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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

  • Faculty Development Leave, CREATE-sponsored faculty development leave, UNT. Stanford,California,United States of America. (June 8, 2025 - July 7, 2025).
  • 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, 10 courses.
  • CHEM 4930 - Selected Topics in Chemistry, 1 course.
  • CHEM 5210 - Advanced Physical Chemistry, 5 courses.
  • CHEM 5610 - Selected Topics in Physical Chemistry, 1 course.
  • CHEM 5950 - Master's Thesis, 1 course.
  • CHEM 6940 - Individual Research, 14 courses.
  • CHEM 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 8 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

  • Lyu, T., Jonathan Lefton, B..., Etter, M., Bhat, S., Liu, W., Lv, B., Luke Kwan, J..., Yan, H., Runčevski, T. (2026). Making room for reactivity in topochemical transformations under pressure. Chemical Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d5sc05793k
  • 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. Other. 39 (7) 3619--3626. American Chemical Society.
  • Bhandari, B., Varghese, S., Amar Ghimire, R..., Neupane, B., Wang, S., Jiang, Y., Gonzalez Rodriguez, R., Krylyuk, S., Albert Davydov, V..., Wang, Y., Yan, H., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2025). UV-Enabled Defect Engineering in Multilayer GaSe and InSe and UV Writing of the Grating Pattern. Other. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.5c00423
  • Varghese, S., Neupane, B., Bhandari, B., Wang, S., Jiang, Y., Gonzalez Rodriguez, R., Krylyuk, S., Albert Davydov, V..., Wang, Y., Yan, H., Kaul, A.B., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2025). Strain-Modulated Exciton Localization and Enhanced Emission in Multilayer GaSe. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c02229
  • Varghese, S., Wang, S., Neupane, B., Bhandari, B., Jiang, Y., Gonzalez Rodriguez, R., Krylyuk, S., Albert Davydov, V..., Yan, H., Wang, Y., Anupama Kaul, B..., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2025). Quantum Emitters Induced by High Pressure and UV Laser Irradiation in Multilayer GaSe. ACS Omega. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.5c00680
  • 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), Pacifichem, In situ tracking of precision mechanochemistry under high pressure, American Chemical Society, Honolulu, HI, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • 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), Jia, C. (Co-Principal), "High-pressure-high-temperature Formation of Higher Diamondoids," sponsored by American Chemical Society, National, $125000 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, Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Chemical Society. (December 8, 2025 - January 23, 2026).
  • 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).