Title: Special Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor, National high-level Young talent
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E-mail: yuminqian@bit.edu.cn
Address: Liangxiang Campus, Beijing Institute of Technology, South District Building

1) Study and Application of Single atom Catalysis Mechanism in 2D Materials (OER/ORR/HER/NRR)
Hydrogen production and hydrogen storage materials are the biggest obstacles to the large-scale popularization of hydrogen energy, and finding cheap and efficient catalysts is a common problem faced by academia and industry. Single atom catalysis reflects different characteristics from previous catalysts in catalytic efficiency and reaction selectivity. How to understand these phenomena and design more effective catalysts according to the laws behind these phenomena is a great challenge for the academic community at present. The long-term topic of this course is devoted to the research of catalysts such as electrochemical hydrogen production (HER/OER) and ammonia production (NRR).
2) Research on organic battery and organic flow battery materials.
Organic materials are suitable for large-scale production deployment at power station level due to their large capacity, metal free material, wide source, cheap price, rich structural diversity and adjustable, environmentally friendly, waste batteries easy to handle and other characteristics. However, the commercialization of organic materials is faced with problems such as low voltage, poor stability and difficulty in solubility adjustment. Our research group has long been committed to understanding electron and ion transport in organic batteries from the electron/atomic level, and designing new organic battery materials with the help of artificial intelligence methods.
3) conversion type battery research
The traditional battery based on the principle of intercalation chemistry has been close to the limit of battery capacity (below 300mAh/g, the actual 200mAh/g), and the research of metal sulfide and halogen-based cathode materials represents the trend of future battery development. It will be the representative technology before the commercialization of sulfur-metal batteries (Li-S, Na-S) and air-metal batteries (Li-O2). This research group is currently carrying out research work on high-capacity and high-voltage cathode materials.
4) Nanoscale ion transport is for research and application (battery fast charge, solid electrolyte, COF/MOF membrane).

2005-2011 PhD, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001-2005 Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, B.S.

He has been engaged in the research of electrochemistry and new energy materials for a long time, using DFT and artificial intelligence to design new energy materials such as batteries and catalysts. In the design of organic electrode materials, high pressure electrolyte design, the stability of ternary electrode materials, single atom catalytic hydrogen production/nitrogen fixation and other aspects of in-depth research. He has been engaged in research work related to electrochemistry and new energy materials at FC-Cubic Fuel Cell Company, Japan Industrial Technology Research Institute (AIST), University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Soochow University. Currently available at Nat.com, Sci.adv, JACS, Adv.Mat. Series, Angew.Chem. And other journals published more than 50 articles, a total of more than 5,000 citations, H-index 30.

Some published articles
Z Song, Y Qian et al. Poly (benzoquinonyl sulfide) as a high‐energy organic cathode for rechargeable Li and Na batteries Advanced Science 2 (9), 1500124 (2015)
Yang Yang, Yumin Qian et al. O-coordinated W-Mo dual-atom catalyst for pH-universal electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution Science Advances 6 (23), eaba6586 (2020)
Zhang, L., Qian, Y., Feng, R. et al. Reversible redox chemistry in azobenzene-based organic molecules for high-capacity and long-life nonaqueous redox flow batteries. Nat Commun 11, 3843 (2020)
Tianyi Hou, Yumin Qian et al. Electronegativity-Induced Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolyte for Solid-State Lithium Batteries Energy Environ. Mater,0, e1242(2020)
Juner Chen, Tingyu Liu, Lina Gao, Yumin Qian, Yaqin Liu, Xueqian Kong Tuning the solution structure of electrolyte for optimal solid-electrolyte-interphase formation in high-voltage lithium metal batteries J. Energy Chem. 60, 178, (2021)
Yang, Y., Qian, Y., Luo, Z. et al. Water induced ultrathin Mo2C nanosheets with high-density grain boundaries for enhanced hydrogen evolution. Nat Commun 13, 7225 (2022)

Research group published articles
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