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Quinn (Wanqing) Yu

Office: ES&T 1358
Email: quinn.yu@gatech.edu

What is your favorite food, or food genre?? Cantonese Food
Favorite summer time drink? Starbucks Pink Drink

Educational Background

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2023
B.A. in Dance Studies, University of Rochester, 2023

Advisors

Co-advised by Christopher W. Jones and Ryan Lively

Project

Effect of Organic & Inorganic Air Contaminants on CO2 Sorbents in Direct Air Capture

Publications

  • Wilsey, M. K.; Taseska, T.; Meng, Z.; Yu, W.; Müller, A. M. Advanced Electrocatalytic Redox Processes for Environmental Remediation of Halogenated Organic Water Pollutants. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 11895-11922.
  • Forsythe, R. C.; Cox, C. P.; Wilsey, M. K.; Yu, W.; Müller, A. M. High Surface Area Assemblies of Gold Nanoparticles on Hydrophilic Carbon Fiber Paper with Ionomer Overlayers for Aqueous CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysis to Clean Syngas. Top. Catal. 2023, DOI:10.1007/s11244-023-01850-3.
  • Taseska, T.; Yu, W.; Wilsey, M. K.; Meng, Z.; Cox, C. P.; Ngarnim, S. S.; Müller, A. M. Analysis of the Scale of Global Human Needs and Opportunities for Sustainable Catalytic Technologies. Top. Catal. 2023, 66, 338-374.

Group News

November 2024-

After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Yunseok Lee joined the Samsung Advanced Research Institute.

The group welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers: Dr. Xin Deng, who received her PhD from Nankai University, and Dr. Xiaowei Wu, who received his PhD from the University of Houston.

September 2024-

Dr. Tony Vallace completed his postdoctoral stay and has joined First Light Solutions Inc. as CSO.

Jiaqi Zhang joined the group to work on DAC.  He is co-advised with Prof. Sievers.

August, 2024-

The group’s work on carbon capture was recognized by ACS with the 2025 E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

Dr. Samser Shaikh completed his postdoctoral stay and took a position at National Energy Technology Laboratory.

June, 2024-

Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva passed her Ph.D. proposal and was admitted to Ph.D. candidacy.  Congratulations!

May, 2024-

Dr. Guanhe Rim completed his postdoctoral stay and joined Aramco in Houston, TX.

February, 2024-

Youn Ji Min successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations to Youn Ji, PhD graduate #48.  Dr. Min will work at GT as a postdoc.

The Jones Group also participated in our biennial Birkman Assessment workshop.

January, 2024-

Quinn Yu and Dr. Gaurav Iyer joined the group to work on DAC.  They are both coadvised with Prof. Lively.

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