WONG Andrew Barnabas

Asst. Prof. Andrew B. Wong is affiliated with NUS MSE and with a joint appointment with ChBE. Originally from Buffalo, New York, USA, he completed a joint B.S.-M.S. degree at the University of Chicago in Chemistry in 2011. Andrew received is PhD under Prof. Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley in 2016. Following that, he worked with Prof. Thomas Jaramillo (Stanford) in CO2RR until 2020. Dr. Wong has a strong track record of impactful publications, including in Science and in Nature family.

Research Interests

Currently, the central research theme revolves around engineering the microenvironment for electrochemical CO2 conversion.
To this end, research directions include:

1. Developing materials and methods to understand and improve the microenvironment for CO2RR
2. Developing high-temperature electrochemical CO2 conversion
3. Synergizing electrocatalysis with microbial catalysis in bioelectrochemical systems

Selected Publications: (* Denotes Equal Contribution)

1. Dou, L.*, Wong, A. B.*, Yu, Y.*, Lai, M., Kornienko, N., Eaton, S. W., Fu, A., Bischak, C. G., Ma, J., Ding, T., Ginsberg, N. S., Wang, L.-W., Alivisatos, A. P., Yang, P. Atomically thin two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites. Science 349, 1518–1521 (2015).
2. Sakimoto, K., Wong, A. B., Yang, P. Self-photosensitization of nonphotosynthetic bacteria for solar-to-chemical production. Science 351, 74–77 (2016). 
3. Wei, C., Yang, Y., Ma, H., Sun, G., Wang, X., Cheng, Y., Zhang, C., Yeo, B. S., He, C., Wong, A. B. Nanoscale management of CO diffusion in CO2 electroreduction: Boosting Faradaic efficiency to multicarbon products via nanostructured tandem electrocatalysts. Adv. Funct. Mater. 33, 2214992 (2023). 
4. Ma, Y., Wu, J., Xie, H., Zhang, R., Zhang, Y., Liu, E., Zhao, N., He, C., Wong, A. B. The synthesis of three-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride as the reinforcing phase of polymer-based electrolyte for all-solid-state Li metal batteries. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63, e202317256 (2024). 
5. Kracke, F., Wong, A. B., Maegaard, K., Deutzmann, J. S., Hubert, M. A., Hahn, C., Jaramillo, T. F., Spormann, A. M. Robust and biocompatible catalysts for efficient hydrogen-driven microbial electrosynthesis. Comm. Chem. 2, 45 (2019). 
6. Sun, G., Zhang, Y., Xie, H., He, Y., Zhang, C., Liu, E., He, C., Wong, A. B. Harnessing in-situ oxidation of nanostructured MXene to modulate the electronic structure for improved selectivity for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction. Under revision.

Teaching

1. MLE2102, Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Technologies
2. CN5216, Electronic Materials and Energy Technologies