{"id":4582,"date":"2012-12-07T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:55:32","slug":"reactions-jun-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/reactions-jun-chen.html","title":{"rendered":"Reactions: Jun Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nankai.edu.cn\/english\/outstanding1.htm\">Jun Chen<\/a> is in the Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nankai.edu.cn\/english\/\">Nankai University<\/a>, and works on nanomaterials chemistry and high-energy batteries.<\/p>\n<p><em>1. What made you want to be a chemist?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Partly my interest in the abundant and beautiful chemical reactions, and partly my recognization of the key role that chemistry plays in modern society.<\/p>\n<p><em>2. If you weren\u2019t a chemist and could do any other job, what would it be &#8211; and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a general manager of a company that manufactures advanced batteries, because there is an increasing need for batteries to power our daily life.<\/p>\n<p><em>3. What are you working on now, and where do you hope it will lead?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion and hope to develop some new materials and\/or structures for constructing rechargeable batteries with larger energy and power density, longer cycling life, lower cost, and higher safety.<\/p>\n<p><em>4. Which historical figure would you most like to have dinner with &#8211; and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael Faraday. Learn his experience on anode, cathode, electrode and ion, carry out further creative research, and see his response and view if I told him the scientific development in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p><em>5. When was the last time you did an experiment in the lab &#8211; and what was it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I performed the structural analysis of three pieces of metal nanoparticles using FEI transsion electron microscope.<\/p>\n<p><em>6. If exiled on a desert island, what one book and one music album would you take with<\/em> <em>you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Book: The Wealth of Nations (by Adam Smith). Music album: The Crescent Moon (A Chinese pop music).<\/p>\n<p><em>7. Which chemist would you like to see interviewed on Reactions &#8211; and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prof. John B. Goodenough. He is a respectable, prominent scientist with accomplished leading research in the field of solid-state chemistry and energy materials chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun Chen is in the Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education) at Nankai University, and works on nanomaterials chemistry and high-energy batteries.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/reactions-jun-chen.html#wpn-more-4582\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/12\/reactions-jun-chen.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}