Academic Profile : Faculty

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Prof Yan Qingyu
Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering
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Dr. Yan obtained his BA from Materials Science and Engineering Department of Nanjing University, China, in 1999. He finished his Phd from Materials Science and Engineering Department of State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004. After that, He joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a postdoctoral research associate until joining Nanyang Technological University in 2007.
(1) semiconductor nanocrystals
(2) magnetic nanoparticle assembly
(3) thermoelectric materials
 
  • Investigate into mechanisms of Li Ion battery aging and degradation. Develop degradation models based on lump circuit and data driven deep learning.
  • Improving the flow battery performance by reducing the various losses in development of multi kW to MW flow batteries
  • SCARCE Phase 2: RT3 Recycling and Recovery of strategic metals and rare earth from PCBs and beyond
  • Efficient electrocatalytic urea production at ambient conditions from N-integrated CO2 reduction
  • Advanced high-entropy thermoelectric materials: design principle and physical transport property
  • WP1 - Project 1.1: In-situ/Ex-situ Characterization (PI: Alex Yan)
  • Physics and Knowledge Transfer-based Cognitive Digital Twin for Advanced Battery Analytics
  • Advancing Anode-Free Lithium Metal Batteries and Rechargeable Aqueous Aluminum Metal Batteries: Towards Sustainable Energy Storage Solutions (PI: Prof Alex Yan) (Project Partner: ITB)
  • Addressing Challenges of Zn Aqueous Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage and Carbon Neutrality
  • Energy-efficient Ammonia Cracking by 3D printing and system optimisation (WP1)
  • Exploiting the anisotropic transport of Layered Sb2Si2Te6 for advanced thermoelectric applications
  • Nano confinement in 2D interspace for electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis
  • Battery Separator Additive Technical Sprint