Dr Jian Pan

Dr Jian Pan

Lecturer
Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering

Education:

PhD in Chemical Engineering                     University of Queensland

PhD in Materials Science & Engineering    Chinese Academy of Sciences

BSc in Materials Chemistry                         China University of Petroleum

Professional Experience:

2019 - present:  ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales

2018 - 2019:      Laboratory Manager, UNSW-BUCT-CWRU International Joint Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales.

2017 - 2019:      Research Associate, Particles and Catalysis Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales

2015 - 2017:      Research Associate,  Fuels and Energy Technology Institute (FETI), Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University.

Research Experience:

2017 - present: CO2 Reduction, Electrocatalysis, Solar Thermal Engineering Design. Working with Prof Rose Amal in UNSW.

2015 - 2017: Photo-/electro- catalysis for water splittingFuel Cells, and CO2 Reduction. Working with Prof San Ping Jiang in Curtin University;

2011 - 2013: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Working with Prof Lianzhou Wang in University of Queensland;

2007 - 2014: Photocatalytic Water Splitting. Working with Prof Hui-Ming Cheng in Insitute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Teaching Experience

Semester 1, 2016: Lecturing photocatalysis and photocatalysts in the course CHEN4014 “Advanced Particle Processes” at Curtin University. 

  • Books | 2017
    Mi Z; Wang L; Jagadish C, 2017, Semiconductors for Photocatalysis, Academic Press
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Pan J, 2021, 'Facets Engineering on Catalysts', in Heterogeneous Catalysts Advanced Design, Characterization, and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 21 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527813599.ch2
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pan J; Liu G; Liu G, 2017, 'Facet Control of Photocatalysts for Water Splitting', in Semiconductors and Semimetals, pp. 349 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.semsem.2017.04.003
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pan J; Liu G, 2017, 'Chapter Ten Facet Control of Photocatalysts for Water Splitting', in Semiconductors for Photocatalysis, Elsevier, pp. 349 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.semsem.2017.04.003
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Han C; Li C; Yuwono JA; Liu Z; Sun K; Wang K; He G; Huang J; Kumar PV; Vongsvivut J; Cong J; Mehrvarz H; Han Z; Lu X; Pan J; Hao X; Amal R, 2024, 'Nanostructured hybrid catalysts empower the artificial leaf for solar-driven ammonia production from nitrate', Energy and Environmental Science, 17, pp. 5653 - 5665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03836j
    Journal articles | 2024
    Zhang M; Ma Z; Zhou S; Han C; Kundi V; Kumar PV; Thomsen L; Johannessen B; Peng L; Shan Y; Tsounis C; Yang Y; Pan J; Amal R, 2024, 'Surface Engineering on Ag-Decorated Co3O4 Electrocatalysts for Boosting Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia', ACS Catalysis, 14, pp. 11231 - 11242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c01510
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low- and High-Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202210938
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low‐ and High‐Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2023)', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202370071
    Journal articles | 2023
    Hoang MT; Han C; Ma Z; Mao X; Yang Y; Madani SS; Shaw P; Yang Y; Peng L; Toe CY; Pan J; Amal R; Du A; Tesfamichael T; Han Z; Wang H, 2023, 'Efficient CO2 Reduction to Formate on CsPbI3 Nanocrystals Wrapped with Reduced Graphene Oxide', Nano-Micro Letters, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01132-3
    Journal articles | 2023
    Li Y; Liu S; Liu R; Pan J; Li X; Zhang J; Zhang X; Zhao Y; Wang D; Quan H; Zhu S, 2023, 'Nanoarchitectonics on Z-scheme and Mott-Schottky heterostructure for photocatalytic water oxidation via dual-cascade charge-transfer pathways', Nanoscale Advances, 5, pp. 3386 - 3395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3na00182b
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang Q; Chen Y; Pan J; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2023, 'Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide through Selective Oxygen Reduction: A Carbon Innovation from Active Site Engineering to Device Design', Small, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202302338
    Journal articles | 2022
    Fang R; Han Z; Li J; Yu Z; Pan J; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Trujillo F; Wang DW, 2022, 'Rationalized design of hyperbranched trans-scale graphene arrays for enduring high-energy lithium metal batteries', Science Advances, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adc9961
