GREEN CATALYSIS LAB YEARBOOK 2020
Transcript of GREEN CATALYSIS LAB YEARBOOK 2020
2020
GREEN CATALYSIS LAB YEARBOOK
Hi, Sci!
National University of SingaporeYan Group
Honesty Independency Safety Caring Innovation.
CONTENTS
1. Overview
2. Research Facilities
3. Research Outcomes
4. Collaboration and Exchange
5. Awards
6. Recent Progress of Past Members
7. Milestones
Editorial team
Mr. Wang Sikai
Mr. Lim Chia Wei
Mr. Maxim Dickieson
Mr. Hua An
Mr. Chang Jinquan
Ms. Yiying Xiao
Ms. Liu Rui
Ms. Wei Pingping
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Among the awards he received are the inaugural “Green Chemistry for Life” Young Scholar Award
from UNESCO in 2014, the inaugural G2C2 Young Research Award from Global Green Chemistry
Center Network in 2015, “Energy, Environment and Sustainability Early Career Award” from Royal
Society of Chemistry in 2017, “Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award” from
American Chemistry Society in 2018 and “Young Researcher Award” from NUS in 2019. He is or
was part of the editorial team of numerous international journals, such as ACS Catalysis, ACS
Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Catalytic Science & Technology and Molecular Catalysis.
Prof. Ning Yan received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry
from Peking University, working with Prof. Yuan Kou from 2000
to 2009. After a Marie Curie Fellowship at École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland with Prof. Paul Dyson, he
joined National University of Singapore in 2012 and set up the
Green Catalysis Lab. He was promoted to tenured associate
professor in 2018. His group focuses on the catalytic
transformation of renewable resources and heterogeneous
catalysis.
Principal Investigator
1. Overview of Research Group
A Year of Rapid Growth - New Research Fellows and PhD
Candidates
2 research fellows and 6 PhD candidates joined the group in 2020.
Kyungho Lee Research Fellow
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
BSc: KAIST, 2013
PhD: KAIST, 2019
Email: [email protected]
Feng Shixiang Research Fellow
Birthplace: Jiangxi, China
BSc: Wuhan University, 2013
MSc: Wuhan University, 2016
PhD: Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2019
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Group Members (as of Jan-2021)
The group has 4 post-doctoral research fellows and 13 PhD candidates.
Chang Jinquan PhD Candidate
Birthplace: Inner Mongolia, China
BSc: Beijing University of
Chemical Technology, 2017
MSc: National Center for
Nanoscience and Technology, 2020
Email: [email protected]
Hua An PhD Candidate
Birthplace: Shaanxi Province, China
BEng: Xi'an Jiaotong University
MEng: Xi'an Jiaotong University
Email: [email protected]
Yiying Xiao PhD Candidate
Birthplace: Yunnan Province,
China
BSc: Nanjing University
MSc: NUS
Email: [email protected]
Maxim Dickieson PhD
Candidate
Birthplace: Encino, California,
United States
BEng: Arizona State University
Email: [email protected]
Liu Rui PhD Candidate
Birthplace: Heilongjiang Province,
China
BSc: China University of Petroleum
(Beijing)
MSc: Tianjin University
Email: [email protected]
Wei Pingping PhD
Candidate
Birthplace: Anhui, China
BSc: Harbin Institute of
Technology, 2017
MSc: Tsinghua University, 2020
Email: [email protected]
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Co-supervised with Prof. Jinglong Gong (Liu Rui and Wei Pingping) and Prof. Xinbin Ma (Chang Jinquan)
in Tianjin University
Since 2012, the group has had 11 post-doctoral research fellows, 5 PhD graduates and
19 co-supervised doctoral or doctoral exchange students, 13 masters exchange students, 9
undergraduate exchange students; 11 of whom currently hold positions at universities and
research institutes. The group has also hosted 14 visiting scholars.
