Dr. Haitao Ye is currently a Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Fudan University. His research interests include gemstone valuation, CVD and PVD thin film growth, electronic devices and sensors, wide bandgap materials, thermoelectric materials, and antibacterial/antimicrobial materials. He also holds the Diamond Diploma (DGA) from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers and serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Functional Diamond. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the UK.

• Diamond gemstone valuation and characterization

• CVD and PVD thin film growth

• Electronic devices and sensors

• Wide-bandgap materials

• Thermoelectric materials

• Antimicrobial materials

Dr. Haitao Ye is currently a Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Fudan University. His research interests include gemstone valuation, CVD and PVD thin film growth, electronic devices and sensors, wide bandgap materials, thermoelectric materials, and antibacterial/antimicrobial materials. He also holds the Diamond Diploma (DGA) from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers and serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Functional Diamond. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the UK.

• Industrial project: Atomic-level smoothing of diamond surfaces
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Horizon Europe program: Advanced Multidisciplinary Research on Antimicrobial Resistance
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie H2020: Diamond-based nanomaterials and nanostructures for advanced electronic and photonics applications
• Lloyd’s Registrar Foundation PhD studentship Award: Diamond based devices for harsh environments
• Innovate UK Industrial Challenge Project: PVD and CVD coatings for antimicrobial applications in Space
• Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Global Fellowship: Ion-implanted nanodiamonds for biomedical applications
• Royal Society APEX Award: Surface-functionalised diamond for antifungal application in Space
• Royal Society Public Engagement Award: Using diamond to fight fungi in Space in collaboration with UK’s National Space Centre
• Royal Society International Joint Project: Diamond biosensors for tumor biomarkers analysis

• EG4006: Fourth Year Project Convener
• EG2121: Materials Process Convener
• Final Year Project Supervision
• PhD/MSc Project supervision
• Personal Tutors for Year 1- 4 and industrial placement students 

1.    Cui, X., Brown, S. P., Liu, X., Tatton, A. S., Ye, H. & Mash, A. Nanodiamond promotes surfactant-mediated triglyceride removal from a hydrophobic surface at or below room temperature. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 4, 3225-3232 (2012).

2.    Su, S., Li, J., Kundrát, V., Abbott, A. M. & Ye, H. Hydrogen-terminated detonation nanodiamond: impedance spectroscopy and thermal stability studies. J. Appl. Phys. 113, 023707 (2013).

3.    Li, J., Su, S., Zhou, L., Kundrát, V., Abbott, A. M., Mushtaq, F., Ouyang, D., James, D., Roberts, D. & Ye, H. Carbon nanowalls grown by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition during the carbonization of polyacrylonitrile fibers. J. Appl. Phys. 113, 024313 (2013).

4.    Su, S., Li, J., Lee, G. C. B., Sugden, K., Webb, D. J. & Ye, H. Surface morphological analysis of femtosecond laser-induced microfluidic channels on single-crystalline diamond. Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 231913 (2013).

5.    Yang, Y., Wang, H., Zhou, Q., Kong, M., Ye, H. & Yang, G. Improved lithium storage properties of electrospun TiO2 with tunable morphology: from porous anatase to necklace rutile. Nanoscale 5, 10267 (2013).

6.    Cui, X., Belo, S., Krüger, D., Yan, Y., Rosales, R., Jauregui-Osoro, M., Ye, H., Su, S., Máthé, D., Kovács, N., Horváth, I., Semjeni, M., Green, M. A. & Blower, P. J. Aluminium hydroxide-stabilised MFe2O4 (M = Mn, Fe, or Co) nanoparticles as dual-modality contrast agents for MRI and PET imaging. Biomaterials 35, 5840-5846 (2014).

7.    Zhao, J., Liu, J., Sang, L., Liao, M., Coathup, D., Imura, M., Shi, B., Gu, C., Koide, Y. & Ye, H. Assembly of a high-dielectric-constant thin TiOx layer directly on H-terminated semiconductor diamond. Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 012105 (2016).

8.    Xu, H., Ye, H., Coathup, D., Mitrovic, I. Z., Weerakkody, A. D. & Hu, X. An insight of p-type to n-type conductivity conversion in oxygen ion-implanted ultrananocrystalline diamond films by impedance spectroscopy. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 033102 (2017).

9.    Cumont, A., Zhang, R., Corscadden, L., Pan, J. & Ye, H. Characterisation and antibacterial investigation of a novel coating consisting of mushroom microstructures and HFCVD graphite. Mater. Des. 189, 108498 (2020).

10.  Zheng, Y., Zhang, R., Chen, X., Hing, P., Liu, J., Wei, J., Wang, J., Li, C. & Ye, H. Doomed couple of diamond with terahertz frequency: hyperfine quality discrimination and complex dielectric responses of diamond in the terahertz waveband. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2, 1459-1467 (2020).

11.  Jiang, Q., Yang, J., Hing, P. & Ye, H. Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of flexible organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites. Mater. Adv. 1, 1038-1054 (2020).

12. N. Miriyala, D. J. Kirby, A. Cumont, R. Zhang, B. Shi, D. Ouyang and H. Ye*, “Synthesis of carbon onion and its application as a porous carrier for amorphous drug delivery,” Crystals 10 (2020): 281.

13. C. Sun, T. Hao, J. Li, H. Ye and C. Gu, “The design and performance of hydrogen-terminated diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors with high-k oxide HfO2,” Micro and Nano Engineering 6 (2020): 100046.

14. A. Cumont, A. Pitt, P. A. Lambert, M. R. Oggioni and H. Ye, “Properties, mechanisms and applications of diamond as an antibacterial material,” Functional Diamond 1 (2021): 1-28.

15. A. Cumont, R. Zhang, Y. Zheng, L. Corscadden, M. R. Oggioni, C. Li, R. Liu and H. Ye, “Antibacterial properties of polycrystalline diamond films,” Ceramics International 47(23) (2021): 32562-32569.

16. Y. Zheng, Y. Liu, L. Wang, J. Liu, J. Wei, L. Chen, K. An, X. Zhang, H. Ye, H. Zhou, H. Tao, Y. Yin, X. Ouyang and C. Li, “Vertically aligned boron-doped diamond hollow nanoneedle arrays for enhanced field emission,” ACS Applied Nano Materials 5(8) (2022): 10878-10889.

17. R. Zhang, N. Peng and H. Ye, “A perspective on diamond heterojunction devices,” Applied Physics Letters 127 (2025): 070501.

18. T. Iftikhar, T. Imran, J. He, C. Zhang, Y. Xie, H. Ye and L. Su, “MOFs-on-MOFs modified wearable electrochemical microneedle array for uric acid detection,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics 294 (2026): 118246.