
PhD in School of Chemistry 2019/08-2023/07
University of New South Wales, Sydney 2032, Australia
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 3.60/4) January 2019
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United States
Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (GPA: 3.93/4) July 2016
Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Applied Chemistry (GPA: 3.46/4) July 2013
Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710021, Shaanxi, China
Qian Sun is currently a PhD student in Prof Chuan Zhao's group in School of Chemistry, UNSW. Her current research is CO2/CO electroreduction using single atom catalysts, which were evaluated in H-cell, flow cell and membrane electrode assembly. The technology is promising in reducing CO2 concentrations in air by CO2 conversion into valuable chemicals, thus addressing the environmental issues by traditional fossil fuels combustions and alleviating the strong dependence on fossil fuels.
In January 2019 in America, she got her second master degree in University of Arkansas. During which, she focused on interfacial tailoring of lithium-ion battery using atomic layer deposition. Before coming to America, she worked as a research assistant in Zhejiang University in China (2016/07-2016/12), her job was preparing organic and organic-inorganic hybrid thin-film photovoltaics. In 2016 in China, she obtained her first master degree in Northwest University in China, majoring in chemical engineering, and doing research about fabricating single crystal of coordination complexes.
Up to date, she has published 17 peer-reviewed papers in high-quality journals, such as Angewandte Chemie, ACS catalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Chemical Communications, and etc. Besides, she also publised several book chapters in the book of <Lithium-ion Batteries: Materials, Applications and Technology>, <Conversion of Water and CO2 to Fuels using Solar Energy: Science, Technology and Materials>, and <Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids>, respectively. Her works have been cited more than 200 times.
2022 The Development and Research Training Grant (DTRG), UNSW, Sydney, Australia
CO electroreduction to acetate by the atomic Cu-Au interfaces |2021/09-2022/05
Effective electroreduction of diluted CO2 by single Ni atoms with nanoconfined ionic liquids |2020/09-2021/09
Gram-scale produced single-atom catalysts for CO2 electroreduction |2019/08-2020/09
Interfacial tailoring of lithium-ion batteries by atomic/molecular deposition |2017/01-2019/12
Single crystal of coordination complexes is made, and the structure is characterized using XRD method, thermal behavior is analyzed using DSC and TG/DTG methods |2013/09-2016/07
Members in Research Societies:
Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI, Australia)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK)
American Chemical Society (ACS, United States)
Qualified to have PD tests in the Australian Synchrotron
My Teaching
First-year demonstrator (2022/05/30-2022/08/25)
School of chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Teaching assistant (2018/07-2018/12)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States