Prof. YE Ruquan
葉汝全教授
PhD(Rice)
Associate Professor of Department of Chemistry
Contact Information
| Office: | YEUNG-P5323 |
|---|---|
| Phone: | +852 3442-9023 |
| Fax: | +852 3442-0522 |
| Email: | ruquanye@cityu.edu.hk |
| Web: | yeruquan.wixsite.com/website |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-2543-9090 |
| Scopus Author ID: |
55361329600 |
Research Interests
- sustainable energy conversion
- environmental science
- fluorescent materials
- AoE:
- Materials Science in Three Major Areas:
- Sustainable Energy Conversions such as Water Splitting and CO2 Electrification
- Laser-assisted Materials Manufacturing
- Fluorescent Nanomaterials
Dr. Ruquan Ye obtained his B.Sc in Chemistry from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2012), where he worked on fluorescent molecules under the supervision of Prof. Ben Zhong Tang. Then he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rice University (2017) under the supervision of Prof. James M. Tour. During his graduate study, he developed new methodologies for the synthesis of nanomaterials and applications in catalysis and photophysics. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoc associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Karthish Manthiram on electrochemical CO2 reduction and alcohol oxidation. He joined the City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in 2018.
Selected Publications
(Full list of publications at Google Scholar)
Catalysis [CO2 reduction and others]
- Jianjun Su,# Charles B Musgrave III,# Yun Song, Libei Huang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Pei Xiong, Molly Meng-Jung Li, Haoran Wu, Minghui Zhu, Hao Ming Chen, Jianyu Zhang, Hanchen Shen, Ben Zhong Tang, Marc Robert, William A Goddard III,* Ruquan Ye* Strain Enhances the Activity of Molecular Electrocatalysts via Carbon Nanotube Supports, Nature Catalysis (2023).
- Junlai Yu#, Libei Huang#, Qingxuan Tang, Shang-Bo Yu, Qiao-Yan Qi, Jiangshan Zhang, Danying Ma, Yifei Lei, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Jean-Charles Eloi, Robert L Harniman, Ufuk Borucu, Long Zhang, Minghui Zhu, Feng Tian, Lili Du*, David Lee Phillips*, Ian Manners, Ruquan Ye*, Jia Tian* Artificial spherical chromatophore nanomicelle for selective CO2 reduction in water Nature Catalysis 6, 464-475 (2023)
- Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Jun-Jie Zhang,* Haikun Wu, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, He Zhu, Qi Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qiyuan He, Man-Kit Tse, Deng-tao Yang, Boris I. Yakobson,* Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Ruquan Ye* Direct synthesis of ammonia from nitrate on amorphous graphene with near 100% efficiency Advanced Materials 2211856 (2023)
- Wenbin Wang, Yun Song, Chengxuan Ke, Chen Ma, Zongxiao Wu, Junlei Qi, Kai Bao, Lingzhi Wang, Jingkun Wu, Yang Li, Yong Liu, Chun-Sing Lee, Ye Chen, Guangfu Luo,* Qiyuan He*, Ruquan Ye* Filling the Gap between Heteroatom Doping and Edge Enrichment of 2D Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution ACS Nano 17 (2) 1287-1297 (2023)
- Yun Song, Jun-jie Zhang, Yubing Dou, Zhaohua Zhu, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Xiaohu Cao, Le Cheng, Zonglong Zhu, Zhenhua Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhong, Dengtao Yang*, Zhaoyu Wang, Ben Zhong Tang, Boris I. Yakobson*, Ruquan Ye* Atomically Thin, Ionic-Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Stable, High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction Advanced Materials 2110496 (2022)
- Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Binghao Zhang, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Feijun Hu, He Zhu, Zhaoyu Wang, Tingting Zheng, Deng-tao Yang, Chi-Kit Siu, Qi Liu, Yang Ren, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang and Ruquan Ye* Steering the Topological Defects in Amorphous Laser-Induced Graphene for Direct Nitrate-to-Ammonia Electroreduction ACS Catalysis 12 (19), 11639-11650 (2022).
