Research Areas
Green catalysis, biomass conversion, CO2 utilization, In-situ XAS
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Sciences and Engineering 2016.09 - 2021.01
² Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Prof. Gabor Laurenczy & Prof. Paul Dyson
M.S. Chemical and Bio-Chemical Engineering 2013.09 - 2016.07
² Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Suojiang Zhang
² Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
B.S.E. Chemical Engineering 2009.09 - 2013.07
² Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Experience
Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow, University of Cambridge 2023.09 - 2025.03
Advisor: Prof. Erwin Reisner
Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow-UKRI, UCL, London, UK 2022.09 - 2023.08
Postdoc, University College London (UCL), London, UK 2021.10 - 2022.08
Advisor: Prof. Feng Ryan Wang
Publications
Papers
[1] L. Chen*, Xuze Guan, Zhangyi Yao, Shusaku Hayama, Matthijs A van Spronsen, Burcu Karagoz, Georg Held, David G Hopkinson, Christopher S Allen, June Callison, Paul J Dyson*, Feng Ryan Wang*. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 9412.
[2] Lu Chen, Yongpeng Liu, Sampurna Mitra, Dongseok Kim, Zhipeng Huang, David M Vahey, Ariffin Bin Mohamad Annuar, Erwin Reisner*. Solar lignin reforming with tunable selectivity using a hybrid photocatalyst in aqueous solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 47, 43509–43516.
[3] L. Chen*, Xuze Guan, Zhaofu Fei, Hiroyuki Asakura, Lun Zhang, Zhipeng Wang, Xinlian Su, Zhangyi Yao, Luke L Keenan, Shusaku Hayama, Matthijs A Van Spronsen, Burcu Karagoz, Georg Held, Christopher S Allen, David G Hopkinson, Donato Decarolis, June Callison, Paul J Dyson*, Feng Ryan Wang*. Structural Properties of PtCuO surface catalyst for selective NH3 oxidation using operando spectroscopy. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 26. (Editors’s Highlights. The 50 best papers in 'Catalysis' in Nature Communications.)
[4] Lu Chen*, Xuze Guan, Xinbang Wu, Hiroyuki Asakura, David G Hopkinson, Christopher Allen, June Callison, Paul J Dyson*, Feng Ryan Wang*. Thermally stable high-loading single Cu sites on ZSM-5 for selective catalytic oxidation of NH3. PNAS, 2024, 121 (31) e2404830121.
[5] Jiaye Zhu, Guorong Zhou, Yun Tong*, Lu Chen*, Pengzuo Chen*. Vanadium Oxide Clusters Mediated Bismuth-Tin Alloy for Accelerated Dynamics of Electrocatalytic CO2 Conversion. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 2420177.
[6] Yiming Guo, Yun Tong*, Guorong Zhou, Jinfeng He, Xuhui Ren, Lu Chen*, Pengzuo Chen*. Oxygen-Deficient NiCo2O4 Porous Nanowire for Superior Electrosynthesis of Ammonia Coupling with Valorization of Ethylene Glycol. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 496, 154220.
[7] Kaixun Li, JinFeng He, Xuze Guan, Yun Tong*, Yutong Ye, Lu Chen*, Pengzuo Chen*. Phosphorus-modified Amorphous High-Entropy CoFeNiCrMn Compound as High-performance Electrocatalyst for Hydrazine-assisted Water Electrolysis. Small, 2023, 2302130
[8] Lu Chen, Antoine P van Muyden, Xinjiang Cui, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Gabor Laurenczy*, Paul J Dyson*. Lignin First: Confirming the Role of the Metal Catalyst in Reductive Fractionation. JACS Au, 2021, 1, 6, 729–733. (Cover)
[9] Lu Chen, Linfeng Pan, Antoine P van Muyden, Lichen Bai, Jun Li, Yun Tong, Zhaofu Fei, Anders Hagfeldt, Gabor Laurenczy*, Paul J Dyson*. Embedding single platinum atoms into nickel nanoparticles to afford a highly selective catalyst for lignin conversion. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2,9,100567.