Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
LUO Nengchao
Title: Associate Professor
Subject: Catalytic Chemistry
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Email: ncluo@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests
1. Photocatalytic biomass conversion
2. Design and synthesis of efficient semiconductor photocatalysts with emphasis on oxidation cocatalysts and structure modification to selective breaking chemical bonds for biomass conversion
3. Developing synergistic semiconductor photocatalysis, especially photothermal catalysis for biomass photoreforming
4. Developing photocatalysts with well-defined structure for selective chemical bond scission and reaction path control of radical intermediates, this research field is also combined with in situ characterization techniques to reveal the nature of the interaction between radicals and semiconductors
Biography
1. Associate professor in Department of Bioenergy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, China, 2020/2 - present
2. PhD in Organic Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian, China, 2014/9 - 2019/12
3. BSc in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2010/9 - 2014/6
Honors and Awards
Nengchao Luo. Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Special Award, CAS, 2019
Nengchao Luo. CPCIF-Clariant Sustainable Development Youth Innovation Award, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, 2021
Publications
1. Nengchao Luo; Wei Nie; Junju Mu; Shiyang Liu; Mingrun Li; Jian Zhang; Zhuyan Gao; Fengtao Fan; Feng Wang. Low-work function metals boost selective and fast scission of methanol C-H bonds, ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 6375-6384
2. Zhipeng Huang; Nengchao Luo; Chaofeng Zhang; Feng Wang*. Radical generation and fate control for photocatalytic biomass conversion, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022, 6, 197-214
3. Nengchao Luo; Tingting Hou; Shiyang Liu; Bin Zeng; Jianmin Lu; Jian Zhang; Hongji Li; Feng Wang*. Photocatalytic coproduction of deoxybenzoin and H2 through tandem redox reactions, ACS Catalysis, 2020, 10(1), 762-769
4. Nengchao Luo; Tiziano Montini; Jian Zhang; Paolo Fornasiero; Emiliano Fonda; Tingting Hou; Wei Nie; Jianmin Lu; Junxue Liu; Marc Heggen; Long Lin; Changtong Ma; Min Wang; Fengtao Fan; Shengye Jin; Feng Wang*. Visible-light-driven coproduction of diesel precursors and hydrogen from lignocellulose-derived methylfurans, Nature Energy, 2019, 4, 575-584
5. Nengchao Luo; Min Wang; Hongji Li; Jian Zhang; Tingting Hou; Haijun Chen; Xiaochen Zhang; Jianmin Lu; Feng Wang*. Visible-light-driven self-hydrogen transfer hydrogenolysis of lignin models and extracts into phenolic products, ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7(7), 4571-4580