Lecturer and Doctor

Tel.: +86-15790222201

E-mail: yantongan@tiangong.edu.cn

Introduction

Yan Tonganis a Lecturer at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology starting August 2023. He obtained bachelor's degree at Anhui University of Technology in 2016, and master's degree and Ph.D. at Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2020 and 2023 respectively.

His primary research interest is in the molecular design/screening of nanoporous materials and membranes, as well as big-data mining and artificial intelligence analysis on quantitative structure-activity relationships. As the first author/corresponding author, he published 12 academic papers in Chem. Eng. J., J. Mater. Chem. A, Chem. Mater., Chem. Sci., ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. and other important chemical engineering journals.

Research areas

"Theoretical and Computational Chemistry"

"Molecular Modelling and Statistical/Quantum Mechanics Simulations"

"Bayesian and Statistical Machine Learning"

"Relational and Structured Learning"

Main courses taught

"Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics" (postgraduate and undergraduate)

"Molecular Chemical Engineering" (postgraduate and undergraduate)

Main publications

1. Yongqi Hu, Lingyao Wang, Ruihan Nan, Nuo Xu, Yunjia Jiang, Dongmei Wang, Tongan Yan*, Dahuan Liu, Yuanbin Zhang*, and Banglin Chen. Pore engineering in cost-effective and stable Al-MOFs for efficient capture of the greenhouse gas SF₆. Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 471, 144851.

2. Patrizio Campitelli, Alessia Tombesi, Corrado Di Nicola*, Claudio Pettinari, Anna Mauri, Simona Galli*, Tongan Yan*, Dahuan Liu, Jiaxin Dawn Duan, Subhadip Goswami, Giulia Tuci, Giuliano Giambastiani, Joseph T. Hupp*, and Andrea Rossin*. CO₂ Capture and Conversion to C₁ Chemicals with Mixed-Metal Copper/Nickel Bis(amino)bipyrazolate Metal-Organic Frameworks. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2023, 6, 9231-9242.

3. Tongan Yan, Minman Tong*, Dahuan Liu*, Qingyuan Yang*, and Chongli Zhong. Machine learning-assisted computational exploration of the optimal loading of IL in IL/COF composites for carbon dioxide capture. J. Mater. Chem. A,2023, 11, 14911-14920.

4. Tongan Yan, Minman Tong, Qingyuan Yang, Dahuan Liu, Yandong Guo*, and Chongli Zhong*. Large-scale simulations of CO₂ diffusion in metal-organic frameworks with open Cu sites. Chin. J. Chem. Eng., 2022, 42, 1-9.

5. Tongan Yan, Dahuan Liu*, Qingyuan Yang*, and Chongli Zhong. Screening and design of COF-based mixed-matrix membrane for CH₄/N₂ separation. Chin. J. Chem. Eng., 2022, 42, 170-177.

6. Tongan Yan, Zhiyuan Bi, Dahuan Liu, Xiaonan Zhang, Gang Lu*, and Qingyuan Yang*. A Self-Evolutionary Methodology for Reverse Design of Novel MOFs. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2022, 126, 8476-8486.

7. Tongan Yan, Youshi Lan, Minman Tong*, and Chongli Zhong*. Screening and Design of Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for CO₂/CH₄ Separation. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7, 1220-1227.

8. Tongan Yan, Youshi Lan, Dahuan Liu*, Qingyuan Yang, and Chongli Zhong*. Large-Scale Screening and Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks for CH₄/N₂ Separation. Chem. Asian J., 2019, 14, 3688-3693.

9. Miao Chang^#, Tongan Yan^#, Yan Wei, Jie-Xin Wang*, Dahuan Liu*, and Jian-Feng Chen. Metal-Organic Framework-Based Single-Molecule SF₆ Trap for Record SF₆ Capture. Chem. Mater., 2022, 9134-9143.

10. Miao Chang^#, Tongan Yan^#, Yan Wei, Jie-Xin Wang*, Dahuan Liu*, and Jian-Feng Chen. Enhancing CH₄ Capture from Coalbed Methane through Tuning van der Waals Affinity within Isoreticular Al-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 25374-25384.

11. Nuo Xu^#, Tongan Yan^#, Jiahao Li, Lingyao Wang*, Dahuan Liu, and Yuanbin Zhang*. A new TIFSIX anion pillared metal organic framework with abundant electronegative sites for efficient C₂H₂/CO₂ separation. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, 10, 522-528.

12. Yunjia Jiang^#, Lingyao Wang^#, Tongan Yan^#, Jianbo Hu, Wanqi Sun, Rajamani Krishna, Dongmei Wang, Zonglin Gu, Dahuan Liu, Xili Cui, Huabin Xing, and Yuanbin Zhang*. Insights into thermodynamic-kinetic synergistic separation of propyne/propylene in anion pillared cage MOFs with entropy-enthalpy balanced adsorption sites. Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 298-309.