Dr. Will Yung-Kang Peng (彭詠康) obtained his
bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 2009 from National
Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) and graduated as a
Master of Science in 2011 from National Taiwan
University. After a year of military service
(R.O.C.) and research assistant (NTU), he started a
PhD in 2013 at Wolfson Catalysis Centre of Inorganic
Chemistry Laboratory at University of Oxford (UK)
under the supervision of Prof. Dr. S. C. Edman
Tsang, for which he received a Clarendon scholarship
from University of Oxford (top 3% graduate of 2013
year). He obtained his PhD degree in 2017 and stayed
in the same group for postdoc (2017-2018). He joined
the City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant
Professor in May 2018.
His current research interest is working on the
understanding of nanomaterial surface chemistry for
the design of hetero(photo) catalysts and MRI
contrast agents.
Hetero(photo) nanocatalysts:
Probe-assisted NMR
is employed as a major surface tool to qualitatively
and quantitatively investigate catalysts’ surface
for the activity correlation and the understanding
of catalytic mechanism in hetero(photo) catalysis.
For further information in this field please refer
to our recent review paper: “Facet-dependent
Photocatalysis of Nanosize Semiconductive Metal
Oxides and Progress of their Characterization”, Nano
Today 2018, 18, 15.
MRI nanocontrast agents:
Multifunctional T1-,
T2-weighted and dual-modal MRI nanocontrast agent
design for in-vivo/in-vitro biomedical applications.
For further information in this field please refer
to our recent review paper: “Chemical Design of
Nanoprobes for T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance
Imaging”, Mater. Today 2016, 19, 336.
Selected Publications:
(†equal contribution,
*corresponding author)
link for the full publication list:
https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=oSD2vgMAAAAJ&hl=zh-TW&oi=ao
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Z. Tan, J. Zhang, Y.-C. Chen, J.-P. Chou,
Y.-K. Peng*,
"Unravelling the Role of Structural Geometry and
Chemical State of Well-Defined Oxygen Vacancies on
Pristine CeO2 for H2O2
Activation" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11,
5390–5396 (2020).
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S. Wu†, Y.-K.
Peng†, T.-Y. Chen, J. Mo, A.
Large, I. McPherson, H.-L. Chou, I. Wilkinson, F.
Venturini, D. Grinter, P. Escorihuela, G. Held, S.
C. E. Tsang*, "Removal of Hydrogen Poisoning by
Electrostatically Polar MgO Support for
Low-Pressure NH3 Synthesis at a High
Rate over the Ru Catalyst", ACS Catal.
10, 5614–5622 (2020).
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J. Zhang, Z. Tan, W. Leng, Y.-C. Chen, S. Zhang,
B. Lo, K. Yung,
Y.-K. Peng*,
"Chemical State Tuning of Surface Ce Species on
Pristine CeO2 with 2400% Boosting in
Peroxidase-like Activity for Glucose Detection",
Chem. Commun. 56,
7897–7900 (2020).
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Z. Tan, G. Li, H-L. Chou*, Y. Li, X. Yi, A.
Mahadi, A. Zheng*, S. C. E. Tsang,
Y.-K. Peng*,
"Differentiating Surface Ce Species Among CeO2
Facets by Solid-State NMR for Catalytic
Correlation", ACS Catal. 10,
4003–4011 (2020).
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Z. Tan, T.-S. Wu Y.-L. Soo,
Y.-K. Peng*,
"Unravelling the True Active Site for CeO2-catalyzed
Dephosphorylation", Applied. Catal B.
264, 118508 (2020).
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Y.-K. Peng*,
B. Keeling, Y. Li, J. Zheng, T. Chen, H.-L. Chou,
T. J. Puchtler, R. A. Taylor, S. C. E. Tsang*,
“Unravelling the Key Role of Surface Features
Behind Facet-dependent Photocatalysis of Anatase
TiO2”, Chem. Commun.
55, 4415–4418 (2019).
Before Joining CityU
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Y.-K. Peng,
H.-L. Chou*, S. C. E. Tsang*, “Differentiating
Surface Titanium Chemical States of Anatase TiO2
Functionalized with Various Surface Groups”,
Chem. Sci. 9, 2493–2500
(2018).
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Y.-K. Peng,
S. C. E. Tsang*, “Facet-dependent Photocatalysis
of Nanosize Semiconductive Metal Oxides and
Progress of their Characterization”, Nano
Today 18, 15–34 (2018).
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Y.-K. Peng,
Y. Hu, H.-L. Chou, Y. Fu, I. F. Teixeira, H. He,
S. C. E. Tsang*, “Mapping Surface-modified Titania
Nanoparticles with Implications for Activity and
Facet Control”, Nat. Commun. 8,
675 (2017).
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Y.-K. Peng,
C. N. P. Lui, Y.-W. Chen, S.-W. Chou, P.-T. Chou,
K. K. L. Yung*, S. C. E. Tsang*, “Engineering of
Single Magnetic Particle Carrier for Living Brain
Cell Imaging: A Tunable T1-/T2-/Dual-Modal
Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Application”, Chem. Mater. 29,
4411–4417 (2017).
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Y.-K. Peng,
L. Ye, J. Qu, L. Zhang, Y. Fu, I. F. Teixeira, I.
J. McPherson, H. He, S. C. E. Tsang*,
“Trimethylphosphine-assisted Surface
Fingerprinting of Metal Oxide Nanoparticle by
31P Solid-state NMR: A Zinc Oxide Case
Study”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138,
2225–2234 (2016).
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Y.-K. Peng,
S. C. E. Tsang*, P.-T. Chou*, “Chemical Design of
Nanoprobes for T1-weighted Magnetic
Resonance Imaging”, Mater. Today
19, 336–348 (2016).
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Y.-K. Peng,
C.-L. Liu, H.-C. Chen, S.-W. Chou, W.-H. Tseng,
Y.-J. Tseng, C.-C. Kang, J.-K. Hsiao*, P.-T.
Chou*, “Antiferromagnetic Iron Nanocolloids: A
New Generation in Vivo T1 MRI
Contrast Agent”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135,
18621−18628 (2013).
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Y.-K. Peng,
C.-W. Lai, C.-L. Liu, H.-C. Chen, Y.-H. Hsiao,
W.-L. Liu, K.-C. Tang, Y. Chi, J.-K. Hsiao*, K.-E.
Lim, H.-E. Liao, J.-J. Shyue, P.-T. Chou*, “A New
and Facile Method to Prepare Uniform Hollow
MnO/Functionalized mSiO(2) Core/Shell
Nanocomposites”, ACS Nano 5,
4177−4187 (2011).