Yu Meng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, Graduated from Nankai University.

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Address：Room A703, Joint Building, Nankai University, No. 94 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin
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Email: nkyu2023@nankai.edu.cn
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Research Interest:
1.Energy Materials Chemistry
2.Electrocatalytic Materials and Devices

2009.9 – 2013.7, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Bachelor

2013.8 – 2015.5, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, USA, Master

2015.6 – 2019.6, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Ph.D.

2019.7 – 2022.6, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Postdoc

2022.7 – 2023.9, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Postdoc

2023.10 – Present, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Associate Professor

1.     The Second Prize of Tianjin Natural Science Award in 2022 (the second accomplished person)

2.     Outstanding Paper Award of the 20th National Electrochemistry Conference

3.     Best Presentation Award of the 2022 Journal of Energy Chemistry Authors' Symposium

The person has published more than 40 papers in academic journals such as Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater.), ACS Catalysis (ACS. Catal.), and Advanced Energy Materials (Adv. Energy Mater.). He has been granted 1 invention patent. As a project leader or key member, he has undertaken scientific research tasks such as the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the special project of Catalysis Science in the National Key Research and Development Program.

Representative Papers:

1. Jinhan Li, Keqiang Xu, Fangming Liu, Youzeng Li, Yanfang Hu, Xijie Chen, Huan Wang*, Wence Xu, Youxuan Ni, Guoyu Ding, Tete Zhao, Meng Yu*, Wei Xie, Fangyi Cheng*. Hollow Hierarchical Cu₂O-Derived Electrocatalysts Steering CO₂ Reduction to Multi-Carbon Chemicals at Low Overpotentials. Advanced Materials 2023, 35, 2301127.

2. Tete Zhao, Jinhan Li, Jiuding Liu, Fangming Liu, Keqiang Xu, Meng Yu*, Wence Xu, Fangyi Cheng*. Tailoring the Catalytic Microenvironment of Cu₂O with SiO₂ to Enhance C₂₊ Product Selectivity in CO₂ Electroreduction. ACS Catalysis 2023, 13, 4444.

3. Tete Zhao, Xupeng Zong, Jiuding Liu, Jialei Chen, Keqiang Xu, Xiao Wang, Xijie Chen, Wutong Yang, Fangming Liu, Meng Yu*, Fangyi Cheng*. Functionalizing Cu nanoparticles with fluoric polymer to enhance C₂₊ roduct selectivity in membraned CO₂ reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2024, 340, 123281.

4. Meng Yu#, Fangming Liu#, Jinhan Li, Jiuding Liu, Yudong Zhang, Fangyi Cheng*. Multidimensional nonstoichiometric electrode materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 2100640.

5. Meng Yu, Jinhan Li, Fangming Liu, Jiuding Liu, Wence Xu, Honglu Hu, Xijie Chen, Weichao Wang, Fangyi Cheng*. Anionic formulation of electrolyte additive towards stable lectrocatalytic oxygen evolution in seawater splitting. Journal of Energy Chemistry 2022, 72, 361.

6. Meng Yu, Guilan Fan, Jiuding Liu, Wence Xu, Jinhan Li, Fangyi Cheng*. Self-supported Mo-doped TiO₂ electrode for ambient electrocatalytic nitrogen. Electrochemica Acta 2022, 435, 141333.

7. Xijie Chen, Keqiang Xu, Jinhan Li, Xiao Wang, Tete Zhao, Fangming Liu, Meng Yu*, Fangyi Cheng*. Ni₃S₂@NiFeP_x electrode with dual-anion-modulated layer for efficient and stable oxygen evolution. Chinese Chemical Letters 2023, 34, 108713.  

8. Meng Yu#, Li Wang#, Jieyu Liu, Hui Li, Xiuyao Lang, Chunning Zhao, Zhanglian Hong, Weichao Wang*. Sponge Effect Boosting Oxygen Reduction Reaction at the Interfaces between Mullite SmMn₂O₅ and Nitrogen-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide. ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces 2019, 11, 17482.

9. Meng Yu, Qiliang Wei, Mingjie Wu, Jie Wu, Jieyu Liu, Gaixia Zhang, Shuhui Sun, Weichao Wang*. Morphology controlled synthesis of SmMn₂O₅ nanocrystals via a surfactantfree route for Zn-air batteries. Journal of Power Sources 2018, 396, 754.