Zihui Xiao Associate professor
Email: zhxiao@email.tjut.edu.cn
Address: No. 391 Bin Shui Xi Dao Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300384, China
Education history
2008 School of Petrochemical Engineering, Jilin University of Chemical Technology, Bachelor's Degree;
2013 School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology. Ph.D.
Areas of research interest
Hydrogen energy; Nanoporous metal; Catalysts; Reaction engineering
Main research achievements
Successively presided over more than 10 national and provincial projects, as well as projects commissioned by enterprises, applied for over 40 invention patents (with more than 20 granted), and published over 40 papers in journals such as Green Chem., ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., J. Mater. Chem. A, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., etc. Research achievements have won provincial and ministerial science and technology paper awards, as well as the 19th China Patent Excellence Award. Selected into the third level of Tianjin's "131" innovative talent training program.
Selected publications
1. Haozhe Chen, Yun Su, Tianyuan Liu , Zihui Xiao,* Yi Ding. “Recycling aluminum wastewater into hydrothermally stable mesoporous Al2O3⋅xSiO2 via silicon-incorporated pore modulation”, J. Environ. Chem. Eng. 2026, 14, 120599.
2. Tianyuan Liu, Hong Li, Haozhe Chen, Zihui Xiao,* Yi Ding. “Molded Nanoporous Ni Catalysts with High Active Metal Utilizationfor CO2 Methanation”, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2024, 12, 18648.
3. Hongyin Kan, Xiaoyu Chou, Mingxi Li, Cong Xi, Tingting Zhou,* Zihui Xiao,* Yi Ding. “Enhancing the chemoselective hydrogenation of o-chloronitrobenzene over nanoporous Ni/NiAl3 catalysts”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 2024, 649, 159120.
4. Zhenhao Yang, Xiaoyu Chou, HongYin Kan, Zihui Xiao,* Yi Ding. “Nanoporous Copper Catalysts for the Fluidized Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Furfural to Furfuryl Alcohol”, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2022, 10, 7418.
5. Zihui Xiao, Hui Yang, Shuai Yin, Jian Zhang, Zhenhua Yang, Kedong Yuan*, Yi Ding*. “Electrochemical reduction of functionalized carbonyl compounds: enhanced reactivity over tailored nanoporous gold”, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 4314.
