Journal Articles
2025
53. Electrochemical nitrate-to-ammonia conversion: Mechanisms, electrocatalyst design, and system-level strategies for sustainable nitrogen chemistry
Wenjing Huang, Jiandong Yao, Hao Wu*, Yanguang Li*, Shaoming Huang*
Materials Today, 2025, Just Accepted
52. Synergistic Effect of Lewis Acidity and Metal Electronegativity in Ni/C@N Catalyst Enabling Hydrogen-Free Lignin Hydrogenolysis
Shitong Yu, Hao Wu, Hongchao Li, Jian Wang, Usmonov Botir, Shuang Liang, Zhiqi Zhang, Rui Xiao, Zhicheng Luo*
Energy & Fuels, 2025, Just Accepted
51. Construction of ZnCdS/C3N4 S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Superior Photocatalytic H2O2 Production and Benzylamine Coupling
Yongqi Wang, Shihuan Gao, Jiani Yang, Kun Xiong, Mengchao Guo, Teng Lu, Hao Wu, Shuang Li, Chong Cheng, Changsheng Zhao
Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, Early View, e17495
50. Promoting Selective Water Oxidation to Hydrogen Peroxide in BiVO4 Photoanode: Interplay of Preferential Crystal Facet and Adsorbed Bicarbonate
Songying Qu, Donghui Li, Zhirun Xie, Hao Wu*, Yun Hau Ng*
ACS Energy Letters, 2025, 10, 4535-4542
49. Dual Ion Leaching-Induced Reconstruction of CuCo2S4 Boosts Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia with Favorable Active Hydrogen Coverage
Feng Yu, Yuqiao Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yifan Tian, Jiandong Yao, Wenjing Huang*, Hao Wu*, Yanguang Li*, Shaoming Huang*
Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, Just Accepted
48. Tracking Hot Electrons in Single-atom Alloy with Small-Molecule Probes
Zhirun Xie, Hao Wu, Yun Hau Ng
National Science Review, 2025, 12, 8, nwaf261
47. Micro-Environment Programmable Quinoline COFs for High-Performance Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation and Benzylamine Coupling
Mengchao Guo, Chao He, Zihe Wu, Yu Tian, Jiani Yang, Yujie Wang, Hao Wu, Jin Yang, Min Xu, Weichao Xue, Chong Cheng, Shuang Li, Changsheng Zhao
Advanced Science, 2025, Early view
46. Anti-Sintering Ni-W Catalytic Layer on Reductive Tungsten Carbides for Superior High-Temperature CO2 Reduction
Daoping Ye, Zihe Wu, Ting Wang, Ran Zhu, Yifan Feng, Jiwei Lei, Yu Tian, Zongpeng Zou, Hao Wu, Chong Cheng, Shengwei Tang, Shuang Li
Advanced Materials, 2025, 37, 29, 2504431
45. Bioinspired O2-Evolution Catalysts with Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Pathway for Portable Oxygen Generation
Ting Wang, Zhenyu Xing, Mao Wang, Chao He, Tian Ma, Yi Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Hao Wu, Shuang Li, Chong Cheng, Changsheng Zhao
Advanced Materials, 2025, 37, 28, 2502102
44. Manipulating Charge Dynamics in Carbon Nitride by Carbon Dot Doping for Efficient Photocatalysis
Lingfeng Ouyang, Maggie Ng, Zhanghong Zhou, Hao Wu, Man-Chung Tang, Season Si Chen
Advanced Science, 2025, 12, 25, 2417390
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43. Scalable and Integrated Photocatalytic Reactor Systems for Solar-to-Fuels Productions: Photoredox and Photoreforming Processes
Hoi Ying Chung, Roong Jien Wong, Hao Wu, Denny Gunawan, Rose Amal, Yun Hau Ng
Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15, 28, 2404956
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42. Bismuth Vanadate Capable of Driving One-step-excitation Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting
Hao Wu*, Songying Qu, Yun Hau Ng*
Journal of American Chemical Society, 2025, 147 (13), 10829-10833
41. Making Photoresponsive Metal-Organic Frameworks an Effective Class of Heterogeneous Photocatalyst
Rui Liu, Hao Wu*, Hoi Ying Chung, Yun Hau Ng*
Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 35, 30, 2421318
40. Self-Cleaning Antifouling Membrane Engineered by Oxygen-Activated MOF-Derived Catalysts for Efficient Organic Wastewater Treatment
