Chubin Wan

Associate Professor
office location: physical and chemical building 131
E-mail:cbwan@ustb.edu.cn
Research Interests: 1. New Intermetallic Compounds for Hydrogen Storage and Metal hydride Batteries; 2. Transition metal oxides for Electric Storage and Supercapacitors; 3. Crystal Structure Investigations of by Means of Synchrotron Radiation, Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction; 4. Trapping, Migration and Clusters of He and H atoms in metals using First-principles calculations.
Resume

2013. 07- now: Associate professor, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China; 2015.08-2016.08 Visiting scholar, Institute for Energiteknikk, Norway; 2011.07-2013.07 Post Doctor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, USTB, China; 2006.09-2011.07: PhD, Department of Physics, USTB, China; 2002.09-2006.07: B.Sc., Department of Physics, Northeast University, China;

Scientific research achievements

1. 2020-2023 National Natural Science Foundation of China, In-situ study on the LaYMgNi alloys and their hydrides based on High Resolution Neutron Diffraction, 85K U.S.; 2. 2017-2019 National Natural Science Foundation of China, In-situ study on the La-Mg-Ni system based on High Resolution Neutron Powder Diffraction, 25K U.S.; 3. 2015-2016 China Scholarship Council, 14K U.S.; 4. 2011-2014 Design and characterization of hydrogen storage materials, 70K U.S.; 5. 2011-2013 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Study on the mechanism of hydrogen absorption and dehydrogenation of complexing hydrides;4K U.S.

Enrollment plan

2 Master students per year

Representative papers

1. A.C. Tang, C. Wan*, X.Y. Hu, X. Ju*, Metal-organic framework-derived Ni/ZnO nano-sponges with delicate surface vacancies as anode materials for high-performance supercapacitors, Nano Res., (2021). On line. 2. C. Wan, W. Hu, R.V. Denys, C.C. Nwakwuo, J.K. Solberg, V.A. Yartys*, Effect of Mg content in the La3-xMgxNi9 battery anode alloys on the structural, hydrogen storage and electrochemical properties, J. Alloys Compd., 856 (2020) 157443. 3. C. Wan*, X. Jiang, Y. Qi, X. Ju*, Effects of V substitution and annealing on Zr-based AB2 alloys as anode material of metal hydride batteries, Intermetallics, 127 (2020) 106979. 4. C. Wan*, X. Jiang, X. Yin, X. Ju*, High-capacity Zr-based AB2-type alloys as metal hydride battery anodes, J. Alloys Compd., 828 (2020) 154402. 5. C. Wan, R.V. Denys, M. Lelis, D. Milčius, V.A. Yartys*, Electrochemical studies and phase-structural characterization of a high-capacity La-doped AB2 Laves type alloy and its hydride, J. Power Sources, 418 (2019) 193-201. 6. C. Wan*, S. Yu, X. Ju, W. Wang, Hydrogen trapping in helium-implanted W and W-Ta alloy: First-principles approach, J. Nucl. Mater., 508 (2018) 249-256. 7. C. Wan*, S. Yu, X. Ju*, Energetics of small helium clusters near tungsten surface by ab initio calculations, J. Nucl. Mater., 499 (2018) 539-545. 8. C. Wan*, S. Yu, X. Ju*, Energetics of He and H Atoms in W–Ta Alloys: First-Principle Calculations, Chin. Phys. Lett., 35 (2018) 047102. 9. C. Wan, V.E. Antonov, R.V. Denys, V.I. Kulakov, V.A. Yartys*, MgCo2-D2 and MgCoNi-D2 systems synthesized at high pressures and interaction mechanism during the HDDR processing, Prog. Nat. Sci., 27 (2017) 74-80. 10 C. Wan, R.V. Denys, V.A. Yartys*, In situ neutron powder diffraction study of phase-structural transformations in the La–Mg–Ni battery anode alloy, J. Alloys Compd., 670 (2016) 210-216.

Postgraduate training

Under my name: 2 Master students including 1 abroad Master student; Assist instruction: 3 Doctor students and 1 Master student.

  • School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, USTB
  • 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing,100083