NanoECats Team Members

(1) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Xiamen University Malaysia, XMUM)

  • Dr. Ji Siang TAN (Ph.D., Chemical Engineering in 2021): 2022-present

Project title: Nanostructured catalysts for solar-to-chemical energy conversion

Expertise: Nanomaterials, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reforming, methane partial oxidation


(2) Postgraduate Students under Supervision (Xiamen University Malaysia, XMUM)

  • Sue-Faye NG (PhD candidate): 2021-present

Project title: Advanced 2D nanostructures for photocatalytic energy conversion

Research output: Solar RRL (Invited contribution); Small (Invited contribution; Inside Front Cover); Advanced Materials (Invited contribution); Nano Research (Invited contribution); InfoMat (Invited contribution, Back Cover)


  • Joel Jie FOO (PhD candidate): 2021-present

Project title: Tunable bismuth-based nanostructures for artificial photosynthesis

Research output: Nano Research (Invited contribution); InfoMat (Invited contribution, Back Cover); Materials Today Nano; Small Structures


  • Grayson Zhi Sheng LING (Master/PhD candidate): 2022-present

Project title: Semiconductor nanostructures for redox photocatalysts

Research output: Advanced Functional Materials


  • Xin-Quan Tan (Master/PhD candidate): 2022-present

Project title: Noble-metal-free-based photocatalysts for coupling reactions in hydrogen evolution reaction and CO2 reduction

Research output: Carbon Energy (Invited contribution; Front Cover)


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  • Deqian Zeng (Ph.D. candidate, Xiamen University) - Graduated in May 2018

Ph.D. Exchange Student in IMRE. A*STAR, Singapore (from the CSC Scholarship) from 2016 to 2017

Project title: Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor-based photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis

Research output: Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017 (selected as the Back Cover of the Special Issue), ChemSusChem 2017 (Special Issue), Applied Catalysis B-Environmental 2018, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization 2018 (selected as the Frontispiece of the Special Issue)


  • Xingzhu Chen (Ph.D. candidate): 2016-2021 (Graduated)

Project title: Transition metal chalcogenide nanomaterials for (photo)electrochemical reactions

Research output: ACS Nano 2017, Materials Horizons 2018 (selected as the Inside Front Cover), 2D Materials 2018 (Special Issue), Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018 (Special Issue, selected as the Outside Front Cover), Science Bulletin 2020


  • Pengfei Chen (Master candidate): 2017-2021 (Graduated)

Project title: 2D and 3D nanomaterials for energy conversion

Research output: 2D Materials 2018 (Special Issue)


  • Zhouzhou Kong (Master candidate): 2017-2019 (Graduated)

Project title: 2D nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage

Research output: Materials Horizons 2018 (selected as the Inside Front Cover)


(3) Undergraduate Research Students under Supervision (Xiamen University Malaysia, XMUM)

  • Jian Yiing Loh

  • Feng Ming Yap

  • Khai Jie Wong

  • Yu Xuan Leiu

  • Ke Ming Lim

  • Valerine

  • Xinlong Lin (Graduated)

  • Xin Quan Tan (Graduated)

  • Wuwei Mo (Graduated)

  • Grayson Zhi Sheng Ling (Graduated)

  • Valerie Bei-Yuan Oh (Graduated)

  • Di Sen Chong (Graduated)

  • Michelle Yu Ling Lau (Graduated)

Research output: Solar RRL (Invited contribution); Advanced Materials (Invited contribution)

  • Yijie Ren (Graduated)

Project title: Two-dimensional (2D) metal-free nanomaterials for photocatalysis and electrocatalysis

Research output: Chinese Journal of Catalysis (Invited contribution for special issue)

  • Wenhao Zhang (Graduated)

Research output: Angewandte Chemie (Invited contribution)

  • Xinnan Yu (Graduated)

Research output: Small (Invited contribution; Front Cover)

  • Shichun Lin (Graduated)

Research output: Chemosphere (Invited contribution)

  • Xian Bin Lim (Graduated)

Research output: Nanoscale Horizons (Invited contribution)

(4) External Research Collaborators

  • Prof. Joel W. Ager III (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California Berkeley, USA)

  • Prof. Abdul Rahman Mohamed (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

  • Dr. Lutfi Kurnianditia Putri (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)

  • Dr. Deqian Zeng (Guangxi University, China)

  • Prof. Neng Li (Wuhan University of Technology, China)

  • Prof. Siang-Piao Chai (Monash University, Malaysia)

  • Dr. Lling-Lling Tan (Monash University, Malaysia)

  • Prof. Fenglong Wang (Shandong University, China)

  • Prof. Ming-Yong Han (IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore), etc.