Hongta Yang

About

Awards & Honors

2023 Interfacial Technology Innovation Award (界面技術獎), The Taiwanese Colloid and Interface Society, 2023.
2023 Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award (特優導師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2023-2024.
2022 Future Tech Award (優良勞作教育導師獎), National Science and Technology Council, 2022.
2022 Outstanding Young Scholar Award (優秀年輕學者懷璧獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2022.
2021 Distinguished Service Award Ⅱ (服務特優 Ⅱ 獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2021-2022.
2017 Outstanding Service Award (優良勞作教育導師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2017.
2016 Distinguished Teaching Award I (教學特優 I 獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2016.
2016 Outstanding Service Award (優良勞作教育導師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2016.
2015 Outstanding Teaching Award (104 學年傑出教學教師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2016.
2014 National Chung Hsing University Teaching Award (103 學年興人師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2015.
Best Technology Award (東友科技獎), 2014 TECO Green Tech Contest, National Chung Hsing University, 2014.
Finalists Certificates (佳作), 2014 TECO Green Tech Contest, National Chung Hsing University, 2014.
2013 National Chung Hsing University Teaching Award (102 學年興人師獎), National Chung Hsing University, 2014.
12^th Annual Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium Award, University of Florida, 2011.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s SRAP II–Year II, University of Florida, 2010-2011.
Ray W. Fahien Graduate Teaching Award, University of Florida, 2010.
Alumni Award, University of Florida, 2008–2011.
Outstanding Achievement Fellowship, University of Florida, 2008–2009.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
IPST’s Graduate Student of the Year, Georgia Institute of Technology PS&E, 2008.
President’s Fellowship of the Graduate Admission, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006–2008.
Gerson Award of the Society of Plastics Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2005.

Patents

吳宗明、薛富盛、竇維平、楊宏達、王傑瑁、王湘婷，具有多維度中空奈米結構之複合片體及其應用，中華民國發明專利，2020，I685523。
楊宏達、陳瀅竹、陳怡秀，仿生吸盤陣列及其製備方法，中華民國發明專利，2019，I656956。
楊宏達、柯雅齡、曹寬奕，迴歸反射結構及其製造方法，中華民國發明專利，2017，I606274。
“Polymer Film, Method for Manufacturing Thereof, Anti-Reflective Element and Sensing Element Using the Same”, Yang, H.*; Lin, C.-Y., Taiwan Patent, 2017, TW I596144.
“Anti-Ultraviolet and Anti-Infrared Porous Structure”, Yang, H.*; Cai, C.-Y., Taiwan Patent, 2016, TW I542906.
“Self-Dimming Smart Glass and Fabrication Method Thereof”, Yang, H.*; Cai, C.-Y., Taiwan Patent, 2016, TW I541425.
“Macroporous Composite Film, Preparing Method Thereof, Method and Device for Detecting Chemical Vapor Using the Same”, Yang, H.*; Ko, Y.-L., Taiwan Patent, 2016, TW I537319.
“Porous Structure for CO2 Sensor and Method Thereof”, Yang, H.*; Tsao, K.-Y., Cai, C.-Y., Taiwan Patent, 2015, I504881.
“Porous Polymer Membranes, Methods of Making, and Methods of Use”, Jiang, P & Yang, H., US Patent, 2013, US 2013/0199995 A1.
“Macrorporous Polymer Reflective Color Displays and Method for Producing”, Yang, H.; Jiang, P., provisional US Patent filed by the UF Office of Technology Licensing.

Publications

Liang-Cheng Pan, Shang-Yu Hsieh, Wei-Cheng Chen, Fang-Tzu Lin, Chieh Hsuan Lu, Ya-Lien Cheng, Hsiu-Wen Chien, and Hongta Yang*, Self-Assembly of Shark Scale-Patterned Tunable Superhydrophobic/Anti-Fouling Structures with Visual Color Response, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023, 15, 35311-35320.