    Journal articles | 2022
    Jiang L; Pan J; Li Q; Chen H; Zhou S; Yu Z; Jiang S; Yin H; Guan J; Taylor RA; Fisher R; Leslie G; Scott J; Zhao H; Wang DW, 2022, 'A holistic green system coupling hydrogen production with wastewater valorisation', EcoMat, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12254
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lin Z; Zhang Q; Pan J; Tsounis C; Esmailpour AA; Xi S; Yang HY; Han Z; Yun J; Amal R; Lu X, 2022, 'Atomic Co decorated free-standing graphene electrode assembly for efficient hydrogen peroxide production in acid', Energy and Environmental Science, 15, pp. 1172 - 1182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee02884g
    Journal articles | 2022
    Liu S; Pan J; Kong W; Li X; Zhang J; Zhang X; Liu R; Li Y; Zhao Y; Wang D; Zhang J; Zhu S, 2022, 'Synergetic Nanoarchitectonics of Defects and Cocatalysts in Oxygen-Vacancy-Rich BiVO4/reduced graphene oxide Mott-Schottky Heterostructures for Photocatalytic Water Oxidation', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 12180 - 12192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22250
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López-Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron-Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202206915
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tian Z; Zhang Q; Thomsen L; Gao N; Pan J; Daiyan R; Yun J; Brandt J; López‐Salas N; Lai F; Li Q; Liu T; Amal R; Lu X; Antonietti M, 2022, 'Constructing Interfacial Boron‐Nitrogen Moieties in Turbostratic Carbon for Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production', Angewandte Chemie, 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202206915
    Journal articles | 2022
    Toe CY; Pan J; Scott J; Amal R, 2022, 'Identifying Key Design Criteria for Large-Scale Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Engineering and Economic Perspectives', ACS ES and T Engineering, 2, pp. 1130 - 1143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00030
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhao Y; Kumar PV; Tan X; Lu X; Zhu X; Jiang J; Pan J; Xi S; Yang HY; Ma Z; Wan T; Chu D; Jiang W; Smith SC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2022, 'Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30155-4
    Journal articles | 2021
    Chen H; Zhang M; Tran-Phu T; Bo R; Shi L; Di Bernardo I; Bing J; Pan J; Singh S; Lipton-Duffin J; Wu T; Amal R; Huang S; Ho-Baillie AWY; Tricoli A, 2021, 'Integrating Low-Cost Earth-Abundant Co-Catalysts with Encapsulated Perovskite Solar Cells for Efficient and Stable Overall Solar Water Splitting', Advanced Functional Materials, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008245
    Journal articles | 2021
    Su Q; Zhu L; Zhang M; Li Y; Liu S; Lin J; Song F; Zhang W; Zhu S; Pan J, 2021, 'Construction of a Bioinspired Hierarchical BiVO4/BiOCl Heterojunction and Its Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity for Phenol Degradation', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 32906 - 32915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c05117
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhang Q; Zhe Ru ZL; Daiyan R; Kumar P; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2021, 'Surface reconstruction enabled efficient hydrogen generation on a cobalt-iron phosphate electrocatalyst in neutral water', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 53798 - 53809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14588
    Journal articles | 2020
    Cui Y; Tan X; Xiao K; Zhao S; Bedford NM; Liu Y; Wang Z; Wu KH; Pan J; Saputera WH; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Smith SC; Yun J; Dai L; Amal R; Wang DW, 2020, 'Tungsten Oxide/Carbide Surface Heterojunction Catalyst with High Hydrogen Evolution Activity', ACS Energy Letters, 5, pp. 3560 - 3568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01858
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu S; Li X; Meng X; Chen T; Kong W; Li Y; Zhao Y; Wang D; Zhu S; Cheema WA; Pan J, 2020, 'Enhanced visible/near-infrared light harvesting and superior charge separation via 0D/2D all-carbon hybrid architecture for photocatalytic oxygen evolution', Carbon, 167, pp. 724 - 735, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.005
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu S; Pan J; Li X; Meng X; Yuan H; Li Y; Zhao Y; Wang D; Ma J; Zhu S; Kong L, 2020, 'In situ modification of BiVO4nanosheets on graphene for boosting photocatalytic water oxidation', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 14853 - 14862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr02718a
    Journal articles | 2020
    Su Q; Li Y; Hu R; Song F; Liu S; Guo C; Zhu S; Liu W; Pan J, 2020, 'Heterojunction Photocatalysts Based on 2D Materials: The Role of Configuration', Advanced Sustainable Systems, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000130
    Journal articles | 2019