See Jie Yang
Research Fellow
Birthplace: Singapore
PhD: NUS, 2018
Email: [email protected]
Period: 08/2019-06/2020
Song Song
Research Fellow
Birthplace: Henan, China
BSc: Zhengzhou University, 2012
PhD: Nankai University, 2017
Email: [email protected]
Period: 08/2017-07/2020
Wang Qian
Research Engineer
Birthplace: Sichuan, China
BSc: Sichuan University, 2018
MSc: NUS, 2020
Email: [email protected]
Period: 04/2020-06/2020
Members Who Left in 2020
CHEN Jianjun
Exchange PhD
Birthplace: Guangxi Province, China
BSc: Ocean University of China, 2014
MSc: Sichuan University, 2017
Home University: Sichuan University
Email: [email protected]
Period: 08/2019-08/2020
ZHOU Shenghui
Exchange PhD
Birthplace: Hunan Province, China
BSc: Xiangtan University
Home University: South China
University of Technology
Email: [email protected]
Period: 08/2019-08/2020
Sun Qiming
Research Fellow
Birthplace: Jilin Province, China
MSc: Jilin University, 2011
PhD: Jilin University, 2016
Email: [email protected]
Period: 08/2018-07/2020
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You will be missed…
JING Yaxuan
Exchange PhD
Birthplace: Gansu, China
BEng: East China University of
Science and Technology, 2016
Home University: East China
University of Science and Technology
Email: [email protected]
Period: 10/2019-10/2020
Chanasit Kaewngam
Exchange PhD
Birthplace: Nakhan Sawan,
Thailand
BEng: Silpakorn University, 2018
Home University: Chulalong Korn
University
Email: [email protected]
Period: 01/2020-10/2020
Surachet HongkailersExchange PhD
Birthplace: Nakhonsawan,
Thailand
BSc: Chulalongkorn University,
2018
Home University: Chulalongkorn
University
Email: [email protected]
Period: 01/2020-12/2020
Jiawei ZhongResearch Fellow
Birthplace: Guangdong, China
BSc: South China Agricultural University,
2011
MSc: University of Chinese Acadamy of
Science, 2015
PhD: Dalian University of Technology,
2019
Email: [email protected]
Period: 11/2019-11/2020
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Have a brilliant future…
2. Research Facilities
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High-pressure flow reactor
In situ FTIR spectrometer
The laboratory is well-equipped for catalyst preparation, characterisation and testing. Catalyst
preparation equipment include centrifuges, freeze dryers, ovens and ball mills while catalyst
characterisation equipment including temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) and desorption
(TPD) set-ups, as well as in situ FTIR spectrometer.
Offline GC HPLC
Catalyst testing equipment consist of 2 sets of fixed-bed
reactors and several batch reactors while product analysis
equipment including 2 online gas chromatography (GC), an
offline GC and a high-performance liquid chromatography
(HPLC) (with RID and UV detectors).
This year, the group continued working towards breakthroughs in science in the relatively
recently renovated laboratories equipped with extensive gas supply systems.
Laboratory E8-05-13 Laboratory E8-05-14
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New Equipment
In 2020, under the support of Green Energy Programme, our lab has access to an advanced
4-channel CO2 reactor to analyze the hydrogenation of CO2 into methanol and other key
chemicals. The reactor was roughly half a million USD and is one of the most advanced of
its kind. Exciting project to come with this new weapon!
The lab also added a new ball mill for studies into mechanochemical synthesis.
3. Research Outcomes
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2020 has been a year with outstanding achievements. Continued advances in biomass conversion
and single-atom catalysis have been made. Exciting discoveries have also been achieved in new
research areas of CO2 conversion and renewable nitrogen-containing chemical synthesis. A number
of articles have been published in leading journals, such as PNAS, Chem. Soc. Rev, Nat. Commun.,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc.
• S. Ding et al. High-temperature Flame Spray Pyrolysis Induced Stabilization of Pt Single-Atom
Catalysts Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020, 281, 119471 (special issue in memory of Prof.
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos).
• M. Hueley. et al. Observing single-atom catalytic sites during reactions with electrospray ionization
mass spectrometry Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011632.
