Associate Professor
Date of Employment:2015-11-02
School/Department:Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Administrative Position:Professor
Education Level:PhD Graduate
Sex:Male
Degree:Doctoral degree
Status:Employed
Alma Mater:Chinese Academy of Science
Yin Chen, Born in 1985, Ph. D, Associate Professor
2001. 09－2005. 07 Wuhan University B.A.
2005. 09－2011. 01 Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing Ph. D.
2011. 04－2014. 04 KAUST KCC Post-Doc
2014. 04－2015. 05 KAUST Solar Center Research Scientist
Currently, Prof. Yin chen is currently engaged in research in the following areas:
Intermediate phase theory. Intermediate phase was first experimentally observed by our research group in 2019, representing an intermediate phase between crystalline and amorphous states. In the 1940s to 1960s, several renowned researchers theoretically speculated on the existence of such states, including the well-known crystallographer B.E. Warren from MIT, who proposed the 'random layer lattice,' and J. Mering from the French Academy of Sciences, who proposed the 'disordered lamellar structure.' According to renowned crystallographer Alan Mackey, different dimensions of disorder can be constructed in four-dimensional spacetime, with quasicrystals being a form of disorder in time-dimension. Similarly, disorder can also be introduced into the other three spatial dimensions. The characteristic of the lattice in intermediate phase materials is three-dimensional disorder but two-dimensional order, which represents a material with disorder in one spatial dimension. Through further development, our research group became the first in the world to develop a series of intermediate phase materials with different structural properties. We systematically elucidated the structure, formation mechanisms, characterization methods, and potential applications of these materials, opening up new perspectives for understanding the boundary between crystalline and amorphous phases, solid-liquid boundaries, and the structure of solid materials.
Research on ultrathin two-dimensional materials. Intermediate phase materials have very weak intermolecular forces in one dimension, making them easily exfoliated to form ultrathin two-dimensional materials with extremely high uniformity in layer thickness. Conventional two-dimensional materials exhibit strong intermolecular forces between nanosheets, leading to aggregation and reformation into crystalline phases. In contrast, monolayer two-dimensional intermediate phase materials lack strong intermolecular forces, making them easy to produce on a large scale without aggregation, thus representing a class of ultrathin two-dimensional materials that can be mass-produced.
SAC based on Surface immobilization High performence SAC were successfully prepared via SOMC strategy in our lab, which present a commercial and practicle way for the prodcution of SAC. We have made several best SAC electrocatalyst on this world .
