JES and Applied Catalysis A: General, respectively.
08/15/2020 The proposal aiming to research the interplay of reactant species transport and C-C coupling reaction kinetics is funded by NSF CBET with funding of ~$450,000.
06/25/2020 The joint project of CO2-to-C2H4 conversion together with ULL has been funded by DOE NETL with a total award of $1.25 M. This project will support our group to develop electrodes for electrochemical CO2 reduction towards industrial application.
05/01/2020 Tianyu's paper "Enhance CO2-to-C2+ products yield through spatial management of CO transport in Cu/ZnO tandem electrodes" is accepted by Journal of Catalysis. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.05.002
04/12/2020 The paper "Tandem Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction into C2+ Products at Simultaneously High Production Efficiency and Rate" is published in Cell Reports Physical Science https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100051.
03/15/2020 Yujing Tian successfully defended her M.S. thesis. She starts a new trip as a research engineer in Foxconn USA.
03/12/2020 jianfang's paper "Confinement of intermediates in blue TiO2 nanotube arrays boosts reaction rate of nitrogen electrocatalysis" is published in ChemCatChem.
01/12/2020 Tianyu's paper "Nickel-nitrogen-carbon molecular catalysts for high rate CO2 electro-reduction to CO: on the role of carbon substrate and reaction chemistry" is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
02/01/2020 The paper "Spontaneous self-intercalation of copper atoms into transition-metal dichalcogenides " in collaboration with Rice University and Wuhan University is published by Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay4092
Year 2019
10/09/2019 The paper "Atomic Ru Immobilized on Porous h-BN through Simple Vacuum Filtration for Highly Active and Selective CO2 Methanation" is online in ACS Catalysis, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.9b02197.
09/27/2019 The collaborative paper "Metal-Oxide-Mediated Subtractive Manufacturing of Two-Dimensional Carbon Nitride for High-Efficiency and High-Yield Photocatalytic H2 Evolution" with Jiangsu University is published online in ACS Nano, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04443.
04/09/2019 The paper "Discovering superior basal plane active two-dimensional catalysts for hydrogen evolution" is online in Materials Today, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2019.02.014.
04/01/2019 Dr. Wu receives CEAS Faculty Development Award.
03/31/2019 Two projects were selected for funding through UC Office of Research Collaborative Research Advancement Grants Program - Track 1: Pilot Teams.
1/20/2019 Dr. Linping Sun from Changchun University of Technology joins our group as a visiting professor. Welcome Dr. Sun!
1/17/2019 The paper "Doping nanoscale graphene domain improves magnetism in hexagonal boron nitride" is published in Advanced Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805778
Year 2018
12/27/2018 The invited review paper entitled "Emerging Carbon‐Based Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide into Value‐Added Chemicals" is on-line in Advanced Materials website: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804257
10/2/2018 Jianfang Zhang from Hefei University of Technology joins our group as a visiting PhD student. He will stay in UC for 2 year to perform N2 fixation research. Welcome Jianfang!
8/15/2018 Zhengyuan Li from Rice University joins our group as the 2nd PhD student. He will perform research on the CH4 activation and conversion . Yujing Tan joins us a MS student. She is studying N2 fixation with 2D materials. Welcome Zhengyuan and Yujing!
07/23/2018 The paper entitled "Reflux pretreatment-mediated sonication: A new universal route to obtain 2D quantum dots" is published in Materials Today.
06/1/2018 Dr. Wu receives the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award .
Learn More > CEAS News
5/1/2018 Dr. Wu receives the New Faculty Development Award from office of Research, University of Cincinnati.
03/25/2018 The paper entitled "Electrochemical CO2 Reduction with Atomic Iron‐Dispersed on Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene" is online in Advanced Energy Materials.
03/15/2018 Dr. Wu wins the University Research Council Faculty Research Cost Support Award.
03/10/2018 Dr. Xiaojie She from Jiangsu University joins our group as a postdoc.
Year 2017
12/15/2017 Our paper entitled "Cryo-mediated exfoliation and fracturing of layered materials into 2D quantum dots" is published in Science Advances.
10/4/2017 Dr. Jingjie Wu presented "Atomic carbon based electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction" in 232nd ECS meeting, National Harbor, MD.
09/15/2017 The paper titled "Self-optimizing, highly surface-active layered metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution" was selected as Cover Page in Nature Energy.
08/15/2017 The first Ph.D. student Tianyu Zhang from East China University of Science and Technology joins the group.
08/15/2017 The Atomic Materials for Catalysis Research Group led by Dr. Jingjie Wu is officially launched in University of Cincinnati.
07/11/2017 Dr. Jingjie Wu was invited to attend DOE listening day in San Diego.