Professor Yang Hui Ying is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore. She earned her PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2007 and her BSc from Nankai University in 2002. Professor Yang has attracted over SGD$25 million in external research grants and has completed more than 40 research projects. She has received numerous accolades, including the NRF Investigatorship (2025), the ACS Nano Impact Award (2024), the SNIC-AsCA2019 Distinguished Women Chemist Award (2023), the IPS Nanotechnology Medal for Outstanding Nanotechnology Physics Research (2018), the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2014), the L’Oréal Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship (2010), the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) Fellowship (2008) and Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) Fellowship (2006), among others. Before joining NUS, Professor Yang worked at the Singapore University of Technology and Design as a professor (2022–2025), an associate professor (2016–2022), and an assistant professor (2010–2016). She was also a visiting assistant professor at MIT from 2010 to 2011.
Research Interests
Professor Yang Hui Ying’s research focuses on the intersection of materials science, energy storage, and water treatment technologies. She is particularly interested in developing innovative nanomaterials that can enhance the efficiency and sustainability of desalination processes and energy storage systems. By employing cross-disciplinary strategies, her work has helped revolutionize both energy and environmental research. She aims to address critical global challenges like water scarcity and energy demand to build a more sustainable future.
Selected Publications
- Y.-F. Cui, H.-B. Song, J.-J. Yao, Q. Hao, X.-L. Li, Y.-F. Li, B.-B. Guo, Y.-H. Zhu, H. Y. Yang. Dual-structure-breaking electrolyte enables practical cadmium-metal battery. Nat. Commun. 16, 5619 (2025).
- N. Wang, M. Zhang, X. Ren, M. Sun, T. Pian, P. Wang, Y. Cui, X. Yao, C. Jia, H. Y. Yang. High‐Entropy Deep Eutectic Solvent Achieves Ultra‐Low Polarization Zinc Anode Chemistry. Angew. Chemie 137, 202502761 (2025).
- H. Song, Y. Cui, Y. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, N. Zhao, W. Li, C. Wu, S. Xi, S. Huang, H. Y. Yang. Alcohol molecule coupling: A universal approach to modulating amorphousness in vanadium-based cathodes for high-rate and durable aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Sci. Adv. 11, adt7502 (2025).
- H. Song, Y. Cui, N. Zhao, W. Li, S. Huang, H. Y. Yang. Rechargeable Cadmium Metal Batteries Enabled by an Aqueous CdSO 4 Electrolyte. ACS Nano 19, 12170–12181 (2025).
- Y. Xu, W. Li, X. L. Li, C. Lin, Y. Li, W. Y. Lieu, L. Yang, Y. Li, J. Zhang, H. Y. Yang. Sustainable and Selective Recycling of Lithium Metal from Spent Cathodes: Direct Pathway to Anode Regeneration. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2504091 (2025)
- X. Hu, P. Ma, Z. Sun, Z. Zhang, J. Sun, H. Li, H. Y. Yang. Ultrafast Na + Diffusion Enabled by Defective 3D in 2 S 3 /MXene Nanostructure toward High‐Rate Sodium Ion Batteries. Adv. Energy Mater. 15, 2500443 (2025).
- Z. Y. Leong, J. Yao, N. Boon, H. B. Eral, D.-S. Li, R. Hartkamp, H. Y. Yang. Electrochemical Selective Removal of Oxyanions in a Ferrocene-Doped Metal–Organic Framework. ACS Nano 18, 29067–29077 (2024).
- X. L. Li, W. Y. Lieu, L. Wang, D. Yan, Y. Li, T. Ghosh, Y. Li, J. Lu, Z. W. Seh, H. Y. Yang. Silver-Atom Modulation of Ti Vacancies in MXene Enables Uniform Spherical Lithium Deposition. ACS Energy Lett. 9, 4929–4938 (2024).
- T. C. Li, C. Lin, M. Luo, P. Wang, D.-S. Li, S. Li, J. Zhou, H. Y. Yang. Interfacial Molecule Engineering for Reversible Zn Electrochemistry. ACS Energy Lett. 8, 3258–3268 (2023).
- L. Yang, L. Guo, D. Yan, Y. Wang, T. Shen, D.-S. Li, M. E. Pam, Y. Shi, H. Y. Yang. Understanding the Highly Reversible Potassium Storage of Hollow Ternary (Bi-Sb)2S3 @N-C Nanocube. ACS Nano 17, 6754–6769 (2023).