Yikang Peng

-Collaborated with procurement, operations, and logistics skilled employee to- ward meeting clients’ chemical or project demands, increasing sales performance in the Nanomaterials section by 65.8% within 8 months. -Optimized product design and marketing strategies, especially in Nanomaterial and Graphene, resulting in a 110.5% increase in inquiry amount and a 86.1% increase in sales growth on a year-on-year basis. -Conducted regular on-site meetings with clients, traveling domestically and internationally to understand their needs, gather requirements, and ensure project alignment. Successfully maintained strong client relationships and secured repeat business.

- Initiated, planned and executed multiple chemical custom synthesis projects and product development projects from beginning to the end. On-time, on-budget and meet customers satisfaction - Developed and implemented Six Sigma tools for process analysis, including FMEA, reducing cycle time by 14.1% and cutting waste by 16.3%. - Maintain all project related historical documentation, project schedules and milestone due dates. - Ensured compliance with company policies, procedures, and external regulations throughout the project lifecycle. - Assisted in establishing quality management systems (QMS) in line with ISO 9001:2015 standards, contributing to successful internal and external audits and certification.

-Led a cross-functional team on a catalyst application project focused on CO2 conversion. Managed protocols, updated documentation, and collaborated with diverse teams for weekly presentations. -Designed and constructed a lab-scale packed-bed flow reactor, facilitating rapid response times and efficient liquid-phase chemical injections for catalyst treatments, characterization, and reaction kinetics testing. -Synthesized metal oxides with precise control over structures, morphologies, and compositions for heterogeneous catalytic applications, including Cu/ZnO with well-defined shapes and colloidal oxide nanoparticles. -Developed and synthesized an organic polymer (PEA) to enhance CO2 adsorption at low pressures and temperatures. Characterized the polymer’s structure, morphology, and thermal properties using SEM, NMR, Raman, FTIR, and DSC. -Analyzed Ni-Ga catalyst properties using XRD, BET, UV-Vis, XPS, TPD, and H2-TPR. Identified that an amorphous Ga shell improves selectivity for Methanol Synthesis reactions. -Assisted in estimating the techno-economic analysis (TEA) of gas flow processes, achieving a 22% cost reduction through the application of ASPEN Plus.

-Developed metal-zeolite tandem catalysts to improve the selectivity of carbon oxide hydrogenation to light olefins. -Implemented hydro-thermal synthesis methods to enhance metal encapsulation efficiency within metal-zeolite core-shell catalysts, as determined by TEM, BET, XRD, and SEM analyses. -Designed and optimized experiments to improve Fischer-Tropsch catalyst selectivity to olefins from 23% to 55% without compromising activity. -Managed chemical inventory, logs, and safety documentation, including material safety data sheets (MSDS), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and master chemical lists.

-Contributed to the engineering department by developing process design packages, improving the safety of manufacturing installations for products such as acrylic polyurethane and epoxy zinc-rich primer. -Applied safety and quality standards to various processes under the guidance of senior engineers. Participated in and assisted with internal audits for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and other standards.

-Developed value-added graphene quantum dots (GQDs) performed as Fe3+ sensor from low-value biomass, rice husks. -Characterized size and morphology of GQDs with TEM and AFM. -Water purification, impurities detection in residues and sample separation along with HPLC.