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Academic Curriculum Vitae
Shuangyin Wang
Marie Curie Fellow
The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Tel: 0161-27-54698
E-mail: wang0340@e.ntu.edu.sg
Employ History:
06/2012~present Marie Curie Fellow, The University of Manchester, UK (Advisor: Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel Prize Laureate)
11/2011~05/2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, USA (Advisor: A. Manthiram)
06/2010~11/2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, USA. (Advisor: Liming Dai)
12/2009~06/2010 Project Officer, Temasek Laboratories, Singapore (Advisor: Sanping Jiang)
Education Qualifications
01/2007~06/2010 PhD Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
09/2006~12/2006 Postgraduate Student, Zhejiang University, P.R. China
09/2005~09/2006 International Exchange Student, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Fukui University, Japan.
10/2002~09/2006 B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, P.R. China.
Current Funded Project:
Principle Investigator, “Graphene ribbon-based materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices”, Marie Curie Fellowship, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), European Commission (€ 210,000.00).
Research Interest:
? Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices: Fuel Cells, Supercapacitors, Lithium Ion Batteries, Redox Flow Batteries, Lithium-Air Batteries;
? Nanomaterials;
? Novel Carbon Materials: Carbon Nanotube, Graphene;
? Molecular Self-Assembly;
? Electrochemistry
Academic Achievements:
? One international patent;
? Two book chapters;
? 27 journal papers (20 of them are as the first author, including 2 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; 1 JACS, 2 ACS Nano with impact factor above 9);
? Total Impact Factor around 150;
? 7 conferences (oral presentations or posters);
? The citations are around 450 times;
? The H-index is 12.
Research Experience:
? Synthesis and characterization of various metal electrocatalysts for fuel cells.
? Various electrochemical characterization: principle and technique.
? Fabrication and testing of fuel cell, redox flow battery, supercapacitor and lithium battery device.
? Morphology controlled synthesis of various metal nanomaterials for multi-applications.
? Functionalization (covalent and non-covalent) of carbon nanotubes.
? Synthesis, functionalization, and application of graphene and graphene oxide.
? Synthesis and characterization of electrode materials for supercapacitor and lithium battery.
? Growth of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes for electrochemical energy devices.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
? Experience with modern synthetic chemistry and separation/characterization techniques.
? Identification or interpretation of spectra (NMR, XPS, etc.)
? Proficiency in using AFM, TEM, SEM, FT-IR, UV-vis, Raman, XRD, TGA, etc.
? Softwares: Microsoft office, Origin, Photoshop, Coreldraw, and Chemdraw, etc.
? Languages: Chinese, English, and Japanese.
Teaching Experience:
? Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Year 1&3 Lab (2008/2009)
? Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Year 1&3 Lab (2007/2008)
Academic/Professional Activities:
? Guest Editor of International Journal of Electrochemistry, 2010.
? Conference Assistant: The 5th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2009), Singapore, June/July, 2009
Refereeing Experience
Referee manuscripts as a reviewer for Journal of Materials Chemistry, Langmuir, and Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Angewante Chemie International Edition, ACS Catalysis, Nanoscale Research Letters, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Nanotechnology.
Awards and Honors:
? 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Ministry of Education, China
? 2010 Best Presentation Award, The International Symposium on Exploring the Frontiers of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 24 to 26 May 2010, Singapore
? 2007~2010 Ph.D Research Assistantship, Ministry of Education, Singapore
? 2006 Outstanding Graduate Honor, Zhejiang University, China
? 2006 Excellent International Exchange Student Scholarship, China-Japan
? 2002~2005 Distinguished Student Scholarship in each year, Zhejiang University, China
? 2002~2005 Distinguished Student Leader of Student Union in each year, Zhejiang University, China
Research on News:
1. The paper (Nanotechnology, 2008, 19, 265601) was reported as a highlight by www.nanotechweb.org; and the link is: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/37366
2. The paper published in Electrochemistry Communications, 2008, 10, 961, was selected as No.4 of Top 25 Hottest Articles of Electrochemistry Communications.
3. Following our paper published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 5182-5185, about 300 commentaries have appeared scientific, business, and popular press including Sciencedaily, Nanowerk, and Reuters. The discovery in this paper is having a large impact on the fuel cell field and energy community.
Publications
(Note: Supervisors as corresponding authors are marked by *)
a). Patents:
1. San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, Shuangyin Wang, “A Nanostructured Material Loaded with Noble Metal Particles”, USPTO No.: 2011/0014550.A1, USA, 2011
b). Book Chapter:
2. Xin Wang*, Shuangyin Wang, “Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”, in “Energy Efficiency and Renewable energy through Nanotechnology”, Edited by Ling Zang, Springer, 2011, 1022, p549.
