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Biography
Zongyou Yin received his B.S. & M.S. degrees from Jilin University, China, and then the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Since then, he has worked as the Research Fellow at NTU, the Scientist II at IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore, the Postdoctoral Associate and then promoted to the Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During 2014 - 2015, Dr Yin also worked as the Visiting Fellow for one year at Harvard University. In 2017, he joined the ANU as the Senior Lectuer, and promoted to the Professor in Jan. 2024.
He is the recipient of some awards/honours, including Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) (2025), Advanced Materials Laureate of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden (2024); World Highly Cited Researchers (2024); Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP) (2024); Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024); Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (Level 3, 2023); Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden (2023); World Highly Cited Researchers (2023); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2023); the International Hydrogen Research Fellowship awarded by Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia (2023); World Highly Cited Researchers (2022); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2022); World Highly Cited Researchers (2021); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2021); World Highly Cited Researchers (2020); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2020); the Vebleo Energy Innovation Awardee, Vebleo International Conference (2020); World Highly Cited Researchers (2019); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2019); Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Academics (2019); Fellow for the international <Make Our Planet Great Again> program from France (2018); World Highly Cited Researchers (2018); ANU Futures Scheme Fellowship (2017); World Highly Cited Researchers (2017); World Highly Cited Researchers (2016); MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate (2015); World Highly Cited Researchers (2015); Awardee of Proof-of-Concept Grant from National Research Foundation, Singapore (2011); Singapore International Graduate Scholarship for PhD study; Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship (3 times) and Excellent Leader of Student Union (1 time) of Jilin University, China. He has been serving as a reviewer for some journals, including Chem Rev, Chem Soc Rev, Nat Energy, Nat Catalysis, Joule, Sci Adv, Nat Commun, Adv Mater, JACS, Angew Chem, Matter, etc.
Zongyou’s research is interdisciplinary, encompassing AI-driven materials innovations, materials-structures-devices relationships, and their applications for energy, environment and biomedicine.
Qualifications
Ph.D.
Research Interests
Solar Fuels
Batteries
Wearables
(Opto)electronics
Machine Learning
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Balancing Transport-Accessible Catalytic Interfaces and Li+ Transport via Porosity Engineering for High-Performance Li–S Batteries
Gu, H., Wang, Q., Liu, B., Zhang, W., Wan, T. L., Toyao, T., Yin, Z. & Tricoli, A., 27 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Small. 12 p., e12552.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction over Cu2O nanowires partially decorated with Fe2O3nanoparticles
Liu, K., Sun, Z., Usman, M., Chen, J., Naing, M. T., Gu, H., Chen, Y. L., Yang, Y., Yin, H., Wibowo, A. A., Jing, X., Cox, N. & Yin, Z., 27 Jan 2026, In: Chemical Communications. 62, 7, p. 2234-2237 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Flexible Sensors for Battery Health Monitoring
Wang, X., Zhang, H., Qi, X., Chen, S., Huang, Z., Zhao, J., Wang, Y., Wu, D., Zheng, G., Xue, C., Zhou, J., Wang, H., Yin, Z. & Gao, L., 5 Jan 2026, In: Nano-Micro Letters. 18, 1, 35 p., 154.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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High-entropy alloys for enhanced electrocatalytic methane oxidation via nanoparticle-impact technique
Xiong, H. S., Chen, M. X., Jiang, S. Y., Fu, X. H., Shang, S. Y., Zhang, Q. & Yin, Z.-Y., Mar 2026, In: Tungsten. 8, p. 128–138 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pt single atoms/g-C3N4photocatalysts enabling simultaneous H2production and CO2absorption through formic acid photoreforming
Liu, X., Sun, Z., Chen, Y. L., Liu, K., Usman, M., Gloag, L. & Yin, Z., 25 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A multifunctional platform for advanced materials characterization
Yi, J. (PI), Yin, Z. (PI), Chen, X. (CoI), Moghtaderi, B. (CoI), Toe, C. Y. (CoI), Zheng, R. (CoI) & Zheng, R. (CoI)
19/02/26 → 18/02/27
Project: Research
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An operando characterisation platform for clean energy transition in WA
Sun, H. (PI), Yin, Z. (PI), Atkin, R. (CoI), Gao, X. (CoI), Huang, J. (CoI), Low, P. (CoI), Mengran, L. (CoI), Paskevicius, M. (CoI), Peng, H. (CoI), Shao, Z. (CoI), Silvester, D. S. (CoI), Wajrak, M. (CoI), Wang, S. (CoI), Zhang, L.-C. (CoI) & Zheng, Y. (CoI)
10/06/25 → 9/06/26
Project: Research
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ARC Research Hub in Zero-emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality
Yin, Z. (PI), Zhi-Gang, C. (PI), Chen, Z.-G. (CoI), Chen, Z.-G. (CoI), Glushenkov, A. (CoI) & Lu, Y. (CoI)
30/07/24 → 29/07/29
Project: Research
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ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling - Project 1.3
Chen, Z.-G. (PI), Yin, Z. (PI), Alarco, J. (CoI), Bernhardt, D. (CoI), Chu, D. (CoI), Glushenkov, A. (CoI), Joshi, R. (CoI), Liao, T. (CoI), Lu, Y. (CoI), MacLeod, J. (CoI), Sonar, P. (CoI), Wang, Z. (CoI), Wang, H. (CoI), Wang, Z. (CoI) & Zhang, W. (CoI)
28/06/24 → 10/08/29
Project: Research
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Next-generation reaction-environments tunable catalysts for CO2 reduction
Yin, Z. (PI)
18/03/24 → 17/03/28
Project: Research