Zichun Wang

Professor

Specializations: Chemical Engineering and Technology, Catalytic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry

Email: zichun.wang@buct.edu.cn

Tel: +86 18810438637

Office Location: Gaojingjian Building 706

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Education:

02/2011-09/2015

Ph.D. in Chemical Eng., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, supervised by Prof. Jun Huang.

07/2007-07/2008

M.E. in in Automation and Manufacturing Systems, Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

09/2003-07/2007

B.E. in Process Equipment and Control Eng., Beijing Univ. of Chemical Technology, China.

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Working Experience:

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Working Experience:

His research focuses on the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for green and sustainable energy and chemical production, through in situ spectroscopic studies on catalyst structure and reaction mechanism, particularly in the conversion of biomass and CO₂ into value-added chemicals.

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Teaching:

1. Biomass Conversion and Green Chemistry

2. Environmental catalysis

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Funding:

1. Controlled Synthesis of Bio-based Momomers for Precise Polymerization to Produce Bio-degradable Materials.The Ministry of Education's Special Program for Overseas Talent Recruitment, 01/2024-01/2026，PI

2. Tailoring CaO Supported Alloy Cluster Single-site Catalysts for CO₂ Capture and In-Situ Conversion for Yielding High-Value Chemicals. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 09/2022-09/2025, PI

3. NOx recovery and Unitilization technology Developement. Horizontal project, 10/2023-12/2025, PI

4. Development of Green Technologies for TAIC Synthesis. Horizontal project, 10/2023-12/2025, PI

5. Reliability Certification Project of TMB Production Systems. Horizontal project, 06/2024-12/2024, PI

6. Novel Technology for Cyclohexanone-to-Cyclohexanone Oxime Conversion. Horizontal project, 08/2022-09/2026, PI

7. Tailoring multifunctional single sitecatalysts for carbon dioxide conversion. Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Project, 01/2019-12/2021, PI

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Awards:

1. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australia Research Council (ARC), 2018

2. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council (CSC), 2014

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Academic Conference:

1. Reveal and correlate working geometry and surface chemistry of Ni nanocatalysts in CO2 reforming of methane, 14th National Conference on Environmental Catalysis   and Eco-Materials, Kunming, China, 15-18 Nov, 2024

2. Penta-coordinated aluminum species: New frontier for tailoring acidity-enhanced silica-alumina catalysts, Vebleo Webinar on Science, Engineering and Technology, Online, 27 Jan 2022.

3. Acidity and Local Structure Characterization of Amorphous Silica-Alumina Catalysts by Solid-State NMR. 2021 International Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technology and Application Frontier Forum, Guangzhou, China, 2-5 November, 2021.

4. The cooperativity of Brønsted and Lewis acid sites on zeolite for biomass conversion. 19th International Zeolite Conference, Perth, Australia, 7-12 July 2019.

5. Surface acidity of atomic dispersed aluminum species in silica for sustainable fuels and chemicals production. 256th ACS National Meeting, Boston, USA, 19-23 August 2018.

6. Carbon dioxide reforming of methane over Ni-based catalysts: Effects of support properties and metal loading. 256th ACS National Meeting, Boston, USA, 19-23 August 2018.

7. Discovery of pentacoordinated AlV-rich amorphous silica-alumina for efficient acid and multifunctional catalysis. 2018 International Symposium on Advancement and Prospect of Catalysis Science & Technology, Sydney (Australia), 25-27 July 2018.

8. Influence of support acidity on the performance of size-confined Pt nanoparticles in the chemoselective hydrogenation of acetophenone. 17th National Conference on Catalysis of China, Hangzhou (China), 13-17 October 2014.

9. Palladium-doped silica–alumina catalysts obtained from double-flame FSP for chemoselective hydrogenation of the model aromatic ketone acetophenone. 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-6), Taipei, Taiwan (China), 13-17 October 2013.

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Academic Conference:

1. Wang, Z.; Li, T.; Jiang, Y.; Lafon, O.; Trébosc, J.; Baiker, A.; Liu, Z.; Amoureux, J.-P.﹡; Huang, J.﹡Acidity enhancement through synergy of penta- and tetra-coordinated aluminum species in amorphous silica networks. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 225.

2. Wang, Z.; Jiang, Y.; Lafon, O.; Trébosc, J.; Kim, K.-D.; Stampfl, C.; Baiker, A.; Amoureux, J.-P.﹡; Huang, J.﹡ Brønsted acid sites based-on penta-coordinated aluminum species. Nat. Commun. 2016, 7, 13820.

