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Hao Yan

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Chemistry

Email: Hao.Yan@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Harvard University, 2010
    Major: Chemistry
    Dissertation: Novel Nanowire Heterostructures: Nanoelectronic Applications

Development Activities

  • Conference Attendance, Gordon Conference Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology, Gordon Conferences. Ventura,CA,United States of America. (July 31, 2022 - August 5, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, Gordon Conference Research at High Pressure, Gordon Conferences. Holderness,NH,United States of America. (July 17, 2022 - July 22, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, Gordon Conference Inorganic Chemistry, Gordon Conferences. Newport,RI,United States of America. (May 29, 2022 - June 3, 2022).
  • Faculty Fellowship, UNT DC Fellow, UNT. Washington,DC,United States of America. (April 30, 2022 - May 3, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, American Chemical Society Spring 2022 National Meeting, ACS. San Diego,CA,United States of America. (March 20, 2022 - March 24, 2022).
  • Workshop, National Funding Foundation Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop, National Funding Foundation. Online,United States of America. (December 14, 2020 - December 14, 2020).
  • Workshop, ACS New Faculty Workshop, American Chemical Society. Online,United States of America. (July 21, 2020 - July 28, 2020).
  • Faculty Fellowship, UNT DC Fellowship, University of North Texas. United States of America. (October 2019 - February 2020).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CHEM 3230 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory Sequence, 8 courses.
  • CHEM 3510 - Physical Chemistry I, 8 courses.
  • CHEM 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 1 course.
  • CHEM 4900 - Special Problems, 9 courses.
  • CHEM 5210 - Advanced Physical Chemistry, 4 courses.
  • CHEM 5950 - Master's Thesis, 1 course.
  • CHEM 6940 - Individual Research, 12 courses.
  • CHEM 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 6 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Other (Voluntary mentor for Frisco Independent School District), Frisco ISD, 1 participants. (October 2019 - June 2020).

