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Yiguang Ju

Yiguang Ju

· Robert Porter Patterson Professor

Princeton University · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Active 1989–2026

h-index80
Citations21.7k
Papers594147 last 5y
Funding$799k

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About

Yiguang Ju is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He serves as the Director of the DOE Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for Hydrogen Production and is the Head of Electro-manufacturing Science. Additionally, he is an associated faculty member at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Professor Ju is a co-founder of several companies including HiTNano Inc, Princeton NuEnergy Inc, Polymer-X Inc, and USPlasma Inc. He is also the founding president of the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE). His research encompasses combustion, plasma catalysis, laser diagnostics, combustion kinetics, plasma-assisted combustion, ammonia synthesis, high pressure combustion involving hydrogen and ammonia, non-equilibrium chemical kinetics and synthesis, plasma physics and diagnostics, ferroelectric materials, multiscale modeling, and machine learning. Professor Ju's work integrates experimental and theoretical approaches to advance understanding and innovation in combustion and low carbon energy conversion technologies.

Research topics

  • Chemistry
  • Materials science
  • Thermodynamics
  • Organic chemistry
  • Chemical engineering
  • Composite material
  • Polymer chemistry
  • Physics
  • Mechanics
  • Physical chemistry

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Sang Hee Won

    77 shared

  • Frederick L. Dryer

    University of South Carolina

    47 shared

  • Aric C. Rousso

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    45 shared

  • Hongtao Zhong

    The University of Texas at Austin

    45 shared

  • Ziyu Wang

    Beijing Forestry University

    44 shared

  • Timothy Y. Chen

    Princeton University

    43 shared

  • Xingqian Mao

    Princeton University

    41 shared

  • Christopher B. Reuter

    United States Naval Research Laboratory

    40 shared

Labs

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering

    Tohoku University

    1995

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering

    Tohoku University

    1994

  • MEng, Thermophysics

    Tsinghua University

    1988

  • BEng, Thermophysics

    Tsinghua University

    1986

Awards & honors

  • Distinguished Paper Awards from the International Symposium…
  • NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von…
  • International Prize from Japanese Combustion Society (2018)
  • Propellants & Combustion Award from the American Institute o…

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