Interfacial structure and regualtion of ionic liquids;

Electrocatalytic depolymerization of lignin;

Ionogel synthesis

Sep./2012~ Jun. 2017        Institue of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences     Condensed Matter Physics                            PhD            

Sep./2014~Jul./2016          City University of Hong Kong                                    Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering     PhD 

Sep./2008~Jun./2012         Shandong University                                                   Materials Science and Engineering              Bachelor

                           

               

   

Jul. 2020-Now              Institue of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences             

Jul. 2017-Jun. 2020      Institue of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences              

  

1.   Ziqi Zhai, YumiaoLu*, Wei-Lu Ding, Yuxuan Guo, Songsong Chen, Hongyan He* and Suojiang Zhang*, Ionic liquids for sustainable lignin biorefinery: from dissolution mechanisms to electrocatalytic upgrading. Green Chem. 2026, 28, 9548–9573

2.   Kaixuan Li, Weilu Ding, Hao Dong, Chenxu Zhao, Yumiao Lu*, Hongyan He*, Suojiang Zhang*, Visualizing CO₂ Electroreduction Dynamics: Advances in Electrochemical AFM for Catalyst Interfacial Analysis. Interdiscip. Mater. 2026; 1–15

3.    Ziqi Zhai^#, Yumiao Lu^#, LufeiOuyang, Junfeng Lu, Wei-Lu Ding, Bobo Cao, Yanlei Wang, Feng Huo, Qiu Zhao, Weihua Wang*, Suojiang Zhang* and Hongyan He*, Modulating Product Selectivity in Lignin Electroreduction with a Robust Metallic Glass Catalyst. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16: 3414

4.    Ruirui He, Yumiao Lu*, Ju Liu, Yanlei Wang, Wei-Lu Ding, Kaixuan Li, Yibo Wang*, Hongyan He*, Unlocking Superlubricity: Ionic Liquids Meet Perfluorocarbons. Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 9402−9409

5.     Linmeng Huo, Yumiao Lu*, Wei-Lu Ding, Yanlei Wang, Xuehui Li and Hongyan He*, Recent Advances in the Preparation, Properties, and Applications of Lignin-based Hydrogels and Adhesives. Green Chem., 2025, 27:1895 -1908

6.     Yumiao Lu, Wei-Lu Ding, Kun Li, Yanlei Wang, Bobo Cao, Ruirui He, Hongyan He*, Direct Observation of Ordered-disordered Structural Transition of MoS₂-confined Ionic Liquids. Chin. J. Chem. Eng., 2024, 72: 126-132.DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2024.05.015

7.     Ziqi Zhai, Yumiao Lu*, Guangyong Liu, Wei-Lu Ding, Bobo Cao, Hongyan He*, Recent Advances in Biomass-derived Porous Carbon Materials: Synthesis, Composition and Applications. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ., 2024, 40 (1): 3―19.

8.     Bobo Cao, Weilu Ding, Linmeng Huo, Yumiao Lu, Yanlei Wang, and Hongyan He*, Robust Conductive Adhesives: A Strategy Using Metal-Doped Poly(ionic liquid)s. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 46266−46275

9.     Junfeng Lu, Tinglan Sun, Yumiao Lu, Hongyan He, Yeilei Wang, Weakening Origin of Hydrogen Bond in Ionic Liquid at the Electrified Interface. AIChE J. 2024, e18660

10.  Hao Dong, Xianlong Yuan, Yanlei Wang*, Yumiao Lu, Hongyan He*, Two-dimensional Nanoconfined Ionic Liquid Membrane: Preparation and Molecular Mechanism of CO₂ Separation. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2024, 283: 119393

11.  Guangyong Liu, Ziqi Zhai, Yumiao Lu, JunFeng Lu, Yanlei Wang, Shijing Liang,* Hongyan He,* and Lilong Jiang, Electrocatalytic Cleavage of C−C Bonds in Lignin Models Using Nonmetallic Catalysts at Ambient Conditions. Chem Bio Eng. 2024, 1, 357-365.

12.  Yumiao Lu, Yanlei Wang, Feng Huo, Wei Chen, Ming Ma*, Weilu Ding, Hongyan He*, Suojiang Zhang*, Ultralow Friction and High Robustness of Monolayer Ionic Liquids. ACS Nano 2022, 16(10), 16471-16480

13.  Tinglan Sun, Yumiao Lu*, Junfeng Lu, Hao Dong, Weilu Ding, Yanlei Wang, Xiuhong Yang, and Hongyan He*, Water-Controlled Structural Transition and Charge Transfer of Interfacial Ionic Liquids. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2022,13(31),7113-7120

14.  Yumiao Lu, Wei Chen, Yanlei Wang, Feng Huo, Lan Zhang, Hongyan He*, Suojiang Zhang*, A Space-Confined Strategy toward Large-Area Two-Dimensional Crystals of Ionic Liquid. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22(4),

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