Education background

2008 Ph.D., University of Southern California

2003 M.E., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2000 B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Experience

2011- : Associate professor, Center for Combustion Energy& Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua Unviersity

2008-2011: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Social service

Committee Member of the Chinese Section of the Combustion Institute;

Member of the Media and Outreach Committee of the Combustion Institute;

Member of American Chemistry Society;

Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Combustion chemistry, reaction kinetics, soot formation

Research Status

Recent research progress has been made in the following topics: 1) Uncertainty analysis of the kinetic model prediction for high-pressure H2/CO combustion; 2) Mobility size distribution measurements of nascent soot particles; 3) Mechanisms of soot nucleation, soot surface growth and oxidation; 4) Reaction kinetics of large hydrocarbon and biodiesel molecules, etc.

Honors And Awards

2008: Bernard Lewis Fellowship, the Combustion Institute

2003: University Graduate Fellowship, the University of Delaware

Academic Achievement

Selected publications (*: corresponding author)

Tang, Q.; Ge, B.; Ni, Q.; Nie, B.; You, X.Q.*, “Soot formation characteristics of n-heptane/toluene mixtures in laminar premixed burner-stabilized stagnation flames”, Combustion and Flame, 2017, accepted.

Jing, L.; You, X.Q.; Huo, J.; Zhu, M.*; Yao, Z., “Experimental and numerical studies of ammonium dinitramide based liquid propellant combustion in space thruster”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2017, 69, 161-170.

Li, X.; You, X.Q.*; Law, C. K.; Truhlar, D. G., “Kinetics and branching fractions of the hydrogen abstraction reaction from methyl butenoates by H atoms”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19 (25), 16563-16575.

Wang, H.; You, X.Q.*; Blitz, M. A.; Pilling, M. J.; Robertson, S. H.*, “Obtaining effective rate coefficients to describe the decomposition kinetics of the corannulene oxyradical at high temperatures”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19, 11064-11074.

Jing, L.; Huo, J.; Wang, H.; You, X.Q.*; Zhu, M.; Yang, Y.; Yao, Z., “Experimental investigation on the evaporation and combustion processes of ammonium-dinitramide-based liquid propellant”, Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2017, 33 (2), 343-349.

Tang, Q.; Cai, R.; You, X.Q.*; Jiang, J.*, “Nascent soot particle size distributions down to 1nm from a laminar premixed burner-stabilized stagnation ethylene flame”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36 (1), 993-1000.

You, X.Q.*; Chi, Y.; He, T. “Theoretical analysis of the effect of C=C double bonds on the low temperature reactivity of alkenylperoxy radicals”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016, 120, 5969-5978.

He, T.; Li, S.; Chi, Y.; Zhang, H.; Wang, Z.*; Yang, B.; He, X.; You, X.Q.* “An adaptive distance-based group contribution method for thermodynamic property prediction”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016, 18, 23822-23830.

You, X.Q.*; Wang, H.M.; Zhang, H.B.; Pilling, M.J.* “Thermal decomposition of graphene oxyradicals under the influence of an embedded five-membered ring”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016, 18, 12149-12162.

Li, X.Y.; Xu, X.F.*; You, X.Q.*; Truhlar, D.G.* “Benchmark calculations for bond dissociation enthalpies of unsaturated methyl esters and the bond dissociation enthalpies of methyl linolenate”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016, 120, 4025-4036.

Zhang, H.B.; Hou, D.; Law, C.K.; You, X.Q.* "Role of carbon-addition and hydrogen-migration reactions in soot surface growth", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016, 120, 683-689.

Tang, Q.X.; Mei, J.; You, X.Q.* "Effects of CO2 addition on the evolution of particle size distribution functions in premixed ethylene flame", Combustion and Flame, 2016, 165, 424-432.

