Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Dr. Fangyuan Tian is an associate professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. Research students in the Tian Laboratory focus materials on a chemical level. They work to understand the surface and interface chemistry of solid materials, with a goal of designing biocompatible coatings that can do a variety of things, including methane capture and drug delivery.
Two major research directions in Dr. Tian's laboratory are:
- The fundamental properties and chemical reactivities of nano-structured solid hybrid materials for energy and environmental applications.
- Designing surface-supportive porous metal-organic frameworks for drug delivery.
The Tian Lab's most recent research involves the study of two-dimensional conductive and semiconductive porous crystalline thin films. This is exciting because advances in understanding electrically conductive material have led to a range of applications in energy storage, chemical sensing, electrocatalysis, and fuel cells. For chemists like Dr. Tian, it is critically important to explore the electron transfer behaviors observed on these ultrathin porous materials.
Undergraduate and graduate students in the Tian Lab are gaining hands-on experience in surface sciences and materials chemistry as they work together to understand and create the future of high-tech materials.
Learn more about Dr. Fangyuan Tian and her work: Surface and Interface Chemistry Lab.
