The Innovative Research Team “Catalysis Bases for Optimized Utilization of Carbon Resources” aims at developing new methods, new systems and new catalysts for transformations of various non-petroleum carbon resources (including natural gas/shale gas, coal and biomass) into liquid fuels and chemicals and. The team focuses on catalytic activation and selective conversions of important molecules related to non-petroleum carbon resources including methane, syngas (H2/CO), CO2, methanol, cellulose and biomass-related platform molecules. Many of these reactions are grand challenges in chemistry. The team has put effort to create novel routes and catalysts for these challenging chemical reactions and has also attempted to innovate catalytic materials, characterization techniques and computational methods. The team has made significant progress in developing new systems for catalytic transformation of carbon resource-related molecules to high-value chemicals and liquid fuels (such as methane to propylene, syngas to gasoline, diesel and olefins, and cellulose to lactic acid and adipic acid), and has published a series of papers in Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc. and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
Brief introduction of team leader
Professor Ye Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from Tokyo Institute of Technology of Japan. He worked as research associate at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tohoku University and Hiroshima University of Japan during 1996-2000 and was promoted to associate professor at Hiroshima University in 2001. He became a full professor of Xiamen University in the August of 2001. Professor Wang is currently the director of State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces. He received Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2006 and Chinese Catalysis Society Award for Young Scientist in 2010. He serves as associate editor for Journal of Energy Chemistry, editorial advisory board member for ACS Catalysis, and editorial board member for Applied Catalysis A: General, Science China Chemistry and Chinese Journal of Catalysis. Professor Wang has co-authored about 180 papers with more than 6000 citations and H-index of 48.