Qian Yitai

Qian Yitai (Chinese: 钱逸泰; born 1941) is a Chinese chemist and a professor at University of Science and Technology of China. He was born in Zhongqiao, Wuxi in 1941, and finished middle School at Suzhou No.2 Middle School. In 1962, he graduated from Department of Chemistry, Shandong University. Then Qian became a teacher of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), several years later he was appointed as the dean of College of Chemistry and Materials Science. From 1982 to 1993 he visited several US universities, such as Brown University and Purdue University. In 1997 he was elected as a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Qian's research mainly focuses on nano materials and new superconducting materials. In 1996 his group developed benzene-thermal synthetic method to nanocrystalline GaN. In 1998 they reported the preparation of diamond through pyrolysis process of catalytic reduction. Qian also used crystal chemical method to prepared many kinds of superconducting materials. Qian's students Li Yadong and Xie Yi were also elected as members of CAS.