Experience

Upcycling+

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Ames, Iowa, United States Leading the efforts to commercialize proprietary technology to convert waste plastic into cleaner fuel. Conducting market research and exploration to identify the beachhead market and establish a partnership ecosystem. Facilitating process scale-up from lab scale to pilot scale.



Iowa State University,

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2018 - Mar 2023

  Ames, Iowa, United States • Synthesized various generations of nanocatalysts, including amorphous porous silica from micelle chemistry, zeolite-based (ZSM-5, S-1), few-atom-based, and non-precious metal-based (Ni, Fe, Co) catalysts. Comprehensive material characterizations include morphology and porosity (STEM, BET, SEM), elemental analysis (ICP-MS, EDX), surface analysis (FTIR, XPS, chemisorption, TPR, TPD), and crystallography (PXRD). • Carried on high-temperature, high-pressure depolymerization catalysis… Show more • Synthesized various generations of nanocatalysts, including amorphous porous silica from micelle chemistry, zeolite-based (ZSM-5, S-1), few-atom-based, and non-precious metal-based (Ni, Fe, Co) catalysts. Comprehensive material characterizations include morphology and porosity (STEM, BET, SEM), elemental analysis (ICP-MS, EDX), surface analysis (FTIR, XPS, chemisorption, TPR, TPD), and crystallography (PXRD). • Carried on high-temperature, high-pressure depolymerization catalysis, including batch/flow reactor operation, full-spectrum product characterization, and quantification through chromatography-based (GC, UPLC, GPC, HPLC) and spectroscopy-based (MALDI-TOF-MS, IR, NMR). • Constructed flow pilot-scale reactors for the post-consumed film plastic depolymerization into olefin products. Screened the effect of external parameters (flow rate, gas composition, thermal transfer). • Utilized course-grain molecular dynamic (CG-MD) simulation to predict cleavage preference when reaction parameters, including pore diameter, pore length, and surface hydrophobicity. Show less



ShanghaiTech University

• China
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Jan 2018

  Shanghai, China Fabricated different versions of quantum dots solar cells, including nanocrystal synthesizing, charge transfer layer spin-casting, and thermal evaporation for electrode deposition. Characterized cell performance by measuring current-voltage, capacitance-voltage curve, quantum efficiency, photoluminescence, and Absorption spectra. • Simulated charge density-current/voltage relationship with SCAPS and Matlab.