YITIAN WANG

YITIAN WANG

http://linkedin.com/in/tim-wang-yitian/
personal website: https://cosmotim.github.io/
ywang1057 at ucr dot edu

SKILL

Battery cycling test, Floating zone single crystal growth, Data processing using Python and MatLab.

EDUCATION

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2026(expected)

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY
Aug. 2019 - Feb. 2021

Master of Science, Material Science and Engineering

Beijing Normal University

Beijing, CN
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2019

Bachelor of Science, Physics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Thermal conductivity of solid electrolyte

University of California, Riverside
Mar. 2021 - Now
Riverside, CA
  • Synthesis single crystal solid electrolyte with floating zone method.
  • Conduct inelastic neutron scattering experiment.

Advanced separator of lithium-ion battery

Columbia University
Oct. 2019 - Jan. 2020
New York, NY
  • Made g-C3N4 doped battery separator from Melamine and polyvinylidene difluoride.
  • Assemble battery cells with lithium cobalt oxide electrodes.
  • Tested electrochemical and mechanical property of the separator.

Low temperature uniaxial strain device

Sep. 2018 - May 2019
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, CN
  • Modeled parts in Solidworks for applying uniaxial pressure on thin-film sampled with thermal expansion.
  • Tested the strain induced detwinning effect.

Atomic simulation in a carbon nanotube

Beijing Normal University
Jul. 2017 - Jun. 2018
Beijing, CN
  • Calculated the energy gap between iron-carbon layers using DFT method.
  • Simulated the motion of atoms with self made cellular automaton model in MatLab.

PROJECTS

Impedence calculator for battery system with user interface

Columbia University
Nov.2019
New York, NY
  • Modified the user interface with GUI from MatLab.
  • Calculated the impedance and nyquist plot.

Olivine defect structure calculation with Quantum ESPRESSO

Columbia university
Oct.2019
New York, NY
  • Calculated the olivine structure with molecular dynamic method.
  • Replaced sites with hydrogen then calculated a stable structure.

Publication

  • Wang, Y. T., & Chen, X. (2022). Single crystal growth and electrochemical studies of garnet-type fast Li-ion conductors. Tungsten, 4(4), 263-268.
  • Wang, Y., Li, S., Wu, N., Jia, Q., Hoke, T., Shi, L., … & Chen, X. (2024). Thermal Properties and Lattice Anharmonicity of Li-ion Conducting Garnet Solid Electrolyte Li 6.5 La 3 Zr 1.5 Ta 0.5 O 12. Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
  • Xu, Y., Barani, Z., Xiao, P., Sudhindra, S., Wang, Y., Rezaie, A. A., … & Chen, X. (2022). Crystal Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Layered Van der Waals Semimetal ZrTiSe4. Chemistry of Materials, 34(19), 8858-8867.
  • Guo, S., Li, H., Bai, X., Wang, Y., Li, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., … & Chen, X. (2024). Size-dependent magnon thermal transport in a nanostructured quantum magnet. Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(3).
  • Li, S., Guo, S., Wang, Y., Li, H., Xu, Y., Carta, V., … & Chen, X. (2024). Enhanced magnon thermal transport in yttrium-doped spin ladder compounds Sr14− xYxCu24O41. Journal of Applied Physics, 136(4).