Minghui Yang (Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC) is a Professor at Dalian University of Technology. He received B.A. and M. Chem. degrees from University of Liverpool and completed his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry under the supervision of Professor J. Paul Attfield (Fellow of Royal Society, FRS) at University of Edinburgh in 2010. This was followed by a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, where he worked on nano-structured solid state functional materials with Francis J. DiSalvo ( Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences). He has received several awards for his work including the China National "Thousand Talents" Award for Distinguished Professorship (2013), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shenyang) Young Distinguished Scientist (2014), Liaoning Research Prize (2015), Zhejiang "Thousand Talents" Award (2016) and Ningbo Leading Scientist Prize (2017), and Zhejiang National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2019). He has 242 publications to his credit including those in Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Energy & Environmental Science, Chemical Society Review, etc. He held more than 40 patents and 1 PCT patent.

Representative article:

1. Y. Yuan, J. Wang, S. Adimi; H. Shen, T. Thomas, R. Ma, J. P. Attfield*, M. Yang*, Zirconium nitride catalysts surpass platinum for oxygen reduction, Nature Materials, 2020, 19, 282.

2. F. Qu, S. Zhang, C. Huang, X. Guo, Y. Zhu, T. Thomas, H. Guo, J. P. Attfield*, M. Yang*, Surface functionalized sensors for humidity-independent gas detection, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020. DOI: ‪10.1002‬/anie.‪202015856‬ and ‪10.1002‬/ange.‪202015856

3. Y. Yuan, S. Adimi, X. Guo, T. Thomas, Y. Zhu, H. Guo, G. S. Priyanga, P. Yoo, J. Wang, J. Chen, P. Liao*, J. P. Attfield*, M. Yang*, Surface oxide-rich activation layer (SOAL) on Ni2Mo3N for rapid and durable oxygen evolution reaction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 41, 18036.

4. R. Li#, H. Peng#, Q. Wu, X Zhou, J. He, H. Shen, M. Yang* and C. Li*; Sandwich-like catalyst-carbon-catalyst trilayer structure as compact 2D host for highly stable lithium-sulfur batteries, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 132, 29, 12227.

5. H. Hu, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, T. Thomas, H. Du, K. Huang, J. P. Attfield, M. Yang*, An ultra-low Pt metal nitride electrocatalyst for sustainable seawater hydrogen production, Energy & Environmental Science, 2023. DOI: 10.1039/d3ee01541f

6. Z. Cheng, C. H. Pang, T. Thomas, T. Wu, S. Liu*, M. Yang*, Recent advances in transition metal nitride-based materials for photocatalytic applications, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202100553

7. J. Liu, W. Qi, M. Xu, T. Thomas, S Liu*, and M. Yang*, Piezo-Catalytic Techniques in Environmental Remediation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022. DOI:10.1002/anie.202213927

8. S. Liu, W. Qi, J. Liu, X. Meng, S. Adimi, J. P. Attfield, and M. Yang*, Modulating Electronic Structure to Improve the Solar to Hydrogen Efficiency of Cobalt Nitride with Lattice Doping, ACS Catalysis, 2023. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c05075

9. H. Hu, X. Wang, J. P. Attfield, M. Yang*, Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis, Chemical Society Review, 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D3CS00717K

10. M. Yang, J. Oro´-Sole´, J. Rodgers, A. B. Jorge, A. Fuertes*, J. P. Attfield*, Anion order in perovskite oxynitrides, Nature Chemistry, 2011, 3, 47.