Bing Yang   Professor

Surface and Interface Catalysis

Single atom Catalysis

ETEM-ESEM-NAPSTM characterizations

Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics                                       2010                                          

Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

B.S. in Condensed Matter Physics         2004   

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China                                     

   

Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian 04/2017-present

Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 01/2013-04/2017

Postdoctoral Fellow, Fritz-Haber-Institute of Max-Planck Society, Berlin, German, 5/2010-12/2012

   

1. Bing Yang*, Xiaojun Wu*, Junling Lu*. Metal-support frontier orbital interactions in single-atom catalysis. Nature, 2025, 640, 668–675

2. Yi Gao*, Bing Yang*, XiaoYan Liu*, Tao Zhang. Light-driven propane dehydrogenation by a single-atom catalyst under near-ambient conditions. Nature Chem., 2025, 17, 890–896

3. Beien Zhu*, Bing Yang*, Tao Zhang. Domino effect of Catalysis: coherence between reaction network and catalyst restructuring accelerating surface carburization for CO₂ hydrogenation. J Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 19622−19631

4. Bing Yang*, Jinlong Gong*, Aiqin Wang*, Tao Zhang*. Co-infiltration and dynamic formation of Pd₃ZnC_x intermetallic carbide by syngas boosting selective hydrogenation of acetylene. Nature Commun., 2024, 15, 9850

5. Bing Yang*, Erdong Wang*. Engineering interfacial sulfur migration in transition-metal sulfide enables low overpotential for durable hydrogen evolution in seawater. Nature Commun., 2024, 15, 6154

6. Li-Juan Yu*, Junwen Wang*, Bing Yang*, Tao Zhang. Reversible transformation and distribution determination of diverse Pt single atom species. J Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 2523–2531

7. Bing Yang*, Junling Lu*. Atomically Thick Oxide Overcoating Stimulates Low–Temperature Reactive Metal–Support Interactions for Enhanced Catalysis. J Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 6702–6709

8. Beien Zhu*, Bing Yang*, Tao Zhang. Single-atom-driven dynamic carburization over Pd₁-FeO_x catalyst boosting CO2 conversion. Chem, 2022, 8, 3252-3262

Single atom catalysis

In-situ and surface characterization

Catalysis in C1 chemistry

Liaoning Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars Fund (2026)

High‑level Talent Program of Dalian