Pengpeng Wang

Smart PhD and Postdoctoral Fellow with extensive knowledge of (photo)electrochemistry, electro-catalytic water splitting and publication. Hardworking with strong understanding of semiconductor and electrochemistry. Adaptable and hardworking individual with excellent problem-solving skills.

• Issues related to environment and clean energy
• Develop novel characterization methods
• Identify and challenge key scientific problems for efficient (photo-)electrocatalytic water splitting
• C-H bond activation and artificial photosynthesis
• Carry out fundamental research for better understanding energy conversion processes
• Design efficient electrocatalysts and assembly functional integrated energy systems

• 2022, Level Three Scholarship of Shananxi Yanchang Petroleum, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China
• 2022, Expertmaker to Merit Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2019, Merit Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2014, Merit Student & Level One Scholarship, Hunan University, Changsha, China
• 2013, Merit Student & Level One Scholarship, Hunan University, Changsha, China

• 2021, The 32th Chinese Chemical Society Congress, Zhuhai, China, Poster
• 2021, The 20th Chinese National Congress on Catalysis of China, Wuhan, China, Poster

• Date of Birth: 10/09/1992
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: China

1. Unveiling the Hydration Structure of Ferrihydrite for Hole Storage in Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 6691-6698, 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.202014871.

2. Ultrathin Cobalt Oxide Interlayer Facilitated Hole Storage for Sustained Water Oxidation over Composited Tantalum Nitride Photoanodes, ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 12736−12744, 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.1c03298. 

3. Coupling effect between hole storage and interfacial charge transfer over ultrathin CoPi modified hematite photoanode, Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 9247-9255, 

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2022/DT/D2DT00765G. 

4. Simultaneous Improvement in Hole Storage and Interfacial Catalysis over Ni-Fe Oxyhydroxide Modified Tantalum Nitride Photoanodes, ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 4, 2647-2656, 

https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c06365.

5. Investigating the Roles of Oxyanions in Acidic Water Oxidation, 2024, in preparation.

6.  Interfacial Electrolyte Effects on Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation, 2024, Nat. Sci. Rev., in preparation. 

7. Crystal Size Dependent Photogenerated Charge Separation on Octahedral Bismuth Vanadate Photocatalyst, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2024, 14, 4228-4235, 

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/CY/D4CY00393D.

8. Identifying and Removing the Interfacial States in Metal Oxide−Semiconductor Schottky Si Photoanodes for the Highest Fill Factor, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 17540−17548, 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c06748. 

9. Hole-Storage Enhanced a-Si Photocathodes for Efficient Hydrogen Production, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 11966-11972, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202100078.

10. Efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells with low-temperature solution-processing ferrous oxides as hole transport layer, Org. Electron., 2021, 93, 106139, 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566119921000781?via%3Dihub. 

11. Enabling Unassisted Solar Water Splitting by Single-Junction Amorphous Silicon Photoelectrodes, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 4629−4637, 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.0c00296.

12. Effect of Facet-Selective Assembly of Cocatalyst on BiVO4 Photoanode for Solar Water Oxidation, ChemCatChem, 2019, 11, 3763-3769, https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cctc.201900573. 

13. Recent Advances in Photoelectrochemical Applications of Silicon Materials for Solar-to-Chemicals Conversion, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 4324-4341, 

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cssc.201701674.

• 09/01/2023, present, Postdoctoral fellow, Boston College, the United States, Prof. Dunwei Wang
• 08/01/2015, 07/01/2022, Ph.D. candidate, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China, Prof. Can Li, Prof. Jingying Shi
• 09/01/2011, 07/01/2015, Bachelor Degree of Applied Physics, Hunan University, China, Prof. Huiqiu Deng