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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Science
Sihai Yang received his BSc in Chemistry from Peking University (2007), and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from University of Nottingham (2010) under the supervision of Professor M. Schröder. He has been awarded the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2007, EPSRC PhD Plus Fellowship in 2010, and the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in 2011. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham. His awards include Nottingham University Endowed Postgraduate Prize for 2010/2011, the Barker Prize for the most outstanding oral presentation at 3rd postgraduate symposium of University of Nottingham in 2010.
My research aims to develop environmental-friendly strategy to capture gas molecules (e.g. carbon dioxide) at an economically viable cost. This research will require state-of-the-art X-ray… read more
My research aims to develop environmental-friendly strategy to capture gas molecules (e.g. carbon dioxide) at an economically viable cost. This research will require state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction facilities, specially-built sorption instrumentation, and sustained access to central synchrotron and neutron facilities. We will systematically investigate the processes involved in gas capture by extended porous framework materials, using in situ structural studies by high resolution synchrotron diffraction and neutron scattering, combined with computational investigations of gas capture process. Microporous materials containing nanosized cavities, the walls of which are decorated with various active sites, can form functional porous traps which are specific to different gas molecules. My research aims to determine what happens to the gas molecules inside these materials, and find out how and where the gas molecules interact with the walls of the cavities. Such knowledge will allow the design of successive generations of porous solids with enhanced capabilities to capture and store gases. The programme of research will not only afford significant advances in carbon capture technologies relevant to the development of the "Low-Carbon Economy", but will also greatly accelerate the pace of development of porous solid adsorbents as viable candidates for selective gas capture and separation.
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