Single-Atom Catalysis
Following our report in 2016 using heteropoly acids as anchoring sites for single atom catalysts, we
systematically developed a series of heteropoly acids to stabilize Pt and Rh single atom catalysts to
quantitatively elaborate on the relationship between catalyst structure, stability and activity (JACS). In-situ
X-ray absorption spectroscopy was applied to identify the rate-determining steps and key intermediates in
CO oxidation over Rh single-atom catalysts (Nat. Commun.). This year, we developed electrospray
ionization mass spectrometry based technique to precisely understand the active site composition and its
dynamic changes in catalytic cycles (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) At the same time, we continued the further
develop electrostatic interactions strategy to prevent agglomeration of single atoms. Finally, we successfully
utilized flame spray method to prepare thermally more stable single-atom catalysts.
Representative Publications:
• Q. Sun* et al. Zeolite-Encaged Pd-Mn Nanocatalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid
Dehydrogenation Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 20183-20191.
• Q. Sun* et al. CO2 Hydrogenation to Oxygenated Chemicals Over Supported Nanoparticle Catalysts:
Opportunities and Challenges Chapter 11 in the book "Nanoparticles in Catalysis"
Eds: Karine Philippot, Alain Roucoux, Wiley, 2020.
C1 Chemistry: CO2 Utilization
Singapore has identified global warming as a major threat to its national development. In 2019, National
University of Singapore provided S$8 million to initiate the NUS Flagship Green Energy Program. Our
research group is fortunate to play a key role in it, in-charge of developing new catalysts for effective
conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals. We studied the reaction mechanism of CO2 hydrogenation
into formic acid and explained the role of catalyst supports and metal active sites during the reaction.
Encouragingly, Dr. Sun Qiming’s research work published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. as a hot article.
Representative Publications:
• Y. Wang et al. Catalytic Production of Alanine from Waste Glycerol Angewandte Chemie International
Edition, 2020, 59, 2289-2293.
• S. Song et al. Integrating Biomass into Organonitrogen Chemical Supply Chain: Production of Pyrrole and
D-Proline from Furfural Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 19846-19850.
• S. Song et al. Visible-Light-Driven Amino Acids Production from Biomass-based Feedstocks over
Ultrathin CdS Nanosheets Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4899.
Preparation of Renewable Nitrogen-Containing Compounds
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Waste Refinery and Utilization
• X. Ma et al. Upcycling Chitin-containing Waste into Organonitrogen Chemicals via an
Integrated Process Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America, 2020, 117, 7719-7728.
• C. Mondelli* et al. Biomass valorisation over metal-based solid catalysts from nanoparticles to single
atoms Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, 49, 3764-3782.
• S. Wong et al. Downstream processing of lignin derived feedstock into end products
Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, 49, 5510-5560.
• Y. Jing. et al. Towards the circular economy: converting aromatic plastic waste back to arenes over
Ru/Nb2O5 catalyst Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011063
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, we were not able to conduct experiments for about half a year. Utilizing
this time, we finished publication of a few reviews in the area of biomass conversion, including one on
lignin conversion (Chem. Soc. Rev.) and one on metal particle size effect on biomass conversion (Chem.
Soc. Rev.) In shell biorefinery, our collaboration with Prof. Zhou to convert waste shrimp shells to high
value L-Dopa has been finalized and published (PNAS). This work received wide recognition and was
reported in NUS main website as well as Strait Times. We also explored into waste plastic valorization!
Representative Publications:
In 2018, our research group reported chemical synthesis of amino acids from biomass resources (PNAS),
which has aroused widespread interest and follow-up research internationally. We made major
progresses along this line in 2020. Several important works are published, expanding the boundaries of
biorefinery. A summery in the topic is under revision in Account of Chemical Research.
Representative Publications:
Dynamic catalysis
In 2019, we noticed a new trend in catalysis research from steady state to dynamic state. Under
oscillating conditions, the catalyst may behave differently compared with under constant condition due
to various reasons. As a result, the overall catalytic performance may be enhanced. Following a
perspective article on the topic (Chem. Sci.), we bravely explored into the field representing the first
team outside US to focus on the topic.
Exciting progresses will be communicated soon.
Taiwan: Collaborated with Prof. C-M Yang on high-temperature flame spray pyrolysis induced stabilization of Pt single-
atom catalysts and zeolite-encaged Pd-Mn nanocatalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation.