3. Wang, Z.; Jiang, Y.; Baiker, A.﹡; Huang, J.﹡ Pentacoordinated aluminum species: New frontier for tailoring acidity-enhanced silica-alumina catalysts. Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 2648–2658.

4. Wang, Z.; O'Dell, L.A.; Zeng, X.; Liu, C.; Zhao, S.; Zhang W.; Gaborieau, M.; Jiang, Y.; Huang, J.﹡ Insight into three-coordinated aluminium species on ethanol-to-olefin conversion over ZSM‐5 zeolites. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18061–18068.

5. Wang, Z.; Buechel, R.; Jiang, Y.; Wang, L.; Xu, H.; Castignolles, P.; Gaborieau, M.; Lafon, O.; Amoureux, J.-P.; Hunger, M.; Baiker, A.﹡; Huang, J.﹡ Engineering the distinct structure interface of subnano-alumina domains on silica for acidic amorphous silica–alumina toward biorefining. JACS Au 2021, 3, 262-271.

6. Wang, Z.; Lv, Q.; Li, A.﹡; Wu, P; Wang, L.; Li, W.; Jiang, Y.; Stampfl, C.; Liao, X.; Huang, J.﹡; Han, X.﹡Reveal and correlate working geometry and surface chemistry of Ni nanocatalysts in CO2 reforming of methane, Materials Today 2024, 79, 16-27.

7. Wang, Z.; Wang, D.; Li, A.﹡; Wang, L.; Han, X.﹡; Jiang, Y.; Chen, J.; Huang, J.﹡ Interface Catalytic Reduction of Alumina by Nickle for the Aluminum Nanowire Growth: Dynamics Observed by in situ TEM. Nano Res. 2024, 17,1225-1231.

8. Wu, D.; Guo, J.; Wang, H.; Zhang, X.; Yang, Y.; Yang, C.; Gao, Z.; Wang, Z.﹡; Jiang, K﹡. Green Synthesis of Boron and Nitrogen co-doped TiO2 with Rich BN Motifs as Lewis Acid-Base Couples for the Effective Artificial CO2 Photoreduction under Simulated Sunlight. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2021, 585, 95-107.

9. Wang, Z.; Huang, J.; Amal R.; Jiang, Y.﹡Solid-state NMR study of photocatalytic oxidation of acetaldehyde over flame-made F-TiO2 catalyst. Appl. Catal. B-Environ. 2018, 223, 16-21.

10. Wang, Z.; Jiang, Y.; Yang, W.; Li, A.; Hunger, M.﹡; Baiker, A.﹡; Huang, J.﹡ Tailoring single site VO4 on flame-made V/Al2O3 catalysts for selective oxidation of n-butane. J. Catal. 2022, 413, 93-105.

11. Zhao, Y.; Wang, L.; Kochubei, A.; Yang, W.; Xu, H.; Luo, Y.; Baiker, A.; Huang, J.; Wang, Z.﹡; Jiang, Y.﹡ Formation and location of Pt single sites induced by penta-coordinated Al species on amorphous silica-alumina. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 2536-2546.

12. Kim, K.; Wang, Z.﹡; Jiang, Y.; Hunger, M.; Huang, J.﹡ The cooperative effect of Lewis and Brønsted acid sites on Sn-MCM-41 catalysts for the conversion of 1,3-dihydroxyacetone to ethyl lactate. Green Chem. 2019, 21, 3383-3393.

13. Zhang, H.; Yi, Q.; Geng, H.; Liu, Z.; Luo, W.; Wang, Z.﹡; Liu, Y.﹡ Selective C–O bond cleavage enhances aromatics production from lignin-derived platform molecules with ethanol as a hydrogen donor. Green Chem., 2025, 27, 8959-8971

14. Wang, Z.; Wang, L.; Jiang, Y.; Hunger, M.; Huang, J.﹡Cooperativity of Brønsted and Lewis acid sites on zeolite for glycerol dehydration. ACS Catal. 2014, 4, 1144-1147.

15. Zeng, X.; Wang, Z.﹡; Ding, J.; Wang, L.; Jiang, Y.; Stampfl, C.; Hunger, M.; Huang, J.﹡ Catalytic arene alkylation over H-Beta zeolite: Influence of zeolite shape selectivity and reactant nucleophilicity. J. Catal. 2019, 380, 9-20.