Kuan-Ting Chiang, Yu-Zhe Ye, Bo-Han Zeng, Shin-Hua Lin, Ya-Lien Cheng, Rong-Ho Lee, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, and Hongta Yang*, Leafhopper-Inspired Reversibly Switchable Antireflection Coating with Sugar Apple-Like Structure Arrays, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023, 650, 81-93.
Chung-Jui Lai, You-Jie Chen, Mei-Xuan Wu, Chia-Chien Wu, Nien-Ting Tang, Ting-Fang Hsu, Shin-Hua Lin, Hou-Feng Li, and Hongta Yang*, Self-Cleaning and Anti-Fogging Hierarchical Structure Arrays Inspired by Termite Wing, Applied Surface Science, 2023, 616, 156484.
Chia-Hua Hsieh, Fang-Tzu Lin, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Shang-Yu Hsieh, Yi-Ting Chen, Hui-Ping Tsai, Chieh-Hsuan Lu, and Hongta Yang*, Assembly of Nanometer-Sized Hollow Sphere Colloidal Crystals for Applications as Tunable Photonic Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5, 15855-15864.
Po-Hsin Mao, Ta Cong Khiem, Eilhann Kwon, Hou-Chien Chang, Ha Manh Bui, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongta Yang*, Suresh Ghotekar, Wei-Hsin Chen, Yu-Chih Tsai, and Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Ambient-Visible-Light-Mediated Enhanced Degradation of UV Stabilizer Bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)methanone by Nanosheet Assembled Cobalt Titanium Oxide: A Comparative and DFT-Assisted Investigation, Water, 2022, 14, 3318.
Huei-Yin Chen, Kuan-Ting Chiang, Yu-Zhe Ye, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Hongta Yang*, Tunable Antireflective Characteristics Enabled by Small Yellow Leafhopper-Inspired Soccer Ball-Shaped Structure Arrays, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2022, 136, 104407.
Chung-Jui Lai, Hui-Ping Tsai, Ju-Yu Chen, Mei-Xuan Wu, You-Jie Chen, KunYi Lin, and Hongta Yang*, Single-Step Fabrication of Longtail Glasswing Butterfly-Inspired Omnidirectional Antireflective Structures, Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 1856.
Duong Dinh Tuan, Cong Khiem, Eilhann Kwon, Yiu Fai Tsang, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn, Bui Xuan Thanh, Grzegorz Lisak, Hongta Yang*, Kun-Yi Lin, Hollow Porous Cobalt Oxide Nanobox as an Enhanced for Activating Monopersulfate to Degrade 2-Hydroxybenzoic Acid in Water, Chemosphere, 2022, 133441.
Chung-Jui Lai, Hui-Ping Tsai, Ju-Yu Chen, Mei-Xuan Wu, You-Jie Chen, Kun-Yi Lin, Hongta Yang*, Single-Step Fabrication of Longtail Glasswing Butterfly-Inspired Omnidirectional Antireflective Structures, Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 1856.
Huei-Yin Chen, Kuan-Ting Chiang, Yu-Zhe Ye, Kun-Yi Lin, Hongta Yang*, Tunable Antireflective Characteristics Enabled by Small Yellow Leafhopper-Inspired Soccer Ball-Shaped Structure Arrays, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2022, 136, 104407.
Ru-Yu Chen, Chung-Jui Lai, You-Jie Chen, Mei-Xuan Wu, Hongta Yang*, Omnidirectional Unidirectional Antireflection-Switchable Submicrometer-Scale Structures Inspired by Dragonfly Wings, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2022, 610, 246-257.
Wei-Jie Liu, Hongta Yang, Young-Kwon Park, Eilhann Kwon, Chao-Wei Huang, Bui Xuan Thanh, Ta Cong Khiem, Siming You, Farshid Ghanbari, Kun-Yi Lin*, Enhanced Degradation of Ultra-Violet Stabilizer Bis(4-hydroxy) Benzophenone using Oxone Catalyzed by Hexagonal Nanoplate-Assembled CoS 3-Dimensional Cluster. Chemosphere, 2022, 288, 132427.