    Cheng Y; Zhao S; Li H; He S; Veder JP; Johannessen B; Xiao J; Lu S; Pan J; Chisholm MF; Yang SZ; Liu C; Chen JG; Jiang SP, 2019, 'Unsaturated edge-anchored Ni single atoms on porous microwave exfoliated graphene oxide for electrochemical CO2', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 243, pp. 294 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.10.046
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lu X; Tan X; Zhang Q; Daiyan R; Pan J; Chen R; Tahini HA; Wang DW; Smith SC; Amal R, 2019, 'Versatile electrocatalytic processes realized by Ni, Co and Fe alloyed core coordinated carbon shells', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7, pp. 12154 - 12165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta01723b
    Journal articles | 2019
    Zhang Q; Bedford NM; Pan J; Lu X; Amal R, 2019, 'A Fully Reversible Water Electrolyzer Cell Made Up from FeCoNi (Oxy)hydroxide Atomic Layers', Advanced Energy Materials, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201901312
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cheng Y; Liang J; Veder JP; Li M; Chen S; Pan J; Song L; Cheng HM; Liu C; Jiang SP, 2018, 'Iron Oxide Nanoclusters Incorporated into Iron Phthalocyanine as Highly Active Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction', ChemCatChem, 10, pp. 475 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201701183
    Journal articles | 2018
    Liu JL; Liu T; Pan J; Liu S; Max Lu GQ, 2018, 'Advances in multicompartment mesoporous silica micro/nanoparticles or theranostic applications', Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 9, pp. 389 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060817-084225
    Journal articles | 2018
    Lu X; Pan J; Lovell E; Tan TH; Ng YH; Amal R, 2018, 'A sea-change: Manganese doped nickel/nickel oxide electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation from seawater', Energy and Environmental Science, 11, pp. 1898 - 1910, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00976g
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wang G; Pan J; Jiang SP; Yang H, 2018, 'Gas phase electrochemical conversion of humidified CO2 to CO and H2 on proton-exchange and alkaline anion-exchange membrane fuel cell reactors', Journal of CO2 Utilization, 23, pp. 152 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2017.11.010
    Journal articles | 2018
    Xiao K; Pan J; Liang K; Su H; Jiang D; Amal R; Wang DW, 2018, 'Layered conductive polymer-inorganic anion network for high-performance ultra-loading capacitive electrodes', Energy Storage Materials, 14, pp. 90 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2018.02.018
    Journal articles | 2017
    Boyjoo Y; Cheng Y; Zhong H; Tian H; Pan J; Pareek VK; Jiang SP; Lamonier JF; Jaroniec M; Liu J, 2017, 'From waste Coca Cola® to activated carbons with impressive capabilities for CO2 adsorption and supercapacitors', Carbon, 116, pp. 490 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.02.030
    Journal articles | 2017
    Pan J; Zhen C; Wang L; Liu G; Cheng HM, 2017, 'WB crystals with oxidized surface as counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells', Science Bulletin, 62, pp. 114 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2017.01.005
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tian H; Wang S; Zhang C; Veder JP; Pan J; Jaroniec M; Wang L; Liu J, 2017, 'Design and synthesis of porous ZnTiO3/TiO2 nanocages with heterojunctions for enhanced photocatalytic H2 production', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5, pp. 11615 - 11622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ta00148g
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wang M; Boyjoo Y; Pan J; Wang S; Liu J, 2017, 'Advanced yolk-shell nanoparticles as nanoreactors for energy conversion', Cuihua Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 38, pp. 970 - 990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1872-2067(17)62818-3
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wu K, 2017, 'Benchmarking the Oxygen Reduction Electrochemical Behavior of First-Row Transition Metal Oxide Clusters on Carbon Nanotube', ChemElectroChem, Early Views, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/celc.201701215
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cheng Y; Dou S; Saunders M; Zhang J; Pan J; Wang S; Jiang SP, 2016, 'A class of transition metal-oxide@MnO: X core-shell structured oxygen electrocatalysts for reversible O2 reduction and evolution reactions', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, pp. 13881 - 13889, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ta04758k
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cheng Y; Memar A; Saunders M; Pan J; Liu C; Gale JD; Demichelis R; Shen PK; Jiang SP, 2016, 'Dye functionalized carbon nanotubes for photoelectrochemical water splitting-role of inner tubes', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, pp. 2473 - 2483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ta00143b
