Yijie Yang - PhD student (2022 - present)
Yijie Yang is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Kim Jelfs and Dr. Qilei Song. He received his BEng degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) in 2020. He then studied for MSc in Chemical Process Engineering at University College London and graduated with Distinction. His current research focus is on the computational modelling of polymer membranes and utilising a data-driven approach for polymer design.
Email: yijie.yang22@imperial.ac.uk
Publications:
Dingchang Yang, Yijie Yang, Toby Wong, Sunshine Iguodala, Anqi Wang, Louie Lovell, Fabrizia Foglia, Peter Fouquet, Charlotte Breakwell, Zhiyu Fan, Yanlin Wang, Melanie M. Britton, Daryl Williams, Nilay Shah, Tongwen Xu, Neil McKeown, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Kim Jelfs, Qilei Song*. Solution-processable polymer membranes with hydrophilic subnanometer pores for sustainable lithium extraction. Nature Water, 3, 319–333 (2025).
Toby Wong, Yijie Yang, Rui Tan, Anqi Wang, Zhizhang Yuan, Jiaxi Li, Dezhi Liu, Alberto Alvarez Fernandez, Chunchun Ye, Mark Sankey, David Ainsworth, Stefan Guldin, Fabrizia Foglia, Neil B. McKeown, Kim E. Jelfs*, Xianfeng Li*, Qilei Song*. Sulfonated poly(ether-ether-ketone) membranes with intrinsic microporosity enable efficient redox flow batteries for energy storage. Joule, 2025, 9, 1–17.