Guojiang Xia, Mi Zhou, Wenjie Shao, Mohsen Adeli, Shuang Li, Yaozu Liao, Hao Wu, Xiaolin Wang, Mao Wang, Xiancheng Ren, Chong Cheng
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, 17(7), 10637-10649
39. Engineered nickel-based metal−organic framework nanofiber membrane with fish-scale microstructure for enhanced photocatalytic CO2 conversion
Pengfei Lin, Yanglei Huang, Qingyuan Yang, Hao Wu, Xinping He, Chunhai Yi, Muhammad Usman Farid, Alicia Kyoungjin An, Jiaxin Guo
Separation and Purification Technology, 2025, 361, 131490
38. Research progress in the preparation of electrospinning MOF nanofiber membranes and applications in the field of photocatalysis
Pengfei Lin, Xiaochen Lu, Bhaskar Jyoti Deka, Jin Shang, Hao Wu, Jiawei Sun, Chunhai Yi, Muhammad Usman Farid, Alicia Kyoungjin An, Jiaxin Guo
Separation and Purification Technology, 2025, 356, 129948
2024
37. Porphyrin-based Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction: Current Understanding and Challenges
Hao Wu*▽, Rui Liu▽, Donghui Li, Yun Hau Ng*
Nano Materials Science, 2024, Just Accepted
36. Incorporating Zinc Metal Sites in Aluminum-Coordinated Porphyrin Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia
Rui Liu, Hao Wu*, Hoi Ying Chung, Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Yuanmeng Tian, Jin Shang, Patrick H.-L. Sit, Yun Hau Ng*
Small, 2024, 20 (44), 2402779
35. Perovskite Materials for Highly Efficient Photo(electro)catalytic Water Splitting: A mini-review
Shuoren Li, Hao Wu*, Chang Yan*
Nano Materials Science, 2024, Just Accepted
34. Perovskite nanocrystals in-situ encapsulated in TiO2 microspheres for stable CO2 photoreduction in water
Cong Zou▽, Hao Wu▽, Mengda He, Qinggang Zhang, Changwei Yuan, Xinrong Liao, Mingming Liu, Qun Wan, Meitian Pan, Long Kong and Liang Li
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, Just Accepted
33. Solar Oxidative Hydrogen Peroxide Production: Is Oxygen Vacancy Always a Promoter in Solar Water Oxidation?
Songying Qu, Hao Wu*, and Yun Hau Ng*
ACS Catalysis, 2024, 14, 5297-5304
32. Tailoring Metal-Support Interaction over Faceted TiO2 and Copper Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia
Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Hao Wu*, Rui Liu and Yun Hau Ng*
Green Chemistry, 2023, 26, 1443-1453
2023
31. Clean Production of Hydrogen Peroxide: A Heterogenous Solar-driven Redox Process
Songying Qu, Hao Wu* and Yun Hau Ng*
Advanced Energy Materials, 2023, 13 (36), 2301047
30. Polaron-mediated Transport of BiVO4 Photoanode for Solar Water Oxidation
Hao Wu*, Lei Zhang, Songying Qu, Aijun Du, Junwang Tang and Yun Hau Ng*
ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8, 2177-2184
29. Thin Zinc Oxide Layer Passivating Bismuth Vanadate for Selective Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation to Hydrogen Peroxide
Songying Qu, Hao Wu* and Yun Hau Ng*
Small, 2023, 19 (33), 2300347
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28. Transition Metal Elements-doped SnO2 for Ultrasensitive and Rapid ppb-level Formaldehyde Sensing
Zejun Han, Yunxiang Tang, Guixia Lu, Yuan Qi, Hao Wu, Zhengyi Yang, Hecheng Han, Xue Zhang, Lili Wu, Zhou Wang, Jiurong Liu and Fenglong Wang
Heliyon, 2023, 9 (3), e13486
27. Quantification Methodology of Ammonia Produced from Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Nitrogen/Nitrate Reduction
Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Hao Wu* and Yun Hau Ng*
Energies, 2023, 16 (1), 27
26. N-doped graphitic carbon encapsulating cobalt nanoparticles derived from novel metal–organic frameworks for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction
