Alex Yan Qingyu

Associate Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Materials Technology

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CURRENT POSITION AND PAST EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

• Associate Professor (03/2013-present) School of Materials Science and Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

• Assistant Professor (02/2008-02/2013)), MSE, NTU

• Research Fellow (11/2004-11/2007), Focus Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

BS in Materials Science and Engineering (07/1999), Nanjing University, Nanjing, JiangSu, China

Ph. D in Materials Science and Engineering (12/2004), State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Zhong-Zhen Luo, Yu Zhang, Chaohua Zhang, Hui Teng Tan, Zhong Li, Anas Abutaha, Xing-Long Wu, Qihua Xiong, Khiam Aik Khor, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Jianwei Xu, Huey Hoon Hng, Qingyu Yan*, “Multifunctional 0D–2D Ni2P Nanocrystals–Black Phosphorus Heterostructure”, Advanced Energy Materials (2016 accepted)

2. Yu Zhang, Huanwen Wang, Zhongzhen Luo, Hui Teng Tan, Bing Li, Shengnan Sun, Zhong Li, Yun Zong, Zhichuan J. Xu, Yanhui Yang, Khiam Aik Khor,  Qingyu Yan*, “An air-stable densely packed phosphorene-graphene composite towards advanced lithium storage properties”, Advanced Energy Materials 6 (12), (2016), p1600453

3. Xianhong Rui, Wenping Sun, Chao Wu, Yan Yu,* Qingyu Yan*, “High-Performance and Highly Recyclable Na3V2(PO4)3 Cathodes”, Advanced Materials 27 (42), (2015), p6670

4. J. Wu‡­­, X. Rui‡, W. Chen, Qingyu Yan,* Qichun Zhang,* “Pushing Up Lithium Storage through Using Nanostructured Polyazaacene Analogues as Anodes” Angewandte Chemie 127 (25), (2015), p7462-7466

5. Wenping Sun, Xianhong Rui, Dan Yang, Ziqi Sun, Bing Li, Wenyu Zhang, Yun Zong, Srinivasan Madhavi*, Shixue Dou*; Yan, Qingyu*, “Two-Dimensional Tin Disulfide Nanosheets for Enhanced Sodium Storage”, ACS NANO 9 (11), (2015), p11371-11381

6. Jiansheng Wu,‡  Xianhong Rui,‡  Chengyuan Wang, Wen-Bo Pei, Raymond Lau, Qingyu Yan*, Qichun Zhang*, “Conjugated ladder polymers for high-capacity, stable and fast lithium storage anodes”, Advanced Energy Materials 5 (9), (2015), 1402189

7. Shengjie Peng, Linlin Li, Xiaopeng Han, Wenping Sun, Madhavi Srinivasan, Subodh G. Mhaisalkar, Fangyi Cheng,* Qingyu Yan,* Jun Chen, Seeram Ramakrishna*, “Self-Assembled Hierarchical CoS2 Nanosheets/Graphene Nanoarchitectures Embedded in Carbon Nanotubes as Flexible and Robust Electrodes for Hydrogen Evolution”,  Angewandte Chemie 53 (46), (2014), p12594-12599

8. Dan Yang, Ziyang Lu, Xianhong Rui, Xiao Huang, Hai Li, Jixin Zhu, Wenyu Zhang, Yeng Ming Lam, Huey Hoon Hng, Hua Zhang,* Qingyu Yan*, “Synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal phosphates with highly ordered mesoporous structures for lithium-ion battery application”,  Angewandte Chemie 53 (35), (2014), p9352-9355

9. Yaping Du, Zongyou Yin, Xianhong Rui, Zhiyuan Zeng, Xuejun Wu, Juqing Liu, Yuanyuan Zhu, Qingyu Yan, Hua Zhang*, “A General Method for Synthesis of Large-Amount Uniform Ultrathin Metal Sulfide Nanocrystals”, Nature Communications 3, (2012), 1177.

10. Jixin Zhu, Liujun Cao, Yingsi Wu, Yongji Gong, Zheng Liu, Harry E. Hoster, Yunhuai Zhang, Shengtao Zhang, Shubin Yang,* Qingyu Yan,* Pulickel M. Ajayan, Robert Vajtai*, “Building 3D Structures of Vanadium Pentoxide Nanosheets and Application as Electrodes in Supercapacitors”, Nano Letters 13 (11), (2013), p5408-5413.

 

RECENT AWARDSR:                              

Nanyang Education Award (2014)

Tan Chin Tuan exchange fellowship (2012)

Annual Award of International Magnetic Association (2003)

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