Yu Jing is a PhD candidate in inorganic chemistry at Nankai University in China, supervised by Professor Zhen Zhou. She received her BS in material chemistry from Nankai University in 2011. Her research focuses on using density functional theory simulations to explore the properties and applications of novel 2D materials such as MoS2, VS2, phosphorene, and nitrogen-doped graphene for catalysis, energy storage, and light harvesting. She has published 13 papers and received multiple honors and scholarships for her work.
Two Ideas of Redox Reaction: Misconceptions and Their Challeges in Chemistry ...iosrjce
In interpretations of chemical phenomena students particularly of Secondary School level like to mix
substances from the macroscopic level, that is substances that can be seen, touched and smell with particles
from the sub-micro level; atoms, ions, molecules etc. “hydrochloric acid is giving one proton” (instead of “One
H3O
+
(aq) gives one proton”). For redox reactions students are doing this too: “one Copper two ions takes two
electrons and is reduced to Copper”: (instead of “to one Copper atom”). That is Cu2
+
ion + 2e –
Cu
atom. Another difficulty seems to be the historical redox definition with the “Oxygen transfer”, this idea is so
attractive that students argue most with Oxygen participation instead of the transfer of electrons. On the one
hand the students do not see any connection between both levels; on the other hand it is left up to them to figure
out which mental model they may choose concerning the sub-microscopic level. They are building up ideas on
their own, mostly wrong ones. This paper reflects those misconceptions and proposes way of instructions that
will serve as a preventative measure against such school – made misconceptions.
IA Literature Review on Synthesis and Characterization of enamelled copper wi...Editor IJCATR
This paper discusses about the survey on the various magazines, conference papers and journals for understanding the
properties of enamelled copper wires mixed with nano fillers, fundamental methods for synthesis and characterization of carbon
nanotubes. From all these papers, it was noted that the research work carried out in an enamelled copper wires filled with nano fillers
has shown better results. It was also recorded that the research work was carried mostly with single metal catalysts and very little
amount of research work has been carried out on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes using bimetallic catalysts.
Two Ideas of Redox Reaction: Misconceptions and Their Challeges in Chemistry ...iosrjce
In interpretations of chemical phenomena students particularly of Secondary School level like to mix
substances from the macroscopic level, that is substances that can be seen, touched and smell with particles
from the sub-micro level; atoms, ions, molecules etc. “hydrochloric acid is giving one proton” (instead of “One
H3O
+
(aq) gives one proton”). For redox reactions students are doing this too: “one Copper two ions takes two
electrons and is reduced to Copper”: (instead of “to one Copper atom”). That is Cu2
+
ion + 2e –
Cu
atom. Another difficulty seems to be the historical redox definition with the “Oxygen transfer”, this idea is so
attractive that students argue most with Oxygen participation instead of the transfer of electrons. On the one
hand the students do not see any connection between both levels; on the other hand it is left up to them to figure
out which mental model they may choose concerning the sub-microscopic level. They are building up ideas on
their own, mostly wrong ones. This paper reflects those misconceptions and proposes way of instructions that
will serve as a preventative measure against such school – made misconceptions.
IA Literature Review on Synthesis and Characterization of enamelled copper wi...Editor IJCATR
This paper discusses about the survey on the various magazines, conference papers and journals for understanding the
properties of enamelled copper wires mixed with nano fillers, fundamental methods for synthesis and characterization of carbon
nanotubes. From all these papers, it was noted that the research work carried out in an enamelled copper wires filled with nano fillers
has shown better results. It was also recorded that the research work was carried mostly with single metal catalysts and very little
amount of research work has been carried out on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes using bimetallic catalysts.
Kim Renee Dunbar shares the following presentation of pictures of her and her research group and animals over the years. Click to learn more about Dr. Kim Renee Dunbar and the great photos from her life and career over the years
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HEAVY METAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEACHATE FROM MUNICIPAL ...IJSIT Editor
Rapid urbanization and population growth are largely responsible for very high increasing rate of
solid waste in the urban areas, its proper management and recycling is major problems of Municipal
Corporation. The analytical analysis revealed that the leachate show high concentration of heavy metals viz.,
Pb, Zn, Fe, Mn and Cu. However, their high concentration in municipal solid waste leachate may cause
contaminants for environmental pollution. Therefore, present investigation deals with analyze the heavy
metals concentration in municipal solid waste leachate.
