Shouyan (Jason) Wang Email & Phone Number

St Paul, MN, US

QA, QC

St Paul, MN, US

LSS GB trained.

St Louis, Missouri, US

• Develop, to completion, inorganic lithium cathode material heat treatment procedures to optimize the crystal structure, improving battery cathode discharge capacity.
• Reduced product production costs by modifying hybrid technique, optimizing powder and slurry mixing, electrodes coating formulation and cell design. Fabricate, test, and characterize coin cells, pouch cells and other.
• Discover cell degradation mechanism by characterizing side reactions, electrode structure, crystallography and surface analysis techniques to optimize battery life and reliability.
• Draft, validate test protocols, and execute collaboratively for battery reliability test, abuse test (high temperature, low temperature, nail penetration, thermal shock, etc.), calendar life, cycle life, and rate.
• Evaluated cathode and anode materials, followed by formulations optimization, for high power/high energy battery development.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

• Comprehensively evaluated and optimized nanocrystal, silica nanoparticle and radical micro-emulsion biodegradable polymeric nanomaterials synthesis procedures for formulation development to deliver therapeutical agents.
• Designed and performed polymer degradation experiments and stability study to discover the biodegradation process/final products and to provide documents for Investigational New Drug (IND) application submission.
• Conducted degree of swelling of hydrogel polymer with different cross-linker and designed nanomaterials structure with different hydrophilicity to design drug formulations for small molecule chemo-drugs, photodynamic.
• Completed in vitro cell viability assays to evaluate the dark toxicity of final nanomedicines and developed methods to reduce its toxicity to a significantly lower level for in vivo experiments.
• Determined nanomedicine drug loading amount and measured drug release profile by self-developed analytical methods to regulate formulation development processes.
• Mentored PhD students, undergraduate students, and collaborators regularly to maintain a safe working environment. Acted as subject matter expert for failure analysis and troubleshooting.

Fayetteville, AR, US

• Synthesized battery cathode materials such as layered metal oxides and olivine metal phosphates by using hydrothermal, solid state reaction and sol-gel methods and increased battery capacity by up to 10%.
• Conceived and developed characterization methods for battery cathode materials and components with a focus on applying electrochemical methods to identify root causes of cycle life failure and transport rate.
• Characterized nanomaterials by using combined analytical and electrochemical methods to determine their structure and surface properties to explain electrochemical performance improvement and to discover discharging.
• Improved electrochemical glucose biosensor sensitivity by more than 10 times by using platinum decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes as electrode.
• Evaluated nanomaterials effect for amperometric glucose sensing by a comparative study among different carbon material-based electrodes and proposed potential electrochemical reactions pathways.
• Set up an electrochemical laboratory and maintained related laboratory facilities for lithium ion battery evaluation. Trained students and lab technicians in the effective use of electrochemical instruments, glove box.

Edmonton, Ab, CA

• Synthesized and characterized powder derived yttrium stabilized zirconia and zirconium stabilized, yttrium doped barium cerium oxides proton-conducting ceramic electrolytes using wet chemistry, and solid state reactions.
• Synthesized and characterized proton conducting ceramic electrolyte by using sol-gel, wet chemistry and solid state reactions for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
• Demonstrated the feasibility of ethane to ethylene fuel cell at intermediate temperature to produce power and value-added products simultaneously.
• Designed and assembled MEA for Nafion, polybenzimidazole(PBI) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to evaluate cell performance.
• Discovered hydrocarbon fuel cell dehydrogenation mechanism by using Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) combined with self-developed electrochemical methods.
• Improved hydrocarbon fuel cell performance by 10 times using synthesized ceramic electrolytes and modified oxides as anode catalysts.

天津, Tianjin, CN

• Developed electrochemical sensors to monitor and measure metal corrosion in situ in sea water, cooling water for power plant heat exchangers and soil.
• Designed corrosion probes to measure soil resistivity, detect and categorize crude oil pipeline coating damage.
• Initiated image processing technique to corrosion sciences for automatic corrosion morphologies diagnosis and corrosion prediction.
• Programmed electrochemical instruments with general purpose interfaces by using LabVIEW software.

Phd, Applied Chemistry

Bachelor Of Engineering, Corrosion & Protection And Electrical Engineering