Pan Yangyang
yangyangpan@gmail.com

Education

Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University

Research summary

My research aims at finding a proper carbon material with tunable nanostructure suitable for usage in high performance supercapacitor. Using resorcinol and formaldehyde as precursors and sodium carbonate as catalyst, through sol-gel processing, carbon cryogels with desired micropores are obtained. I use BET test to study the relationship between synthesis factors and its final microstructures, in order to find a system with the highest performance. The typical carbon cryogels have a porosity of1.2~1.6cm3/g, a BET surface area exceeding 2000m2/g, and a mean pore size of 2~4nm. The capacitance of our carbon cryogel is of 105 F/g, with a figure of Merit (FOM) value around 7.8 W/g for operation voltage at 2V, compared with the maximum FOM value of 3.6 W/g reported in literature.

Poster

"Carbon cryogels with tunable nanostructures for supercapacitors"
The 9th UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mary Grates Hall, May 2006
 
Highlights

One year of UW experience not only gains me broad knowledge in my professional field but also gives me lots of valuable friends and fun times. I enjoyed volleyball game every Friday with friends at IMA, academic modern dance class at UW dance program, dinner out at interesting restaurants in town. During holidays and quarter breaks I went traveling around in this country. Portland, Vancouver Washington, Oregon Coast, Red Woods National Park, San Francisco, Monterey, Yellowstone National Park. Hopefully I can come back to Seattle again coz it's just awesome!