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Yan CAO
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+86-20-81181709
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C2-b302 (Guangzhou International Campus)
EMAIL
crystinacao@scut.edu.cn
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Biography
Dr. Yan Cao is an Associated Professor (PI), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the School of Emergent Soft Matter at South China University of Technology (2022-current). She is a Principal Investigator of the Institute of Advanced Study at Shenzhen University (2015–2022). She is proficient in designing and investigating novel soft matter structure by utilizing electron diffraction on transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction characterization and analysis. She got a Ph.D. in polymer physics at the University of Akron, USA (2007–2012) and have been engaged in postdoc research in Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)-ERATO project (2012–2014) at Kyushu University, Fukuoka. She is an experimental scientist and a recognized expert in electron diffraction on transmission electron microscopy and 2D wide-angle X-ray diffraction studies on polymer, liquid crystal and functional supramolecular crystal structure. She is the author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications in Nature Comm., Macromolecules, Angew kemie, Nano Energy,ACS Optical Materials, International Union of Crystallography and so on.
Research Interests
1.Developing functional liquid crystals or supramolecules or polymers that have great potential application in smart windows, photovoltaic cell, micro-supercapacitors and biomedical materials applications. I am mainly engaged in investigate the self-assembled crystal structure in the field of polymers, liquid crystals, functional supramolecules, and other soft matters with the electron diffraction methods in transmission electron microscopy.
2.Exploring the long-range ordered curvature-induced novel polymer nanostructure in cylindrical nano-confinement. Including: a. Combining diffraction method (micron-scale X-ray technique plus nanoscale electron diffraction technique) to examine the curvature-assisted self-assembled nanostructure. b. symmetry breaking.
3.Self-assembled novel functional carbon-based hybrid materials.
Awards & Honors
2017
High-Level Talent in Nanshan District of Shenzhen (Level C), 2017
2016
Peacock Talent (Level C), 2016
Certification of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, 2016.12, Polymer, Elsevier, Netherlands.
2018
Excellent supervisor of Top 100 undergraduate graduation thesis (design) of Shenzhen University, 2018.06, Shenzhen University.
2021-2024
Excellent Consultant on International Academic Affairs of Shenzhen University, 2021-2024, Shenzhen University
2013
Poster Awards—The rotating crystal orientations and crystallization kinetics of nylon 12 under cylindrical confinement, 2013 International discussion meeting of Polymer crystallization, P32, Kyoto, Japan, 2013.
Selected Publications
Xiaolei Wang; Zhixiao Xu; Yunkai Xu; Yunkun Qiu; Yan Cao; Sergey Gasilov; Ge Li; Jun Lu, Pressurized organic electrodes enable practice and exreme batteries, Nature Communications, Accepted, 2025.05.08.
Ziying Liang; Yalong Deng; Hui Niu; Nan Zheng; Xiaoguang Li; Yan Cao*, urvature-induced 45°-Tilted long-range order in constrained crystallization of Poly(1-butene), Polymer, 2025, (321)128123.
Wanhong Luan, Zherui Zhao, Hang Li, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Kui Zhou, Shuangmei Xue, Meng Zhang, Yan Yan, Yan Cao, Guanglong Ding*, Su-Ting Han, Chi-Ching Kuo*, and Ye Zhou*, Near-Infrared Response Organic Synaptic Transistor for Dynamic Trace Extraction, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024, 15, 34, 8845-8852
Yang Yu; Ying Zheng; Junhao Liang; Xiaoli Sun; Yan Cao*; Pengju Pan*; Zhiyong Wei*, Temperature-Dependent Polymorphic Crystallization and Crystalline Structure of Unsaturated Polyesters Derived from cis-2Butene-1,4-diol, Macromolecules, (55)10522-10533, 2022.
Xiaoting Yuan; Ao Yan ; Ziwei Lai; Zhenghao Liu; Zhonghui Yu; Zhanmiao Li; Yan Cao, Shuxiang Dong, A oling-free PVDF nanocomposite via mechanically directional stress field for self-powered pressure sensor application, Nano Energy, (98)107340, 2022.
Kun Yang; Qiaogan Liao; Jun Huang; Zilong Zhang; Mengyao Su; Zhicai Chen; Ziang Wu; Dong Wang; Ziwei Lai; Han Young Woo; Yan Cao; Peng Gao; Xugang Guo, Intramolecular Noncovalent Interaction-Enabled Dopant-Free Hole-Transporting Materials for High-Performance Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells, Angew. Chem, (134) e202113749(1of 9), 2021.
Peipei Yang#, Yi-Jing Li#, Yan Cao# (#equal contribution), Lu Zhang, Jia-Qi Wang, Zi-Wei Lai, Kuo Zhang, Wenwu Xiao, Hui Cao, Lei Wang, Hao Wang, Ruiwu Liu, Kit Lam, Rapid Discovery of Self-Assembling Peptides with One-Bead One-Compound Peptide Libraries, Nature Communications, (12)4494, 2021.
Ziwei Lai; Nan, Zheng; Ziying Liang; Yuanjie Wang; Hui Niu; Ming-Sheng Ji; Bo Ni; Xiang Huang; Xing Ouyang; Xiaoguang Li; Bernard Lotz; Yan Cao*, Structural Ensemble of Molecular Chains in Isotactic Polypropylene under Cylindrical Confinement, Macromolecules, (54)2325-2333, 2021.
Ziying Liang; Nan Zheng; Bo Ni; Ziwei Lai; Yan Cao*, Coherent Crystal Branches: Tetragonal Symmetry Impact on 2D Confined Polymer Nanostructure, International Union of Crystallography, (8)215-224, 2021.
Wei Zhang, Yan Cao*, Ziwei Lai, Shichen Yu, Tingbin Yang, Xilan liu, Qing-Yun Guo, Yuchu Liu, Wei Chen, Mingjun Huang, Jing Wang, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Hierarchical Structure with an Unusual Honeycomb Fullerene Scaffold by a Fullerene–Triphenylene Shape Amphiphile, Macromolecules, (53)6056--6062, 2020
Shichen Yu, Ziwei Lai, Hiroshi Jinnai, Xingming Zeng, Masaki, Ageishi, Bernard Lotz, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Nan Zheng, Shuailin Zhang, Xueyan Feng, Yan Cao*, Adding Symmetry: cylindrically Confined Crystallization of Nylon-6, Macromolecules, (52)3298-3305, 2019.
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