Team
Boon Siang Jason YEO
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Adjunct Professor in SERIS, NUS
Prior to joining NUS, Associate Professor Yeo was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley from 2009-2012. He joined NUS as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and is the Group Leader of the Solar Fuels Lab in the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. His research interests include: Developing catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to C2 and C3 hydrocarbons and alcohols; Catalysis of O2 and H2 evolution reactions; Use of operando spectroscopy for probing catalysts; to develop a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy economy.
- Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Sciences Division, UC Berkeley, 2012
- Dr. Sc. in Chemistry, ETH Zürich, 2009
- B.Sc. with Honors (First Class) in Chemistry, NUS, 2004
- Faculty Honours Roll (Teaching) for AY 2016/2017, National University of Singapore
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, National University of Singapore
- Annual Excellence Teaching Award for AY 2014/2015, National University of Singapore
- Electrocatalysis
- Electrochemistry
- Carbon dioxide reduction
- Water splitting
- Operando spectroscopy of electrochemical systems
- Louisa Rui Lin Ting, Oriol Piqué, Si Ying Lim, Mohammad Tanhaei, Federico Calle-Vallejo, and Boon Siang Yeo. Enhancing CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol on Copper−Silver Composites by Opening an Alternative Catalytic Pathway. ACS Catalysis, 2020 (Research Article), 10, 7, 4059-4069. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b05319
- L.R.L. Ting, O. Piqué, S.Y. Lim, M. Tanhaei, F. Calle-Vallejo and B.S. Yeo. Enhancing CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol on Copper-Silver Composites by Opening an Alternative Catalytic Pathway. ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 4059. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b05319
- Q.H. Low, N.W.X. Loo, F. Calle-Vallejo and B.S. Yeo. Enhanced Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol using Zinc Dendrites Pulse-deposited on Silver Foam. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 2256. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201810991
- D. Ren, J. Fong and B.S. Yeo. The effects of currents and potentials on the selectivities of copper toward carbon dioxide electroreduction. Nature Comm., 2018, 9, 925. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03286-w
- A.D. Handoko, K.W. Chan and B.S. Yeo. –CH3 Mediated Pathway for the Electroreduction of CO2 to Ethane and Ethanol on Thick Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts at Low Overpotentials. ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 2103. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00514
- Y. Huang, A.D. Handoko, P. Hirunsit and B.S. Yeo. Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Copper Single-Crystal Surfaces: Effects of CO* Coverage on the Selective Formation of Ethylene. ACS Catal., 2017, 7, 1749. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b03147
- D. Ren, B.S.H. Ang and B.S. Yeo. Tuning the Selectivity of Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction toward Ethanol on Oxide-Derived CuxZn Catalysts. ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 8239. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6b02162
- D. Ren, Y. Deng, A.D. Handoko, C.S. Chen, S. Malkhandi and B.S. Yeo. Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene and Ethanol on Copper (I) Oxide Catalysts. ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 2814. https://doi.org/10.1021/cs502128q