WONG, Andrew Barnabas

Education

• PhD, (Chemistry), University of California, Berkeley, 2016
• MSc, (Chemistry), University of Chicago, 2011
• BSc, (Chemistry), University of Chicago, 2011

Research Interests

• Fundamental Understanding of CO₂RR
• New Materials to Tune the Local (Micro)environment to Improve CO₂RR Selectivity
• Bicarbonate reduction to valorize CO₂
• Molten salt electrolytes for CO₂RR to Carbon Nanomaterials
• Bioelectrochemical CO₂RR

Selected Publications

Chaolong Wei, Suhwan Yoo, Yan Li, Haibin Ma, Yaqi Cheng, Yao Wu, Guangxin Sun, Caiwei Zhang, Qian He, Tiras Y. Lin, Boon Siang Yeo, Joel B. Varley, Yun Jeong Hwang, Chunnian He, Andrew B. Wong. A scalable, biopolymer-based microenvironment for electrochemical CO2 conversion to multicarbon products with current densities over 2 A/cm2, Nature Energy, (2026). DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41560-026-02040-7

Yaqi Cheng, Muhammad Iskandar B. Salaman, Qixun Li, Chaolong Wei, Qilun Wang, Xuehu Ma, Bin Liu, Andrew B. Wong. Microenvironment tailoring for electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction: Effects of interfacial structure on controlling activity and selectivity, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, (2025): 12438–12448. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c13494

Andrew B. Wong. The microenvironment frontier for electrochemical CO₂ conversion, Accounts of Materials Research 5, (2024):1453–1456. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/accountsmr.4c00294

Guangxin Sun, Yimin Zhang, Haonan Xie, Ya. He, Caiwei Zhang, Yukun Hu, Enzuo Liu, Chunnian He, Andrew B. Wong. Harnessing in-situ oxidation of nanostructured MXene to modulate the electronic structure for improved selectivity for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction, Nano Energy, 132, (2024): 110385. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.110385

Chaolong Wei, Yuehua Yang, Haibin Ma, Guangxin Sun, Xin Wang, Yaqi Cheng, Caiwei Zhang, Boon Siang Yeo, Chunnian He, Andrew B. Wong. Nanoscale management of CO transport in CO₂ electroreduction: boosting faradaic efficiency to multicarbon products via nanostructured tandem electrocatalysts. Advanced Functional Material 33, (2023): 2214992. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202214992

Selected Prior Works (Pre-NUS): (* Denotes Equal Contribution)

A. B. Wong, S. Brittman, Y. Yu, N. P. Dasgupta, P. Yang, Core–Shell CdS–Cu₂S Nanorod Array Solar Cells, Nano Letters, 15, (2015): 4096–4101. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01203

A. B. Wong, M. Lai, S. W. Eaton, Y. Yu, E. Lin, L. Dou, A. Fu, P. Yang, Growth and Anion Exchange Conversion of CH₃NH₃PbX₃ Nanorod Arrays for Light-Emitting Diodes, Nano Letters, 15, (2015): 5519–5524. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02082

L. Dou*, A. B. Wong*, Y. Yu*, M. Lai, N. Kornienko, S. W. Eaton, A. Fu, C. G. Bischak, J. Ma, T. Ding, N. S. Ginsberg, L.-W. Wang, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Yang, Atomically Thin Two-dimensional Organic-inorganic Hybrid Perovskites, Science, 349, (2015): 1518–1521. DOI: doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7660

K. Sakimoto, A. B. Wong, P. Yang, Self-photosensitization of nonphotosynthetic bacteria for solar-to-chemical production, Science, (2016): 351, 74–77. DOI: doi.org/10.1126/science.aad3317

W. Lee*, H. Li*, A. B. Wong*, D. Zhang, M. Lai, Y. Yu, Q. Kong, E. Lin, J. J Urban, J. C. Grossman, P. Yang, Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in All-Inorganic Halide Perovskites, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, (2017): 8693–8697. DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711744114

A. B. Wong*, Y. Bekenstein*, J. Kang, C. Kley, D. Kim, N. A. Gibson, D. Zhang, Y. Yu, S. R. Leone, L. W. Wang, A. P. Alivisatos, P. Yang, Strongly Quantum Confined Cesium Tin Iodide Perovskite Nanoplates: Lessons for Reducing Defect Density and Improving Stability, Nano Letters, 18, (2018): 2060–2066. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00077

F. Kracke, A. B. Wong, K, Maegaard, J. S. Deutzmann, M. A. Hubert, C. Hahn, T. F. Jaramillo, A. M. Spormann, Efficient, stable, and biocompatible catalysts for H₂-driven microbial electrosynthesis. Comm. Chem, 2, (2019): 45. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s42004-019-0145-0