3. Xin Wang*, Shuangyin Wang, “Support Materials for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells” in “Key Materials for Low Temperature Fuel Cells”, Edited by Sanping Jiang & Yushan Yan, Wiley, to be published.
c). Journal Papers:
4. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Polyelectrolyte Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes as a Support for Noble Metal Electrocatalysts and Their Activity for Methanol Oxidation”, Nanotechnology, 2008, 19, 265601 (Impact factor: 3.979; Cited times: 40)
This paper was reported as a highlight by www.nanotechweb.org.
5. Shuangyin Wang, Noel Kristian, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Controlled Deposition of Pt on Au Nanorods and Their Catalytic Activity towards Formic Acid Oxidation”, Electrochemistry Communications, 2008, 10, 961 (Impact factor: 4.859; Cited times: 48)
This paper was selected as No.4 of Top 25 Hottest Articles of Electrochemistry Communications.
6. Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, San Ping Jiang*, “PtRu Nanoparticles Supported on 1-Aminopyrene Functionalized MWCNTs and Their Electrocatalytic Activity for Methanol Oxidation”, Langmuir, 2008, 24, 10505 (Impact factor: 4.182; Cited times: 62)
7. Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, San Ping Jiang*, “Controllable Self-assembly of Pd Nanowire Networks as Highly Active Electrocatalysts for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells”, Nanotechnology, 2008, 19, 455606 (Impact factor: 3.979; Cited times: 18)
8. Shuangyin Wang, Noel Kristian, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Controlled Synthesis of Dendritic Au@Pt Core-Shell Nanomaterials as Effective Fuel Cell Electrocatalyst”, Nanotechnology, 2009, 20, 25605 (Impact factor: 3.979; Cited times: 27)
9. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, T. J. White, Jun Guo, Xin Wang*, “Electrocatalytic Activity and Interconnectivity of Pt Nanoparticles on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Fuel Cells”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113, 18935 (Impact factor: 4.805; Cited times: 48)
10. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Synthesis of Pt and Pd nanosheaths as electrocatalysts of Low Temperature Fuel Cells”, Electrochimica Acta, 2010, 55, 7652 (Impact factor: 3.832; Cited times: 9)
11. Shuangyin Wang, Fan Yang, San Ping Jiang*, Shengli Chen Xin Wang*, “Tuning the Electrocatalystic Activity of Pt Nanoparticles on Carbon Nanotubes Via Surface Functionalization”, Electrochemistry Communications, 2010, 12, 1646 (Impact factor: 4.859; Cited times: 5)
12. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Enhanced electrochemical activity of Pt nanowire network electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction of fuel cells”, Electrochimica Acta, 2011, 56, 1563. (Impact factor: 3.832; Cited times: 10)
13. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Synthesis and Characterization of Pd-on-Pt and Au-on-Pt Bimetallic Nanosheaths on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2011, 13, 2973 (Impact factor: 3.287)
14. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Microwave-assisted one-pot synthesis of metal/metal oxide nanoparticles on graphene and their electrochemical applications”, Electrochimica Acta, 2011, 56, 3338. (Impact factor: 3.642; Cited times: 6)
15. Shuangyin Wang, Dingshan Yu, Liming Dai*, “Polyelectrolyte-functionalized Carbon Nanotubes as Efficient Metal-free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 5182-5185. (Impact factor: 9.907; Cited times: 40)
16. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Self-assembly of Mixed Pt and Au nanoparticles on Functionalized Graphene as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Formic Acid Oxidation”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13, 6883-6891 (Impact factor: 3.57; Cited times: 13)
17. Shuangyin Wang, Dingshan Yu, Liming Dai*, Dong Wook Chang, Jong-Beom Baek, “Polyelectrolyte-Functionalized Graphene as Metal-free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction”, ACS Nano, 2011, 5, 6202 (Impact factor: 11.421; Cited times: 24)
18. Shuangyin Wang, Eswaramoorthi Iyyamperumal, Ajit Roy, Yuhua Xue, Dingshan Yu, Liming Dai*, “Vertically Aligned BCN Nanotubes as Efficient Metal-free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: A Synergetic Effect via Co-doping with Boron and Nitrogen”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 11756-11760 (Impact factor: 13.455; Cited times: 10)
19. Shuangyin Wang, Lipeng Zhang, Zhenhai Xia, Ajit Roy, Liming Dai*, “BCN Graphene as Efficient Metal-free Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 4209-4212 (Impact factor: 13.455; Cited times: 2)