Pei-Chun Li, Huei-Yin Chen, Kuan-Ting Chiang, Hongta Yang*, Reversible Embroidered Ball-Like Antireflective Structure Arrays Inspired by Leafhopper Wings. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021, 599, 119-129.
Yu-Han Chen, Huei-Yin Chen, Chung-Jui Lai, Jung-Hsuan Hsu, Kun-Yi Lin, Hongta Yang*, Tunable Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings Inspired by Inclined Irregular Nanostructures on Transparent Blue-Tailed Forest Hawk Dragonfly Wings. Langmuir, 2020, 36, 5296-5303.
Yi-Cheng Lu, Liang-Cheng Pan, Yao-Wei Lei, Kun-Yi Lin, Hongta Yang*, Clairvoyant Melon Maturity Detection Enabled by Doctor-Blade-Coated Photonic Crystals. Sensors, 2021, 21, 7046.
Duong Dinh Tuan, Cong Khiem, Eilhann Kwon, Yiu Fai Tsang, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn, Bui Xuan Thanh, Grzegorz Lisak, Hongta Yang*, Kun-Yi Lin*, Hollow Porous Cobalt Oxide Nanobox as an Enhanced for Activating Monopersulfate to Degrade 2-Hydroxybenzoic Acid in Water. Chemosphere, 2021, 133441.
Bing-Cheng Li, Hongta Yang, Eilhann Kwon, Duong Dinh Tuan, Ta Cong Khiem, Grzegorz Lisak, Bui Xuan Thanh, Farshid Ghanbari*, Kun-Yi Lin*, Catalytic Reduction of Bromate by Co-Embedded N-doped Carbon as a Magnetic Non-Noble Metal Hydrogenation Catalyst. Separation and Purification Technology, 2021, 277, 119320.
Duong Dinh Tuan, Hongta Yang, Nguyen Nhat Huy, Eilhann Kwon, Ta Cong Khiem, Siming You, Jechan Lee*, Kun-Yi Lin, Enhanced Reduction of Bromate in Water by 2-Dimensional Porous Co₃O₄ via Catalytic Hydrogenation. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2021, 9, 105809.
Bing-Cheng Li, Jia-Yin Lin, Jechan Lee, Eilhann Kwon, Bui Xuan Thanh, Xiaoguang Duan, Hsing Hua Chen, Hongta Yang*, Kun-Yi Lin*, Size-Controlled Nanoscale Octahedral HKUST-1 as an Enhanced Catalyst for Oxidative Conversion of Vanillic Alcohol the Mediating Effect of Polyvinylpyrrolidone. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2021, 631, 127639.
Min-Fang Wu, Hui-Ping Tsai, Chia-Hua Hsieh, Yi-Cheng Lu, Liang-Cheng Pan, Hongta Yang*, Water-Soluble Chemical Vapor Detection Enabled by Doctor-Blade-Coated Macroporous Photonic Crystals. Sensors, 2020, 20, 5503.
Meng-Shan Shih, Huei-Yin Chen, Pei-Chun Li, Hongta Yang*, Broadband Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings Inspired by Embroidered Ball-Like Structures on Leafhoppers, Applied Surface Science, 2020, 532, 147397.
Chia-Hua Hsieh, Yi-Cheng, Lu, Hongta Yang*, Self-Assembled Mechanochromic Shape Memory Photonic Crystals by Doctor Blade Coating. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 36478-36484.
Chih-Wei Lei, Ru-Yu Chen, Hongta Yang*, Leafhopper-Wing-Inspired Broadband Omnidirectional Antireflective Embroidered Ball-Like Structure Arrays Using a Non-Lithography-Based Methodology. Langmuir, 2020, 36, 5296-5303.
Hsin-Yu Tseng, Yu-Han Chen, Ru-Yu Chen, Hongta Yang *, Reversibly Erasable Broadband Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings Inspired by Inclined Conical Structures on Blue-Tailed Forest Hawk Dragonfly Wings. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 10883-10892.
