Introduction:

Name: Taisen Yan

Title: Associate Professor

E-mail: yantaisen@scut.edu.cn

Personal homepage: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/ce/2025/0416/c2422a586247/page.htm

Supervisor: Master’s ＆ PhD Supervisor

Area: 

Thermal Energy Storage， Atmospheric Water Harvesting， Heat and Mass Transfer Mechanism， Water Electrolysis

Education:

2017.4-2022.3 Shanghai JiaoTong University Ph.D

2014.9-2016.7 Harbin Institute of Technology Master's Degree

2010.9-2014.7 Harbin Institute of Technology Bachelor's Degree

Research interests:

(1) Thermal Energy Storage， including the design of novel sorption materials and the system of sorption thermal battery.

(2) Atmospheric Water Harvesting， including the design of water sorption adsorbents， like porous based composite sorbents， hydrogel materials， and the design of atmospheric water harvesters.

(3) Water electrolysis， especially the anion-exchange membrane water electrolysis. The disign of AEM materials， simulation of the water electrolysis， and the integrated energy system including the water electrolysis.

Representative publications :

(1) Li W S， Feng Y， Yan T S*， Zhang Y Q， Wei X G， Lv Q H， Qin J. Experimental and Simulation Study on Hygroscopic Hydrogel-Based Thermal Management of Electronic Device， Chemical Engineering Journal， 2024，500，157313 (Corresponding author)

(2)  Lv Q H， Yan T S*， Feng Y*， Huang H Y， Qin J. Experimental and numerical study of flow boiling heat transfer characteristics in rectangular groove-wall microchannels， International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer， 2024， 220， 124999 (Corresponding author)

(3) Li T X †*， Yan T S†， Wang P F†， Xu J X， Huo X Y， Bai Z Y， Shi W， Yu G H*， Wang R Z*. Scalable and Efficient Solar-driven Atmospheric Water Harvesting Enabled by Bidirectionally Aligned and Hierarchically Structured Nanocomposites. Nature Water， 2023， 1， 971-981 (co-author)

(4) Yan T S†， Li T X†*， Xu J X， Chao J W， Wang R Z*， Aristov Y I， Gordeeva L G， Dutta P， Murthy S S. Ultrahigh-Energy-Density Sorption Thermal Battery Enabled by Graphene Aerogel-Based Composite Sorbents for Thermal Energy Harvesting from Air. ACS Energy Letters， 2021， 6， 5: 1795–1802

(5) Xu J X†， Li T X†*， Yan T S†， Wu S， Wu M Q， Chao J W， Huo X Y， Wang P F and Wang R Z*. Ultrahigh solar-driven atmospheric water production enabled by scalable rapid-cycling water harvester with vertically aligned nanocomposite sorbent. Energy & Environmental Science， 2021， 14， 5979-5994 (co-author)