Name: Runping Ye

Gender: Male

Job title: Professor

Email Address: rye@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience：

2021.09~present: Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University

2019.06~2021.09, Postdoctoral fellow, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical physics, Chinese Academy of Science

2017.09-2018.12, Ph.D. Visiting students, University of Wyoming, USA

2013.09-2019.06, Ph.D. Degree, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009.09-2013.07, Bachelor Degree, East China Jiaotong University

Teaching：

Master’s Supervisor: Chemistry (mainly Physical Chemistry), Chemical Engineering and Technology (mainly Industrial Catalysis, Applied Chemistry)

Postgraduate Teaching: Lecturer for Catalytic Progress. Host of Degree and postgraduate education teaching reform research project of Nanchang University

Undergraduate Teaching: Lecturer for Physical Chemistry, University Chemistry, Experiments of University Chemistry, Engineering Chemistry Basis, Taste chemistry, Chemistry Frontiers Lecture. Host of two provincial projects of college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs, Scientific research training project of Nanchang University, and Innovation and entrepreneurship education teaching reform research project of Nanchang University. I also guided undergraduates to participate in the fourth National College Students’ Chemistry Experiment Innovation Design Competition in 2023 and won the first prize in Central China.

Research fields:

My research interests focus on investigation of heterogeneous catalysis for hydrogenation of carbon–oxygen bonds (e.g. dimethyl oxalate, CO2) to valuable products like ethylene glycol, methanol or methane. The catalyst design is mainly based on rare metals and non-precious based materials. Dr. Ye has published his research results in more than 70 high-level SCI journals with 30 co-first authors or corresponding author papers published in journals like Nature Communications, ACS Catalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Journal of Catalysis, and Chemical Engineering Journal. I have also authorized 5 Chinese invention patents and one textbook “Theory and Calculation of Catalysis”.

The link of my profile in ResearchGate is shown here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Runping-Ye-2

Keywords: Heterogeneous catalysis, Rare-earth catalysts, Dimethyl oxalate or CO2 hydrogenation, Nanoreactors

Research projects：

National Natural Science Foundation of China (2021-2023), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province for Distinguished Young Scholars (2024-2026), Thousand Talents Plan of Jiangxi Province (2023-2025, Major talent project of Jiangxi Province), Special Research Assistant Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019-2021, Talent training project of Chinese Academy of Sciences), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019-2021), etc.

Awards and Honors：

One of the winners of “Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles in 2019”.

Jiaxi Lu Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Excellent oral report of the 11th Catalyst Preparation Conference of Chinese Chemical Society

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province for Distinguished Young Scholars

Associate Editor for Frontiers in Chemistry.

Outstanding Academic Editor for International Journal of Coal Science & Technology.

Guest Editor for Journal of CO2 utilization

Reviewer for several international journals, such as Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Fuel

Representative papers and patents：

1. Runping Ye, Jie Ding, Weibo Gong, Morris D Argyle, Qin Zhong, Yujun Wang, Christopher K Russell, Zhenghe Xu, Armistead G Russell, Qiaohong Li, Maohong Fan*, Yuan-Gen Yao*, CO2 hydrogenation to high-value products via heterogeneous catalysis, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 5698. (ESI highly cited paper, TOP 50)

2. Jie Ding#, Runping Ye#, Yanghe Fu, Yiming He, Ye Wu, Yulong Zhang, Qin Zhong*, Harold H. Kung*, Maohong Fan*, Direct synthesis of urea from carbon dioxide and ammonia, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 4586.

3. Runping Ye, Ling Lin, Chong-Chong Chen, Jin-Xia Yang, Fei Li, Xin Zhang, De-Jing Li, Ye-Yan Qin, Zhangfeng Zhou, Yuan-Gen Yao*, Synthesis of robust MOF-derived Cu/SiO2 catalyst with low copper loading via sol-gel method for the dimethyl oxalate hydrogenation reaction, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8, 3382-3394.

4. Runping Ye, Ling Lin, Lu-Cun Wang, Dong Ding, Zhangfeng Zhou, Pengbin Pan, Zhenghe Xu, Jian Liu, Hertanto Adidharma, Maciej Radosz, Maohong Fan*, Yuan-Gen Yao*, Perspectives on the active sites and catalyst design for the hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate, ACS Catalysis, 2020, 10, 4465-4490.

5. Runping Ye, Qiaohong Li, Weibo Gong, Tongtong Wang, Joshua James Razink, Ling Lin, Ye-Yan Qin, Zhangfeng Zhou, Hertanto Adidharma, Jinke Tang, rmistead G Russell, Maohong Fan*, Yuan-Gen Yao*, High-performance of nanostructured Ni/CeO2 catalyst on CO2 methanation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020, 268, 118474. (ESI highly cited paper)

6. Feiyang Hu#, Runping Ye#, Chengkai Jin, Dong Liu, Xiaohan Chen, Claudia Li, Kang Hui Lim, Guoqiang Song, Tianchang Wang, Gang Feng*, Rongbin Zhang*, Sibudjing Kawi*, Ni nanoparticles enclosed in highly mesoporous nanofibers with oxygen vacancies for efficient CO2 methanation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2022, 268, 118474.