Chen-Yu Chien, Yu-Han Chen, Ru-Yu Chen, Hongta Yang *, Dragonfly-Wing-Inspired Inclined Irregular Conical Structures for Broadband Omnidirectional Antireflection Coatings. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019, 3, 789-796.
Kun-Yi Andrew Lin*, Hongta Yang, Fu-Kong Hsu, Zr-Metal Organic Framework and Derivatives for Adsorptive and Photocatalytic Removal of Acid Dyes. Water Environment Research, 2018, 90, 144-154.
Kun-Yi Andrew Lin*, Chu-Hong Lin, Hongta Yang *, Enhanced Bromate Reduction using Zero-Valent Aluminum Mediated by Oxalic Acid. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2017, 5, 5085-5090.
Yu-Chien Chen, and Hongta Yang*, Octopus-Inspired Nanosucker Arrays for Dry/Wet Adhesion. ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 5332. (Selected as Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlight.)
Chien-Fu Chiu, Hui-Ping Tsai, Ying-Chu Chen, Yi-Xuan He, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, and Hongta Yang*, Self-Assembled Curved Macroporous Photonic Crystal-Based Surfactant Detectors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 26333.
Yi-Han Lin, Shing-Yi Suen, and Hongta Yang*, Visual and Reversible Carbon Dioxide Sensing Nnabled by Doctor Blade Coated Macroporous Photonic Crystals. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 506, 319.
Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Yu-Chien Chen, Tien-Yu Lin, and Hongta Yang*, Lanthanum Cobaltite Perovskite Supported on Zirconia as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 497, 325.
Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Jyun-Ting Lin, and Hongta Yang*, Ferrocene Modified Chitosan as an Efficient and Green Heterogeneous Catalyst for Sulfate-Radical-Based Advanced Oxidation Process. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2017, 173, 412.
Kun-Yi Andrew Lin*, Hongta Yang, and Fu-Kong Hsu, Zr-Metal Organic Framework and Derivatives for Adsorptive and Photocatalytic Removal of Acid Dyes. Water Environment Research, 2017.
Ya-Ling Ko, Hui-Ping Tsai, Kun-Yi Lin, Ying-Chu Chen, and Hongta Yang* Reusable Macroporous Photonic Crystal-Based Ethanol Vapor Detectors by Doctor Blade Coating. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 487, 360.
Cheng-Yen Lin, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Tung-Wei Yang, Ying-Chu Chen, and Hongta Yang* Self-Assembled Hemispherical Nanowell Arrays for Superhydrophobic Antireflection Coatings. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 490, 171.
Kuan-Yi Tsao, Hui-Ping Tsai, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin, Yi-Xuan He, and Hongta Yang* Self-Assembled Hierarchical Arrays for Colored Retroreflective Coatings. Langmuir, 2016, 32, 12869. (Mimicking bug eyes could brighten reflective signs and clothes, selected as American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service November PressPac)
Cheng-Yen Lin, Kun-Yi Lin, Hui-Ping Tsai, Yi-Xuan He, and Hongta Yang* Self-Assembled Dual-Sided Hemispherical Nano-Dimple-Structured Broadband Antireflection Coatings. Applied Physics Letters, 2016, 109, 221601.
Lin, K.-C.; Lin, C.-H.; Chen, S. Y.; Yang H.*, Enhanced Photocatalytic Reduction of Concentrated Bromate in the Presence of Alcohols. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016, 303, 596-603.
Cai, C.-Y.; Lin, K.-Y.; Chen, Y.-C.; Yang, H.* Macroporous Photonic Crystal-Based Anti-Ultraviolet and Anti-Near-Infrared Materials by Doctor Blade Coating. Applied Physics Letters, 2016, 108, 071906.
Chen, Y.-C.; Huang, Z.-S.; Yang H.*, Cicada-Wing-Inspired Self-Cleaning Antireflection Coatings on Polymer Substrates. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 25495-25505.
