{"id":321,"date":"2016-01-12T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/yuewu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:05:59","slug":"yuewu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/yuewu\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu, Yue"},"author":308,"template":"","affiliation":[4],"department":[1075,5],"group":[],"interest":[803,800,1050,1547,1518,1528,140,1408,299,301],"class_list":["post-321","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","affiliation-faculty","department-cbe-professors","department-cbe","interest-advanced-materials","interest-electrocatalysis","interest-electronic-materials","interest-energy-conversion","interest-energy-harvesting","interest-heat-transfer","interest-materials-characterization","interest-materials-under-extreme-environments","interest-nanomaterials","interest-nanotechnology"],"firstname":"Yue","key_research_area":["Advanced Materials & Manufacturing"],"netid":"yuewu","isu_title":"Professor [C B E]","email":"yuewu@iastate.edu","external_link":"","hide_isu_title":"1","nickname":"","info":"<h3 id=\"links-header\" class=\"dir-header\">Links<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/yuewugroup\/home\">Yue Wu's Research Website<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<div>\r\n<h3><strong>Honors and Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award. Iowa State University, 2020<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award. College of Engineering, Iowa State University, 2019<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"40 Under 40\" award, <em>Midwest Energy News<\/em>, 2017<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award from American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2016.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u201cRising Star\u201d selected by U.S. Council of Chemical Research, 2015.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"2014 Emerging Investigators,\" selected by Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Materials for Energy and Sustainability) to recognize the very best work from materials chemists in the early stages of their independent career.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>One of the two invited speakers from United States (totally ten worldwide) for Japan Nano 2013 sponsored by Japan National Institute of Materials Sciences and Japan Ministry of Education, 2013<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2010, 2011, and 2012<\/li>\r\n \t<li>DuPont Young Professor Award, 2010<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Miller Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2006-2009<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award, 2005<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Work Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>2014-2020; Herbert L. Stiles Professor, Iowa State University.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>2009-2014; Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (received an early promotion to tenured associate professor in April 2014).<\/li>\r\n \t<li>2006-2009; Miller Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Professional Memberships<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>American Chemical Society<\/li>\r\n \t<li>American Institute of Chemical Engineers<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Materials Research Society<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h3 id=\"education-header\" class=\"dir-header\">Education<\/h3>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Ph.D. Chemistry, Harvard University, 2006<\/li>\r\n \t<li>B.S. Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, 2001<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h3 id=\"interest-header&quot;\" class=\"dir-header\">Interest Areas<\/h3>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Novel 2D transition metal carbide materials for electrochemical and gas phase catalysis.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Thermal interface materials and thermal transport in nanostructured materials.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Mechanical properties of metal carbides and high entropy alloys.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Scalable nanomaterials production and processing; Materials for extreme condition requiring ultra high chemical stability, hardness, and thermal conductivity.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Thermoelectric based energy harvesting and solid-state cooling; Thermal transport at interface; Thermal transport and storage in phase transition materials.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Research Projects<\/strong> <span style=\"color: black;\">Our group addresses the challenges in bulk nanostructured composite materials. Our research includes the rational design, scalable synthesis, hierarchical assembly, and controlled consolidation of molecular nanostructured materials, elucidation of the fundamental electronic, thermal, catalytic, and mechanical properties of these bulk nanocomposite materials, and exploration of new fundamental science and potential engineering device applications.<\/span> For details, please visit our group\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/yuewugroup\/home\">here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","middle_name":"","isu_office":"2033 Sweeney $ 618 Bissell Rd. # Ames, IA 500111098","uid":[],"hide_isu_office":"1","lastname":"Wu","publications":"<ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;\">Li, Zhe+; Xiao, Yang*; Chowdhury, Prabudhya Roy; Wu, Zhenwei; Ma, Tao; Chen, Johnny Zhu; He, Peilei; Zhou, Lin; Zeng, Zhenhua; Ruan, Xiulin; Miller, Jeffrey T.; Greeley, Jeffrey; Wu, Yue*; Varma, Arvind Direct methane activation by atomically thin platinum nanolayers on two-dimensional metal carbides, Nature Catalysis, 2021, 4, 882-891.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;\">Li, Zhe+; Wu, Zhenwei; Yu, Liang; Milligan, Cory; Ma, Tao; Zhou, Lin; Xu, Biao; Xin, Hongliang; Delgass, W. Nicholas; Ribeiro, Fabio H.; Miller, Jeffrey T.; Wu, Yue*. Tuning Catalytic Selectivity by Reactive Metal-Support Interaction (RMSI) between Pt and 2D Metal Carbides (MXenes). Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 5258.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;\">Xu, Biao; Feng, Tianli; Li, Zhe+; Zhou, Lin; Pantelides, Sokrates T.; Wu, Yue*. Creating Zipper\u2010like van der Waals Gap Discontinuity in Low-Temperature Processed Nanostructured PbBi2nTe1+3n for Enhanced Phonon Scattering and Improved Thermoelectric Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57,10938-10943.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;\">Xu, Biao; Feng, Tianli; Agne, Matthias T.; Tan, Qin; Li, Zhe+; Imasato, Kazuki; Zhou, Lin; Bahk, Je-Hyeong; Ruan, Xiulin; Snyder, G. Jefferey; Wu, Yue*. Manipulating Band Structure through Reconstruction of Binary Metal Sulfide towards High-Performance, Eco-Friendly and Cost-Efficient Thermoelectrics in Solution-Synthesized Nanostructured Bi13S18I2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57, 2413-2418, selected as VIP (Very Important Paper).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;\">Li, Zhe+; Cui, Yanran; Wu, Zhenwei; Milligan, Cory; Zhou, Lin; Mitchell, Garrett; Xu, Biao; Shi, Enzheng; Miller, Jeffrey T.; Ribeiro, Fabio H.; Wu, Yue*.Reactive-metal support interactions at moderate temperature in two-dimensional niobium carbide supported platinum catalysts. Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1, 349\u2013355, highlighted by Nature Catalysis (Prof. Wilfred T. 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