General

Yu  CONG    

PhD, Professor, PhD supervisior
Email: ycong@dicp.ac.cn
Telephone: +86-411-84379676
Address: 457 ZhongShan Road, Dalian 116023, China
Postcode: 116023

Research Areas

1. Synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels and fuel additives, including high energy fuel, high thermally stable fuel, special fuel,etc.

2. Catalytic transformation of hyrdocarbon fuel to hydrogen for fuel cell via reforming and WGS reactions

3. Novel catalytic materials and preparation methods

Education

1995.9 - 1999.12  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD student

1992.9 - 1995.7    Dalian University of Technology, M.S.

1988.9 - 1992.7    Dalian University of Technology, B.S.

Experience

2007.9 -                    Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences       Professor 

2001.9 - 2007.8       Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences       Associate Professor 

1999.12 - 2001.8     Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences       Assistant professor 


2011.6 - 2011.7       Poitiers Univeristy, France                                                                         Invited Professor 

2004.3 - 2004.6       Cardiff University, United Kingdom                                                         Senior Visiting Scholar

1998.8 - 1998.12     City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong                                              Research Assistant 

Honors & Distinctions

1. Hundred grade member of the 8th New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Projects for Liaoning Province, China, 2014

2. 2009’Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Major Contributor (the 4th), 2009

3. Thousand grade member of the 4th New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Projects for Liaoning Province, China, 2007


Publications

About 100 peer-reviewed SCI papers are pubished and 180 patents are applied (of which over 100 are granted).

Papers

1. Wang L, Han F, Li G, Zheng M, Wang A, Wang X, Zhang T, Cong Y*, Li N*. Direct synthesis of a high-density aviation fuel using a polycarbonate. Green Chem., 23, 912-919(2021)

2.  Guo T, Tang N, Lin F, Shang Q, Chen S, Qi H, Pan X, Wu C, Xu G, Zhang J, Xu D, Cong Y.* High Loading Single-Atom Copper Catalyst Supported with Coordinatively Unsaturated Al2O3 for Selective Synthesis of Homoallylboronates, ChemSusChem, 13, 1-8(2020).

3.  Shang Q, Tang N, Qi H, Chen S, Xu G, Wu C, Pan X, Wang X, Cong Y.* A palladium single-atom catalyst towards efficient activation of molecular oxygen for cinnamyl alcohol oxidation, Chin. J. Catal., 1812-1817(2020).

4.   Liu S, Tang N, Shang Q, Wu C, Xu G, Cong Y.* Superior performance of iridium supported on rutile titania for the catalytic decomposition of N2O propellant. Chin. J. Catal., 39, 1189-1193(2018).

5.   Tang N, Cong Y*, Shang Q, Wu C, Xu G, Wang X. Coordinatively unsaturated Al3+ sites anchored subnanometric ruthenium catalyst for hydrogenation of aromatics, ACS Catal., 7, 5987-5991(2017).