Education:

PhD (1990),   Nanjing Forestry Univ 

PhD (2000),   The Univ. of Tokyo 

Principal 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.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. 1. Lin Ye*, XinpingDuan?, Simson Wu*, Tai-Sing Wu, Yuxin Zhao, Alex W. Robertson, Hung-Lung Chou, JianweiZheng, Tu??eAyval?, 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. 2. Huihuang Fang, Weikun Chen, Shuang Li, Xuehui Li, XinpingDuan, LinminYe, Youzhu Yuan*, Tandem hydrogenolysis-hydrogenation of lignin-derived oxygenates over integrated dual catalysts with optimized interoperations, ChemSusChem 12, 5199-5206 (2019).

3. 3. Kun Chen, Huihuang Fang, Simson Wu, Xi Liu, JianweiZheng, Song Zhou, XinpingDuan, YichaoZhuang, 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. 4. Huihuang Fang, Alberto Roldan*, ChenchenTian, YanpingZheng, XinpingDuan, Kun Chen, LinminYe, 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. 5. Jinping Zhang, Shinichi Nagamatsu, Junmou Du, Chaoli Tong, Dehui Deng, Xi Liu, KiyotakaAsakura*, 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. 6. ChaofaXu+,Guangxu Chen+, Yun Zhao, Pengxin Liu, XinpingDuan,Lin Gu, Gang Fu*, Youzhu Yuan*, and NanfengZheng*, Interfacing with silica boosts the catalysis of copper, Nat. Commun. 9, 3367 (2018).

7. 7. JianweiZheng, 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. 8. XinpingDuan, XuelinTian, JinhuoKe, Yan Yin, JianweiZheng, Jin Chen, Zhenming Cao, ZhaoxiongXie, Youzhu Yuan*, Size controllable redispersion of sintered Au nanoparticles by using iodohydrocarbon and its implications, Chem. Sci. 7, 3181-3187 (2016).

9. 9. Haiqiang Lin, JianweiZheng, XinleiZheng, ZhengqiangGu, Youzhu Yuan*, Yanhui Yang*, Improved chemoselective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde over bimetallic AuAg/SBA-15 catalyst, J. Catal. 330, 135-144 (2015).

10. 10. Puyu Qi, Shasha Chen, Jin Chen, JianweiZheng, XinleiZheng, 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. 11. XinleiZheng, Haiqiang Lin*, JianweiZheng, XinpingDuan, 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. 12. Ying Huang, Hiroko Ariga, XinleiZheng, XinpingDuan, Satoru Takakusagi, KiyotakaAsakura*, Youzhu Yuan*, Silver-modulated SiO2-supported copper catalysts for selective hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol, J. Catal.307, 74-83 (2013).

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

14. 14. Bodong Li, Juan Wang, Youzhu Yuan*, Hiroko Ariga, Satoru Takakusagi, KiyotakaAsakura*, 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. 15. Zhe He, Haiqiang Lin, Ping He, Youzhu Yuan*, Effect of boric oxide doping on the stability and activity of a Cu-SiO2catalyst for vapor-phase hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol, J. Catal. 277, 54-63 (2011).