People
ZHU Xuefeng
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 0411-84379182
Email: zhuxf@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

(1) Mixed conducting membranes for O2, H2 separation and related reactions

(2) Membrane modules for oxygen production

(3) Catalytic membrane reactors for process intensification

(4) Electrochemical and thermochemical conversion of small molecules

(5) Electrolyte membranes for solid oxide cells

Biography

2014/07- present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor

2009/10-2014/06 Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Associate Professor

2007/12- 2008/12: Arizona State University, Postdoctoral researcher

2007/01-2009/09: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Assistant Professor

2001/09-2006/12: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Ph.D, Physical Chemistry

1997/09-2001/07: Beijing Normal University, B.S., Chemistry

Honors and Awards
(1) Regional Development Young Scholar, CAS, 2023

(2) First Prize of Science & Technology Award, Liaoning Province, 2020

(3) Excellent Membership of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS, 2018

(4) Zhang Dayu Excellent Scholar of DICP, CAS, 2017

(5) Distinguished Young Science & Technology Talent Award of Dalian, 2016

(6) First Prize of Science & Technology Award, Guang Dong Province, 2015 

Publications

(1) Shiqing Hu, Ryan O’Hayre*, Xuefeng Zhu* et al., Mapping a thermodynamic stability window to prevent detrimental reactions during CO2 electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cells, Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 324 (2023) 122239

(2) Yue Zhu, Dongdong Liu, Huijuan Jing, Xuefeng Zhu*, Weishen Yang* et al., Oxygen activation on Ba-containing perovskite materials, Sci. Adv. 8 (2022) eabn4072

(3) Lixiao Zhang, Xiaobao Li, Jianmin Lu, Xuefeng Zhu* et al., In situ dispersed nano-Au on Zr-suboxides as active cathode for direct CO2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells, Nano Lett. 21 (2021) 6952?6959

(4) Peng Zhang, Jingjing Tong, Kevin Huang*, Xuefeng Zhu*, Weishen Yang, The current status of high temperature electrochemistry-based CO2 transport membranes and reactors for direct CO2 capture and conversion, Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. 82 (2021) 100888

(5) Lili Cai, Xiao-Yu Wu, Xuefeng Zhu*, Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Weishen Yang, High‐performance oxygen transport membrane reactors integrated with IGCC for carbon capture, AIChE J. 66 (2020) e16247

(6) Xuefeng Zhu, Weishen Yang*, Microstructural and interfacial designs of oxygen–permeable membranes for oxygen separation and reaction–separation coupling, Adv. Mater. 31 (2019) 1902547

(7) Wenping Li, Xuefeng Zhu*, Weishen Yang* et al., H2S-tolerant oxygen-permeable ceramic membranes for hydrogen separation with a performance comparable to those of palladium-based membranes, Energy Environ. Sci. 10 (2017) 101–106

(8) Wenping Li, Xuefeng Zhu*, Shuguang Chen, Weishen Yang*, Integration of nine steps into one membrane reactor to produce synthesis gases for ammonia and liquid fuel, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (2016) 8566 –8570

(9) Yan Liu, Xuefeng Zhu*, Mingrun Li, Ryan P. O’Hayre, Weishen Yang*, Nanoparticles at grain boundaries inhibit the phase transformation of perovskite membrane, Nano Lett. 15 (2015) 7678?7683

(10) Yan Liu Xuefeng Zhu*, Mingrun Li, Weishen Yang*, Stabilization of low-temperature degradation in mixed ionic and electronic conducting perovskite oxygen permeation membranes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52 (2013) 3232– 3236