Yu Ding

About

Dr. Yu Ding is the Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2023, he was the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Research topics

• Metallurgy
• Materials science
• Chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Organic chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Composite material
• Inorganic chemistry
• Environmental science
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Self-sustainable protonic ceramic electrochemical cells using a triple conducting electrode for hydrogen and power production

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 462 citations

  perovskite is developed as an oxygen electrode, presenting superior electrochemical performance at 400~600 °C. More importantly, the self-sustainable and reversible operation is successfully demonstrated by converting the generated hydrogen in electrolysis mode to electricity without any hydrogen addition. The excellent electrocatalytic activity is attributed to the considerable proton conduction, as confirmed by hydrogen permeation experiment, remarkable hydration behavior and computations.

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• Selective recovery of precious metals through photocatalysis

  Nature Sustainability · 2021 · 431 citations

  DOI

• Atomically dispersed Fe–N–C decorated with Pt-alloy core–shell nanoparticles for improved activity and durability towards oxygen reduction

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2020 · 319 citations

  An efficient, stable, and cost-effective ORR catalyst composed of core–shell Pt-alloy and non-Pt-group-metal single atoms is reported for PEMFCs.

  DOI

• Activating low-temperature diesel oxidation by single-atom Pt on TiO2 nanowire array

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 153 citations

  C under simulated diesel exhaust conditions while using 5 times less Pt-group metals than a commercial oxidation catalyst. Such an excellent low-temperature performance is sustained over hydrothermal aging and sulfation as a result of highly dispersed and isolated active single Pt ions bonded at the Ti vacancy sites with 5 or 6 oxygen ions on titania nanowire surfaces.

  DOI

• An Active Oxygen Electrode for Proton‐Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells with High Faradaic Efficiency

  Advanced Energy Materials · 2025-04-21 · 13 citations

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  Abstract Addressing the challenges posed by inferior electrochemical performance at low temperatures and the uncertain Faradaic efficiency (FE) represents a pivotal undertaking in the development of high performance and efficient proton‐conducting solid oxide electrolysis cells (P‐SOECs). In this work, a novel oxygen electrode material BaCo 0.8 Zr 0.1 Zn 0.1 O 3‐δ (BCZZ) is first designed and synthesized. At 600 °C, P‐SOECs with BCZZ oxygen electrode achieve an electrolysis current density of 1.…

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Recent grants

• Piezotronic Effect on Ultrasensitive Chemical and Biochemical Sensors

  NSF · $400k · 2015–2019

• Tailoring Optoelectronic Processes in Metal Halide Perovskite via Piezoelectric and Piezo-Phototronic Effects

  NSF · $450k · 2019–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Zhong Lin Wang

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  375 shared

• Meilin Liu

  Guangdong Pharmaceutical University

  65 shared

• Xiangdong Feng

  45 shared

• Dean C. Sayle

  University of Kent

  45 shared

• Thi X. T. Sayle

  University of Kent

  45 shared

• Xudong Wang

  40 shared

• Bote Zhao

  South China University of Technology

  37 shared

• Brian Santora

  Ferro (United States)

  36 shared

Labs

• Yu Ding LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering

  Georgia Institute of Technology

• M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering

  Texas A&M University

• B.S., Automation

  University of Science and Technology of China

Awards & honors

• INFORMS Impact Prize (2022)
• IISE Energy Systems Division's Career Achievement Award (202…
• ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award (2024)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) S. M. Wu Research I…
• IISE Fellow (2025)

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