Wenyu Huang

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 515-294-7084

Email: whuang@iastate.edu

Office: 2124 Hach

Websites:

https://group.chem.iastate.edu/Huang/

Credentials

Education

Ph.D Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
2002–2007 Ph. D., Chemistry

Professional Appointments

2017 – Present Associate Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
2017 – Present Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory
2011 – 2017 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
2011 – 2017 Associate Scientist, Ames Laboratory
2007 – 2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Honors & Awards

2020 Trapp Innovation Award, Iowa State University
2020 Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research, College of LAS, Iowa State University
2019 Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2018 Achievement in Intellectual Property Award, College of LAS, Iowa State University

Research

Research Projects

Publications

Zhang, B.; Goh, T. W.; Kobayashi, T.*; Jing, D.; Wu, X.; Chen, M.; Huang, W.Y.*

Structure evolution of single-site Pt in a metal–organic framework

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021

Tennakoon, A.; Wu, X.; Paterson, A.L.; Patnaik, S.; Pei, Y.; LaPointe, A.M.; Ammal, S.C.; Hackler, R.A.; Heyden, A.; Slowing, I.I.; Coates, G.W.; Delferro, M.; Peters, B.; Huang, W.Y.*; Sadow, A.*; Perras, F.A.*

Catalytic Upcycling of High Density Polyethylene via a Processive Mechanism

Nat. Catal., 2020

Luo, Z.; Nie, R.; Nguyen, V. T.; Biswas, A.; Behera, R. K.; Wu, X.; Kobayashi, T.; Sadow, A.; Wang, B.*; Huang, W.Y.*; Qi, L.*

Transition metal-like carbocatalyst

Nat. Commun., 2020

Qi, L.*; Chen, J.; Zhang, B.; Nie, R.; Qi, Z.; Kobayashi, T.; Bao, Z.; Yang, Q.; Ren, Q.; Sun, Q.; Zhang, Z.*; Huang, W.Y.*

Deciphering a Reaction Network for the Switchable Production of Tetrahydroquinoline or Quinoline with MOF-Supported Pd Tandem Catalysts

ACS Catal., 2020

Ma, T.; Wang, S.; Chen, M.; Maligal-Ganesh, R.; Wang, L.-L.; Johnson, D.D.; Kramer, M.J.; Huang, W.Y.*; Zhou, L.*

Toward Phase and Catalysis Control: Tracking the Formation of Intermetallic Nanoparticles at Atomic Scale