Name:		Liang Yu
	Year of Birth:		1982
	Address:		Chemistry building, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 2014.02—Present iChEM Fellow, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemist for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Advisor: Prof. Xinhe Bao, Prof. Xin Lv
• 2012.10—2014.01 Assistant Researcher, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
• 2006.09—2012.10 Ph.D in Theoretical Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Advisor: Prof. Xinhe Bao, Prof. Xiulian Pan
• 2001.09—2005.07 B. S. in Applied Chemistry, Shandong Normal University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Density functional theory calculations on chemical problems in heterogeneous catalysis
• Chemical Reaction thermodynamics and kinetics

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Xiaoguang Guo, Guangzong Fang, Gang Li, Hao Ma, Hongjun Fan, Liang Yu, Chao Ma, Xing Wu, Dehui Deng, Mingming Wei, Dali Tan, Rui Si, Shuo Zhang, Jianqi Li, Litao Sun, Zichao Tang, Xiulian Pan and Xinhe Bao. Direct, Non-Oxidative Conversion of Methane to Ethylene, Aromatics, and Hydrogen. Science, 2014, 344: 616-619.
2. Xingyun Li, Xiulian Pan, Liang Yu, Pengju Ren, Xing Wu, Litao Sun, Feng Jiao, Xinhe Bao. Nitrogen-doped carbon materials substituting mercury for catalytic hydrochlorination of acetylene. Nat. Commun., in press.
3. Jiao Deng, Pengju Ren, Dehui Deng, Liang Yu, Fan Yang, Xinhe Bao. Highly active and durable non-precious-metal catalyst encapsulated in carbon nanotubes for hydrogen evolution reaction. Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7: 1919-1923.
4. Jiao Deng?, Liang Yu?, Dehui Deng, Xiaoqi Chen, Fan Yang, Xinhe Bao. Highly active reduction of oxygen on FeCo alloy catalyst encapsulated in pod-like carbon nanotubes with fewer walls. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1: 14868-14873
5. Fan Zhang, Xiulian Pan, Yongfeng Hu, Liang Yu, Xiaoqi Chen, Peng Jiang, Hongbo Zhang, Shibin Deng, Jin Zhang, Trudy B. Bolin, Shuo Zhang, Yuying Huang, and Xinhe Bao. Tuning the redox activity of encapsulated metal clusters via the metallic and semiconducting character of carbon nanotubes. PNAS, 2013, 110: 14861-14866.
6. Dehui Deng, Liang Yu, Xiaoqi Chen, Guoxiong Wang, Li Jin, Xiulian Pan, Jiao Deng, Gongquan Sun, Xinhe Bao. Iron encapsulated within Pod-like carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52: 371-375.
7. Zhou-jun Wang, Mingming Wei, Li Jin, Yanxiao Ning, Liang Yu, Qiang Fu, Xinhe Bao. Simultaneous N-intercalation and N-doping of epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC(0001) through thermal reactions with ammonia. Nano Res., 2013, 6: 399-408.
8. Liang Yu, Wei-Xue Li, Xiulian Pan, Xinhe Bao. In- and Out- Dependent Interactions of Iron with Carbon Nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116: 16461–16466.
9. Rentao Mu, Qiang Fu, Li Jin, Liang Yu, Guangzong Fang, Dali Tan, Xinhe Bao. Visualizing Chemical Reactions Confined under Graphene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51: 1-5.
10. Liang Yu, Xiulian Pan, Xiaoming Cao, P. Hu, Xinhe Bao. Oxygen reduction reaction mechanism on nitrogen-doped graphene: A density functional theory study. Journal of Catalysis, 2011, 282: 183-190.
11. Dehui Deng?, Liang Yu?, Xiulian Pan, Shuang Wang, Xiaoqi Chen, P. Hu, Lixian Sun, Xinhe Bao. Size effect of graphene on electrocatalytic activation of oxygen. Chem. Commun., 2011, 47: 10016-10018.
12. Dehui Deng, Xiulian Pan, Liang Yu, Yi Cui, Yeping Jiang, Jing Qi, Wei-Xue Li, Qiang Fu, Xucun Ma, Qikun Xue, Gongquan Sun, Xinhe Bao. Toward N-Doped Graphene via Solvothermal Synthesis. Chem. Mater., 2011, 23: 1188-1193.
13. Shujing Guo, Xiulian Pan, Liang Yu, Xinhe Bao. Dispersion of metal nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes with few surface oxygen functional groups. Materials Letters, 2011, 65: 1522-1524.