Team
Qian HE
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
He Qian is an electron microscopy expert with a special interest in understanding catalytic nanomaterials. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University, USA, in 2013. From 2013-2016, he did a postdoctoral research in the STEM group, Oak Ridge National Lab. He then joined Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University as a staff scientist, between 2016-2019. In July 2019, he joined the Dept of MSE in NUS as an Assistant Professor and an NRF fellow. Qian’s research focus on developing and applying electron microscopy methods for nanomaterial characterisation.
- PhD, (MSE) Lehigh University, USA, 2013
- MSc & BSc (MSE) Tsinghua University, China, 2008 & 2006
2019 NRF Fellowship, Singapore
2016 M&M Presidential Scholar Award, Microscopy Society of America
2014 IMC Scholarship, International Microscopy Congress
- Aberration-corrected STEM
- Functional interfaces
- Nanoparticles
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Sankar, M et al., Role of the Support in Gold-Containing Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalysts. Chemical Reviews, 2020. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00662
- Liu, S et al., Probing Composition Distributions in Nanoalloy Catalysts with Correlative Electron Microscopy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 108, 845. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/TA/D0TA00334D#!divAbstract
- Carter, J. H et al., Activation and Deactivation of Gold/Ceria-Zirconia in the Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56 (50), 16037–16041. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201709708
- He, Q et al., Population and Hierarchy of Active Species in Gold Iron Oxide Catalysts for Carbon Monoxide Oxidation. Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 12905. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12905
- Freakley, S. J et al., Hutchings, G. J. Palladium-Tin Catalysts for the Direct Synthesis of H2O2 with High Selectivity. Science, 2016, 351 (6276), 965–968. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6276/965
- He, Q et al., Towards 3D Mapping of BO6 Octahedron Rotations at Perovskite Heterointerfaces, Unit Cell by Unit Cell. ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (8), 8412–8419. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5b03232
- He, Q et al., Better Catalysts through Microscopy: Mesoscale M1/M2 Intergrowth in Molybdenum-Vanadium Based Complex Oxide Catalysts for Propane Ammoxidation. ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (4), 3470–3478. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5b00271