- Weihua Guo, Yuefeng Zhang, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Xiaohu Cao, Yubing Dou, Yangbo Ma, Chenyan Ma, He Zhu, Tingting Zheng, Zhaoyu Wang, Hao Li, Zhanxi Fan, Qi Liu, Zhiyuan Zeng,* Juncai Dong, Chuan Xia, Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Transient solid-state laser activation of indium for high-performance reduction of CO2 to formate Small 18 (24), 2201311 (2022)
- J. Su, J.-J. Zhang, J. Chen, Y. Song, L. Huang, M. Zhu*, B. I. Yakobson, B. Z. Tang, R. Ye* Building a stable cationic molecule/electrode interface for highly efficient and durable CO2 reduction Energy & Environmental Science, 14, 483 (2021)
- Y. Song, J.-J. Zhang, Z. Zhu, X. Chen, L. Huang, J. Su, Z. Xu, T. H. Ly, C.-S. Lee, B. I. Yakobson, B. Z. Tang, R. Ye* Zwitterionic ultrathin 2D covalent organic polymers for high-performance electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction Appl. Catal. B., 119750 (2020)
- J. Tian, Y. Zhang, L. Du, Y. He, X. Jin, S. Pearce, J.-C. Eloi, R. L. Harniman, D. Alibhai, R. Ye, D. L. Phillips, I. Manners* Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibers for visible-light driven hydrogen production, Nature Chemistry 12, 1150-1156 (2020)
- L. Huang, J. Su, Y. Song, R. Ye*. Laser-induced graphene: En route to smart sensing. Nano-Micro Letters 12:157 (2020).
- M. Zhu, J. Chen, L. Huang, R. Ye*, J. Xu, Y. Han. Covalently grafting cobalt porphyrin on carbon nanotube for efficient CO2 electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 6595-6599 (2019)
- Z. Wang, P. Zhang, H. Liu, Z. Zhao, L. Xiong, W. He, R. T. K. Kwok, J. W. Y. Lam, R. Ye*, B. Z. Tang*. Robust serum albumin-responsive AIEgen enables latent bloodstain visualization in high resolution and reliability for crime scene investigation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, 17306-17312 (2019)
- M. Zhu,#R. Ye,# K. Jin, N. Lazouski, K. Manthiram. Elucidating Reactivity and Mechanism of CO2 Electroreduction at Highly Dispersed Cobalt Phthalocyanine. ACS Energy Letters 3, 1381-1386 (2018)
- R. Ye, R. MendozaCruz, Y. Li, M. J. Yacaman, B. I. Yakobson, J. M. Tour. Manganese deception on graphene. Carbon, 132, 623-631 (2018)
- R. Ye, P. D. A. Vicente, J. Arellano-Jimenez, Z. Peng, T. Wang, Y. Li, M. J. Yacaman, J. M. Tour. High-performance hydrogen evolution from MoS2(1-x)Px solid solution. Advanced Materials 28, 1427-1432 (2015)
Graphene and related
- Libei Huang, Le Cheng, Tinghao Ma, Jun-Jie Zhang,* Haikun Wu, Jianjun Su, Yun Song, He Zhu, Qi Liu, Minghui Zhu, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qiyuan He, Man-Kit Tse, Deng-tao Yang, Boris I. Yakobson,* Ben Zhong Tang, Yang Ren, Ruquan Ye* Direct synthesis of ammonia from nitrate on amorphous graphene with near 100% efficiency Advanced Materials 2211856 (2023)
- Libei Huang, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yun Song, Jianjun Su, Le Cheng, Weihua Guo, Ganggang Zhao, Hanchen Shen, Zheng Yan,* Ben Zhong Tang, Ruquan Ye* Ultrasensitive, fast-responsive, directional airflow sensing by bioinspired suspended graphene fibers Nano Letters 23 (2) 597-605 (2023)
- Xingcan Huang#, Hu Li#, Jiyu Li#, Libei Huang#, Kuanming Yao, Chun Ki Yiu, Yiming Liu, Tsz Hung Wong, Dengfeng Li, Mengge Wu, Ya Huang, Zhan Gao, Jingkun Zhou, Yuyu Gao, Jian Li, Yanli Jiao, Rui Shi, Binbin Zhang, Bofan Hu, Qinglei Guo, Enming Song*, Ruquan Ye*, Xinge Yu* Transient, Implantable, Ultrathin Biofuel Cells Enabled by Laser-Induced Graphene and Gold Nanoparticles Composite Nano Letters 22 (8), 3447-3456 (2022)
