Career:
1986-1991, Assistant Professor, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
1991-1993, Associate Professor, LICP, CAS
1993-1997, Professor of Chemistry, LICP, CAS
1997-present, Professor of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (PKU)

Education:
1977-1981, B.S., Lanzhou University
1984-1987, trained in XAFS in the Institute of Physics, CAS and in organometallic chemistry in Takasago Institute, Tokyo, Japan
1988-1990, Chinese Academy of Sciences, research towards a Ph.D.
1993-1994, University of California at San Diego, postdoctoral research

Teaching Interests:
Textbook/teaching reform, introduction of student-centered learning, encouragement of junior students’ involvement in exciting and rapidly moving areas of research, and the continuous improvement of learning/teaching conditions.

Research Interests:
Green chemistry, catalysis in green chemistry, and nanoclusters in catalysis. Highly efficient system of nanocatalysis for energy chemistry and green chemistry; new routes of catalytic conversion of biomass to bio-fuel, characterization of catalyst with XAFS, in situ IR and computational chemistry.

Highlights of Current Research

1. Ionic Liquids: Applications in Catalysis, Catal. Today, 2002, 74,157

The most cited paper (~379) in the field of chemistry in China

2. “Ionic-liquid-like” stabilizer for soluble nanoclusters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 9694

C&E News (June 27, 2005): Chinese chemists report a rhodium nanocluster catalyst that demonstrates “unprecedented” lifetime and activity in benzene hydrogenation under forcing conditions…

3. A series of nanoclusters were synthesized in ionic liquid by the protection of “ionic-liquid-like” stabilizer

Chem. Commun., 2007, 4375; J. Catal., 2007, 250, 25; J. Catal., 2007, 250, 33; J. Catal., accepted

4. New generation ionic liquids derived from amino acids, Chem. Commun., 2005, 3562; Green Chem., 2006, 8, 639

     
Both were amongst the most accessed on the web from the online version.

5. The conversion of non-edible biomass
One-step conversion of cellobiose to C6 –alcohols, J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 2006, 128, 8714

 

6. Aqueous-phase Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 746

Chemistry World (Dec. 12, 2007): Chinese chemists have carried out the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reaction in water for the first time, bringing a greener route to hydrocarbon fuels a step closer.

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