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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Electrochemistry,Solid State Chemistry and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis |
| Keywords | Li-ion battery, Electrospinning, Anode, One-dimensional (1D) nanostructure |
Current contact address
| Country | People's Republic of China |
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| City | Hefei |
| Institution | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Institute | Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Joachim Maier | Physikalische Festkörperchemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2008 |
Program(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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| 2012 | Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Yan Yu's work is concerned with novel storage materials for lithium-based batteries. She has achieved significant progress in terms of Li-based battery research through her work on tin and silicon anodes. The tin anodes are particularly worthy of mention. They consist of tin nano-particles incorporated in conducting carbon fibers prepared by electrospinning. This highly interesting morphology leads to an efficient electrochemical coupling of the simultaneously mechanically decoupled metal particles. Whilst usual tin anodes rapidly degrade because of the severe volume changes upon lithium storage, these materials show high stability and excellent storage behaviour. |