- L. Huang#, M. Gu#, Z. Wang, T. W. Tang, Z. Zhu, Y. Yuan, D. Wang, C. Shen*, B. Z. Tang*, R. Ye* Highly efficient and rapid inactivation of coronavirus on non-metal hydrophobic laser-induced graphene in mild conditions Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 2101195 (2021)
- L. Huang, S. Xu, Z. Wang, K. Xue, J. Su, Y. Song, S. Chen, C.Zhu*, B. Z. Tang*, R. Ye* Self-Reporting and Photothermal Enhanced Rapid Bacterial Killing on Laser-Induced Graphene Mask ACS Nano 14, 12045-12053 (2020)
- L. Huang, L. Ling, J. Su, Y. Song, Z. Wang, P. Westerhoff, R. Ye* Laser-engineered graphene on wood enables efficient antibacterial, anti-salt-fouling and lipophilic-matter-rejection solar evaporation ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 51864-51872 (2020)
- R. Ye,* D. James, J. M. Tour*. Laser-induced graphene: from Discovery to translation. Advanced Materials 31, 1803621 (2019)
- R. Ye, D. James, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene. Accounts of Chemical Research 51, 1609-1620 (2018)
- R. Ye*, J. M. Tour* Graphene at fifteen. ACS Nano, 13, 10872-10878 (2019)
- R. Ye, Y. Chyan, J. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Han, C. Kittrell, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene formation on wood. Advanced Materials 29, (2017)
- R. Ye, X. Han, D. Kosynkin, Y. Li, C. Zhang, B. Jiang, A. A. Marti, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced conversion of Teflon into fluorinated nanodiamonds or fluorinated Graphene. ACS Nano 12, 1083-1088 (2018)
- Y. Chyan,# R. Ye,# Y. Li, S. Singh, C. Arnusch, J. M. Tour. Laser-induced graphene by multiple lasing: towards electronics on cloth, paper and food. ACS Nano, 12, 2176-2183 (2018)
- R. Ye, Z. Peng, A. Metzger, J. Lin, J. A. Mann, K. Huang, C. Xiang, X. Fan, E.L.G. Samuel, L. B. Alemany, A. A. Martí, J. M. Tour. Bandgap engineering of coal-derived graphene quantum dots. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 7041-7048 (2015)
- R. Ye, Z. Peng, T. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Zhang, L. G. Nilewski, J. Lin, J. M. Tour. In situ formation of metal oxide nanocrystals embedded in laser-induced graphene. ACS Nano 9, 9244-9251 (2015)
- R. Ye, C. Xiang, J. Lin, Z. Peng, K. Huang, Z. Yan, N. P. Cook, E. L.G. Samuel, C. Hwang, G. Ruan, G. Ceriotti, A. O. Raji, A. A. Martí, J. M. Tour. Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots. Nature Communications 6 (2013)
Awards and Achievements
- Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher, Web of ScienceTM, Clarivate (2022)
- World’s Top 2% Scientists (Rank 38,478th) by Stanford University, Elsevier BV (2022)
- Emerging Investigators by Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry (2022)
- Emerging Stars by Hong Kong Institute of Clean Energy, City University of Hong Kong (2022)
- Rising Star by Small, Wiley (2021)
- World’s Top 2% Scientists (Rank 53,684th) by Stanford University, Elsevier BV (2021)
- World’s Top 2% Scientists (Rank 63,365th) by Stanford University, Elsevier BV (2020)
- The HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers, by HKIE (2019)
- Chinese government award for outstanding self-finance students abroad, by CSC (2016)
- Academic Medal, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2012)
Research Interests:
- The use of laser-induced graphene in sustainable energy and environment
- The development of electrocatalysts for water splitting, CO2 reduction and fuel cell technology