Professor Wang received his B.S in 2004 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his M.S from Brown University in 2005. He also received his Ph.D. from Brown University (2009) before joining the Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

The foreground of sustainability is built on efficient and environment-friendly schemes of energy conversion and storage as well as chemical transformations. His group targets such schemes by design, synthesis, and functionalization of new materials with nanoscale architectures finely tailored to achieve optimal performance for various applications. Specific topics of interest include electrochemical/photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction and rechargeable lithium batteries.

Recovery of ammonium from aqueous solutions using ZSM-5 MJ Manto, P Xie, MA Keller, WE Liano, T Pu, C Wang Chemosphere, 198, 501-509, 2018 Mass transport modelling for the electroreduction of CO2 on Cu nanowires D Raciti, M Mao, C Wang Nanotechnology 29, 4, 044001, 2018 Mechanistic Insights for Low-Overpotential Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on Copper Nanowires L Cao, D Raciti, C Li, KJT Livi, PF Rottmann, KJ Hemker, T Mueller, C Wang ACS Catal. 7, 12, 8578-8587, 2017 Low-Overpotential Electroreduction of Carbon Monoxide Using Copper Nanowires D Raciti, L Cao, KJT Livi, PF Rottman, X Tang, C Li, Z Hicks, KH Bowen, KJ Hemker, T Mueller, C Wang ACS Catal. 7, 7, 4467-4472, 2017 Recovery of Inorganic Phosphorus Using Copper-Substituted ZSM-5 MJ Manto, P Xie, MA Keller, WE Liano, T Pu, C Wang ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 5, 6192-6200, 2017 A Discovery of Strong Metal–Support Bonding in Nanoengineered Au–Fe3O4 Dumbbell-like Nanoparticles by in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy CW Han, T Choksi, C Milligan, P Majumdar, MJ Manto, Y Cui, X Sang, RR Unocic, D Zemlyanov, C Wang, FH Ribeiro, J Greeley, V Ortalan Nano Lett., 17, 4576-4582, 2017 Catalytic Dephosphorylation Using Ceria Nanocrystals MJ Manto, P Xie, C Wang ACS Catal., 7, 1931-1938, 2017 Pt3Re alloy nanoparticles as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction D Raciti, J Kubal, C Ma, M Barclay, M Gonzalez, M Chi, J Greeley, KM More, C Wang Nano Energy 20, 202-211, 2016 Highly Dense Cu Nanowires for Low-Overpotential CO2 Reduction D Raciti, K Livi, C Wang Nano Letters 15, 6829-6835, 2015 Macromolecular Brushes as Stabilizers of Hydrophobic Solute Nanoparticles H Luo, D Raciti, C Wang, M Herrera-Alonso Mol. Pharma 13, 1855-1865, 2016 Synthesis of Platinum Nanotubes and Nanorings via Simultaneous Metal Alloying and Etching Z Huang, D Raciti, S Yu, L Zhang, L Deng, J He, Y Liu, NM Khashab, C Wang, J Gong J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 6332-6335, 2016