Nan Chen

Chen Nan, Ph.D., graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of China's famous inorganic chemist, "graphitic acetylene discoverer" Academician Li Yuliang. He is currently an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology. To date, he has been the first/corresponding author on Matter, Nat.Commun., Angew.chem.in.ed., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, ACS Energy Lett., Adv.Func. Mater. He has published more than 40 papers in international authoritative SCI academic journals, including more than 80 papers (he cited more than 5,000 times); Authorized 4 invention patents in China, Japan and the United States. Independently wrote a Chinese book "Preparation of One-dimensional Nanostructured Materials and their Diversified Applications" (350,000 words), and co-wrote an English book "Carbon-Based,Metal-Free Catalysts for Photocatalysis" (50,000 words). He has presided over 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 1 Youth project and 2 Beijing Natural Science Foundation projects. At the same time, as the backbone of the project, I participated in the key research and development plan, and the final assembly of the "Twelfth Five-Year" and "Thirteenth Five-Year" pre-research key plans and other national projects.

He has been focusing on inorganic chemistry/nanomaterial-based interdisciplinary science, specifically involving carbon-based hybrid materials/structures of π-conjugated systems and their development and application in the field of energy conversion. The details include:
1. Surface and interface characteristics of low dimensional nanometer structures
The research of low dimensional nanometer structure and its physicochemistry belongs to the frontier cross field, which has extremely important scientific significance and application prospect. The low-dimensional nanometer structure not only has the novel physical properties such as quantum effect, size effect and surface effect given by nanomaterials and structures, but also can obtain more excellent physical properties and functions such as light, electricity, force and magnetism which are not available in macroscopic devices through the design of high-dimensional geometric structures. In recent years, our team has developed a variety of machining technologies for low-dimensional micro/nanostructures in the above fields, optimizing the interface and surface effects so that low-dimensional nanostructures show many unique advantages.
2. Structure, Preparation and Functionalization of two-dimensional carbon group Materials
Because of their unique material structure and electron transport properties, carbon group 2D materials have received extensive attention from the scientific community. Among them, the construction of van der Waals heterogeneous structure, that is, some two-dimensional materials with different properties are stacked to form a new artificial structure, and the formed new composite/hybrid materials represented by two-dimensional materials of group IV elements such as graphene, graphyne, silene, germanene, etc. show unique advantages in the field of energy conversion such as light, electricity, heat, and sound. In recent years, our team has carried out the preparation of several new carbon family 2D composite/hybrid materials in the above fields, and focused on the law between the micro-morphology regulation and the evolution of properties of carbon family 2D materials.

He graduated from China Agricultural University with a bachelor's degree in 2006.
He graduated from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012 with a PhD degree.

Since 2012, Lecturer/Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology.
From 2017 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo.

近五年第一作者和通讯作者文章
1. In Situ Synthesis of Cathode Materials for Aqueous High-Rate and Durable Zn−I2 Batteries. ACS Materials Lett. , 2022, 4, 1872.
2. Two Dimensional Silicene Nanosheets: A New Choice of Electrode Material for High-Performance Supercapacitor. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 39014.
3. Low-Dimensional Nanomaterial Systems Formed by IVA Group Elements Allow Energy Conversion Materials to Flourish. Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 2521.
4. Chemical bond conversion directly drives power generation on the surface of graphdiyne. Matter, 2022, 5, 1.
5. Solar-Driven Soil Remediation along with the Generation of Water Vapor and Electricity. Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 1800.
6. Reborn Three-Dimensional Graphene with Ultrahigh Volumetric Desalination Capacity. Adv. Mater. , 2021, 2105853.
7. Few-Layer Siloxene as an Electrode for Superior High-Rate Zinc Ion Hybrid Capacitors. ACS Energy Lett. , 2021, 6, 1786.
8. The Advance and Perspective on Electrode Materials for Metal–Ion Hybrid Capacitors. Adv. Energy Sustainability Res., 2021, 2, 2100022.
9. Directly freeze-drying porous graphene aerogel as acoustic-absorbing Material. J. Phys. : Conf. Ser. , 2021, 012059.
10. Custom-Built Graphene Acoustic-Absorbing Aerogel for Audio Signal Recognition. Adv. Mater. Interf. , 2021, 2100227.
11. Moisture power in natural polymeric silk fibroin flexible membrane triggers efficient antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles. Nano Energy, 2021, 90, 106529.
12. High-performance flexible and integratable MEG devices from sulfonated carbon solid acids containing strong Brønsted acid sites. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 24488.
13. 2D Silicene Nanosheets for High-Performance Zinc-Ion Hybrid Capacitor Application. ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 16533.
14. Porous carbon nanowire array for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Nat. Commun. , 2020, 11, 4772.
15. The first flexible dual-ion microbattery demonstrates superior capacity and ultra-high energy density: small and powerful. Adv. Funct. Mater. , 2020, 30, 2002086.
16. Frontiers of carbon materials as capacitive deionization electrodes. Dalton Trans. , 2020, 49, 5006.
17. Graphene quantum dots for energy storage and conversion: from fabrication to applications. Mater. Chem. Front. , 2020, 4, 421.
18. Two-dimensional materials of group-IVA boosting the development of energy storage and conversion. Carbon Energy, 2020, 2, 54.
19. 阳极氧化铝模板限域制备一维杂化纳米材料及其多样化应用的研究进展. 应用化学, 2020, 37, 123.
20. Thermal Efficiency of Solar Steam Generation Approaching 100% through Capillary Water Transport. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 131, 19217–19114.
21. MEG actualized by highvalent metal carrier transport. Nano Energy, 2019, 65, 104047.
22. Intelligent multiple-liquid evaporation power generation platform using distinctive Jaboticaba-like carbon nanosphere@TiO2 nanowires. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 6766.
23. Axial heterostructure nanoarray as all-solid-state micro-supercapacitors. Int. J. Energy Res., 2019, 43, 6013.
24. Gradient doped polymer nanowire for moistelectric nanogenerator. Nano Energy, 2018, 46, 297.
25. Hierarchical hole-enhanced 3D graphene assembly for highly efficient capacitive deionization. Carbon, 2018, 129, 95.
26. Processing and manufacturing of graphene-based microsupercapacitors. Mater. Chem. Front. , 2018, 2, 1750.
27. 来自于水和石墨烯间的能量. 科学通报, 2018, 63, 2806.
28. 石墨烯在聚合物阻燃材料中的应用及作用机理. 应用化学, 2018, 35, 307.