面向国家能源重大需求，致力于解决清洁能源、碳减排及碳中和的新能源材料设计与应用，聚焦新能源、太阳能储热、工业催化、光电催化、电化学储能等新兴领域，开展太阳能储热材料、能源催化、高性能电池的前沿研究，从原子分子层次探寻新材料设计与实验制备的新策略，研发石墨结构形貌调控及石墨基能源材料的关键技术，以期为能源领域的“卡脖子”技术难题、以及“碳达峰、碳中和”目标实现提供全新思路。
1. 太阳能储热材料
针对太阳能利用存在时间、空间和强度不匹配以及间歇性的复杂难题，充分挖掘天然矿物材料独特的结构优势及储热潜质，研发矿物微结构调控制备高性能太阳能储热材料的新技术，为绿色建筑领域的规模化应用提供技术保障。
2. 能源催化材料
瞄准能源高效清洁、多元化利用及转化的重大科学问题，聚焦高性能催化剂的设计开发及工程化，建立催化剂轨道能级的定向调控方法，提出活性中间体活化调控的新思路，从反应机理、催化剂设计、工程化应用开展研究工作。
3. 高性能电池材料
针对电池能量密度低等问题，提出黏土矿物表界面改性提升材料电子导电性的新思路，揭示黏土矿物表界面特征与电化学性能的相互关系，构建黏土矿物结构与电池材料的电化学反应模型，研制面向高端应用的低成本高性能电池材料。
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代表性论文：
[1] Caihong Yang, Ruijie Gao, Huaming Yang*, Application of layered nanoclay in electrochemical energy: Current status and future, Energy Chem, 2021, 3, 100062. 主编邀稿
[2] Caihong Yang, Yicheng Hua, Ying Zhang, Jie Wang, Huanwen Wang, Liangjie Fu, Aidong Tang*, Huaming Yang*, Efficient Anion Immobilization Enabled by Structurally Controllable Halloysite for Dendrite-Free Sodium Metal Anode, Science China Chemistry, 2023, 66(9), 2600-2611
[3] Kang Peng, Liangjie Fu , Jing Ouyang, Huaming Yang*. Emerging parallel dual 2D composites: Natural clay mineral hybridizing MoS2 and interfacial structure, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26, 2666–2675.
[4] Yili Tang, Xiaoguang Zhao, Daokui Li, Xiaochao Zuo*, Aidong Tang*, Huaming Yang*. Nano-porous carbon-enabled composite phase materials with high photo-thermal conversion performance for multi-function coating, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022, 112025: 1-11.
[5] Kang Peng, Liangjie Fu, Huaming Yang*, Jing Ouyang, Aidong Tang*, Hierarchical MoS2 intercalated clay hybrid nanosheets with enhanced catalytic activity, Nano Research, 2017, 10(2): 570–583.
[6] Chuanchang Li, Huaming Yang*, Expanded vermiculite/paraffin composite as a novel solar thermal energy storage material, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2013, 96, 2793-2798.
[7] Songyang Liu, Zhaoli Yan, Liangjie Fu*, Huaming Yang*, Hierarchical nano-activated silica nanosheets for thermal energy storage, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2017, 167, 140-149.
[8] Xiaochao Zuo, Jianwen Lia, Xiaoguang Zhao, Huaming Yang*, Deliang Chen, Emerging paraffin/carbon-coated nanoscroll composite phase change material for thermal energy storage, Renewable Energy, 2020, 152, 579-589.
[9] Xiaochao Zuo, Xiaoguang Zhao, Jianwen Li, Yuqi Hu, Huaming Yang*, Deliang Chen*, Enhanced thermal conductivity of form-stable composite phase-change materials with graphite hybridizing expanded perlite/paraffin, Solar Energy, 2020, 209, 85-95.
[10] Caihong Yang, Ying Zhang, Yicheng Hua, Huanwen Wang, Aidong Tang*, Huaming Yang*, Functionalized halloysite scaffold controls sodium dendrite growth, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15:11949-11960