2011 NSF CAREER_Steve Koch Full Project Description Steve Koch
This is the full Project Description for my 2011 NSF CAREER proposal. As I described on my blog, I am disappointed in the unfinished product, mostly because I still think the proposed research is important, exciting, and achievable by my lab. ( http://stevekochresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/2011-nsf-career-proposal-ugh-failures.html )
Here are links to prior years' proposals, which were declined:
* 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/17548381/2009-ProposalCAREER-SingleMolecule-Analysis-of-Genomic-DNA-and-Chromatin-in-Eukaryotic-Transcription
* 2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/10196076/2008-NSF-CAREERproposal-Only
Kim Renee Dunbar shares the following presentation of pictures of her and her research group and animals over the years. Click to learn more about Dr. Kim Renee Dunbar and the great photos from her life and career over the years
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HEAVY METAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEACHATE FROM MUNICIPAL ...IJSIT Editor
Rapid urbanization and population growth are largely responsible for very high increasing rate of
solid waste in the urban areas, its proper management and recycling is major problems of Municipal
Corporation. The analytical analysis revealed that the leachate show high concentration of heavy metals viz.,
Pb, Zn, Fe, Mn and Cu. However, their high concentration in municipal solid waste leachate may cause
contaminants for environmental pollution. Therefore, present investigation deals with analyze the heavy
metals concentration in municipal solid waste leachate.
2011 NSF CAREER_Steve Koch Full Project Description Steve Koch
This is the full Project Description for my 2011 NSF CAREER proposal. As I described on my blog, I am disappointed in the unfinished product, mostly because I still think the proposed research is important, exciting, and achievable by my lab. ( http://stevekochresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/2011-nsf-career-proposal-ugh-failures.html )
Here are links to prior years' proposals, which were declined:
* 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/17548381/2009-ProposalCAREER-SingleMolecule-Analysis-of-Genomic-DNA-and-Chromatin-in-Eukaryotic-Transcription
* 2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/10196076/2008-NSF-CAREERproposal-Only
Breve charla dentro del Debate Ciencia ciudadana en acción junto con Ana Omedes, Toni Gabaldón y Daniel García. El debate formaba part de la 5ª edición del Campus Gutenberg, una escuela de verano dedicada a la comunicación y a la cultura científica impulsada por el Máster de Comunicación Científica, Médica y Ambiental (UPF-IDEC) y la Obra Social “la Caixa”, en colaboración con el Centro de Estudios de Ciencia, Comunicación y Sociedad (CCS-UPF) y la Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica (ACCC). 14 de septiembre de 2015
Doping the quantum dots is one of the most emerging hot topics. In addition to the enhancement of the optical properties of the quantum dots, it also improve the chemical stability and inhibit the self quenching effect in the undoped quantum dots. In addition to that, It opened the field of using non Cadmium based quantum dots, that will be very useful for various biological applications.
Photocatalysis has now become an emerging scientific discipline due to its interdisciplinary nature. The wide range of research groups is now working on different aspects of photocatalysis worldwide. It is one of the technology the world looking forward to address environmental as well as energy related issues. Hence we can call it as a technology for the future or a dream technology! We need to overcome too many hurdles to implement this technology in real life. Like any other discipline there is a lot of misunderstanding/ misconceptions in photocatalysis.
Most frequently cited article in the field of photocatalysis is by Fujishima and Honda published in 1972 in nature and it has been cited by the photocatalytic community as an origin of photocatalysis. This aspect is not true at all. This article cannot be the origin of photocatalysis. This article only promoted photocatalytic studies. The author itself, actually, started a research career in the “boom” of photocatalytic studies initiated by this article.
This small presentation aims to deliver some misconceptions like above in photocatalysis. The entire presentation is based on different personal commentaries written by Jean Mary Hermann and Bunsho Ohtani. Some recent articles relevant to the topic are collected by the speaker itself and put it in one platform.
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
2011.09Now: PhD candidate in Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai
University, P. R. China. Supervisor: Prof. Zhen Zhou.
2007.092011.07: B. S. in Material Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, P.
R. China.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
2012.092013.08: 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, 39673983. (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.