Hao Yan
University of North Texas
Chemistry
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Education

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

Development Activities Attended

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, 6 courses.
CHEM 3996, Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 1 course.
CHEM 4900, Special Problems, 6 courses.
CHEM 5210, Advanced Physical Chemistry, 4 courses.
CHEM 5950, Master's Thesis, 1 course.
CHEM 6940, Individual Research, 10 courses.
CHEM 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 4 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

Other, Frisco ISD, 1. (October 2019 – June 2020).

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, Chemistry. (August 1, 2021 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Chemistry. (June 1, 2020 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Chemistry. (June 1, 2020 – Present).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (November 20, 2019 – Present).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member, Chemistry. (October 30, 2019 – Present).

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
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.
Alnasser, K., Li, S., Sidhik, S., Kamau, S., Hou, J., Hurley, N., Alzaid, A., Wang, S., Yan, H., Deng, J., others, (2023). Fabrications of twisted moir\'e photonic crystal and random moir\'e photonic crystal and their potential applications in light extraction. Nanotechnology. 35(2), 025203. IOP Publishing.
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), 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), SMU Department of Chemistry seminar, High-pressure precision chemistry, Southern Methodist University, University Park, TX, United States of America. (2023).

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 and 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. (February 1, 2021 – Present).
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. (January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2026).
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. (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2024).
Yan, H. (Co-Principal), Jiang, Y. (Principal), "Multiscale structural design for lightweight energy absorbing materials via mechanochemistry and 3D printing," Sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (July 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022).

Copyrights, Patents

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

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Digital Public Relations Committee. (May 1, 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee. (September 1, 2021 – Present).

Member, MRF Advisory Counsil. (November 1, 2020 – Present).

Chairperson, Safety Committee. (September 1, 2020 – Present).

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).