CAREER: Chemical trends of elements under pressure and their effects on the form and properties of materials

Facing to many severe challenges in energy and resources, our community has been driven with searching new and unconventional materials and is exhausting the materials design with traditional formula. The materials with atypical compositions may provide potential solutions and have attracted intensive attention recently. High-pressure techniques have been demonstrated to be an effective me...

Structure and stability of oxyfluorides and oxychlorides and their relations to catalytic activities in oil refining reactions

In this project, we will apply computer simulation methods to design stable metal oxyfluoride compounds that can potentially be used as catalysts in petroleum refining process. We will overcome the bottleneck of identifying the stable compounds without experiment inputs by improving and employing automatic crystal structure search based on density functional theory (DFT)...

Improving Design of Materials by Exploring and Utilizing Novel Chemistry

My achievements in both research and teaching at CSUN make me a very competitive candidate for this prestigious award. Since started working at CSUN in 2015, I have published 59 papers in high impact journals including Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Physical Review Letters, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, etc.; I have secured two major NSF grants including the CAREER award and the MRI grant; I have mentored more t...