(Lecture, Nov 17) Tailoring Carbon Nanomaterials for Emerging Applications
time: 2017-11-16


Title: Tailoring Carbon Nanomaterials for Emerging Applications
Speaker: Professor Chen Yuan (Tsinghua University)
Host: Professor Yu Hao
Time: 10:00a.m., Nov. 17th, 2017
Venue: Room 405, Shaw Engineering Building, Wushan Campus
[Biography]
Professor Yuan Chen received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Tsinghua University in China, and a PhD from Yale University in the United States. He was at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2005 to 2015. He joined the University of Sydney in 2015. His research focuses on developing scalable processes to synthesize carbon nanomaterials with well-defined atomic structures, assemble nanoscale carbon nanomaterials into functional macroscale structures, and use these novel materials for sustainable energy and environmental applications. In particular, his research team works on applications related to energy and water, such as high energy density supercapacitors, fiber supercapacitors for smart textiles, Zn-air batteries, electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution, oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution reactions, carbon-based membranes, and antibacterial coatings. He received the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (Level 3) in 2016, an Excellence in Review Award from Carbon in 2015, a Young Scientist Award from the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2011, a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering in 2010, and JSPS exchange award in 2009. He is currently serving as an editor for Carbon (impact factor 6.337) and Nanomaterials (impact factor 3.553). He also serves as Chair for Australian Carbon Society and Asian Association of Carbon Groups since August 2017.