Yiguang Ju

Yiguang Ju
Title/Position
Robert Porter Patterson Professor
Degree
Ph.D., Tohoku University, 1994
Other Affiliations
Director of DOE Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for Hydrogen

Faculty Assistant

Emma Kruse

Research Areas

Short Bio

Yiguang Ju received his bachelor's degree in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University (Japan) in 1994. He is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and served as the Director of DOE Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for Hydrogen. 

Prof. Ju’s research interests include combustion, green fuels, and electrified manufacturing in the areas of near-limit and supercritical combustion, chemical kinetics, plasma chemistry, and non-equilibrium manufacturing of hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuels, and energy materials.  He has published 300 refereed journal articles. He is a fellow of AIAA and ASME, and a founding fellow of the Combustion Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute and the Institute for Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems. He was the Chair of the US Sections of the Combustion Institute and serves as an Associate Editor of AIAA Journal and Combustion Science and Technology. He has received many awards including four times of the Distinguished Paper Awards from the International Symposium on Combustion (2011, 2015, 2021, 2023), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011), the International Prize from Japanese Combustion Society (2018), and the 2021 Propellants & Combustion Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal (2022) from the Combustion Institute, and the 2022 Distinguished Teacher Award from School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. He is Co-founder of HiTNano IncPrinceton NuEnergy IncPolymer-X Inc, and USPlasma Inc.

Selected Publications

Hua Xie, Ning Liu, Qian Zhang, Hongtao Zhong, Liqun Guo, Daozheng Li, Shufeng Liu, Zhennan Huang, Aditya Dilip Lele, Alexandra H. Brozena, Xizheng Wang, Keqi Song, Sophia Chen, Jian Luo, Wei Xiong, Yan Yao, Miaofang Chi, Wei Xiong, Jiancun Rao, Minhua Zhao, Mikhail N. Shneider, Jian Luo Ji-Cheng Zhao, Yiguang Ju, Liangbing Hu, A Stable Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma for Extreme-Temperature Synthesis, Nature, Vol 623, 964-971.

Dong, Q., Lele, A.D., Zhao, X., Li, S., Cheng, S., Wang, Y., Cui, M., Guo, M., Brozena, A.H., Lin, Y. and Li, T., Ju, Y., Hu, L., 2023. Depolymerization of plastics by means of electrified spatiotemporal heating. Nature, 616(7957), pp.488-494.

Zhong, Hongtao, Xin Yang, Xingqian Mao, Mikhail N. Shneider, Igor V. Adamovich, and Yiguang Ju. "Plasma thermal-chemical instability of low-temperature dimethyl ether oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge." Plasma Sources Science and Technology 31, no. 11 (2022): 114003.

Ju, Y., Reuter, C.B., Yehia, O.R., Farouk, T.I. and Won, S.H., 2019. Dynamics of cool flames. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 75, p.100787.

Ju, Y., Reuter, C.B., Yehia, O.R., Farouk, T.I. and Won, S.H., 2019. Dynamics of cool flames. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 75, p.100787.

Ju, Y., & Sun, W. (2015). Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 48, 21-83

Ju, Y., & Maruta, K. (2011). Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 37(6), 669-715