研究内容涉及化学、材料、能源等领域，以开发共轭体系扩展的新型方法学为切入点，运用合成化学手段精确调控材料结构与性能，同时结合材料原型器件构建及潜在应用性研究，在新型功能性可控一维和二维富碳材料领域开展研究工作。 

目前研究课题：

1.新结构石墨炔类材料：制备高结晶度的单层和少数层新结构石墨炔类薄膜。

2.纳米尺度富碳材料分子：线状及环状、平面型及曲面型共轭体系扩展新方法。

1. Yang, W.; Krantz, K. E.; Dickie, D. A.; Molino, A.; Wilson, D. J. D.; Gilliard Jr., R. J., Crystalline   BP-Doped Phenanthryne via Photolysis of The Elusive Boraphosphaketene. Angew.   Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59 (10), 3971-3975.

2. Yang, W.; Krantz, K. E.; Freeman, L. A.; Dickie, D. A.; Molino, A.; Frenking, G.; Pan, S.; Wilson, D. J. D.; Gilliard Jr., R. J., Persistent Borafluorene Radicals. Angew. Chem.   Int. Ed. 2020, 59 (10), 3850-3854.

3. Yang, W.; Bam, R.; Catalano,  V. J.; Chalifoux, W. A., Highly Regioselective Domino Benzannulation Reaction of Buta-1,3-diynes To Construct Irregular Nanographenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018,57 (45), 14773-14777.

4. Yang, W.; Longhi, G.; Abbate, S.; Lucotti, A.; Tommasini, M.; Villani, C.; Catalano, V. J.; Lykhin, A. O.; Varganov, S. A.; Chalifoux, W. A., Chiral Peropyrene: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (37), 13102-13109.

5. Yang, W.; Lucotti, A.; Tommasini, M.; Chalifoux, W. A., Bottom-Up Synthesis of Soluble and Narrow Graphene Nanoribbons Using Alkyne Benzannulations. J. Am.Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (29), 9137-9144.

6. Yang, W.; Monteiro, J. H. S. K.; de Bettencourt-Dias, A.; Catalano, V. J.; Chalifoux, W. A., Pyrenes, Peropyrenes, and Teropyrenes: Synthesis, Structures, and   Photophysical  Properties. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55 (35),   10427-10430.