Jiaguo Yu

University:

Wuhan University of Technology

Short Biography:

Jiaguo Yu received his BS and MS in chemistry from Huazhong Normal University and Xi’an Jiaotong University, respectively, and his PhD in Materials Science in 2000 from Wuhan University of Technology. In 2000, he became a Professor of the Wuhan University of Technology. He was a post-doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2001 to 2004, visiting scientist from 2005 to 2006 at the University of Bristol, and visiting scholar from 2007 to 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin. He is Thomson Reuters "Hottest Researcher" of 2012 and 2014 Highly Cited Researchers from Thomson Reuters in Chemistry and Materials Science.

Research Interest :

His research interests include semiconductor photocatalysis, photocatalytic hydrogen production, solar fuels, dye-sensitized solar cells, adsorption, CO2 capture, graphene and so on.

Five of the most important publications:

1. Quanjun Xiang, Jiaguo Yu,* and Mietek Jaroniec*, Graphene-based semiconductor photocatalysts, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2012, 41, 782–796.

2. Quanjun Xiang, Jiaguo Yu* and Mietek Jaroniec*, Synergetic Effect of MoS2 and Graphene as Cocatalysts for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Production Activity of TiO2 Nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 6575-6578.

3. Peng Zhou, Jiaguo Yu* and Mietek Jaroniec*, All-solid-state Z-scheme photocatalytic systems, Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 4920-4935.

4. Jun Zhang, Jiaguo Yu*, Yimin Zhang, Qin Li and Jian Ru Gong*, Visible Light Photocatalytic H2-Production Activity of CuS/ZnS Porous Nanosheets Based on Photoinduced Interfacial Charge Transfer, Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 4774–4779.

5. Jiaguo Yu,* Jingxiang Low, Wei Xiao, Peng Zhou, and Mietek Jaroniec*, Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2-Reduction Activity of Anatase TiO2 by Coexposed {001} and {101} Facets, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8839-8842.