Email: yangf3@sustech.edu.cn

Feng Yang received his B.S. degree from Shandong University in 2011 and Ph.D degree under Prof. Yan Li at College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering from Peking University in 2017. He worked as a visiting Ph.D student in Prof. Shigeo Maruyama’s group at The University of Tokyo in 2016. He was awarded by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Yan Li’s group. Then he joined in Southern University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor (PI) in Oct. 2019.

His work mainly focus on the chirality controlled growth of carbon nanotubes and mechanism, catalyst design, environmental TEM and XAFS study on catalysts and growth process of nanomaterials. These work have been published on , Nature, Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Nano. The work published in Nature was selected by ACS C&EN as “Top 10 Chemistry Research of 2014” (ranked 5). Because of the contribution to the chirality controlled growth of carbon nanotubes, he has received awards including Iijima Award (2018), NT18-Best Young Scientist Award (2018), Honorable Mention for IUPAC Award for Young Chemists (2017), Natural Science Award of Chinese Ministry of Education, the 1st Grade (2/7) (2017). He was also invited to attend the 65^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany.

1.  Controlled synthesis and application of carbon nanotubes;

2.  Design of intermetallics and catalysis;

3.  Microscale study on growth, evolution, and reaction of nanomaterials;

4.  Environmental TEM and in situ synchrotron X-ray absorption;

· Selected Publications

·  F. Yang, X. Wang, D. Zhang, J. Yang, D. Luo, Z.-W. Xu, J. Wei, J.-Q. Wang, Z. Xu, F. Peng, X. Li, R. Li, Y.-L. Li, M. Li, X. Bai, F. Ding, Y. Li* Chirality-specific growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on solid alloy catalysts. Nature2014, 510, 522. (Top 10 Chemistry Research in 2014 selected by ACS C&EN, highlight by Science China-Chemistry, C&EN, ChemistryWorld, Phy.org, NanoToday, ESI 1% Top Citation)

·  F. Yang#, H. Zhao#, W. Wang, Q. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Hu, X. Zhang, S. Zhu, D. He, Y. Xu, J. He, R. Wang*, Y. Li*, Carbon-Involved Near-Surface Evolution of Cobalt Nanocatalyst during Reaction: An in-situ Study. CCS Chemistry2021, 3, 154.

·  F. Yang, M. Wang, D. Zhang, J. Yang, M. Zheng*, Y. Li* Chirality Pure Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Sorting and Characterization. Chemical Reviews2020, 120, 2693. (Cover) (ESI 1% Top Citation)

·  F. Yang, H. Zhao, X. Wang, X. Liu, Q. Liu, X. Liu, C. Jin, R. Wang, and Y. Li* Atomic Scale Stability of Tungsten-Cobalt Intermetallic Nanocrystals in Reactive Environment at High Temperature. Journal of the American Chemical Society2019, 141, 5871.

·   F. Yang, X. Wang, J. Si, X. Zhao, K. Qi, C. Jin, Z. Zhang, M. Li, D. Zhang, J. Yang, Z.-Y. Zhang, Z. Xu, L.-P. Peng, X. Bai, Y. Li* Water-assisted preparation of high-purity semiconducting (14,4) carbon nanotubes, ACS Nano2017, 11, 186.

·   M. Li#, X. Liu#, X. Zhao#, F. Yang*, X. Wang, Y. Li* Metallic Catalysts for Structure-Controlled Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Topics in Current Chemistry2017, 375, 29.

·   F. Yang, X. Wang, M. Li, X. Liu, X. Zhao, D. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, Y. Li* Templated synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes with specific structure, Accounts of Chemical Research2016, 49, 606.

·   F. Yang, X. Wang, D. Zhang, K. Qi, J. Yang, Z. Xu, M. Li, X. Zhao, X. Bai, Y. Li* Growing zigzag (16,0) carbon nanotubes with structure-defined catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society2015, 137, 8688.

2022, National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Science Fund

2022, Guangdong Province Pearl River Talent Plan Young Top Talents

2021, Second Prize of National Natural Science Award (Second Contributor)

2020, Shenzhen’s high-level professional local-level leading talents

2020, Top Ten Innovation Achievement Awards of China Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program

2018, First Prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education (Second Contributor)

2018, Japan Fullerene-Carbon Nanotube-Graphene (FNTG) Society Iijima Award (Iijima Award)

2018, International Carbon Nanotube Conference (NT18) Outstanding Youth Research Award

2017, China Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program