Dr. Chao Yan is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Princeton NuEnergy, and Co-Inventor of the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries technology based on low-temperature plasma-assisted separation (LPAS™). He is also a research scientist at Princeton University in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering departments, where his research is mainly focused on energy conversion, fuels, and batteries. He has published over 30+ high-impact publications and 40+ conference presentations in the energy field. He is a leading expert in physical chemistry and battery materials. Dr. Chao earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In business, he has administered and operated a serial enterprise since 2014. Dr. Yan has combined his two passions of science and business by founding and leading Princeton NuEnergy.