Group website: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/yao-hust

Academic Degrees

PhD with honor, 2018, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA

Master with hornor, 2013, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Bachelor, 2010, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Professional Experience

Assistant Research Scientist (2019-2020); School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA

Post Doc (2018-2019); School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA

Visiting Junior Researcher (2012), National Institute for Materials Science, Japan                                               

Selected Publications

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3kyA0OYAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

1.Dong, Q.;# Yao, Y.;# Cheng, S.;# Alexopoulos, K.;# Gao, J.; Srinivas, S.; Wang, Y.; Pei, Y.; Zheng, C.; Brozena, A. H.; Zhao, H.; Wang, X.; Toraman, H. E.; Yang, B.; Kevrekidis, I. G.; Ju, Y.; Vlachos, D. G.;* Liu, D.;* Hu, L.* Programmable Heating and Quenching for Efficient Thermochemical Synthesis. Nature 2022, 605 (7910), 470-476. (Cover)

2.Yao, Y.;# Dong, Q.;# Brozena, A.; Luo, J.; Miao, J.; Chi, M.; Wang, C.; Kevrekidis, I. G.; Ren, Z. J.; Greeley, J.; Wang, G.; Anapolsky, A.; Hu, L.* High-Entropy Nanoparticles: Synthesis-Structure-Property Relationships and Data-Driven Discovery. Science 2022, 376, 3103. (Review)

3.Y. Yao, Huang, Z.; Hughes, L. A.; Gao, J.; Li, T.; Morris, D.; Zeltmann, S. E.; Savitzky, B. H.; Ophus, C.; Finfrock, Y. Z.; Dong, Q.; Jiao, M.; Mao, Y.; Chi, M.; Zhang, P.; Li, J.; Minor, A. M.; Shahbazian-Yassar, R.; Hu, L.* Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys. Matter 2021, 4 (7), 2340-2353. (Cover)

4.Li, T.;# Yao, Y.;# Huang, Z.;# Xie, P.;# Liu, Z.;# Yang, M.;# Gao, J.; Zeng, K.; Brozena, A. H.; Pastel, G.; Jiao, M.; Dong, Q.; Dai, J.; Li, S.; Zong, H.; Chi, M.; Luo, J.; Mo, Y.; Wang, G.;* Wang, C.;* Shahbazian-Yassar, R.;* Hu, L.* Denary Oxide Nanoparticles as Highly Stable Catalysts for Methane Combustion. Nature Catalysis 2021, 4 (1), 62-70. (Cover)

5.Yao, Y.;# Liu, Z.;# Xie, P.;# Huang, Z.;# Li, T.;# Morris, D.; Finfrock, Z.; Zhou, J.; Jiao, M.; Gao, J.; Mao, Y.; Miao, J. J.; Zhang, P.; Shahbazian-Yassar, R.;* Wang, C.;* Wang, G.;* Hu, L.* Computationally Aided, Entropy-Driven Synthesis of Highly Efficient and Durable Multi-Elemental Alloy Catalysts. Science Advances 2020, 6 (11), eaaz0510.

6.Yao, Y.;# Huang, Z.;# Li, T.;# Wang, H.;# Liu, Y.; Stein, H. S.; Mao, Y.; Gao, J.; Jiao, M.; Dong, Q.; Dai, J.; Xie, P.; Xie, H.; Lacey, S. D.; Takeuchi, I.; Gregoire, J. M.; Jiang, R.;* Wang, C.;* Taylor, A. D.;* Shahbazian-Yassar, R.;* Hu, L.* High-Throughput, Combinatorial Synthesis of Multimetallic Nanoclusters. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS) 2020, 117 (12), 6316-6322.

7.Yao, Y.;# Huang, Z.;# Xie, P.;# Wu, L.;# Ma, L.;# Li, T.;# Pang, Z.; Jiao, M.; Liang, Z.; Gao, J.; He, Y.; Kline, D. J.; Zachariah, M. R.; Wang, C.; Lu, J.; Wu, T.;* Li, T.;* Wang, C.;* Shahbazian-Yassar, R.;* Hu, L.* High Temperature Shockwave Stabilized Single Atoms. Nature Nanotechnology 2019, 14, 851-857.

8.Yao, Y.;# Huang, Z.;# Xie, P.;# Lacey, S. D.;# Jacob, R. J.; Xie, H.; Chen, F.; Nie, A.; Pu, T.; Rehwoldt, M.; Yu, D.; Zachariah, M. R.; Wang, C.;* Shahbazian-Yassar, R.;* Li, J.;* Hu, L.* Carbothermal Shock Synthesis of High-Entropy-Alloy Nanoparticles. Science 2018, 359, 1489-1494. (Cover article)

Awards:

2022 Metals Young Investigator Award                                  

2022 "Wuhan young talents" by Wuhan municipal government                                 

2021 "Highly-Cited Researchers" by Clarivate                                                      

2021 World's top 2% scientist by Stanford University - year 2020                                   

2020 Huazhong Scholar (Hubei Province)                                                      

2020 R&D award, USA

2019 Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, UMD

2018 Extraordinary Potential Prize of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (10 winners out of 500 awardees globally)                                         

2018 1st place, Dean's Doctoral Research Award, UMD                                        

2016 ASSIST travel grant, National Science Foundation        

Courses Taught

"Fabrication and forming of composite materials", International students' course

"Scientific ethics and academic writing", Graduate student course (Master + Ph.D. student)

"Functional Ceramics", Senior year course

"Nanomaterials and nanotechnology", Senior year course

"Materials Surface Engineering", Junior year course

Project

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Host)

National Key R&D Program of China (Joint)

HUST-QMUL joint funding

Wuhan' young talent program