7. Lixuan Ma#, Runping Ye#*, Yuanyuan Huang#, Tomas Ramirez Reina, Xinyao Wang, Congming Li, Xiao Li Zhang, Maohong Fan, Riguang Zhang*, Jian Liu*, Enhanced low-temperature CO2 methanation performance of Ni/ZrO2 catalysts via a phase engineering strategy, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 446, 137031.

8. Runping Ye, Lin Liao, Tomas Ramirez Reina, Jiaxu Liu, Durgaiah Chevella, Yonggang Jin*, Maohong Fan*, Jian Liu*, Engineering Ni/SiO2 catalysts for enhanced CO2 methanation, Fuel, 2021, 285, 119151. (ESI highly cited paper)

9. Runping Ye, Weibo Gong, Zhao Sun, Qingtao Sheng, Xiufeng Shi, Tongtong Wang, Yi Yao, Joshua James Razink, Ling Lin, Zhangfeng Zhou, Hertanto Adidharma, Jinke Tang, Maohong Fan*, Yuan-Gen Yao*, Enhanced stability of Ni/SiO2 catalyst for CO2 methanation: Derived from nickel phyllosilicate with strong metal-support interactions, Energy, 2019, 188, 116059.

10. Runping Ye, Ling Lin, Jin-Xia Yang, Ming-Ling Sun, Fei Li, Bin Li, Yuan-Gen Yao*, A new low-cost and effective method for enhancing the catalytic performance of Cu-SiO2 catalysts for the synthesis of ethylene glycol via the vapor-phase hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate by coating the catalysts with dextrin, Journal of Catalysis, 2017, 350, 122-132.

11. Long Huang, Ling Lin, Chong-Chong Chen, Runping Ye*, Ling-Bin Zhu, Jin-Xia Yang, Ye-Yan Qin, Jian-Kai Cheng, Yuan-Gen Yao*, β-Cyclodextrin promoted the formation of copper phyllosilicate on Cu-SiO2 microspheres catalysts to enhance the low-temperature hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate, Journal of Catalysis, 2022, 413, 943-955.

12. Dong Liu, Feiyang Hu, Yue Yan, Runping Ye*, Xiaohan Chen, Bingying Han, Zhang-Hui Lu, Li Zhou, Gang Feng*, Rongbin Zhang*, Promotion of oxygen vacancies and metal-support interaction over 3DOM Au/CeO2 catalyst for CO oxidation, Applied Surface Science, 2023, 629, 157438.

13. Runping Ye*, Yuanyuan Huang, Chong-Chong Chen, Yuan-Gen Yao, Maohong Fan*, Zhangfeng Zhou*, Emerging catalysts for the ambient synthesis of ethylene glycol from CO2 and its derivatives, Chemical Communications, 2023, 59, 2711-2725.

14. Rong-Bin Zhang, Zi-Ao Tu, Shuai Meng, Gang Feng, Zhang-Hui Lu, Ying-Zhi Yu, Tomas Ramirez Reina, Fei-Yang Hu, Xiao-Han Chen, Runping Ye*, Engineering morphologies of yttrium oxide supported nickel catalysts for hydrogen production, Rare Metals, 2023, 42, 176-188.

15. Runping Ye, Qinghua Liu, Zhihui Wen, Lejie Jiang, Chengkai Jin, Birong Gao, Bin Zhang, Rongbin Zhang, Yong Qin, Gang Feng*, Shape-selective catalysts of Mg2+ ion exchange modified SAPO-11 molecular sieves for alkylation of 2-methylnaphthalene, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2022, 346, 112291.

16. Runping Ye, Xinyao Wang, Cameron‐Alexander Hurd Price, Xiaoyan Liu, Qihua Yang, Mietek Jaroniec, Jian Liu*, Engineering of yolk/core-shell structured nanoreactors for thermal hydrogenations, Small, 2021, 17, 1906250.

17. Runping Ye, Jian Liu, Yanping Chen, Zezhong Cao, A bifunctional catalyst, a preparation method and its application in methanol synthesis and reforming for hydrogen production, Chinese patent, 202110540957.5.

18. Gang Feng, Zhihui Wen, Lejie Jiang, Runping Ye, Rongbin Zhang, A nano-multiporous SAPO-11 molecular sieve and its preparation method and application, Chinese patent, 202111329641.8

(# Co-first author; * Corresponding author)