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Lin, Kuan-Yu (Assistant professor)

#Energy Fields

Office icon  Office: Room 93611

Phone icon  Tel: +886-6-2757575 ext. 62679

Email icon  Email: kuanyu@gs.ncku.edu.tw

Expertise icon  Expertise: Molecular Modeling, Lithium Metal Battery, Zinc Aqueous Battery, Interfacial Phenomena

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1. Education    2. Experience    3. Service    4. Honors and awards    5. Teaching    6. Patents     7. Publications


Education icon 1. Education

  • Ph.D.    Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (2021)
  • B.Sc.     Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (2015)

Experience icon 2. Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2026-)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Miin Wu School of Computing, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2025-2026)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, USA (2023-2025)
  • Visting Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan (2022-2023)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan (2021-2023)

Service icon 3. Service


Honors icon 4. Honors and awards

  • Taiwan Science and Technology Hub Fellowship (2023)
  • New Partnership Program for the Connection to the Top Labs in the World supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan (2021)
  • Exchange program supported by Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (2020)
  • Ping An Elite Education Foundation Scholarship (2020)
  • The Honorary Member of the Phi-Tau-Phi Scholastic Honor Society (2019)
  • “1st Prize Poster Presentation” of ASIA PACIFIC SOCIETY for MATERIALS RESEARCH-GERRN (2018)
  • “Superior Poster Presentation” of The International Conference on Functional Carbons (2017)
  • “Best Oral Award” of International Conference on Green Electrochemical Technologies (2017)

Teaching icon 5. Teaching

  • Engineering Mathematics (II)
  • Unit Operations (I)

Patents icon 6. Patents


Publications icon 7. Publications

A. Referred Papers

  1. Weilai Yu, Kuan-Yu Lin, David T. Boyle, Michael T. Tang, Yi Cui, Yuelang Chen, Zhiao Yu, Rong Xu, Yangju Lin, Guangxia Feng, Zhuojun Huang, Lukas Michalek, Stephen J. Harris, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jian Qin, Yi Cui, Zhenan Bao, The Formation of Anion-Derived Solid-Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) at Li-metal Potential. Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17, 246–255
  2. Kuan-Yu Lin, Mei-Ru Lai, Minoru Otani, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Assessing Ni2(dobpdc) Anchoring for Mitigating Lithium Polysulfide Dissolution in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 39, 16334–16342
  3. Kuan-Yu Lin, Rui-Tong Kuo, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, Bing Joe Hwang, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Unveiling dendrite-suppressing potential of alkali metal-based alloys in lithium metal batteries. J. Energy Storage 2024, 88, 111674
  4. Shih-Huang Pan, Kuan-Yu Lin, Wen-Xiang Wu, Bing Joe Hwang, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Characterizing the Impact of Mg-Doped Li Metal Anode and Excess Electrons on High Concentration Electrolyte Interfacial Stability: A Theoretical Study. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 6, 3291–3300
  5. Kuan-Yu Lin, Zhong-Ming Xie, Lu-Sheng Hong, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Insights into the capture mechanism of CO2 by diamine-appended Mg2(dobpdc): a combined DFT and microkinetic modeling study. J. Mater. Chem. C 2023, 11, 13085-13094
  6. Kuan-Yu Lin, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, Han-Wen Huang, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Theoretical insights on alleviating lattice-oxygen evolution by sulfur substitution in Li1.2Ni0.6Mn0.2O2 cathode material. npj Comput. Mater. 2022, 8, 210
  7. Yu-Xuan Wang, Mia Rinawati, Jun-De Zhan, Kuan-Yu Lin, Chen-Jui Huang, Kuan-Jung Chen, Hitoshi Mizuguchi, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Bing-Joe Hwang, Min-Hsin Yeh, Boron-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots Anchored to Carbon Nanotubes as Noble Metal-Free Electrocatalysts of Uric Acid for a Wearable Sweat Sensor. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 8, 11100–11110
  8. Kuan-Yu Lin, Ming-Quan Cai, Yu-Ting Wu, Min-Hsin Yeh, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Boron and nitrogen codoped multilayer graphene as a counter electrode: a combined theoretical and experimental study on dye-sensitized solar cells under ambient light conditions. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 45, 24894
  9. Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, Han-Wen Huang, Kuan-Yu Lin, Ching Yu, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Direct visualization of lattice oxygen evolution and related electronic properties of Li1. 2Ni0. 2Mn0. 6O2 cathode materials. Appl. Surf. Sci. 2021, 563, 150334
  10. Chen-Jui Huang‡, Kuan-Yu Lin‡, Yi-Chen Hsieh, Wei-Nien Su, Chia-Hsin Wang, Gunther Brunklaus, Martin Winter, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Bing Joe Hwang, New Insights into the N–S Bond Formation of a Sulfurized-Polyacrylonitrile Cathode Material for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 12, 14230–14238
  11. Trong-Nghia Le‡, Kuan-Yu Lin‡, Anusha Valaboju, Cheng-Kang Lee, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, N Vijayakameswara Rao, The fluorescence turn-off mechanism of a norbornene-derived homopolymer–an Al3+ colorimetric and fluorescent chemosensor. Mater. Adv. 2021, 2, 4685-4693
  12. Dhana Lakshmi Busipalli, Kuan-Yu Lin, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, and Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Enhanced Moisture Stability of Cesium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells – a First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Study. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, 22, 5693-5701
  13. Kuan-Yu Lin, Santhanamoorthi Nachimuthu, Minh Tho Nguyen, Hiroshi Mizuta, and Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Effects of Electric Field on the Performance of Graphene-Based Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Theoretical Study. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 50, 30373-30381.
  14. Kuan-Yu Lin, Minh Tho Nguyen, Keiko Waki, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Boron and nitrogen co-doped graphene used as counter electrode for iodine reduction in dye-sensitized solar cells. J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 46, 26385–26392
  15. Ya-Han Chiang, Kuan-Yu Lin‡, Yu-Hsuan Chen, Keiko Waki, Mulu Alemayehu Abate, Jyh-Chiang Jiang, Jia-Yaw Chang, Aqueous solution-processed off-stoichiometric Cu–In–S QDs and their application in quantum dot-sensitized solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 9629-9641

B. Conference papers

C. Other publications

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