Admissions Major

• Master's admissions major:

• Master of academic degree: 083000| Environmental science and engineering.

• Master of professional degree: 085700| Resources and environment.

• Doctoral admissions major:

• Doctor of academic degree: 083000| Environmental science and engineering.

• Doctor of professional degree: 085700| Resources and environment.

Working experience

• 07/2012 - 10/2013: Associate Professor, South China University of Technology

• 10/2013 - Present: Professor, South China University of Technology

Educational experience

• 08/2008-12/2011: Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, USA

• 09/2005-07/2008: South China University of Technology, Materials Science

• 09/2001-07/2005: Zhengzhou University Materials Science and Engineering

Field of research

• Solid oxide fuel cells, lithium (sodium, potassium) ion batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries key materials and devices preparation and industrialization research.

Recent research projects

• More than 20 research projects funded by the National Key Research and Development Program, National Foundation for Science and Technology/Youth Fund, Ministry of Education, Guangdong Science and Technology Program, Guangzhou Science and Technology Program and Southern Power Grid.

Academic achievements

1. Chenghao Yang, Xinghui Liang, Xing Ou, Qiaobao Zhang, Hong-Shen Zheng, Fenghua Zheng, Jeng-Han Wang, Kevin Huang, and Meilin Liu, Heterostructured nanocube-shaped binary sulfide (SnCo)S2 interlaced with S-doped graphene as a high-performance anode for advanced Na+-batteries, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019,29, 1807971.

2. Xing Ou, Liang Cao, Xinghui Liang, Fenghua Zheng, Hong-Sheng Zheng, Xianfeng Yang, Jeng-Han Wang, Chenghao Yang*, Meilin Liu, Fabrication of SnS2/Mn2SnS4/Carbon Heterostructures for Sodium-Ion Batteries with High Initial Coulombic Efficiency and Cycling Stability, ACS Nano 2019, 13, 3666−3676.

3. Youpeng Li, Chenghao Yang*,Fenghua Zheng, Qichang Pan, Yanzhen Liu, Gang Wang, Tiezhong Liu, Junhua Hu, Meilin Liu, Design of TiO2-C hierarchical tubular heterostructures for high performance potassium ion batteries, Nano Energy, 2019, 59, 582-590.

4. Qichang Pan, Qiaobao Zhang, Fenghua Zheng, Yanzhen Liu, Youpeng Li, Xing Ou, Xunhui Xiong, Chenghao Yang*, Meilin Liu, Construction of MoS2/C Hierarchical Tubular Heterostructures for High Performance Sodium Ion Batteries, ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 12578-12586.

5. Chenghao Yang,* Xing Ou, Xunhui Xiong, Fenghua Zheng, Renzong Hu, Yu Chen, Meilin Liu, Kevin Huang*, V5S8-graphite hybrid nanosheets as a high rate-capacity and stable anode material for sodium-ion batteries, Energy & Environmental Science, 10 (2017) 107-110.

6. Xing Ou, ChenghaoYang,*Xunhui Xiong, Fenghua Zheng,Qichang Pan, Meilin Liu and Kevin Huang*, A new rGO-overcoated Sb2Se3 nanorods anode for Na+ battery: In situ x-ray diffraction study on a live sodiation/desodiation process, Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 1606242.

7. Xunhui Xiong, Guanhua Wang, Yuwei Lin,Ying Wang, Xing Ou, Fenghua Zheng, Chenghao Yang,* Jenghan Wang, Meilin Liu*, Enhancing Sodium Ion Battery Performance by Strongly Binding Nanostructured Sb2S3 on Sulfur-doped Graphene Sheets, ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 10953-10959.

8. Fenghua Zheng, Chenghao Yang,* Xunhui Xiong, Jiawen Xiong, Renzong Hu, Yu Chen, Meilin Liu, Nanoscale Surface Modification of Lithium-Rich Layered-Oxide Composite Cathodes for Suppressing Voltage Fade，Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54 (2015) 13058–13062.

9. Chenghao Yang*, Jiao Li, Ye Lin, Jiang Liu, Fanglin Chen, Meilin Liu, In situ fabrication of CoFe alloy nanoparticles structured (Pr0.4Sr0.6)3(Fe0.85Nb0.15)2O7 ceramic anode for direct hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cells, Nano Energy, 11 (2015) 704–710.

10. Chenghao Yang, Zhibin Yang, Chao Jin. Guoliang Xiao, Fanglin Chen, Minfang Han, Sulfur-tolerant redox-reversible anode material for direct hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cells, Advanced Materials, 24 (2012) 1439-1443.

Curriculum Vitae

• Chenghao Yang, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He is the director of Guangdong Energy Materials Surface Chemistry Engineering Technology Research Center and the director of Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Energy Materials Surface Chemistry. He is mainly engaged in in-situ Raman/XRD characterization, development and industrialization of key materials and devices for solid oxide fuel cells, lithium (sodium, potassium) ion batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries. He has published more than 100 SCI papers in Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy Environ. Sci., ACS Nano and Adv. Funct. Mater., more than 10 of which were ESI highly cited papers. He applied for or was granted more than 20 US and Chinese patents for his research results. He has presided over 20 research projects funded by the National Key Research and Development Program, National Foundation for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program, Guangzhou Science and Technology Program and Southern Power Grid, etc.