Yuanmeng Tian, Hao Wu, Aamir Hanif, Yanli Niu, Ying Yin, Yangyi Gu, Zuofeng Chen, Qinfen Gu, Yun Hau Ng, Jin Shang, Liangchun Li and Mingxian Liu
Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023, 34 (8), 108056
2022
25. Low-bias photoelectrochemical water splitting via mediating trap states and small polaron hopping
Hao Wu, Lei Zhang, Aijun Du, Rowshanak Irani, Roel van de Krol, Fatwa. F. Abdi and Yun Hau Ng
Nature Communications, 2022, 12, 6231
24. Recent progress on catalysts for catalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds: A review
Rui Liu, Hao Wu, Jiahui Shi, Ximeng Xu, Dan Zhao, Yun Hau Ng, Mengling Zhang, Shejiang Liu, Hui Ding
Catalysis Science & Technology, 2022, 12, 6945-6991
23. Surface modulation inducing bismuth-rich surface composition in BiVO4 for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting
Hao Wu, Songying Qu, Zhirun Xie, and Yun Hau Ng
ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2022, 5 (7), 8419-8427
22. Enhanced visible-light-driven heterogeneous photocatalytic CO2 methanation by Cu2O@Cu-MOF-74 thin film
Hao Wu, Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Yuanmeng Tian, Chun Hong Mak, Hoi Ying Chung, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Jin Shang, and Yun Hau Ng
ChemPhyMater, ASAP
21. PtCu-SnO2 nanocomposites for ultrasensitive and rapid ppb-level formaldehyde sensing
Zejun Han, Yunxiang Tang, Guixia Lu, Yuan Qi, Hao Wu, Zhengyi Yang, Hecheng Han, Xue Zhang, Lili Wu, Zhou Wang, Jiurong Liu and Fenglong Wang
ChemPhyMater, ASAP
20. Modulating the active sites of oxygen-deficient TiO2 by copper loading for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia
Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Hao Wu* and Yun Hau Ng*
Small, 2022, 25, 2200996 [Journal Front Cover]
19. Facet-dependent spatial charge separation with rational co-catalyst deposition on BiVO4
Zhirun Xie, Hui Ling Tan, Hao Wu, Rose Amal, Jason Scott, Yun Hau Ng
Materials Today Energy, 2022, 26, 100986
18. Advancement of bismuth-based materials for electrocatalytic and photo(electro)catalytic ammonia synthesis
Wahyu Prasetyo Utomo, Michael K. H. Leung, Zongyou Yin, Hao Wu* and Yun Hau Ng*
Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32 (4), 2106713
2021
17. Unveiling carrier dynamics in periodic porous 3D BiVO4 photocatalyst for enhanced solar water splitting
Hao Wu, Rowshanak Irani, Kunfeng Zhang, Lin Jing, Hongxing Dai, Hoi Ying Chung, Fatwa F. Abdi and Yun Hau Ng
ACS Energy Letters, 2021, 6, 3400-3407 [Journal Front Cover]
16. Metal-organic framework decorated cuprous oxide nanowires for long-lived charges applied in selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction to CH4
Hao Wu, Xin Ying Kong, Xiaoming Wen, Siang-Piao Chai, Emma C. Lovell, Junwang Tang and Yun Hau Ng
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60 (15), 8455-8459 [Clarivate Highly Cited Papers]
15. Chemical reduction-induced surface oxygen vacancies of BiVO4 photoanodes with enhanced photoelectrochemical performance
Yong Peng, Hao Wu, Mingjian Yuan, Fang-fang Li, Xingli Zou, Yun Hau Ng and Sam Hisen-Yi Hsu
Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2021, 5 (8), 2284-2293
14. Enhanced photoelectrocatalytic degradation of tetrabromobisphenol A from tip-decorated ZnO nanorod electrode with Bi2S3 nanoparticles
Xianglin Sun, Hao Wu, Yiming Tang, Zexiao Zheng, Yaping Li, Laisheng Li and Qiuyun Zhang
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2021, 128, 105724
2020
13. Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical systems: similarities and differences
Hao Wu, Hui Ling Tan, Cui Ying Toe, Jason Scott, Lianzhou Wang, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
Advanced Materials, 2020, 32 (18) 1904717 [Clarivate Highly Cited Papers]