Directed Student Learning

  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (September 1, 2024).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 1, 2021).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (June 1, 2020).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (November 20, 2019).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (October 30, 2019).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Member, "DESIGN AND SYTHYNISIS OF ΒETA-FUNCTIONALIZED PORPHYRINS AND ADVANCED POROUS MATERIALS," Chemistry. (December 9, 2024).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Chair, "CAPTURING TRANSIENT AND INTERMEDIATE STATES OF COORDINATION CHEMISTRY UNDER HIGH PRESSURE," Chemistry. (October 15, 2024).
  • Postdoctoral Research Supervision, Chemistry. (September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (July 2, 2021 - December 31, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "PRESSURE CONTROLLED TOPOCHEMICAL POLYMERIZATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYBRID PEROVSKITE," Chemistry. (September 1, 2019 - May 1, 2021).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Guragain, M., Kafle, A., Adesope, Q., Kularathne, P.P., Gharaee, M., Sapkota, B., Yan, H., Kelber, J.A., Cundari, T.R., D'Souza, F. (2025). Boosting the Electrocatalytic Dinitrogen Reduction Reaction with Selenium Vacancy in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Energy & Fuels.
  • Wang, S., VanNatta, P.E., Wang, B., Liu, Z., Ma, S., Yan, H. Pressure-Modulated Luminescence Enhancement and Quenching in a Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework. Small.
  • VanNatta, P.E., Archambault, C.M., Wang, S., Lyu, T., D'Amelio, J., Martell, N., Watson, S.K., Wang, K., Liu, Z., Kieber-Emmons, M.T., Yan, H. (2024). High pressure-derived nonsymmetrical [Cu2O]2+ core for room-temperature methane hydroxylation. Science Advances. 10 (40) eadq3366.
  • Varghese, S., Hurley, N., Kamau, S., Jiang, Y., Rodriguez, R.G., Bhandari, B., Lyu, T., Yan, H., Wang, Y., Kaul, A.B., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2024). Thermal-Strain-Enabled Enhanced Emission from UV Laser-Induced Defect Levels near the Surface of Multilayer MoS2. Other. 2 (8) 1721--1729. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.4c00276
  • Varghese, S., Hurley, N., Kamau, S., Jiang, Y., Rodriguz, R.G., Bhandari, B., Lyu, T., Yan, H., Wang, Y., Kaul, A.B., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2024). Thermal-Strain-Enabled Enhanced Emission from UV Laser-Induced Defect Levels near the Surface of Multilayer MoS2. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaom.4c00276
  • Seo, J., , R.U., Zheng, J., Braun, J., Wang, S., Chen, F., Kim, H., Zhang, S., Thai, C., McGillicuddy, R., Yan, H., Vlassak, J., Mason, J. (2024). Barocaloric Effects in Dialkylammonium Halide Salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
  • Nawagamu, R.P., Shankar, S., Archambault, C., Nesterov, V., Marpu, S., Yan, H., Omary, M.A. (2023). A novel ppb level sensitive and highly selective Eu-based diketone luminescent sensor for the quantitative detection of Aluminum ions in water samples. Analytica. 4 (4) 432-446.
  • Khadijah, A., Li, S., Sidhik, S., Kamau, S., Hou, J., Hurley, N., Alzaid, A., Wang, S., Yan, H., Deng, J., Omary, M.A., Mohite, A.D., Cui, J., Lin, Y. Fabrications of twisted moiré photonic crystal and random moiré photonic crystal and their potential applications in light extraction. Nanotechnology. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/ad024a
  • Lyu, T., King, C., Abu-Amara, L., Kunz, M., Yan, H. (2023). Self-Limiting Sub-5 nm Nanodiamonds by Geochemistry-Inspired Synthesis. Small. 19 (33) 2300659. Wiley.
  • Lu, Z., Archambault, C.M., Li, S., Syed, U., Wang, S., Kumar, A., Shen, G., Liu, Z., Omary, M.A., Yan, H. (2023). Modulating the Extent of Anisotropic Cuprophilicity via High Pressure with Piezochromic Luminescence Sensitization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14 508--515. American Chemical Society. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03284
  • Xiao, Q., Burg, J.A., Zhou, Y., Yan, H., Wang, C., Ding, Y., Reed, E., Miller, R.D., Dauskardt, R.H. (2018). Electrically Conductive Copper Core–Shell Nanowires through Benzenethiol-Directed Assembly. Nano Letters. 18 (8) 4900--4907. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01623
  • Yan, H., Yang, F., Pan, D., Lin, Y., Hohman, J.N., Solis-Ibarra, D., Li, F.H., Dahl, J.E., Carlson, R.M., Tkachenko, B.A., Fokin, A.A., Schreiner, P.R., Galli, G., Mao, W.L., Shen, Z., Melosh, N.A. (2018). Sterically controlled mechanochemistry under hydrostatic pressure. Nature. 554 (7693) 505--510. Nature Publishing Group. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature25765
  • Yan, H., Narasimha, K.T., Denlinger, J., Li, F.H., Mo, S., Hohman, J.N., Dahl, J.E., Carlson, R.M., Tkachenko, B.A., Fokin, A.A., Schreiner, P.R., Hussain, Z., Shen, Z., Melosh, N.A. (2018). Monochromatic Photocathodes from Graphene-Stabilized Diamondoids. Nano Letters. acs.nanolett.7b04645. American Chemical Society. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04645
  • Yan, H., Hohman, J.N., Li, F.H., Jia, C., Solis-Ibarra, D., Wu, B., Dahl, J.E., Carlson, R.M., Tkachenko, B.A., Fokin, A.A., Schreiner, P.R., Vailionis, A., Kim, T.R., Devereaux, T.P., Shen, Z., Melosh, N.A. (2017). Hybrid metal–organic chalcogenide nanowires with electrically conductive inorganic core through diamondoid-directed assembly. Nature Materials. 16 349. https://www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/nmat/journal/v16/n3/pdf/nmat4823.pdf
  • Tang, S., Zhang, C., Wong, D., Pedramrazi, Z., Tsai, H., Jia, C., Moritz, B., Claassen, M., Ryu, H., Kahn, S., Jiang, J., Yan, H., Hashimoto, M., Lu, D., Moore, R.G., Hwang, C., Hwang, C., Hussain, Z., Chen, Y., Ugeda, M.M., Liu, Z., Xie, X., Devereaux, T.P., Crommie, M.F., Mo, S., Shen, Z. (2017). Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T '-WTe2. Other. 13 (7) 683--687.
  • Zhang, C., Liu, Z., Chen, Z., Xie, Y., He, R., Tang, S., He, J., Li, W., Jia, T., Rebec, S.N., Ma, E.Y., Yan, H., Hashimoto, M., Lu, D., Mo, S., Hikita, Y., Moore, R.G., Hwang, H.Y., Lee, D., Shen, Z. (2017). Ubiquitous strong electron-phonon coupling at the interface of FeSe/SrTiO3. Nature Communications. 8 14468. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14468
  • Tzeng, Y., Zhang, J.L., Lu, H., Ishiwata, H., Dahl, J., Carlson, R.M., Yan, H., Schreiner, P.R., Vuckovic, J., Shen, Z., Melosh, N., Chu, S. (2017). Vertical-Substrate MPCVD Epitaxial Nanodiamond Growth. Nano Letters. 17 (3) 1489--1495.
  • Tzeng, Y., Zhang, J.L., Lu, H., Ishiwata, H., Dahl, J., Carlson, R.M., Yan, H., Schreiner, P.R., Vu\vckovi\'c, Jelena, Shen, Z., Melosh, N., Chu, S. (2017). Vertical-Substrate MPCVD Epitaxial Nanodiamond Growth. Nano Letters. 17 (3) 1489--1495. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04543

