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Yifeng Zhu
Physical Chemistry
Tenure track Professor
zhuyifeng@fudan.edu.cn
A3005 Chemistry Building, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University 2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200438, China
Research Interests
Catalytic chemistry of small molecules (CO, CH4, CO2 etc.)
Operando X-ray absorption and Infrared spectroscopies with time resolution for catalysis
Design of oxide surfaces and synthesis
Synthesis and design of supported clusters and single atoms
Academic Appointments
Youth editorial board member of Natural Gas Chemical Industry
Prizes and awards
2020 Travel Award to the 17th International Congress on Catalysis
2016 CAS Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
2015 Talented Post-doctoral Fellowship of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
2015 Outstanding Graduates Award of Beijing
2015 Outstanding Graduates Award of University of CAS
2015 CAS Dean Scholarship
2014 Lu’An Energy & Chemical Engineering Scholarship
2014 SynfuelsChina Award
2014 National Scholarship
Biography
2006.9-2010.6B.E., Department of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University
2010.9-2015.7Ph.D., Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) & Synfuels China Co. Ltd.
2015.7-2017.7Postdoctoral researcher, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
2017.7-2021.1Postdoctoral researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2021.2-Tenure track Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
Teaching
X-ray diffraction analysis
Key Publications
Yang, C.; Ma, S.*; Liu, Y.; Wang, L.; Yuan, D.; Shao, W.-P.; Zhang, L.; Yang, F.; Lin, T.; Ding, H.; He, H.; Liu, Z.-P.; Cao, Y.; Zhu, Y.*; Bao, X.*, Homolytic H2 dissociation for enhanced hydrogenation catalysis on oxides. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15 (1), 540.
Yuan, D.#; Ma, S.#; Kong, X.; Zhang, C.; Chen, L.; Yang, C.; Wang, L.; Liu, Z.; Ye, L.; Liu, Y.; Ma, R.; Liu, Z.-P.; Zhu, Y.*; Cao, Y.; Bao, X.*, Confined Mn2+ enables effective aerobic oxidation catalysis. Sci. China Chem. 2024, 67 (5), 1545-1553.
Zhu, Y.; Luo, R.; Shi, H.; Koh, K.; Kovarik, L.; Fulton, J. L.; Lercher, J. A.; Zhao, Z.-J.; Gong, J.; Gutiérrez, O. Y., Formation of (Rh–Fe)–FeOx Complex Sites Enables Methanol Synthesis from CO2. ACS Catal. 2024, 10031-10039.
Ding, B.#; Yang, C.#; Chen, Y.; Shao, W.-P.; Yang, F.; Zhang, C.; Wang, Z.; Liu, Y.; Cao, Y.; Zhu, Y.; Bao, X., Cr2O3 clusters on ZnO as hydrogen pools for efficient syngas-to-light olefins. ChemCatChem 2024, e202401421.
Kong, X.*; Wu, H.; Lu, K.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, Y.*; Lei, H., Galvanic Replacement Reaction: Enabling the Creation of Active Catalytic Structures. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023, 15 (35), 41205-41223.
Wang, Z.; Chang, H.; Zhang, J.; Sun, Z.; Wu, Y.; Liu, Y.-M.; Zhu, Y.*; He, H.; Cao, Y.*; Bao, X.*, Tandem catalytic methylation of naphthalene using CO2 and H2. Chem. Commun. 2022. doi:10.1039/D2CC00190J.
Li, N.#; Zhu, Y.#; Jiao, F.#; Pan, X.*; Jiang, Q.; Cai, J.; Li, Y.; Tong, W.; Xu, C.; Qu, S.; Bai, B.; Miao, D.; Liu, Z.; Bao, X.*, Steering the reaction pathway of syngas-to-light olefins with coordination unsaturated sites of ZnGaOx spinel. Nat Commun 2022, 13 (1), 2742.
Zhu, Y.; Yuk, S. F.; Zheng, J.; Nguyen, M.-T.; Lee, M.-S.; Szanyi, J.; Kovarik, L.; Zhu, Z.; Balasubramanian, M.; Glezakou, V.-A.; Fulton, J. L.; Lercher, J. A.; Rousseau, R.*; Gutiérrez, O. Y.*, Environment of Metal–O–Fe Bonds Enabling High Activity in CO2 Reduction on Single Metal Atoms and on Supported Nanoparticles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (14), 5540-5549.
Zhu, Y.#; Zheng, J.#; Ye, J.; Cui, Y.; Koh, K.; Kovarik, L.; Camaioni, D. M.; Fulton, J. L.; Truhlar, D. G.; Neurock, M.; Cramer, C. J.; Gutiérrez, O. Y.*; Lercher, J. A.*, Copper-zirconia interfaces in UiO-66 enable selective catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11 (1), 5849. (Editor’s highlight)
Zhu, Y.; Zhang, X.; Koh, K.; Kovarik, L.; Fulton, J. L.; Rosso, K. M.; Gutiérrez, O. Y.*, Inverse iron oxide/metal catalysts from galvanic replacement. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11 (1), 3269. (Editor’s highlight)
