中文

You-Zhu YUAN

Posted:2020-02-06  Visits:


Professor
Office: LU Jia-Xi Building 307 
Tel: 2181659 
Email: yzyuan@xmu.edu.cn
Address: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
Homepage: https://nel.xmu.edu.cn/yzyuangroup/


Brief Introduction

Dr in Eng., Nanjing Forestry Univ. (1990)
Dr. in Sci., The Univ. of Tokyo (2000)
Professor, Xiamen University (1997- )


Research Interests

Performance and structure of catalysts in connection to the transformations of coal-based ethers and esters, and of biomass. The target reactions are including: selective hydrogenation, Oxo synthesis, selective oxidation, etc.


Representative Publications

1. Lin Ye†, Xinping Duan†, Simson Wu†, Tai-Sing Wu, Yuxin Zhao, Alex W. Robertson, Hung-Lung Chou, Jianwei Zheng, Tuğçe Ayvalı, Sarah Day, Chiu Tang, Yun-Liang Soo, Youzhu Yuan*, Shik Chi Edman Tsang*, Self- regeneration of Au/CeO2 based catalysts with enhanced activity and ultra-stability for acetylene hydrochlorination, Nat. Commun. 10, 914 (2019).

2. Huihuang Fang, Weikun Chen, Shuang Li, Xuehui Li, Xinping Duan, Linmin Ye, Youzhu Yuan*, Tandem hydrogenolysis-hydrogenation of lignin-derived oxygenates over integrated dual catalysts with optimized interoperations, ChemSusChem 12, 5199-5206 (2019).

3. Kun Chen, Huihuang Fang, Simson Wu, Xi Liu, Jianwei Zheng, Song Zhou, Xinping Duan, Yichao Zhuang, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Youzhu Yuan*, CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over Cu catalysts supported on La-modified SBA-15: The crucial role of Cu-LaOx interfaces, Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 251, 119-129 (2019).

4. Huihuang Fang, Alberto Roldan*, Chenchen Tian, Yanping Zheng, Xinping Duan, Kun Chen, Linmin Ye, Stefano Leoni, Youzhu Yuan*, Structural tuning and catalysis of tungsten carbides for the regioselective cleavage of C-O bonds, J. Catal. 369, 283-295 (2019).

5. Jinping Zhang, Shinichi Nagamatsu, Junmou Du, Chaoli Tong, Dehui Deng, Xi Liu, Kiyotaka Asakura*, Youzhu Yuan*, A study of FeNx/C catalyst for the selective oxidation of unsaturated alcohols by molecular oxygen, J. Catal. 367, 16-26 (2018).

6. Chaofa Xu+, Guangxu Chen+, Yun Zhao, Pengxin Liu, Xinping Duan, Lin Gu, Gang Fu*, Youzhu Yuan*, and Nanfeng Zheng*, Interfacing with silica boosts the catalysis of copper, Nat. Commun. 9, 3367 (2018).

7. Jianwei Zheng, Jin Qu, Haiqiang Lin, Qian Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Yanhui Yang*, Youzhu Yuan*, Surface composition control of binary Au–Ag catalyst for enhanced oxidant-free dehydrogenation, ACS Catal. 6, 6662-6669 (2016).

8. Xinping Duan, Xuelin Tian, Jinhuo Ke, Yan Yin, Jianwei Zheng, Jin Chen, Zhenming Cao, Zhaoxiong Xie, Youzhu Yuan*, Size controllable redispersion of sintered Au nanoparticles by using iodohydrocarbon and its implications, Chem. Sci. 7, 3181-3187 (2016).

9. Haiqiang Lin, Jianwei Zheng, Xinlei Zheng, Zhengqiang Gu, Youzhu Yuan*, Yanhui Yang*, Improved chemoselective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde over bimetallic AuAg/SBA-15 catalyst, J. Catal. 330, 135-144 (2015).

10. Puyu Qi, Shasha Chen, Jin Chen, Jianwei Zheng, Xinlei Zheng, Youzhu Yuan*, Catalysis and reactivation of ordered mesoporous carbon-supported gold nanoparticles for the base-free oxidation of glucose to gluconic acid, ACS Catal. 5, 2659-2670 (2015).

11. Xinlei Zheng, Haiqiang Lin*, Jianwei Zheng, Xinping Duan, Youzhu Yuan*, Lanthanum oxide-modified Cu/SiO2 as a high-performance catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol, ACS Catal. 3, 2738-2749 (2013).

12. Ying Huang, Hiroko Ariga, Xinlei Zheng, Xinping Duan, Satoru Takakusagi, Kiyotaka Asakura*, Youzhu Yuan*, Silver-modulated SiO2-supported copper catalysts for selective hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol, J. Catal. 307, 74-83 (2013).

13. Jianwei Zheng, Haiqiang Lin, Ya-nan Wang, Xinlei Zheng, Xinping Duan, Youzhu Yuan*, Efficient low-temperature selective hydrogenation of esters on bimetallic Au-Ag/SBA-15 catalyst, J. Catal. 297, 110-118 (2013).

14. Bodong Li, Juan Wang, Youzhu Yuan*, Hiroko Ariga, Satoru Takakusagi, Kiyotaka Asakura*, Carbon nanotube-supported RuFe bimetallic nanoparticles as efficient and robust catalysts for aqueous-phase selective hydrogenolysis of glycerol to glycols, ACS Catal. 1, 1521-1528 (2011).

15. Zhe He, Haiqiang Lin, Ping He, Youzhu Yuan*, Effect of boric oxide doping on the stability and activity of a Cu-SiO2 catalyst for vapor-phase hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol, J. Catal. 277, 54-63 (2011).