Contact Information
University of Illinois
206 Roger Adams Laboratory
600 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Richard C. Alkire Chair
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Affiliate, Department of Chemistry
Affiliate, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
Section Editor on Nanotechnology "Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering"
Additional Campus Affiliations
Richard C Alkire Chair, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director, M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership Program, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Affiliate, Chemistry
Professor, Materials Research Lab
Professor, Prairie Research Institute
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Gautam, A. K., Yu, S., He, H., Yang, H., & Mironenko, A. V. (2025). Role of Surface Oxygen in α-MoC Catalyst Stability and Activity under Electrooxidation Conditions. ACS Catalysis, 15(8), 6640-6651. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c06544
Ghosh, B., Vapnik, H., Kim, H. E., Kim, Y., Birawat, R., Lu, Y., Su, X., & Yang, H. (2025). Electrochemical Separation and Clean Energy Applications of Rare Earth Elements. Chemical reviews, 125(16), 7965-8023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00103
Ghosh, B., Lindsay, G. S., Mandal, S., Woods, T., Chen, Q., Gewirth, A. A., & Yang, H. (2025). Microstructurally Strained Pyrochlore–Perovskite Biphasic Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chemistry of Materials, 37(19), 7687-7699. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c01004
Yu, S., He, H., Summers, S., Yang, Z., Si, B., Gao, R., Song, A., Heyne, J., Zhang, Y., & Yang, H. (2025). Upgrading biocrude oil into sustainable aviation fuel using zeolite-supported iron-molybdenum carbide nanocatalysts. Science Advances, 11(26), Article eadu5777. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu5777
Ghosh, B., Zhang, C., Frick, S., Cho, E. J., Woods, T., Yang, Y., Perry, N. H., Klein, A., & Yang, H. (2024). Defect Engineering in Composition and Valence Band Center of Y2(YxRu1-x)2O7−δ Pyrochlore Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146(27), 18524-18534. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c04292