Yu Huang

About

Dr. Yu Huang holds the Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair in Engineering and serves as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, her MA in Chemistry, and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University. Her doctoral research focused on the bottom-up assembly of functional circuits. Following her Ph.D., she was awarded the Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship and pursued a joint postdoctoral appointment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and MIT, where her research explored the interfaces between biomolecules and materials. Her research at UCLA centers on understanding nanoscale phenomena and leveraging the unique properties of nanoscale materials to advance technology. She develops methodologies to probe, understand, and manipulate nanoscale processes, aiming to create integrated systems that apply materials chemistry innovations to catalysis, biosynthesis, energy technology, and next-generation electronics.

Research topics

• Organic chemistry
• Materials science
• Physical chemistry
• Chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Computer Science
• Inorganic chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Engineering
• Business

Selected publications

• Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors

  Nature · 2021 · 1270 citations

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• Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

  ACS Nano · 2023 · 1225 citations

  Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are developed to overcome the limitations of conventional rigid counterparts. Despite rapid advancement in bench-side research over the last decade, the market adoption of flexible sensors remains limited. To ease and to expedite their deployment, here, we identify bottlenecks hindering the maturation of flexible sensor…

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• A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction

  Nature Catalysis · 2020 · 814 citations

  DOI

• Chemical vapour deposition of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction catalysts with full utilization of dense Fe–N4 sites

  Nature Materials · 2021 · 683 citations

  DOI

• Establishing reaction networks in the 16-electron sulfur reduction reaction

  Nature · 2024 · 504 citations

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Recent grants

• Biological Assembly of Enzyme Electrodes for Biofuel Cells

  NSF · $300k · 2010–2014

• An Electrical Transport Spectroscopy (ETS) Approach for in situ Probing Electrochemical Interfaces

  NSF · $360k · 2015–2018

• EFRI 2-DARE: Scalable Synthesis of 2D Layered Materials for Large Area Flexible Thin Film Electronics

  NSF · $2.1M · 2014–2019

Frequent coauthors

• Xiangfeng Duan

  California NanoSystems Institute

  675 shared

• Zipeng Zhao

  Beijing Institute of Technology

  145 shared

• Yuan Liu

  136 shared

• Zhaoyang Lin

  Tsinghua University

  89 shared

• Enbo Zhu

  University of California, Los Angeles

  88 shared

• Yujing Li

  65 shared

• Mengning Ding

  Nanjing University

  62 shared

• Xiaoqing Huang

  Xiamen University

  61 shared

Awards & honors

• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Materials Chemistry Horizon…
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Faraday Horizon Prize
• ENI Award, Energy Transition Prize
• Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Top 1% Most Cited Researc…
• Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

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