Jinhua Ye
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University of Tokyo
Jinhua Ye | |
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| Alma mater | Zhejiang University University of Tokyo |
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| Institutions | Osaka University National Institute for Materials Science |
Jinhua Ye is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba. Her research considers high-temperature superconductors for photocatalysis. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 and has been included in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher every year since then.
Ye became interested in science fiction as a child.[1] She was particularly interested in a story by Ye Yonglie that included a castle made from diamond.[1] Ye learned that photocatalysis could split water into hydrogen and oxygen. She then became inspired by Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island,
I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.[2]
She studied chemistry at the Zhejiang University.[3] After completing her undergraduate degree, she moved to Japan, where she joined the University of Tokyo. After earning her doctorate in 1990, she joined Osaka University as a research associate.[4]