20. E. Iyyamperumal〒, Shuangyin Wang〒, (〒Equally Contributed) Liming Dai*, “Vertically Aligned BCN Nanotubes with High Supercapacitance”, ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 5259 (Impact factor:11.421; Cited times: 2)
21. Shuangyin Wang, Thomas Cochell, Aruguma Manthiram*, “Boron-doped Carbon Nanotube-supported Pt Nanoparticles with Improved CO Tolerance for Methanol Electro-oxidation”, Physcial Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CP42414B (Impact factor：3.57)
22. Shuangyin Wang, Xinsheng Zhao, Thoma Cochell, Aruguma Manthiram*, “ Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanotube/Graphite Felt as Advanced Electrode Materials for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012, 3, 2164-2167 (Impact factor：6.213)
23. Shuangyin Wang, Aruguma Manthiram*, “Graphene Ribbon-supported Pd Nanoparticles as Highly Durable and Efficient Electrocatalysts for Formic Acid Electro-oxidation”, Electrochimica Acta, 2012, Accepted (Impact factor: 3.832)
24. Shuangyin Wang*, Bo Pei, Xinsheng Zhao, Robert Dryfe*, “Highly Porous Graphene on Carbon Cloth as Advanced Electrode Materials for Flexible All-Solid State Supercapacitors”, Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, Under Revision (Impact factor: 9.61)
25. San Ping Jiang*, Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, “Development of PtRu Electro-catalysts on 1-Aminopyrene Functionalized MWCNTs for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”, ECS Transactions, 2008, 16, 467
26. Yi Wang, Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, “CeO2 Promoted Electro-oxidation of Formic Acid on Pd/C Nano-electrocatalysts”, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 2009, 12(5), B73-B76 (Impact factor: 1.967; Cited times: 4)
27. Yasushi Maeda*, Junichi Sakamoto, Shuangyin Wang, Yuuichi Mizuno, “Lower Critical Solution Temperature Behavior of Poly(N-(2-ethoxyethyl)acrylamide) as Compared with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2009, 113, 12456–12461(Impact factor: 3.696; Cited times: 7)
28. Hong, Wang, Changwei Xu, Faliang Cheng, Min Zhang, Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, “Pd/Pt Core-Shell Nanowire Arrays as Highly Effective Electrocatalysts for Methanol Electrooxidation in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”, Electrochemistry Communications 2008, 10, 1575 (Impact factor: 4.859; Cited times: 36)
29. Yi Wang, Weiqiao Deng, Xuewei Liu, Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, “Electro-chemical Properties of Ball-milled LaMg12-Ni Composites Containing Carbon Nanotubes”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2009, 34, 1444 (Impact factor: 4.054; Cited times: 1)
30. Son Truong Nguyen, Hiu Mung Law, Hoa Tien Nguyen, Noel Kristian, Shuangyin Wang, Siew Hwa Chan, Xin Wang*, “Enhancement Effect of Ag for Pd/C towards the Ethanol Electrooxidation in Alkaline Media”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2009, 91, 507 (Impact factor: 5.625; Cited times: 18)
31. Yuhua Xue, Hao Chen, Dingshan Yu, Shuangyin Wang, Michal Yardeni, Quanbin Dai, Mingming Guo, Yong Liu, Fan Lu, Jia Qu, Liming Dai, “ Oxidizing Metal Ions with Graphene Oxide: The In-situ Formation of Magnetic Nanoparticles on Self-Reduced Graphene Sheets for Multifunctional Applications”, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 11689-11691 (Impact factor: 6.169; Cited times: 5)
c). Conference
32. Shuangyin Wang, San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, “Seed-mediated Formation of Noble Metal Nanoshells on Carbon Nanotubes”, The 2008 Asian Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Singapore, November 2008
33. San Ping Jiang*, Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, “Development of PtRu Electro-catalysts on 1-Aminopyrene Functionalized MWCNTs for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”, 214th ECS Meeting, Hawaii, USA, October 2008
34. Shuangyin Wang, The 4th Mitsui Chemicals International Symposium on Catalysis Science, Invited by company and Nominated by School, Chiba, Japan, March, 2009
35. San Ping Jiang*, Xin Wang*, Shuangyin Wang, “Polyelectrolyte-Functionalized Pt/CNTs as Effective Electrocatalysts for Low Temperature Fuel Cells”, 7th Spring Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Szczyrk, Poland, 22-25 March, 2009
36. Shuangyin Wang, The 5th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2009), Singapore, June/July, 2009
37. Shuangyin Wang, Xin Wang*, “Effect of Interlinkers on the Electroatalytic Activity for Methanol Oxidation”, The International Symposium on Exploring the Frontiers of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 24 to 26 May 2010, Singapore
38. Shuangyin Wang, Feng Du, Liming Dai*, “Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanomaterials as Efficient Metal-free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells”, NSF CMMI conference, 04-07 January 2011, Atlanta, USA