Dr. Yao Yan, Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science Engineering and TcSUH

Cullen College of Engineering , Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Advanced materials and nanostructures for applications in energy storage
  • Magnesium and sodium ion battery electrode and electrolyte
  • High-energy-density organic and polymeric battery electrode materials
  • Aqueous batteries
  • Solid state electrolyte and all-solid-state-sodium-ion battery

• Awards

  • Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, USA, 2017
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2016
  • Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2016
  • ARPA-E RANGE Award, Principal Investigator, Washington DC, USA, 2013
  • US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, Arlington, USA, 2013
  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Ass. Univ., USA, 2013
  • Robert A. Welch Endowed Professorship, TcSUH, 2012
  • Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research, American Chemical Society, USA, 2008
  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, China, 2007
  • ICI Student Award Finalist in Applied Polymer Science, American Chemical Society, USA, 2007

  More awards in faculty website above and CV below.

• Publications

  • Author of ~70 technical journal papers in top journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, JACS, Nano Energy, etc. and 14 patent and patent applications.
  • Yanliang Liang, Yan Jing, Saman Gheytani, Kuan-Yi Lee, Ping Liu, Antonio Facchetti**, Yan Yao**, Universal quinone electrodes for long cycle life aqueous rechargeable batteries, Nature Materials 2017, DOI: 10.1038/nmat4919.
  • Hyun Deog Yoo, Yanliang Liang, Hui Dong, Junhao Lin, Hua Wang, Yisheng Liu, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Yifei Li, Qiang Ru, Yan Jing, Qinyou An, Wu Zhou, Jinghua Guo, Jun Lu, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Xiaofeng Qian & Yan Yao**, Fast kinetics of magnesium monochloride cations in interlayer-expanded titanium disulfide for magnesium rechargeable batteries, Nature Communications 2017, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00431-9
  • Yanliang Liang, Zhihua Chen, Yan Jing, Yaoguang Rong, Antonio Facchetti*, and Yan Yao*, Heavily n-dopable π-conjugated redox polymers with ultrafast energy storage capability J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 4956-4959.
  • Yanliang Liang,† Hyun Deog Yoo,† Yifei Li, Jing Shuai, Hector A. Calderon, Francisco Carlos Robles Hernandez, Lars C. Grabow, and Yan Yao* Interlayer-expanded molybdenum disulfide nanocomposites for electrochemical magnesium storage, Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 2194-2202.
  • Hyun Deog Yoo, Yanliang Liang, Yifei Li, and Yan Yao* High areal capacity hybrid magnesium−lithium-ion battery with 99.9% Coulombic efficiency for large-scale energy storage, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 7001-7007.
  • Qinyou An, Fangyu Xiong, Qiulong Wei, Jinzhi Sheng, Liang He, Dongling Ma, Yan Yao,* and Liqiang Mai*, Nanoflake-assembled hierarchical Na3V2(PO4)3/C microflowers: superior Li storage performance and insertion/extraction mechanism, Adv. Energy. Mater. 2015, 1401963.
  • Qinyou An, Yifei Li, Hyun Deog Yoo, Shuo Chen, Qiang Ru, Liqiang Mai*, and Yan Yao*, Graphene decorated vanadium oxide nanowire aerogel for long-cycle-life magnesium battery cathodes, Nano Energy 2015, 18, 265-272.
  • Saman Gheytani, Yanlaing Liang, Yan Jing, Jeff Xu, and Yan Yao*, Chromate conversion coated aluminium as light-weight and corrosion-resistant current collector for aqueous lithium-ion batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5TA07366A.
  • Mohammad M. Tavakoli, Kwong-Hoi Tsui, Siu-Fung Leung, Qianpeng Zhang, Jin He, Yan Yao, Dongdong Li, and Zhiyong Fan*, Fabrication of efficient planar perovskite solar cells using a one-step chemical vapor deposition method, ACS Nano 2015, 9, 10287-10295.

  Google Scholar Citation Report can be found here.  For most recent updated publication list, please check yaoyangroup.com. 

• Patents

  • JP Patent 5,588,559, Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole semiconducting compounds and devices incorporating same, issued on 9/10/2014.
  • EP Patent 2432817, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 2/11/2015
  • CN Patent 102439059, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 6/11/2014
  • US Patent 8,748,739, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 6/10/2014
  • US Patent 8,598,450, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 12/3/2013
  • US Patent 8,598,449, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 12/3/2013
  • US Patent 8,598,448, Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole semiconducting compounds and devices incorporating same, issued on
    12/3/2013.
  • US Patent 8,334,456, Conjugated polymers and their use in optoelectronic devices, issued on 12/18/2012.
  • Yan Yao, Yanliang Liang, Non-lithium metal ion battery electrode materials architecture, US Application 2014/037502.
  • Yan Yao, Yanliang Liang, Aqueous energy storage devices with organic electrode materials, US Application 2014/033652.
  • Yan Yao, Yanliang Liang, Rechargeable Alkaline Battery Using Organic Materials as a Negative Electrode, US Application14/825,802, August 13, 2015.
  • Yan Yao, Yanliang Liang, Rechargeable Lead Acid Batteries Using Polymer Negative Electrodes, US Provisional 62/165,377, May 22, 2015.
  • Yan Yao, Hyun Deog Yoo, Method of Activating Two-Dimensional Materials for Multivalent-Ion Intercalation Battery Electrodes, US Provisional 62/181873, June 19, 2015.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • “Low-Cost, Safe, and Efficient All Solid State Sodium Batteries for Grid-scale Energy Storage and Other Applications”, Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy, 2016-2019, co-PI: $889,000
  • "High-Energy Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Organic Cathode Materials", DOE EERE VTO, 2017-2020, PI, $444,000
  • "Developing a Solid State Electrolyte for Advanced Lithium Batteries", NASA NSTRF, co-PI, 2017-2018, $68,642
  • “SusChEM: Design and Manufacture of Electrodes for High Energy Density Rechargeable Sodium Batteries”, NSF CMMI, 2014-2017, PI, $353, 297
  • “Developing Multivalent Ion Intercalation Batteries as High Energy and Safe Marine Distributed Power Sources”, ONR YIP, 2013-2017, PI: $660,000
  • “Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries with High-Energy Novel Organic Anodes for Safe and Robust Energy Storage”, ARPA-E RANGE, 2013-2015, PI: $960,000
  • “Physical Property Measurement System for Research on Advanced Materials for Energy and Electronic Applications”, ONR DURIP, 2015, co-PI: $121,500
  • “Understanding the High Efficiency Origin of Two-Dimensional Conjugated Polymer Based Solar Cells”, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, 2014, PI: $5,000

   

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Dr. Yan Yao CV

• Contact information

  Engineering Building 1, Room  N324

  Phone: 713-743-4432 | Fax: 713-743-5961

  yyao4@uh.edu