12. A pulse electrodeposited amorphous tunnel layer stabilises Cu2O for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting under visible-light irradiation
Hao Wu, Zhaoke Zheng, Peng Wang, Judy Hart, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8 (11), 5638-5646 [2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Most Popular Articles]
11. Selective ethanol oxidation to acetaldehyde on nanostructured zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8)-wrapped ZnO photothermocatalyst thin films
Hao Wu, Tze Hao Tan, Rugeng Liu, Hsien-Yi Hsu and Yun Hau Ng
Solar RRL, 2020, 5 (6), 2000423
10. Scavenger-free and self-powered photocathodic sensing system for monitoring of hydrogen peroxide by CuO/ZnO nanostructure
Hao Wu, Hoi Ying Chung, Daniel CW Tsang, Nay Ming Huang, Zhirun Xie, Hong Ngee Lim, Yong Sik Ok and Yun Hau Ng
Chemical Engineering Science, 2020, 226 (2020), 115886
9. Thermally treated zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) for visible light photocatalytic degradation of gaseous formaldehyde
Tianqi Wang, Yufei Wang, Mingzhe Sun, Aamir Hanif, Hao Wu, Qinfen Gu, Yong Sik Ok, Dan CW Tsang, Jiyang Li, Jihong Yu and Jin Shang
Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 6670-6681
2015-2019
8. Bio-inspired hierarchical hetero-architectures of in-situ C-doped g-C3N4 grafted on C, N co-doped ZnO micro-flowers with booming solar photocatalytic activity
Mohamad Azuwa Mohamed, MFM Zain, Lorna Jeffery Minggu, Mohammad B Kassim, Juhana Jaafar, Nor Aishah Saidina Amin, Mohd Sufri Mastuli, Hao Wu, Roong Jien Wong and Yun Hau Ng
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 2019, 77, 393-407.
7. Pulsed electrodeposition of CdS on ZnO nanorods for highly sensitive photoelectrochemical sensing of copper (II) ions
Hao Wu, Zhaoke Zheng, Yiming Tang, Cui Ying Toe, Judy Hart and Yun Hau Ng
Sustainable Materials & Technologies, 2018, 18, e00075
6. Scaffolding Co3O4 on ZnO nanorods using pulsed electrodeposition for enhanced electrochemical
water oxidation
Hao Wu, Yiming Tang, Xinxin Lu, Cui Ying Toe, Hoi-Ying Chung, Xunyu Lu, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
ChemPlusChem, 2018, 83 (10), 934-940 [Journal Front Cover]
5. Photocorrosion of cuprous oxide: dominated by self-oxidation or self-reduction?
Cui Ying Toe, Zhaoke Zheng, Hao Wu, Jason Scott, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 130 (41), 13801-13805
4. Oxygen-deficient bismuth tungstate and bismuth oxide composite photoanode with improved photostability
Hoi-Ying Chung, Wei-Jian Chen, Xiaoming Wen, Judy Nancy Hart, Hao Wu, Yuekun Lai, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
Science Bulletin, 2018, 63 (15), 990-996
3. Transformation of cuprous oxide into hollow copper sulfide cubes for photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Cui Ying Toe, Zhaoke Zheng, Hao Wu, Jason Scott, Rose Amal and Yun Hau N
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018, 122 (25), 14072-14081
2. A dual-electrolyte system for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation using CuInS2-In2O3-TiO2 nanotube array
Charlene Ng, Jung-Ho Yun, Hui-Ling Tan, Hao Wu, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
Science China Materials, 2018, 61 (6), 895-904
1. Electrodeposited Cu2O as photoelectrodes with controllable conductivity type for solar energy conversion
Peng Wang, Hao Wu, Yiming Tang, Rose Amal and Yun Hau Ng
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015, 119 (47), 26275-26282
Book Chapters
1. Photoelectrochemical water oxidation (Chapter 10)
Hoi Ying Chung, Hao Wu, Xuelian Wu, Chenliang Su, and Yun Hau Ng
Book Title: Photo- and Electro-catalytic Processes
Wiley VCH, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-3527348596
