(1) Development and synthesis of metal/zeolite-based catalysts
(2) Identifying the nature of catalytically active sites using advanced spectroscopies
2025/02-present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor
2023/05-2024/11: Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, postdoc
2021/03-2023/04: Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, postdoc
2018/09-2020/09: Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, jointly trained PhD student
2017/09-2020/12: China University of Petroleum(Beijing), Ph.D, Chemical Engineering and Technology
2014/09-2017/07: China University of Petroleum(Beijing), M.S, Chemical Engineering
2010/09-2014/07: Chengdu University of Technology , B.S., Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering
[1] Kai Wu, Vita A. Kondratenko, Mingxia Zhou, Dmitry E. Doronkin, Stephan Bartling,Qiyang Zhang, Shanlei Han, Xin Jia, Qi Liu, Dong Xiong, Chunming Xu, Guiyuan Jiang*, Dan Zhao*, Uwe Rodemerck, David Linke, and Evgenii V. Kondratenko*, The Role of Reducibility of PtGaOx-Based Catalysts for Efficient and Durable Propane Dehydrogenation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202506704,
[2] Shanlei Han, Dan Zhao*, Evgenii V Kondratenko*, Well-Defined Supported ZnOx Species: Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Performance in Nonoxidative Dehydrogenation of C3–C4 Alkanes, Acc. Chem. Res. 2024, 57, 9, 1264–1274.
[3] Dan Zhao, Xinxin Tian, Dmitry E. Doronkin, Shanlei Han, Vita A. Kondratenko, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Anna Perechodjuk, Thanh Huyen Vuong, Jabor Rabeah, Reinhard Eckelt, Uwe Rodemerck, David Linke, Guiyuan Jiang*, Haijun Jiao*, Evgenii V. Kondratenko*, In-situ Formation of ZnOx Species for Efficient Propane Dehydrogenation, Nature, 2021, 599, 234-238.
[4] Dan Zhao#, Ke Guo#, Shanlei Han, Dmitry E. Doronkin, Henrik Lund, Jianshu Li, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Zhen Zhao, Chunming Xu, Guiyuan Jiang*, Evgenii V. Kondratenko*, Controlling Reaction-induced Loss of Active Sites in ZnOx/Silicalite-1 for Durable Non-Oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation, ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 4608−4617.
[5] Dan Zhao#, Mingbin Gao#, Xinxin Tian#, Dmitry E. Doronkin, Shanlei Han, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Uwe Rodemerck, David Linke, Mao Ye, Guiyuan Jiang, Haijun Jiao, and Evgenii V. Kondratenko*, Effect of Diffusion Constraints and ZnOx Speciation on Nonoxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane and Isobutane over ZnO-Containing Catalysts, ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 3356−3369.