FACULTY

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor

Office: West 207, Nan Yong Building

Email: yanjin@nju.edu.cn

Education

2018-2019 Joint Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

2014-2019 Ph.D., Nanjing University

2010-2014 B.Eng., Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Professional Appointment

2023-Present Associate Professor & Ph.D. Supervisor, School of Sustainable Energy and Resources, Nanjing University

2022-2023 Assistant Professor & Ph.D. Supervisor, Center for Materials Science and Intelligent Engineering，Nanjing University

2019-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Research Areas

Energy storage materials and devices (Na ion battery, Zn battery), smart optical materials and devices (electrochromic smart windows & display)

Professional Services

Review Editor for Academic Journals including: Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Journal of Power Source, etc.

Research Projects

2024-2026 Principal Investigator, National Excellent Young Scientists Program

2023-2026 Principal Investigator, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

2023-2026 Principal Investigator, Leading Talents of Suzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program

Awards and Honors

2023 National excellent young scientists

2023 Leading Talent of Suzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

2020 Nanjing University Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Selected Publications

1.Yan Jin, Phung M. L. Le, Peiyuan Gao, Yaobin Xu, Biwei Xiao, Mark H. Engelhard, Xia Cao, Thanh D. Vo, Jiangtao Hu, Lirong Zhong, Bethany E. Matthews, Ran Yi, Chongmin Wang, Xiaolin Li, Jun Liu, Ji-Guang Zhang*. “Low-solvation electrolytes for high-voltage sodium-ion batteries.” Nat. Energy, 7 (8),718-725 (2022)

2.Jie Liang†, Yan Jin†, Huiling Yu, Xinjie Chen, Lin Zhou*, Pengcheng Huo, Ye Zhang, Haiyang Ma, Yi Jiang, Bin Zhu, Ting Xu, Hui Liu, Shining Zhu, Jia Zhu*. “Lithium plasmon based low-powered dynamic color display.” Natl. Sci. Rev., 10 (1), nwac120 (2023) (†contributed equally)

3.Yan Jin, Lin Zhou*, Jianyu Yu, Jie Liang, Wenshan Cai, Huigang Zhang, Shining Zhu and Jia Zhu*. “In Operando Plasmonic Monitoring of Electrochemical Evolution of Lithium Metal.” P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115 (44), 11168-1117 (2018)

4.Yan Jin†, Jie Liang†, Shan Wu, Ye Zhang, Lin Zhou*, Qianjin Wang, Hui Liu, Jia Zhu*. “Electrical Dynamic Switching of Magnetic Plasmon Resonance Based on Selective Lithium Deposition.” Adv. Mater., 32 (42), 2000058 (2020) (†contributed equally)

5.Yan Jin, Lianfeng Zou, Lili Liu, Mark H. Engelhard, Zimin Nie, Yuyan Shao, Chongmin Wang, Jia Zhu, Huilin Pan*, Jun Liu*. “Joint Charge Storage for High-Rate Aqueous Zinc-Manganese Dioxide Batteries.” Adv. Mater., 31 (29), 1900567 (2019)

6.Yan Jin, Yaobin Xu, Biwei Xiao, Mark H. Engelhard, Ran Yi, Thanh D. Vo, Bethany E. Matthews, Xiaolin Li, Chongmin Wang, Phung M. L. Le*, Ji-Guang Zhang*. “Stabilizing Interfacial Reactions for Stable Cycling of High‐Voltage Sodium Batteries.” Adv. Funct. Mater., 32, 2204995 (2022)

7.Yan Jin, Kee Sung Han, Yuyan Shao, Maria L. Sushko, Jie Xiao, Huilin Pan*, Jun Liu*. “Stabilizing Zinc Anode Reactions by Polyethylene Oxide Polymer in Mild Aqueous Electrolytes.” Adv. Funct. Mater., 30 (43), 2003932 (2020)

8.Yan Jin, Yaobin Xu, Phung M. L. Le, Thanh D. Vo, Quan Zhou, Xingguo Qi, Mark H. Engelhard, Bethany E. Matthews, Hao Jia, Zimin Nie, Chaojiang Niu, Chongmin Wang, Yongsheng Hu, Huilin Pan*, and Ji-Guang Zhang*. “Highly Reversible Sodium Ion Batteries Enabled by Stable Electrolyte-Electrode Interphases.” ACS Energy Lett., 5 (10), 3212-3220 (2020)

9.Yan Jin, Lin Zhou*, Jie Liang, Jia Zhu*. “Electrochemical driven dynamic plasmonics.” Adv. Photonics, 3 (4), 044002 (2021) (invited review)

10.Yan Jin, Bin Zhu, Zhenda Lu, Nian Liu and Jia Zhu*. “Challenges and Recent Progress in the Development of Si Anodes for Lithium-Ion Battery.” Adv. Energy Mater., 7 (23), 1700715 (2017) (invited review)