Yan Ning

Research Interests

• Renewable fuels, chemicals and nutrients
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Sustainable chemistry and engineering

Education

• PhD (Chemistry) Peking University, China, 2009
• BE (Chemistry) Peking University, China, 2004

Awards and Honours

• NUS Young Researcher Award 2019
• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award, 2018
• RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Award, 2017

Selected Publications

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.

N. Yan, Y. Wang “Catalyst: Is the Amino Acid a New Frontier for Biorefineries?” Chem, 2019, 5, 739-741.

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.

S. Song, J. Zhang, G. Gözaydin, N. Yan “Production of Terephthalic Acid from Corn Stover Lignin” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 4934-4937.

N. Yan, X. Chen “Don’t Waste Seafood Waste” Nature, 2015, 524, 155-157.