Faculty & Staff Directory
Yun Yu
- Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Yun Yu
- Job Title
- Assistant Professor
- Website
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 335
Affiliations
Departments
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department (Research Faculty)
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department (Instructional Faculty)
Research Areas
- Chemistry
- Materials Science
Education
Postdoc, UC Berkeley (2019–2022)
Postdoc, Temple University (2016–2019)
Ph.D., City University of New York (2016)
Current Research
We aim to understand and tailor the chemistry of energy conversion (electrocatalysis and photocatalysis) at low–dimensional catalysts spanning from plasmonic nanoparticles to layered van der Waals (vdW) materials. Our research focuses on leveraging nanoscale electrochemical techniques to obtain insights onto the structure–activity relationships and guide the material design for next–generation energy technologies.
Teaching Focus
Dr. Yu teaches Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Selected Publications
(1) Y. Yu, K. Zhang, H. Parks, M. Babar, S. Carr, I. Craig, M. Van Winkle, A. Lyssenko, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, V. Viswanathan, D. K. Bediako, Tunable Electrochemistry with Moiré Flat Bands and Topological Defects at Twisted Bilayer Graphene. Nat. Chem. 2022, 14, 267-273.
(2) Y. Yu, K. D. Wijesekara, X. Xi, K. A. Willets, Quantifying Wavelength-Dependent Plasmonic Hot Carrier Energy Distributions at Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces. ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 3629-3637.
(3) Y. Yu, V. Sundaresan, S. Bandyopadhyay, Y. Zhang, M. A. Edwards, K. McKelvey, H. S. White, K. A. Willets, Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging of Single Nanoparticles Delivered by Pipettes. ACS Nano 2017, 11, 10529−10538.
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Yun Yu
- Job Title
- Assistant Professor
- Website
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 335