1. Curriculum Vitae
Yu Jing
Institute of New Energy Material Chemistry, Nankai University
94#, Weijin Road, Tianjin, P. R. China, 300071
Email: jyuuu@hotmail.com; jingyu2013@mail.nankai.edu.cn
Telephone: +86-15022661437.
EDUCATION
2011.09Now: PhD candidate in Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai
University, P. R. China. Supervisor: Prof. Zhen Zhou.
2007.092011.07: B. S. in Material Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, P.
R. China.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
2012.092013.08: Visiting student in Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, USA.
Supervisor: Prof. Zhongfang Chen and Prof. Carlos R. Cabrera.
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
At the beginning of my graduate program, I focused on designing and preparing appropriate
electrode materials with layered structures for lithium ion batteries (LIBs), including transition
metal oxides (MoO3) and disulfides (MoS2, VS2). Inspired by the fantastic properties of two
dimensional graphene and its excellent performances as anode in LIBs, I managed to exfoliate
MoS2 into few-layered nanosheets and applied few-layered MoS2/graphene hybrid in LIBs. This
project was carried out as a collaborative program and co-supervised by Prof. Zhongfang Chen
and Prof. Carlos Cabrera when I visited University of Puerto Rico. During conducting this
collaborative program, I found experimental measurements are limited to reveal the mechanisms,
e.g. the adsorption and diffusion of Li on MoS2, as well as the interactions between MoS2 and
graphene. Therefore, I learned to use density functional theory (DFT) simulations to study these
problems. Since then, I generate great interests on employing DFT calculations to explore the
properties and potential applications of 2D materials, including MoS2, VS2, phosphorene,
gemanene and N-doped graphene. My current studies mainly concentrate on theoretically
exploring the intrinsic properties of novel 2D materials and applying them for catalysis and energy

2. storage including but not limited to Li ion batteries, Li-O2 batteries and light harvesting.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.* Phosphorene: What Can We Know from Computations? WIREs Comput.
Mol. Sci., 2015, doi: 10.1002/wcms.1234.(Review)
2. Jing, Y.; Zhang, X.; Wu, D.; Zhao, X.; Zhou, Z.* High Carrier Mobility and Pronounced
Light Absorption in Methyl-Terminated Germanene: Insights from First-Principles
Computations. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6, 4252−4258.
3. Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.* Computational Insights into Initial Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pristine
and Nitrogen Doped Graphenein Li-O2 Batteries. ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 4309–4317.
4. Jing, Y.; Tang, Q.; He, P.; Zhou, Z.*; Shen, P. Small Molecules Make Big Differences:
Molecular Doping Effects on Electronic and Optical Properties of Phosphorene.
Nanotechnology, 2015, 26, 095201.
5. Jing, Y.; Ortiz-Quiles, E.O.; Cabrera, C.R.*; Chen, Z.*; Zhou, Z.* Layer-by-Layer Hybrids
of MoS2 and Reduced Graphene Oxide for Lithium Ion Batteries. Electrochim. Acta, 2014,
147, 392–400.
6. Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.*; Cabrera, C.R.; Chen, Z.* Graphene, Inorganic Graphene Analogs and
Their Composites for Lithium Ion Batteries. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 12104–12122.
(Review)
7. Jing, Y.; Tan, X.; Zhou, Z.*; Shen, P. Tuning Electronic and Optical Properties of MoS2
Monolayer via Molecular Charge Transfer. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 16892–16897.
8. Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.*; Cabrera, C.R.; Chen, Z.* Metallic VS2 Monolayer: A Promising 2D
Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 25409−25413.
9. Jing, Y.; Su, L.; Hu, M.; Li, J.; Zhou, Z.* Preparation and Electrochemical Performances of
Carbon-Coated Mesoporous Monoclinic MoO3 Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries.
J. Nanosci. Lett., 2013, 3, 30.
10. Su, L.; Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.* Li Ion Battery Materials with Core–Shell Nanostructures.
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 39673983. (Review)
11. Wang, L.; Tang, W.; Jing, Y.; Su, L.*; Zhou, Z.* Do Transition Metal Carbonates Have
Greater Lithium Storage Capability than Oxides? A Case Study of Monodisperse CoCO3 and

3. CoO Microspindles. ACS Appl. Mater. Inter., 2014, 6, 12346–12352.
12. Zhang, X.; Zhao, X.; Wu, D.; Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.* High and Anisotropic Carrier Mobility in
Experimentally Possible Ti2CO2 (MXene) Monolayers and Nanoribbons. Nanoscale, 2015, 7,
16020–16025.
13. Zhao, X.; Ma, Z.; Wu, D.; Zhang, X.; Jing, Y.; Zhou, Z.* Computational Study of Catalytic
Effect of C3N4 on H2 Release from Complex Hydrides. Int. J. Hydrogen Energ., 2015, 40,
8897–8902.
SKILLS
DFT simulation, familiar with VASP, DMol3 and CASTEP codes.
Materials preparation and characterization, battery assembly, electrochemical measurements.
HONOR AND AWARDS
2015.10 First Class Research Scholarship of Nankai University.
2014.10 Second Class Research Scholarship of Nankai University.
2009.09 National Scholarship, China.
2009.09 Merit Student of Nankai University.
GRANTS APPROVED (for PhD student)
Ph.D. Candidate Research Innovation Fund of Nankai University, 05/10/2015-12/10/2015.