Yi Nie is a Professor in Institute of process engineering, and “Recruitment of Outstanding Technologist” of Chinese academy of science of. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2007. She worked as a Professor in Institute of process engineering, Chinese academy of science after she finished her postdoc in 2013. Her research direction is the design of functionalized ionic liquid and its green process development, and her research interests mainly focus on designing novel ionic liquids to dissolve wool keratin/cellulose and spinning them into filaments, setting up dry-jet wet-spinning devices, and fabricating new carbon nano-conductive fiber based on ionic liquids and product development. She is responsible for a number of projects such as the National Key R&D Program of China, the sub-project of 973 program, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is also responsible for 8 horizontal projects as leader, for example, the development of ionic liquid dissolving cellulose spinning pilot technology, the preparation of carbon nanotube/polyester conductive fiber, and the product development of electric heating pad based on the conductive fiber. She has published more than 80 papers in international academic journals, including Green Chem, Ind Eng Chem Res, Energy Fuels, Fuel, ACS Sustainable Chem Eng, etc. She also applied for more than 30 invention patents, including 10 authorized patents, and 6 patents have been allowed to enterprises to implement applications. She participated in 2 scientific and technological achievements appraisal, and won 1 scientific and technological advancement award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (6th place). She was awarded the honor of introducing outstanding technical talents by the Chinese academy of science and outstanding individual for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the provincial academy cooperation.

1. Xue Liu, Liyun Yu, Zicai Zhu, Yi Nie*, Anne Ladegaard Skov* Silicone-ionic liquid elastomer composite with keratin as reinforcing agent utilized as pressure sensor. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020, 2000602.

2. Le Zhou, Fengjiao Pan, Shaojuan Zeng, Qiongguang Li, Lu Bai, Yanrong Liu*, Yi Nie*. Ionic liquid assisted fabrication of cellulose-based conductive films for Li-ion battery. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 2020, 137, 49430.

3. Le Zhou, Fengjiao Pan, Yanrong Liu, Zhaoqing Kang，Shaojuan Zeng, Yi Nie*.

Study on the regularity of cellulose degradation in ionic liquids. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020, 308,113153.

4. Xue Liu, Liyun Yu, Yi Nie*, Anne Ladegaard Skov*. Silicone elastomers with high-permittivity ionic liquids loading. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019, 1900481.

5. Yanrong Liu, Yi Nie*, Fengjiao Pan, Le Zhou, Xiaoyan Ji, Zhaoqing Kang, Suojiang Zhang*. Study on ionic liquid/cellulose/coagulator phase diagram and its application in green spinning process. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019, 289: 111127.

6. Yanrong Liu, Yanlei Wang, Yi Nie*, Chenlu Wang, Xiaoyan Ji, Le Zhou, Fengjiao Pan, Suojiang Zhang*. Preparation of MWCNTs-graphene-cellulose fiber with ionic liquids. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7: 20013？20021.

7. Qiliang Chen, Yi Nie*, Yanxia Liu, Juntao Du, Baozeng Ren. Synthesize of silicon/carbon nanosheets with NaCl template and its application as anode material of lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 2019, 30: 2442–2449.

8. Zhenlei Zhang, Yi Nie*, Qiansen Zhang, Xue Liu, Wenhui Tu, Xiangping Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. Quantitative change in disulfide bonds and microstructure variation of regenerated wool keratin from various ionic liquids. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5: 2614？2622.

9. Xue Liu, Yi Nie*, Xianglei Meng, Zhenlei Zhang, Xiangping Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. DBN-based ionic liquids with high capability for the dissolution of wool keratin. RSC Advance, 2017, 7: 1981–1988.

10. Yi Nie, Yuxiao Dong, Hongshuai Gao, Xiangping Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. Regulating sulfur removal efficiency of fuels by Lewis acidity of ionic liquids. SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry, 2016, 59: 526–531.