4. Collaboration and Exchange
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Japan: Established 7 years and ongoing collaboration with Prof. Tanaka’s group from Kyoto University with high-level
research work published annually. After being a visiting professor at Institute of Catalysis in Hokkaido University, we
established partnership with Assoc. Prof. Furukawa and have had multiple papers published since 2019.
China: We have strengthened or established collaborations with Prof. Tao Zhang’s team from DICP, Prof. Li Jun of
Tsinghua U, Professor Si Rui of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Center, Professor Wang Yanqin of East China U of
Science and Technology, Prof. Wang Jun’s and Prof. Zhou Yu’s team of Nanjing Tech U, Prof. Hu Changwei of Sichuan U,
Prof. D. Ma of Perking, Prof. F. Jin of Shanghai, etc. After joining Shanghai Jiaotong U, Chen Xi has been transformed from
a lab member to a collaborator.
Switzerland: Cooperated with Prof. Dyson (Prof. Yan’s former mentor) in the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Co-authored a review on single-atom catalysis (Chem. Soc. Rev.) with Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez from ETH Zurich and
carried out joint research on CO2 hydrogenation reaction.
USA: Collaborated with Prof. Sautet from UCLA in Los Angeles, California on observing single-atom catalytic sites
during reactions with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. The work was published in 2021 in Angewandte Chemie
International Edition.
UK: Co-authored a paper on circular economy with Prof. Alexei Lapkin from Cambridge University. More collaboration in
the research area of renewable carbon resource utilization took place in 2020.
International/regional Collaboration
New Zealand: Collaborated with Prof. Sperry from the University of Auckland to synthesize nitrogen-containing chemicals
from chitin as a starting material.
Thailand: Formed partnership with the Department of Applied Chemistry from the country’s top institution, Chulalongkorn
University. In 2020, we collaborated with Dr. J. Panpranot from Bangkok on high-temperature flame spray pyrolysis
induced stabilization of Pt single-atom catalysts
Canada: Joint application with Prof. Farnood, from University of Toronto, for NUS-UT exchange program has been
officially approved.
France: Collaborated with Dr. Philippot on CO2 hydrogenation to oxygenated chemicals over supported nanoparticle
catalysts. The work was published in Chapter 11 of the book "Nanoparticles in Catalysis".
• From 3 to 4 February 2020, Prof. Yan, Dr. Sergey Kozlov, Dr. Zhang Sui and 2 other
colleagues from NUS Chemical Engineering attended the NUS-Chula Joint Chemical
Engineering Symposium in Bangkok.
Overseas Visit
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From late Feb- end Dec
5. Awards
In October 2020, our collaborative
work with Dr. Zhou Kang on the
conversion of biomass into medicines
and supplements was featured as a long
article in The Straits Times. Read more
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Max Hülsey has been awarded
the Young Scientists Travel
Support Prize (worth $500 USD)
for the coming 17th International
Catalysis Congress in San Diego,
California. Congratulations!!!
Prof. Yan has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher 2020
(Chemistry) by Clarivate, among 25 NUS researchers this year.
Prof. Yan received the fifth annual Excellence in
Review Award from Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research. The award
recognizes reviewers who have made especially
notable contributions to I&EC Research.
6. Recent Progress of Past Members
Felix Bobbink — CEO in Plastogaz
Exchange MSc
Felix is working on the company Plastogaz, the EPFL spin-off company where he develops
technologies for the transformation of waste streams (e.g. plastics) into value-added products. Felix
develops the business and acts as the CEO, where he engages with customers. Hope the company will do
better and better and make real change to the world!
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Loris Lombardo — Now PhD at EPFL, Switzerland
Exchange MSc
Loris just finished the PhD thesis and will be defending in January.
The topic is on hydrides materials (especially borohydrides) combined
with organic ions (ionic liquids) for hydrogen storage and direct
CO2 capture and conversion. Congratulations! Dry the white wine!
On family side, Felix’s son (2nd child) is expected to be delivered in February 2021. Congratulations!
Ricca Rahman Nasaruddin — Prof in International Islamix University Malaysia(IIUM)
PhD & research fellow co-supervised with Prof Xie Jianping
Ricca delivered a healthy and cute baby boy named Addeen Hanzalah on 10th March 2020.
