Zi-You Yu
Affiliation
Insititute for New Energy Materials and Low Carbon Technologies Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
E-mail: yuziyou@email.tjut.edu.cn
Research Interest
Electrocatalysis and Electrochemical Synthesis
Education
June 2012 B. Sc. Northeastern University
June 2017 Ph. D. University of Science and Technology of China, Advisor: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu
Professional Career
2021-present: Professor, Tianjin University of Technology, China
2020-2021: Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2017-2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Science and Technology of China, Advisor: Prof. Shu-Hong Yu and Prof. Min-Rui Gao
Awards and Honors
2024: Journal of Materials Chemistry A “2024 Emerging Investigators”
Homepage of Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JMVH3roAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Selected Publications
1. X. R. Qin, J. J. Li, L. L. Wang, H. Liu, Z. T. Yang, G. J. Feng, X. R. Wang, X. X. Cheng, C. Zhang, Z. Y. Yu*, T. B. Lu*, Electroreduction of diluted CO2 to multicarbon products with high carbon utilization at 800 mA cm-2 in strongly acidic media, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 4447.
2. W. X. Zheng, X. X. Cheng, P. P. Chen, L. L. Wang, Y. Duan, G. J. Feng, X. R. Wang, J. J. Li, C. Zhang, Z. Y. Yu*, T. B. Lu*, Boosting the durability of RuO2 via confinement effect for proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 337.
3. L. L. Wang, X. R. Wang, H. J. Wang, C. Zhang, J. J. Li, G. J. Feng, X. X. Cheng, X. R. Qin, Z. Y. Yu*, T. B. Lu*, Tailoring Lewis Acidity of Metal Oxides on Nickel to Boost Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral Electrolyte, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 7555-7563.
4. J. J. Li, X. R. Qin, X. R. Wang, L. L. Wang, Z. Y. Yu*, T. B. Lu*, Direct Electroreduction of Low-Concentration CO2: Progress and Perspective, ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 10620-10629.
5. Y. Duan, L. L. Wang, W. X. Zheng, X. L. Zhang*, X. R. Wang, G. J. Feng, Z. Y. Yu*, T. B. Lu*, Oxyanion Engineering on RuO2 for Efficient Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202413653.
6. Y. Duan, X. L. Zhang, F. Y. Gao, Y. Kong, Y. Duan, X. T. Yang, X. X. Yu, Y. R. Wang, S. Qin, Z. Chen, R. Wu, P. P. Yang, X. S. Zheng, J. F. Zhu, M. R. Gao, T. B. Lu, Z. Y. Yu*, S. H. Yu*, Interfacial Engineering of Ni/V2O3 Heterostructure Catalyst for Boosting Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Electrolytes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202217275. (ESI highly cited paper)
7. Z. Y. Yu, Y. Duan, Y. Kong, X. L. Zhang, X. Y. Feng, Y. Chen, H. Wang, X. Yu, T. Ma, X. Zheng, J. Zhu, M. R. Gao*, S. H. Yu*, General Synthesis of Tube-like Nanostructured Perovskite Oxides with Tunable Transition Metal–Oxygen Covalency for Efficient Water Electrooxidation in Neutral Media, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 13163. (Highlighted by Sci. China Mater.)
8. Z. Y. Yu, Y. Duan, X. Y. Feng, X. Yu, M. R. Gao*, S. H. Yu*, Clean and Affordable Hydrogen Fuel from Alkaline Water Splitting: Past, Recent Progress, and Future Prospects, Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2007100. (ESI highly cited paper)
9. Y. Duan†, Z. Y. Yu† (co-first author), L. Yang†, L. R. Zheng, C. T. Zhang, X. T. Yang, F. Y. Gao, X. L. Zhang, X. X. Yu, R. Liu, C. Gu, X. S. Zheng, L. Shi, J. Jiang, J. F. Zhu, M. R. Gao*, S. H. Yu*, Bimetallic nickel-molybdenum/tungsten nanoalloys for high-efficiency hydrogen oxidation catalysis in alkaline electrolytes, Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 4789. (ESI highly cited paper)
10. Z. Y. Yu, Y. Duan, J. D. Liu, Y. Chen, X. K. Liu, W. Liu, T. Ma, Y. Li, X. S. Zheng, T. Yao, M. R. Gao*, J. F. Zhu, B. J. Ye, S. H. Yu*, Unconventional CN vacancies suppress iron-leaching in Prussian blue analogue pre-catalyst for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 2799. (ESI highly cited paper)
11. Y. Duan†, Z. Y. Yu† (co-first author), S. J. Hu†, X. S. Zheng, C. T. Zhang, H. H. Ding, B. C. Hu, Q. Q. Fu, Z. L. Yu, X. Zheng, J. F. Zhu, M. R. Gao*, S. H. Yu*, Scale-up Synthesis of Amorphous NiFeMo Oxides and Their Rapid Surface Reconstruction for Superior Oxygen Evolution Catalysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 15772. (ESI highly cited paper)
12. Z. Y. Yu, C. C. Lang, M. R. Gao*, Y. Chen, Q. Q. Fu, Y. Duan, S. H. Yu*, Ni-Mo-O nanorod-derived composite catalysts for efficient alkaline water-to-hydrogen conversion via urea electrolysis, Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, 11, 1890. (ESI highly cited paper)
