EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1996                          Bachelor of Tianjin University of Technology, Major in Chemical Fiber

1999                          Master of Tianjin University of Technology, Material Science

2003                          Doctor of Yamaguchi University, Japan, Major in Environmental Symbiosis Engineering

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2003-2007                  Postdoctoral Program of Engineering Department, Yamaguchi University, Japan (VBL very diligent lecturer)

2007-present              Associate Professor, Master Tutor, School of Mechanics, Tianjin University

RESEARCH PROJECT AND GRANT

2012-2014                 Leader,National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Water Transport and

Proton Conduction Characteristics in New Electrolyte Membrane of PEM Fuel Cell, Project

No. 51106111

2011-2014                  Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, Fundamental Research on Proton Conduction

Characteristics in New Polymer Electrolyte Membranes, Project No. 11JCYBJC07400

2010-2012                  In charge,National 973 Program: Basic Research on Energy Conservation and Emission

Reduction and New Energy Exploration, Research on Water Management of Proton

Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, Project No. 2010 CB234610,

2012-2016                  Participants,National 973 Program: Research on Integrated Technology of 10 KW

New Fuel Cell Power System, Project No. 2012CB215506

2011-2014                  Participants,Tianjin Natural Science Foundation Key Project, Multiscale Description

of Mass Transfer and Heat Transfer Mechanism of PEM Fuel Cell, Project

No. 11JCZDJC23500

2010-2012                  Completor,New Teachers’Fund of Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education,

Research on Micro-interface Contact Mechanism and Macro-performance of

Membrane Electrode of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Project No. 20090032120002

Representative works

1. Yan Yin, Qing Du, Yanzhou Qin, Yibo Zhou, Kenichi Okamoto, Sulfonated polyimides with flexible aliphatic side chains for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Journal of Membrane Science, 367 (2011) 211-219. (SCI 715AE)

2. Yan Yin, Qing Du, Kenichi Okamoto, Performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell based on new polymeric ionomers, Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Digital Manufacturing & Automation, vol. 2 (2010) 86-89. (EI 20110813695081)

3. Zhaoxia Hu, Yan Yin, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Yukari Moriyama, Atsushi Morikawa, Synthesis and characterization of sulfonated polyimides derived from 2,2’-bis(4-sulfophenyl)- 4,4’-oxydianiline as polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cell applications, Journal of Membrane Science, 329 (2009) 146-152.（SCI 420WQ）

4. Zhaoxia Hu, Yan Yin, Kazuaki Yaguchi, Nobutaka Endo, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and properties of sulfonated multiblock copolynaphthalimides, Polymer, 50(2009) 2933-2943.（SCI 463FN）

5. Xinbing Chen, Yan Yin, Pei Chen, Hidetoshi Kita，Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and properties of novel sulfonated polyimides derived from naphthalenic dianhydride for fuel cell application, Journal of Membrane Science, 313 (2008) 106-119.（SCI 291PI）

6. Shouwen Chen, Yan Yin, Hidetoshi Kita，Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and properties of sulfonated polyimides from homologous sulfonated diamines bearing bis(aminophenoxyphenyl)sulfone, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 45 (2007) 2797-2811.（SCI 179IE）

7. Zhaoxia Hu, Yan Yin, Hidetoshi Kita，Ken-ichi Okamoto, Yoshiki Suto, Hongyuan Wang, and Hironobu Kawasato, Synthesis and properties of novel sulfonated polyimides bearing sulfophenyl pendant groups for polymer electrolyte fuel cell application, Polymer, 48(7) (2007) 1962-1971.（SCI 154UA）

8. Yan Yin, Yoshiki Suto, Takaaki Sakabe, Shouwen Chen, Shunsuke Hayashi, Takashi Mishima, Otoo Yamada, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Water stability of sulfonated polyimide membranes, Macromolecules, 39 (2006) 1189-1198.（SCI 010ND）

9. Yan Yin, Otoo Yamada, Shunsuke Hayashi, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Chemically modified proton-conducting membranes based on sulfonated polyimides: improved water stability and fuel cell performance, Journal of Polymer Science, A: Polymer Chemistry, 44 (2006) 3751-3762.（SCI 048XU）

10. Yan Yin, Otoo Yamada, Kazuhiro Tanaka, and Ken-ichi Okamoto, On the development of naphthalene-based sulfonated polyimide membranes for fuel cell applications, Polymer Journal, 38 (2006) 197-219. （SCI 022TW）

11. Yan Yin, Shouwen Chen, Xiaoxia Guo, Jianhua Fang, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, and Ken-ichi Okamoto, Structure-property relationship of polyimides derived from sulfonated diamine isomers, High Performance Polymers, 18 (2006) 617-635. （SCI 093JH）

12. Yan Yin, Shunsuke Hayashi, Otoo Yamada, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Branched/crosslinked sulfonated polyimide membranes for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 26 (2005) 696-700.（SCI 927PC）

13. Yan Yin, Otoo Yamada, Yoshiki Suto, Takashi Mishima, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and characterization of proton?conducting copolyimides bearing pendant sulfonic acid groups, Journal of Polymer Science, A: Polymer Chemistry, 43 (2005) 1545-1553.（SCI 911HK）

14. Ken-ichi Okamoto, Yan Yin, Otoo Yamada, Md. Nurul Islam, Tatsuaki Honda, Takashi Mishima, Yoshiki Suto, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Methanol permeability and proton conductivity of sulfonated co-polyimide membranes, Journal of Membrane Science, 258 (2005) 115-122.（SCI 942QD）

15. Otoo Yamada, Yan Yin, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto,Polymer electrolyte fuel cells based on main-chain-type sulfonated polyimides,Electrochimica Acta, 50 (2005) 2655-2659. （SCI 920PQ ）

16. Yan Yin, Jianhua Fang, Tatsuya Watari, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and properties of highly sulfonated proton conducting polyimides from bis(3-sulfopropoxy)benzidine diamines, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14 (2004) 1062-1070.（SCI 801LA）

17. Yan Yin, Liming Yang, Makoto Yoshino, Jianhua Fang, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita and Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis and gas permeation properties of star-like poly(ethylene oxide)s using hyperbranched polyimide as central core,Polymer Journal, 36 (2004) 294-302.（SCI 826YX）

18. Yan Yin, Otoo Yamada, Jianhua Fang, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Polymer electrolyte membranes from novel sulfonated polyimides for direct methanol fuel cell, Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan 29 (2004) 1035-1038.

19. Yan Yin, Jianhua Fang, Yongfang Cui, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Synthesis, proton conductivity and methanol permeability of a novel sulfonated polyimide from 3-(2′,4′-diaminophenoxy)propane sulfonic acid, Polymer 44 (2003) 4509-4518.（SCI 701LJ）

20. Yan Yin, Jianhua Fang, Hidetoshi Kita, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Novel sulfoalkoxylated polyimide membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Chemistry Letters 32 (2003) 328-329.（SCI 672CJ）

21. Jijun Ge, Yongfang Cui, Yin Yan and Wenyi Jiang ,The effect of structure on pervaporation of chitosan membrane, Journal of Membrane Science,165 (2000) 75-81. （SCI 274LD）

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