Congratulations to her!
She published one review paper on Coordination Chemistry Review, titled as “Toward greener
synthesis of gold nanomaterials: From biological to biomimetic synthesis”. It is a continuation of
writing collaboration with Prof. Xie Jianping.
In addition, Ricca has been appointed as the Head of Training and Recruitment Unit of IIUM World
Debate and Oratory Centre (IWON) starting October 2020.
Felix, pictured left with his family. Ricca, pictured right with her newborn child.
Ji Chul Jung— Prof in Myongji University
Visiting Scientist
Dr. Jung has been at Auburn University in the USA for 7
months (2020. 01~2020. 07) as a visiting scientist. After that
he came back to S. Korea safely. Stay safe and best wishes to
you! Attached is the photos of his family taken in Singapore
and the USA respectively.
Maxim Dickieson — PhD still in the Lab of Green Catalysis!
Undergraduate Exchange Student (June to Aug 2015), from Arizona State University
Maxim has been accepted into the PhD program at NUS studying under Professor Yan’s
supervision. He will arrive in Singapore at the beginning of 2021. Congratulations and look forward to
seeing you in Singapore again!
Also, he spent most of the year working for the analytics department for Caesars Entertainment in
Las Vegas while he waited to begin his PhD program. The photo on the right is from a trip he took to
Newport beach in California with his friend Austin.
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Hnah My Bui — PhD at the Technical
University of Munich, Germany
MSc Research Intern
My is doing her PhD at the Technical
University of Munich in the field of Technical
Chemistry, combining additive manufacturing
with heterogeneous catalysis.
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Vadim Ermolaev—Prof in Kazan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences
Visiting Scholar
Everything works well for Vadim and his group. Papers from his group have been published on
Nanomaterials and Journal of Organometallic Chemistry in the past 2020. Congratulations!
Joanne Zimmer — Master student at the University of Leipzig, Germany
DAAD Undergraduate Scholar
Joanne successfully finished her specialization project at the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering
in Leipzig (IOM) in the field of hydrogel synthesis and its application in photodynamic therapy.
She is currently working on a project at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Leipzig in the Group
of Prof. Gläser – Heterogenous Catalysis. The topic of her project is photocatalytic water spitting using
semiconductor photocatalysts loaded with a dual-cocatalyst system. So far, her results are very
promising. Congratulations!
She will go back to IOM and start with her Master thesis which is the final step in
completing her Master’s Degree in Chemistry in March 2021. Meanwhile she is searching for suitable
PhD positions in Chemistry. Good luck, Joanne!
Liu Yibin — China University of Petroleum (Huadong)
Visiting Scholar
Both of Prof. Liu’s daughters just entered kindergarten. Congratulations!
A PhD student under his supervision, Yan Hao, received a collaboration grant for overseas post-
doctoral exchange and will soon join the Lab of Green Catalysis! We can’t wait to welcome Yan Hao!
Prof. Liu has published 5 papers as the first or corresponding author. In addition, his research
students received the “Shandong Province Master's Thesis Award” and the “5th China Petroleum and
Chemical Engineering Special Award”. Congratulations to Prof. Liu and his students!
Ina Marie Jonalik — Working in Merck KGaA
Exhange Undergraduate Student
Ina joined the Inhouse Consulting Graduate Program of Merck KGaA after her master career in 2019.
She will transfer from the German office to the Singapore office at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021.
She is getting married in 2021 with her fiancé. Wish happiness to them!
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Yang Fu — Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
Exhange PhD Student
Congratulations for being promoted to Associate Professor!
Yongjun Gao — Hebei University
Research Fellow
Congratulations for being promoted to Professor!
Xi Chen — Shanghai Jiaotong University
PhD student
Congratulations for being promoted to Associate Professor and PhD supervisor!
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Song Song — Tianjin University
Research Fellow
Dr. Song left NUS and returned to China in 2020. He is now
an Associate Researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering
and Technology, Tianjin University. Congratulations!