Cai, C.-Y.; Tseng, S.-K.; Kuo. M.; Lin, K.-Y.; Yang, H.*; Lee, R.-H.*Chen, Photovoltaic Performance of N719 Dye based Dye-sensitized Solar Cell with Transparent Macroporous Anti-ultraviolet Photonic Crystal Coatings. RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 102903-102910.
Lin, K.-Y.*; Yang, H.; Lee, W.-D., Enhanced Removal of Diclofenac from Water Using a Zeolitic Imidazole Framework Functionalized with Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB), RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 81330–81340.
Chou, C.-C.; Tsao, K.-Y.; Wu, C.-C. & Yang H.*, Chen, C.-M.*, Improved Power Conversion Efficiency for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells using a Subwavelength-Structured Antireflective Coating. Applied Surface Science, 2015, 325, 198-204.
Lin, K.-Y. Andrew*; Yang, H.; Lee, W. D. & Tsao, K.-Y., A Magnetic Fluid Based on Covalent-Bonded Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid Materials (NOHMs) and Its Decolorization Application in Water. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015, DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3961-x.
Lin, K.-Y. Andrew*; Yang, H.; Petitc, C. & Chen, S.-Y., Removal of Oil Droplets from Water using Carbonized Rice Husk: Enhancement by Surface-Modification using Polyethylenimine. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2015, 204, 50–59.
Lin, K.-Y. Andrew*, Yang, H.; Petitc, C. & Lee, W-D, Magnetically Controllable Pickering Emulsion Prepared by A Reduced Graphene Oxide-Iron Oxide Composite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2015, 438, 296-305.
Cai, C.-Y., Lin, K.-Y. Andrew & Yang, H.*, Superhydrophobic Anti-Ultraviolet Films by Doctor Blade Coating. Applied Physics Letters, 2014, 105, 201913.
Lin, K.-Y. Andrew*, Yang, H.; Petitc, C. & Hsua, F-K, Removing Oil Droplets from Water Using a Copper-Based Metal Organic Frameworks. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2014, 249, 293-301.
Yang, H. T.*; Gozubenli, N.; Fang, Y. & Jiang, P.* Generalized Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Non-Close-Packed Colloidal Crystals with Controlled Lattice Spacing. Langmuir, 2013, 29, 7674-7681.
Yang, H. T.*; Dou, X.; Fang, Y. & Jiang, P.* Self-Assembled Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Hierarchical Arrays. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2013, 405, 51-57.
Yang, H.; Jiang, B.; Jiang, P.* Vapor Detection Enabled by Self-Assembled Colloidal Photonic Crystals. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2012, 370, 11–18.
Fang, Y.; Dlott, D.*; Yang, H.; Jiang, P. The Distribution of Enhancement Factors in Close-Packed and Non-Close-Packed Surface Enhanced Raman Substrates. Journal of Ramam Spectroscopy 2011, 43, 389–395.
Yang, H.; Jiang, P.* Macroporous Photonic Crystal-Based Vapor Detectors Created by Doctor Blade Coating. Applied Physics Letters 2011, 98, 011104.
Yang, H.; Jiang, P.* Scalable Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Hierarchical Colloidal Arrays. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2010, 352, 558–565.
Yang, H.; Jiang, P.* Large-Scale Colloidal Self-Assembly by Doctor Blade Coating. Langmuir 2010, 26, 13173–13182.
Yang, H.; Jiang, P.* Self-Cleaning Diffractive Macroporous Polymer Films by Doctor Blade Coating. Langmuir 2010, 26, 12598–12604.
Yang, H.; Deng, Y.* Preparation and Physical Properties of Superhydrophobic Papers. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2008, 325, 588–593.
Yang, H.; Huang C-Y.*; Xanthos, M. Synthesis and Characterization of PMMA/Silica Nanocomposites. SPE Antec, Charlotte N.C., May 2006.