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
Research Interests
- Renewable fuels, chemicals and nutrients
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Sustainable chemistry and engineering
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.