Yingji ZHAO

• April, 2021 Admission to Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Ph.D program)
• February, 2020 Project Assistant, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University
• July, 2018 School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Master of Science, Chemistry)
• July, 2015 Graduated from School of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (Bachelor of Science, Applied Chemistry)

Controlled synthesis of functional carbon materials for energy applications.

• Pore-zoned nanoarchitectonics of hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and MOF-derived materials for electrochemical energy conversion. Yingji Zhao, Norman C.-R. Chen, Yongqi Yin, Xiangyang Liu, Minghao Xu, Prashant Dubey, Keisuke Shirasaki, Yunqing Kang, Kevin C.-W. Wu, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 566, 218156, (2026)
• Ultrathin Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets. Yingji Zhao, Zhi Gao, Norman C.-R. Chen, Yusuke Asakura, Ho Ngoc Nam, Quan Manh Phung, Yunqing Kang, Mandy Hei Man Leung, Dong Jiang, Lei Fu, Lijin Huang, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi. Advanced Materials, 37(36), 2508105, (2025)
• Selective Electrochemical Capture of Monovalent Cations Using Crown Ether-Functionalized COFs. Dong Jiang, Jonathan P. Hill, Joel Henzie, Ho Ngoc Nam, Quan Manh Phung, Liyang Zhu, Jie Wang, Wei Xia, Yingji Zhao, Yunqing Kang, Toru Asahi, Ran Bu, Xingtao Xu, Yusuke Yamauchi. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147(15), 12460-12468, (2025)
• Precise positioning of Au islands within mesoporous Pd–Pt nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced methanol oxidation. Liyang Zhu, Yunqing Kang, Miharu Eguchi, Yingji Zhao, Dong Jiang, Xiaoqian Wei, Xingtao Xu, Kenta Nakagawa, Toru Asahi, Tokihiko Yokoshima, Yusuke Yamauchi. Chemical Science, 16(19), 8309-8318, (2025)
• Substrate Curvature-Induced Regulation of Charge Distribution of Covalent Organic Frameworks Promotes Capacitive Deionization. Dong Jiang, Ruibo Xu, Liang Bai, Jonathan P. Hill, Joel Henzie, Liyang Zhu, Wei Xia, Ran Bu, Yingji Zhao, Yunqing Kang, Takashi Hamada, Renzhi Ma, Nagy Torad, Jie Wang, Toru Asahi, Xingtao Xu, Yusuke Yamauch. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(45), 2407479, (2024)
• Enhancing Electrocatalytic Performance via Thickness-Tuned Hollow N-Doped Mesoporous Carbon with Embedded Co Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Yingji Zhao, Liyang Zhu, Jing Tang, Lei Fu, Dong Jiang, Xiaoqian Wei, Hiroki Nara, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi. ACS Nano, 18(1), 373-382, (2024)
• Pt Nanoparticle–Mn Single-Atom Pairs for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction. Xiaoqian Wei, Shaojia Song, Weiwei Cai, Yunqing Kang, Qie Fang, Ling Ling, Yingji Zhao, Zexing Wu, Xiaokai Song, Xingtao Xu, Sameh M. Osman, Weiyu Song, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Chengzhou Zhu. ACS Nano, 18(5), 4308-4319, (2024)
• Mesoporous amorphous non-noble metals as versatile substrates for high loading and uniform dispersion of Pt-group single atoms. Yunqing Kang, Shuangjun Li, Ovidiu Cretu, Koji Kimoto, Yingji Zhao, Liyang Zhu, Xiaoqian Wei, Lei Fu, Dong Jiang, Chao Wan, Bo Jiang, Toru Asahi, Dieqing Zhang, Hexing Li, Yusuke Yamauchi. Science Advances, 10(25), eado2442, (2024)
• Open-Mouthed Hollow Carbons: Systematic Studies as Cobalt- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Yingji Zhao, Hiroki Nara, Dong Jiang, Toru Asahi, Sameh M. Osman, Jeonghun Kim, Jing Tang, Yusuke Yamauchi. Small, 19(48), 2304450, (2023)
• Au-Loaded Superparamagnetic Mesoporous Bimetallic CoFeB Nanovehicles for Sensitive Autoantibody Detection. Yunqing Kang, Mostafa Kamal Masud, Yanna Guo, Yingji Zhao, Zakia Sultana Nishat, Jingjing Zhao, Bo Jiang, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Tanja Pejovic, Terry Morgan, Md Shahriar A. Hossain, Hexing Li, Carlos Salomon, Toru Asahi, Yusuke Yamauchi. ACS Nano, 17(4), 3346-3357, (2023)
• Nanoengineering Metal–Organic Framework‐Based Materials for Use in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reactions. Yingji Zhao, Lingling Zheng, Dong Jiang, Wei Xia, Xingtao Xu, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jianping Ge, Jing Tang. Small, 17(16), 2006590, (2021)
• Phosphorus- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets Constructed with Monolayered Mesoporous Architectures. Haibo Tan, Yingji Zhao, Wei Xia, Jiacheng Zhao, Xingtao Xu, Kathleen Wood, Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jing Tang. Chemistry of Materials, 32(10), 4248-4256, (2020)
• Highly ordered macroporous dual-element-doped carbon from metal–organic frameworks for catalyzing oxygen reduction. Wei Xia, Michelle A. Hunter, Jiayu Wang, Guoxun Zhu, Sarah J. Warren, Yingji Zhao, Yoshio Bando, Debra J. Searles, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jing Tang. Chemical Science, 11(35), 9584-9592, (2020)
• A strong coupled 2D metal-organic framework and ternary layered double hydroxide hierarchical nanocomposite as an excellent electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction. Jingjing Xu, Yingji Zhao, Mengyuan Li, Guoli Fan, Lan Yang, Feng Li. Electrochimica Acta, 307, 275-284, (2019)
• Highly efficient solvent-free aerobic oxidation of ethylbenzene over hybrid Zn–Cr layered double hydroxide/carbon nanotubes nanocomposite. Yingji Zhao, Renfeng Xie, Yanjun Lin, Guoli Fan, Feng Li. Catalysis Communications, 114, 65-69, (2018)
• Assembling Ni–Co phosphides/carbon hollow nanocages and nanosheets with carbon nanotubes into a hierarchical necklace-like nanohybrid for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction. Yingji Zhao, Guoli Fan, Lan Yang, Yanjun Lin, Feng Li. Nanoscale, 10(28), 13555-13564, (2018)
• Recent advances in catalytic properties of LDHs/carbon composite materials. Yingji Zhao, Guoli Fan, Feng Li. SCIENTIA SINICA Chimica, 47(4), 396-407, (2017)