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cheng Y; Pan J; Saunders M; Yao S; Shen PK; Wang H; Jiang SP, 2016, 'Structurally confined ultrafine NiO nanoparticles on graphene as a highly efficient and durable electrode material for supercapacitors', RSC Advances, 6, pp. 51356 - 51366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra04880c
    Journal articles | 2016
    Pan J; Jiang SP, 2016, 'Synthesis of nitrogen doped faceted titanium dioxide in pure brookite phase with enhanced visible light photoactivity', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 469, pp. 25 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2016.02.013
    Journal articles | 2016
    Xing Z; Zong X; Butburee T; Pan J; Bai Y; Wang L, 2016, 'Nanohybrid materials of titania nanosheets and plasmonic gold nanoparticles for effective hydrogen evolution', Applied Catalysis A: General, 521, pp. 96 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2016.01.014
    Journal articles | 2015
    Liu G; Yin LC; Pan J; Li F; Wen L; Zhen C; Cheng HM, 2015, 'Greatly Enhanced Electronic Conduction and Lithium Storage of Faceted TiO2 Crystals Supported on Metallic Substrates by Tuning Crystallographic Orientation of TiO2', Advanced Materials, 27, pp. 3507 - 3512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201500198
    Journal articles | 2014
    Butburee T; Bai Y; Pan J; Zong X; Sun C; Liu G; Wang L, 2014, 'Step-wise controlled growth of metal@TiO2 core-shells with plasmonic hot spots and their photocatalytic properties', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2, pp. 12776 - 12784, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ta01120a
    Journal articles | 2014
    Jin H; Pan J; Wang L, 2014, 'Synthesis of octahedral TiO2 single crystals with {101} facets from solid precursor with N2H4 as capping agent', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11051-014-2352-z
    Journal articles | 2014
    Liu G; Yang HG; Pan J; Yang YQ; Lu GQM; Cheng HM, 2014, 'Titanium dioxide crystals with tailored facets', Chemical Reviews, 114, pp. 9559 - 9612, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr400621z
    Journal articles | 2014
    Pan J; Wang L; Yu JC; Liu G; Cheng HM, 2014, 'A nonstoichiometric SnO2−δ nanocrystal-based counter electrode for remarkably improving the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells', Chemical Communications, 50, pp. 7020 - 7023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4cc02066a
    Journal articles | 2013
    Xing Z; Zong X; Pan J; Wang L, 2013, 'On the engineering part of solar hydrogen production from water splitting: Photoreactor design', Chemical Engineering Science, 104, pp. 125 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2013.08.039
    Journal articles | 2013
    Yu H; Pan J; Bai Y; Zong X; Li X; Wang L, 2013, 'Hydrothermal synthesis of a crystalline rutile TiO2 nanorod based network for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells', Chemistry - A European Journal, 19, pp. 13569 - 13574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201300999
    Journal articles | 2012
    Liu G; Pan J; Yin L; Irvine JT; Li F; Tan J; Wormald P; Cheng HM, 2012, 'Heteroatom-modulated switching of photocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen evolution preferences of anatase TiO 2 microspheres', Advanced Functional Materials, 22, pp. 3233 - 3238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201200414
    Journal articles | 2011
    Pan J; Liu G; Lu GQ; Cheng HM, 2011, 'On the true photoreactivity order of {001}, {010}, and {101} facets of anatase TiO2 crystals', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 50, pp. 2133 - 2137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201006057
    Journal articles | 2011
    Pan J; Wu X; Wang L; Liu G; Lu GQ; Cheng HM, 2011, 'Synthesis of anatase TiO2 rods with dominant reactive {010} facets for the photoreduction of CO2 to CH4 and use in dye-sensitized solar cells', Chemical Communications, 47, pp. 8361 - 8363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1cc13034j
    Journal articles | 2011
    Wang X; Liu G; Wang L; Pan J; Lu GQ; Cheng HM, 2011, 'TiO2 films with oriented anatase {001} facets and their photoelectrochemical behavior as CdS nanoparticle sensitized photoanodes', Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, pp. 869 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0jm02694h
    Journal articles | 2009
    Liu G; Hua GY; Wang X; Cheng L; Pan J; Gao QL; Cheng HM, 2009, 'Visible light responsive nitrogen doped anatase TiO2 sheets with dominant {001} facets derived from TiN', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, pp. 12868 - 12869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja903463q
  • Theses / Dissertations | 2014
    Pan J, 2014, Facet engineering of TiO2 nanocrystals for solar energy conversion, http://dx.doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.51