Yang Yang
Professor
- Office: Research Pavilion, Room 423
- Email: yang.yang@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-882-1180
- Yang Research Group
- Google Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Yang Yang is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), with affiliations in the NanoScience Technology Center. He joined UCF in 2015.
EDUCATION
- Peter M. and Ruth L. Nicholas Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rice University
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China
RESEARCH
- Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization
- Graphene, 2D materials and beyond
- Supercapacitors and batteries
- Water splitting
- Catalysis
- Smart electronics
- Yang, Y.; Fei, H.; Ruan, G.; Tour, J. M. Porous Co-Based Thin-Film as a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydrogen Generation and Oxygen Generation. Advanced Materials 2015, 27, 3175-3180.
- Yang, Y.; Fan, X.; Casillas, G.; Peng, Z.; Ruan, G.; Wang, G.; Jose-Yacaman, M.; Tour, J. M. Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Fe2O3/Fe3C-Graphene Heterogeneous Thin Films for Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 3939-3946.
- Yang, Y.; Ruan, G.; Xiang, C.; Wang, G.; Tour, J. M. Flexible Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Metal-Based Energy Devices. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 6187-6190.
- Wang, G.†; Yang, Y.†; Lee, I. H.; Abramova, V.; Fei, H.; Ruan, G.; Thomas, E. L.; Tour, J. M. Nanoporous Silicon Oxide Memory. Nano Letters 2014, 14, 4694-4699 († Co-author).
- Yang, Y.; Peng, Z.; Wang, G.; Fan, X.; Tour, J. M. Three-Dimensional Thin-Film for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 7279-7287.
- Yang, Y.; Li, L.; Xiang, C.; Ruan, G.; Fei, H.; Peng, Z.; Tour, J. M. Hydrothermally Formed Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Ni(OH)2 Thin-Film Supercapacitors. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 9622-9628.
- Yang, Y.; Fei, H.; Ruan, G.; Xiang, C.; Tour, J. M. Edge-Oriented MoS2 Nanoporous Films as Flexible Electrodes for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions and Supercapacitor Devices. Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 8163-8168.
- Yang, Y.; Fei, H.; Ruan, G.; Xiang, C.; Tour, J. M. Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution on Amorphous Nickel-Cobalt Binary Oxide Nanoporous Layers. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 9518-9523.
- Yang, Y.; Lee, K.; Zobel, M.; Mačković, M.; Unruh, T.; Spiecker, E.; Schmuki, P. Formation of Highly Ordered VO2 Nanotubular/Nanoporous Layers and Their Supercooling Effect in Phase Transitions. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, 1571-1575.
- Yang, Y.; Albu, S. P.; Kim, D.; Schmuki, P. Enabling the Anodic Growth of Highly Ordered V2O5 Nano-Porous/Tubular Structures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 9071-9075.
- Yang, Y.; Kim, D.; Yang, M.; Schmuki, P. Vertically Aligned Mixed V2O5-TiO2 Nanotube Arrays for Supercapacitor Applications. Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 7746-7748.
- Yang, Y.; Wang, X. H.; Sun, C. K.; Li, L. T. Phase Transition in BaTiO3 Nanotube Arrays.Journal of Applied Physics 2011, 109, 014109.
- Yang, Y.; Wang, X. H.; Zhong, C. F.; Sun, C. K.; Li, L. T. Ferroelectric PbTiO3 Nanotube Arrays Synthesized by Hydrothermal Method. Applied Physics Letters 2008, 92, 122907.