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), UT Austin Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Compressive mechanochemistry of molecular compounds, UT Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), Texas Woman's University Department of Chemistry seminar, High-pressure science of molecular and nanostructured systems, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), Texas Computational Chemistry Symposium, Quasi-static traversal of thermally activated reaction pathways by high-pressure mechanochemistry, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), SMU Department of Chemistry seminar, High-pressure science of molecular and nanostructured systems, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2025).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), CMCC Mechanochemistry Disucssion Seminar, Compressive mechanochemistry of molecular compounds, NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry, Online, United States of America. (2024).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), Chinese American Chemical Society Seminar, High-pressure precision chemistry, Chinese American Chemical Society, Online, United States of America. (2024).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), European Material Research Society Spring 2024 Meeting, Self-Limiting Sub-5 nm Nanodiamonds by Geochemistry-Inspired Synthesis, European Material Research Society, Strasbourg, France, France. (2024 - 2024).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), ACS Spring 2024 National Meeting, Mapping the structural diversity of copper oxygen centers with high-pressure precision mechanochemistry, American Chemical Society, New Orleans, US, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), DFW Young Investigator's Symposium, High-pressure chemistry and nanoscience, UT Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States of America. (2023).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), UT Dallas Chemistry Seminar, TBD, UT Dallas Department of Chemistry, Richardson, TX, United States of America. (2023).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), Texas Pore Engineering Conference, Engineering porous materials under high pressure, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America. (2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), Wichita State University Department of Chemistry seminar, High-pressure chemistry and nanoscience, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America. (2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), UC Irvine Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering special seminar, High-pressure Chemistry and Nanoscience, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America. (2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), ACHPR-10: 10th Asian Confernece on High Pressure Research, Forging and breaking chemical bonds with high-pressure mechanochemistry, Hanyang University, Korea, Virtual, Korea, South. (2021 - 2021).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), UNT Physics Colloquium, Molecules under High Pressure, UNT Department of Physics, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2020).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), UNT MTSE seminar, Looking beyond phase transitions: controlling chemical bonds, disorders and defects with mechanical pressure, UNT College of Engineering, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2020).
  • Yan, H. (Presenter), UNT Hackathon Symposium, Computational chemistry under extreme mechanical conditions, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2019).
  • Yan, H. (Presenter), DOE Materials Chemistry Principal Investigator Meeting, Diamondoid science and applications, U.S. Department of Energy, Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Lyu, T. (Author & Presenter), Yan, H. (Author), Materials Research Society Fall 2022 National Meeting, Controlled Synthesis of Sub-Five-Nanometer Diamond Particles, Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Yan, T. (Author & Presenter), Yan, H. (Author), ACS National Meeting Spring 2022, Controlled synthesis of sub-five-nanometer diamond particles, American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), ACS National Meeting Spring 2022, Controlling non-covalent interactions in the solid state by high-pressure mechanochemistry, American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), ACS National Meeting Spring 2022, High-pressure chemistry at nanometer scale, American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Javadi, A.H. (Author & Presenter), Yan, H. (Author), ACS National Meeting Spring 2022, Probing the molecular foundation of deep-sea adaptation and physiology by in situ spectroscopy and simulation, American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Wang, S. (Author & Presenter), Yan, H. (Author), ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, Two-Dimensional Conjugated Covalent Organic Frameworks under High-Pressure, American Chemical Society, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).
  • Abu-Amara, L. (Author & Presenter), ACS Meeting in Miniature, Pressure-controlled Topochemical polymerization in Two-Dimensional hybrid Perovskite, American Chemical Society, Virtual, United States of America. (2021).
  • Yan, H. (Presenter), American Physical Society March Meeting, Sterically Controlled Solid-State Mechanochemistry Under Hydrostatic Pressure, American Physical Society, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

