H. Yin

Dr. H. Yin serves as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the College of Engineering at the University of Houston. His office is located in Engineering Building 1, Room N308 at 4226 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston, TX 77204-4005, with departmental contact via ece@egr.uh.edu.

His research spans Materials Science and Electrochemistry, focusing on energy conversion/storage systems. Key thrusts include:

• Design of nanostructured electrocatalysts (nickel/molybdenum phosphides, CoSe₂ nanowires) for hydrogen evolution at industrial-scale current densities
• Thermoelectric materials development through defect engineering in Zintl phases and tellurium alloys
• Advanced battery materials for sodium-ion systems using vanadium fluorophosphates and Bi₂Se₃/C composites
• High-thermal-conductivity boron arsenide for semiconductor thermal management

His work emphasizes stability under operational extremes and fundamental property-structure relationships.

Publication analysis (2018-2025) reveals three dominant trajectories: (1) Catalyst reconstruction dynamics under electrolysis conditions, (2) Phonon engineering for thermal conductivity enhancement, and (3) Multi-anion strategies (S/Se/P) for electrocatalyst optimization. Recent 2025 work on Kondo systems and in situ catalyst visualization indicates expanding into quantum materials and operando characterization techniques.