Camacho, J.; Liu, C.; Gu, C.; Lin, H.; Huang, Z.; Tang, Q.; You, X.Q.; Saggese, C.; Li, Y.; Jung. H.; Deng, L.; Wlokas, I.; Wang, H. "Mobility size and mass of nascent soot particles in a benchmark premixed ethylene flame", Combustion and Flame, 2015, 162, 3810-3822.

Zhang, H.B.; You, X.Q.*; Law, C.K. "Role of spin-triplet polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot surface growth", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2015, 6, 477-481.

Li, X.Y.; You, X.Q.*; Wu, F.J.; Law, C.K. "Uncertainty analysis of the kinetic model prediction for high-pressure H2/CO combustion", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015, 35, 617-624.

Zhang, H.B.; You, X.Q.*; Wang, H.M.; Law, C.K. "Dimerization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot nucleation", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2014, 118, 1287-1292.

Edwards, D.E.; You, X.Q.; Zubarev, D.; Lester, W.A., Jr.; Frenklach, M. “Thermal decomposition of graphene armchair oxyradicals”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2013, 34, 1759-1766.

You, X.Q.; Packard, A.; Frenklach, M. “Process informatics tools for predictive modeling: Hydrogen combustion”, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2012, 44, 101-116.

You, X.Q.; Zubarev, D.; Lester, W.A., Jr.; Frenklach, M. “Thermal decomposition of pentacene oxyradicals”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011, 115, 14184-14190.

Zubarev, D.Y.; You, X.Q.; McClean, J; Frenklach, M.; Lester, W.A., Jr. “Patterns of local aromaticity in graphene oxyradicals”, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011, 21, 3404–3409.

You, X.Q.; Russi, T.; Packard, A.; Frenklach, M. “Optimization of combustion kinetic models on a feasible set”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2011, 33, 509-516.

You, X.Q.; Whitesides, R.; Zubarev, D.; Lester, W.A., Jr.; Frenklach, M. “Bay-capping reactions: kinetics and influence on graphene-edge growth”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2011, 33, 685-692.

Zubarev, D.Y.; Robertson, N.; Domin, D.; McClean, J.; Wang, J.W.; Lester, W.A. Jr.; Whitesides, R.; You, X.Q.; Frenklach, M. “Polyaromatic hydrocarbon oxyradical stability”, Journal of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, 2010, 1(1), 48-53.

Zubarev, D.Y.; Robertson, N.; Domin, D.; McClean, J.; Wang, J.W.; Lester, W.A. Jr.; Whitesides, R.; You, X.Q.; Frenklach, M. “Local electronic structure and stability of pentacene oxyradicals”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010, 114, 5429-5437.

You, X.Q.; Egolfopoulos, F.N.; Wang, H. “Detailed and simplified kinetic models of n-dodecane oxidation: the role of fuel cracking in aliphatic hydrocarbon combustion”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009, 32(1), 403-410.

Sheen, D.A.; You, X.Q.; Wang, H.; L？v？s, T. “Spectral uncertainty quantification, propagation and optimization of a detailed kinetic model for ethylene combustion”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009, 32(1), 535-542.

Holley, A.T.; You, X.Q.; Dames, E.; Wang, H.; Egolfopoulos, F.N. “Sensitivity of propagation and extinction of large hydrocarbon flames to fuel diffusion”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009, 32(1), 1157-1163.

Smallbone, A.J.; Liu, W.; Law, C.K.; You, X.Q.; Wang H. “Experimental and modeling study of laminar flame speed and nonpremixed counterflow ignition of n-heptane”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009, 32(1), 1245-1252.

You, X.Q.; Wang, H.; Goos, E.; Sung, C.J.; Klippenstein, S.J. “Reaction kinetics of CO+HO2 → products: ab initio transition state theory study with master equation modeling”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2007, 111(19), 4031-4042.

Joshi, A.; You, X.Q.; Barckholtz, T.A.; Wang, H. “Thermal decomposition of ethylene oxide: potential energy surface, master equation analysis, and detailed kinetic modeling”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2005, 109(35), 8016-8027.