    • Poster

  • Watson, S. (Author & Presenter), VanNatta, P.E. (Author), Yan, H. (Author), ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, Kinetics of an Intramolecular PCET Reaction Under Extreme Pressure, American Chemical Society, Oklahoma City, OK, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), 2022 Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology Gordon Research Conference, High-pressure mechanochemistry, Gordon Research Conferences, Ventura, CA, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), 2022 Research at High Pressure Gordon Research Conference, High-pressure chemistry in molecular and nanostructured systems, Gordon Research Conferences, Holderness, NH, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Yan, H. (Author & Presenter), 2022 Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, High-pressure mechanochemistry of inorganic systems, Gordon Research Conferences, Newport, RI, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Jiang, B. (Author & Presenter), Yan, H. (Author), TAMS Fair, Molecular Forge: High-throughput Analysis of Dinitrogen Bond Activation under High Mechanical Pressure, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2022).
  • Lyu, T. (Author & Presenter), ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, Controlled synthesis of sub-five-nanometer diamond particles, American Chemical Society, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).
  • Yan, H. (Presenter), Frontier of Molecular Engineering Symposium, Diamond meets molecule: Scientific opportunities with diamondoids, Royal Society of Chemistry, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "Growing extremely tiny, uniformly sized diamonds — without explosives," American Chemical Society. (March 23, 2022).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Yan, H., "Understanding the molecular foundation of deep-sea adaptation with synergistic experimental and computational methods - UNT Mentoring Grant," sponsored by UNT Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2021).
  • Yan, H. (Principal), "Catching the transient: Stabilization and characterization of reaction intermediates in the [Cu2O2]2+ system by high-pressure mechanochemistry," sponsored by Welch Foundation, Private, $300000 Funded. (2025 - 2028).
  • Yan, H., "Integrated Separation, Detection, and Mineralization of PFAS by Nanostructure-Augmented Reverse Osmosis," sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation, Private, $315000 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Yan, H., "Recycling and reuse of epoxy molding compounds by deep eutectic solvent-assisted mechanochemistry," sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation, Private, $315000 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Yan, H. (Principal), Chyan, O.R. (Co-Principal), "Exploring Deep Eutectic Solvents as Environmentally Benign Post-etch Residue Removers," sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation, Private, $315000 Funded. (2024 - 2026).
  • Yan, H. (Co-Principal), Webb, L. (Principal), D'Arcy, S. (Co-Principal), "Molecular Mechanisms of Life in the Deep Sea: Understanding Protein-Lipid Structures and Dynamics at High Pressure," sponsored by Welch Foundation, Private, $100000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Cundari, T.R. (Principal), Du, J. (Co-Principal), Yan, H. (Co-Principal), "MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Hybrid Computer Cluster for Computational Modeling," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $686389 Funded. (2021 - 2024).
  • Cisneros, G.A. (Principal), Yan, H. (Co-Principal), Du, J. (Co-Principal), Andreussi, O. (Co-Principal), Cundari, T.R. (Co-Principal), "MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Hybrid Computer Cluster for Computational Modeling," sponsored by National Science Foundation, FED, Funded. (2021 - 2024).

Copyrights, Patents

    Patent

  • Yan, H., Lyu, T., Controlled synthesis of sub-five-nanometer nanodiamond, Provisional, Date submitted to the University: January 28, 2021. Date of Patent Application: November 18, 2022. .

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Digital Public Relations Committee. (May 1, 2022 - Present).
  • Member, MRF Advisory Counsil. (November 1, 2020 - Present).
  • Chairperson, Safety Committee. (September 1, 2020 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee. (September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023).
  • Co-Chair, Safety Committee. (September 2019 - August 31, 2020).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, U.S. Department of Energy SBIR. (March 9, 2023 - March 30, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, ACS Petroleum Research Fund. (January 20, 2023 - February 20, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Kansas NSF. (January 11, 2023 - February 10, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, U.S. Department of Energy SBIR. (May 3, 2022 - May 17, 2022).