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Overview

Jian Yan is affiliated with Hefei University of Technology in China, working primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research output includes significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, biomedical engineering, as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main research topics covered by Jian Yan's publications focus on advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, advanced battery technologies research, advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, and conducting polymers and their applications.

Their recent papers include:

  • Self-Locomotive Soft Actuator Based on Asymmetric Microstructural Ti3C2Tx MXene Film Driven by Natural Sunlight Fluctuation (2021, ACS Nano)
  • Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics (2021, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • MoS2 quantum dots decorated ultrathin NiO nanosheets for overall water splitting (2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science)
  • New insights into the key bifunctional role of sulfur in Fe-N-C single-atom catalysts for ORR/OER (2022, Nanoscale)
  • Layer-by-Layer Assembly of CeO2-x@C-rGO Nanocomposites and CNTs as a Multifunctional Separator Coating for Highly Stable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)

Jian Yan frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Yucheng Wu
  • Jiaqin Liu
  • Jiewu Cui
  • Yan Yu
  • Hark Hoe Tan

The scholar commonly publishes in journals such as:

  • Electrochimica Acta
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nanoscale
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Best Publications

  • Facile Coating of Manganese Oxide on Tin Oxide Nanowires with High-Performance Capacitive Behavior

    Jian Yan;Eugene Khoo;Afriyanti Sumboja;Pooi See Lee

  • An Optimized Ultraviolet‐A Light Photodetector with Wide‐Range Photoresponse Based on ZnS/ZnO Biaxial Nanobelt

    Linfeng Hu;Jian Yan;Meiyong Liao;Hongjun Xiang

  • Enhancing electrochemical reaction sites in nickel-cobalt layered double hydroxides on zinc tin oxide nanowires: a hybrid material for an asymmetric supercapacitor device.

    Xu Wang;Afriyanti Sumboja;Mengfang Lin;Jian Yan

  • Rational Design of Nanostructured Electrode Materials toward Multifunctional Supercapacitors

    Jian Yan;Shaohui Li;Binbin Lan;Yucheng Wu

  • Polydopamine Spheres as Active Templates for Convenient Synthesis of Various Nanostructures

    Jian Yan;Liping Yang;Meng-Fang Lin;Jan Ma

  • Ultrahigh external quantum efficiency from thin SnO2 nanowire ultraviolet photodetectors.

    Linfeng Hu;Jian Yan;Meiyong Liao;Limin Wu

  • Achieving High Rate Performance in Layered Hydroxide Supercapacitor Electrodes

    Xu Wang;Chaoyi Yan;Afriyanti Sumboja;Jian Yan

  • Orthorhombic niobium oxide nanowires for next generation hybrid supercapacitor device

    Xu Wang;Chaoyi Yan;Jian Yan;Afriyanti Sumboja

  • Novel polymer nanocomposites from bioinspired green aqueous functionalization of BNNTs

    Vijay Kumar Thakur;Jian Yan;Meng-Fang Lin;Chunyi Zhi

  • Self-Locomotive Soft Actuator Based on Asymmetric Microstructural Ti3C2Tx MXene Film Driven by Natural Sunlight Fluctuation.

    Ying Hu;Lulu Yang;Qiuyang Yan;Qixiao Ji

  • Coordination derived stable Ni–Co MOFs for foldable all-solid-state supercapacitors with high specific energy

    Changjing Ye;Qingqing Qin;Jiaqin Liu;Wenping Mao

  • V2O5 loaded on SnO2 nanowires for high-rate li ion batteries.

    Jian Yan;Afriyanti Sumboja;Eugene Khoo;Pooi See Lee

  • Thin SnO2 Nanowires with Uniform Diameter as Excellent Field Emitters: A Stability of More Than 2400 Minutes

    Xiaosheng Fang;Jian Yan;Linfeng Hu;Hui Liu

  • Manganese oxide micro-supercapacitors with ultra-high areal capacitance

    Xu Wang;Benjamin D. Myers;Jian Yan;Gajendra Shekhawat

  • Ionic conductivities of Bi4V2−xMxO11−x/2 (M = Ti, Zr, Sn, Pb) solid solutions

    J Yan;M Greenblatt

  • Nanoarchitectured current collector for high rate capability of polyaniline based supercapacitor electrode

    Afriyanti Sumboja;Xu Wang;Jian Yan;Pooi See Lee

  • An introduction to medium-Mn steel: Metallurgy, mechanical properties and warm stamping process

    Y. Chang;C.Y. Wang;K.M. Zhao;K.M. Zhao;H. Dong

  • Epitaxial ZnO nanowire-on-nanoplate structures as efficient and transferable field emitters.

    Jizhong Song;Jizhong Song;Sergei A. Kulinich;Jian Yan;Zhigang Li

  • Phenomenologically modeling the formation and evolution of the solid electrolyte interface on the graphite electrode for lithium-ion batteries

    Jian Yan;Jian Yan;Bao-Jia Xia;Yu-Chang Su;Xiao-Zhong Zhou

  • Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics

    Decheng An;Jiangjing Wang;Jiangjing Wang;Jie Zhang;Xin Zhai

  • Determination of uniaxial residual stress and mechanical properties by instrumented indentation

    Manhong Zhao;Xi Chen;Jin Yan;Anette M. Karlsson

  • Significant electrochemical stability of manganese dioxide/polyaniline coaxial nanowires by self-terminated double surfactant polymerization for pseudocapacitor electrode

    Afriyanti Sumboja;Ce Yao Foo;Jian Yan;Chaoyi Yan

  • A novel perspective on the formation of the solid electrolyte interphase on the graphite electrode for lithium-ion batteries

    Jian Yan;Jian Yan;Jian Zhang;Yu-Chang Su;Xi-Gui Zhang

  • Aniline Tetramer‐Graphene Oxide Composites for High Performance Supercapacitors

    Jian Yan;Liping Yang;Mengqi Cui;Xu Wang

  • Systematic study on hybrid supercapacitor of Ni-Co layered double hydroxide//activated carbons

    Qingqing Qin;Dawei Ou;Changjing Ye;Lingxue Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yucheng Wu
Yucheng Wu Hefei University of Technology
Pooi See Lee
Pooi See Lee Nanyang Technological University
Xiaosheng Fang
Xiaosheng Fang Fudan University
Jingjie Wu
Jingjie Wu University of Cincinnati
Haibo Zeng
Haibo Zeng Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Linfeng Hu
Linfeng Hu Southeast University
Jizhong Song
Jizhong Song Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Dmitri Golberg
Dmitri Golberg Queensland University of Technology
Yoshio Bando
Yoshio Bando University of Wollongong
Meiyong Liao
Meiyong Liao National Institute for Materials Science

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