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Ning YAN
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor Ning Yan joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an Assistant Professor and established the Lab of Green Catalysis in 2012. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2018. His major research interest includes catalytic conversion of renewable carbon sources, green chemistry & engineering, and catalyst development. He was recently awarded with the NUS Young Researcher Award 2019 for his contributions to the conversion of biomass to value-added chemicals and the fields of nano- and single-atom catalysis.
- PhD (Chemistry) Peking University, China, 2009
- BE (Chemistry) Peking University, China, 2004
2019 NUS Young Researcher Award, National University of Singapore
2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society
2017 RSC Energy Environment & Sustainability Young Researcher Award, Royal Society of Chemistry
2015 NUS Young Investigator Award, National University of Singapore
2015 G2C2 Young Researcher Award, Global Green Chemistry Center Network
Dr. Yan was the inaugural recipient of the award.
2014 Green Chemistry for Life Young Scientist Grant, UNESCO
- Renewable carbon valorization
- Catalysis at nano-, subnano-, and single-atom scales
- Green Chemistry
- B. Zhang, G. Sun, S. Ding, H. Asakura, J. Zhang, P. Sautet, N. Yan. Atomically Dispersed Pt1-Polyoxometalate Catalysts: How Does Metal-support Interaction Affect Stability and Hydrogenation Activity? J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 8185-8197. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b00486
- Shipeng Ding, Yalin Guo, Max J. Hülsey, Bin Zhang, Hiroyuki Asakura, Lingmei Liu, Yu Han, Min Gao, Jun-ya Hasegawa, Botao Qiao, Tao Zhang, and Ning Yan. Electrostatic Stabilization of Single- Atom Catalysts by Ionic Liquids. Chem, 2019, Cell Press 5, 12, 3207-3219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2019.10.007
- Qiming Sun, Xinpu Fu, Rui Si, Chi-Hwa Wang, Ning Ya. Mesoporous Silica-Encaged Ultrafine Bimetallic Nanocatalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation to Formates. ChemCatChem, 2019, 11, 20, 5093-5097. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cctc.201901167 Research Highlight in Nature Catalysis, 2, 736 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0355-y
- Zhenhua Zhang, Liyuan Zhang, Siyu Yao, Xiaozhe Song, Weixin Huang, Max J. Hülsey, Ning Yan. Support-Dependent Rate-Determining Step of CO2 Hydrogenation to Formic Acid on Metal Oxide Supported Pd Catalysts. J. Catal., 2019, 376, 57–67. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021951719303008
- Zhenhua Zhang, Liyuan Zhang, Max J. Hülsey, Ning Yan. Zirconia Phase Effect in Pd/Zro2 Catalyzed CO2 Hydrogenation into Formate. Mol. Catal., 2019, 475, 110461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2019.110461
- M.J. Hülsey, B. Zhang, Z. Ma, H. Asakura, D.A. Do, W. Chen, T. Tanaka, P. Zhang, Z. Wu, N. Yan. In situ Spectroscopy-Guided Engineering of Rhodium Single-Atom Catalysts for CO Oxidation. Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 1330.[MOU1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09188-9
- Z. Zhang, Y. Zhu, H. Asakura, B. Zhang, J. Zhang, M. Zhou, Y. Han, T. Tanaka, A. Wang, T. Zhang, N. Yan. Thermally Stable Single Atom Pt/m-Al2O3 for Selective Hydrogenation and CO Oxidation Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 16100 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16100