| Assoc Prof Chen Yuan
Head, Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
Email: CHENYUAN@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)63168939/63168747
Office: N1.2-B1-16/01-15 |
| Education |
- PhD Yale University 2005
- MS Yale University 2003
- ME Tsinghua University 2001
- BE Tsinghua University 1999
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| Biography |
*** Visit my website at www.ntu.edu.sg/home/chenyuan
Dr Chen’s research focuses on developing synthesis, purification, and enrichment methodologies toward the economical production of carbon nanotubes with well-defined atomic structure. His group invented new catalysts to manipulate chiral structure of carbon nanotubes with increased precision. Several novel methods were developed to purity and enrich nanotubes with specific properties, which are promising as a printable semiconductor material for flexible and printed electronics, and also are demonstrated to hold potentials in applications, such as energy storage devices, solar energy conversion, enzyme immobilization, and antibacterial coating. Moreover, his theoretical study also for the first time identified two new reaction pathways and the novel role of charge transfer in chirality selective synthesis of nanotubes, which was highlighted on Nature Publishing Group’s Asia Materials.
In order to minimize the environmental and health risks of carbon nanomaterials while maximizing their application potentials, his group also elucidated several key factors, such as aggregation, metal residues and oxidative stress, in the antibacterial activity of both carbon nanotubes and graphene based materials, which was highlighted on Materials Today, and selected in “Nanotoxicology Virtual Issue” by American Chemical Society.
He has published 4 book chapters and 68 papers in top international journals with more than 1130 citations (H index = 20). He has been serving as a reviewer for 32 international journals and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. |
| Research Interests |
My research activities focus on realizing economical production and applications of monodisperse single walled carbon nanotubes from a chemical engineering approach:
(1)Design and synthesize novel catalysts for the controlled economical production of carbon nanotubes with a well-defined atomic (n,m) structure.
(2)Develop and implement purification and enrichment methods for obtaining carbon nanotubes with desired electronic properties.
(3)Innovate and propose new carbon nanotube characterization methodologies for quality control and to provide performance guidance.
(4)Investigate and elucidate growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes through theoretical simulation.
(5)Promote carbon nanotube applications, in particularly, flexible and large-area electronics (macroelectronics), solar energy conversion, electromagnetic interference shielding, antibacterial materials, and catalyst (enzyme and noble metal) supports.
(6)Investigate antibacterial activity and toxicity of carbon nanotube for safe usage of nanomaterials. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2012-) [by MOE]
- Asian Office Aerospace Research and Development (2013-) [by Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)]
- NRF Competitive Research Program (2008-) [by National Research Foundation (NRF)]
- NRF Proof of Concept (2010-) [by National Research Foundation (NRF)]
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| Current Projects |
- Development of SWCNT Nanocomposites with Enhanced SWCNT/TiO2 Interfacial Bonding
- Novel Catalyst for the Chirality Selective Synthesis of Single Walled Carbon
- Novel Chirality Selective Aerosol Catalysts for High Performance CNT Networks
- Novel silver nanoparticle/Multi-walled carbon nanotube nanohybrid coating for disinfection and biofouling control in drinking water treatment
- Preferential Growth of Semiconducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotube by Remote Plasma Enhanced CVD using CO-MCM-41 catalyst
- Scalable Production of Ultrahigh Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs)
- Towards manufacturability of carbon nanotube-based printed electronics- Chirality-selective synthesis and post-synthesis purification and enrichment
| Selected Publications | - Mesgari, S.; Poon, Y. F.; Yan, L. Y.; Chen, Y.; Loo, L. S*.; Thong, Y. X.; Chan-Park*, M. B. (2012). High selectivity cum yield gel electrophoresis separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes using a chemically selective polymer dispersant. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(18), 10266-10273.
- Qiang Wang, Shuo-Wang Yang, Yanhui Yang, M. B. Chan-Park, and Yuan Chen. (2011). Charge Transfer between Metal Clusters and Growing Carbon Structures in Chirality-Controlled Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Growth. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2(9), 109-1014.
- Wei, Li; Li, Lain-Jong; Chan-Park, Mary; Yang, Yanhui; Chen, Yuan. (2010). Aggregation–dependent photoluminescence sidebands in single-walled carbon nanotube. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(14), 6704-6711.
- Yuan Chen*, Bo Wang, Yanhui Yang, Qiang Wang. (2010). Developments in Catalytic Methodology for (n,m) Selective Synthesis of SWNTsLuminescence: the Instrumental Key to the Future of Nanotechnology..
- Yuan Chen, Bo Wang, Yanhui Yang. (2009). AIChe Annual Meeting: Effect of diffferent catalyst supports on the (n,m) selectivity of single-walled carbon nanotube from Co-Mo catalyst.
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