Sun Qiming — Soochow University
Research Fellow
Dr. Sun left NUS and returned to China in August 2020. On 1 September, he took up the position
of Professor at the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow
University. Here’s wishing Dr. Sun a smooth and fruitful journey!
In August 2020, Dr. Sun’s paper titled “Zeolite‐Encaged Pd–Mn Nanocatalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation
and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation” was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
In November 2020, Dr. Sun received Chinese Chemical Society’s “Chemistry Award for Emerging
Researchers”. Congratulations!
Zhang Zailei
Research Engineer
Zailei had a stable and happy year.
Last picture in Singapore!
Happy
moments…
Some Important Moments…
Chinese New Year celebration at Prof. Yan’s house
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Celebration after Ding Shipeng’s thesis defence Welcoming PhD student intake 2020/2021
Mid-term dinner
2020LAB NEWS
• 12 Jan: We warmly welcome Dr.
Kyungho Lee, as well as Dr. Shixiang
Feng, as Research Fellows. Dr. Feng will
work in Tianjin University helping to set
up our lab in Fuzhou!
• 13 Jan: Prof. Fengshou Xiao from
Zhejiang University visited us and gave a
department seminar on catalyst design by
tuning the surface wettability.
• 16 Jan: Welcome to our new Exchange
PhD students Surachet Hongkailers
(Pond) and Chanasit Kaewngam
from Chulalongkorn University.
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
• 6 Feb: Prof. Yan and 4 other colleagues
from ChemEng NUS attended the NUS-
Chula joint Chemical Engineering
Symposium in Bangkok between 3 and 4
Feb 2020.
• 25 Mar: Mr. Shipeng Ding finished his
exchange in UC Berkerley and had a safe
travel back to Singapore. Congratulations!
May we stay together, healthy and strong.
• 25 Mar: Prof. Yan was invited to join the
editorial board of a new journal “The
Innovation” launched by Cell Press. The
aspiration of the journal is “to see the
unseen and to change the unchanged”.
7. Milestones
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• Circular breaker!!
MAY
NOV
SEP
AUG
OCT
DEC
JUN
• 2 June: We were excited to resume our lab
activities after two months of "circuit
breaker" measures. Our group members
worked in shifts to ensure safe distancing at
all time.
• 30 June: Our Shell Biorefinery project on the
conversion of seafood shells into chitin and
chitosan was highlighted by Bloomberg.
Congratulations to all our group members
who have worked on this project!
• 22 Jul: Prof. Yan was interviewed by
MONEY FM 89.3 for our research on waste
shell utilization.
JUL
• 10 Aug: Welcome to Yiying Xiao joining our
group as PhD students. They are part of the
second batch of PhD students of NUS-Tianjin
University Joint Research Institute. Other 2nd
batch NUS-Tianjin students have also arrived
by the end of the year: An Hua, Wei Pingping,
Chang Jingquan, Maxim Dickieson
• 13 Oct: We published our first paper on
Dynamic Catalysis - coverage-dependent
kinetics and rate optimisation, which was also
our first electrochemistry paper and first
ChemRxiv manuscript!
• 29 Oct: Our collaborative work with Prof.
Zhou Kang on the conversion of biomass into
medicines and supplements has been featured
as a long article in The Straits Times.
• 3 Nov: Things are getting more exciting now
for Dynamic Catalysis: We have
demonstrated the non-Faradaic promotion of
ethylene hydrogenation under oscillating
potentials with enhancements up to 553%.
• 17 Nov: Our lab's 10th Angew Chem Int
Ed paper @ NUS, done by PhD student Max
Hülsey, has just been accepted. Well done,
Max!
• 19 Nov: Prof. Yan has been listed as a Highly
Cited Researcher 2020 (Chemistry) by
Clarivate, among 25 NUS researches this
year.
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• 1 Dec: Our paper titled "Visible-light-driven
amino acids production from biomass-based
feedstocks over ultrathin CdS nanosheets" has
been selected by Nature Communications as
part of the Editors' Highlights showcasing
recent research.
• Circular breaker continues
• Dr. Qiming Sun and Dr. Song Song started
their new journey as faculty member in
Suzhou and Tianjin University, respectively.
Congratulations!