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Lifang Chen

 

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Education

2006-2009

2001-2005

1994-1998

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Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, USA  (Prof. Ryan Richards)

M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, Fudan University (Prof. Yong Cao)

Bachelor in Chemistry, Hubei University

Professional Experience

since2009

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School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai, China

Research Interests

Solvent intensified heterogeneous catalytic processes

  • Innovative solvent intensified processes 

  • Integrated reaction and separation processes 

  • Modeling and simulation of complex systems

Funding and Research Projects

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Succinic acid hydrogenation over atomically dispersed palladium catalysts (21476084, 2015.01-2018.12)

  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, The liquid-phase oxidation of alcohols by catalyzed by gold nanoreactors (21006029, 2011.01-2013.12)

  3. PetroChina Innovation Foundation, A multi-scale simulation approach for screening ionic liquids for extractive distillation of alkanes and cycloalkanes (2015D-5006-0501, 2015.10.01-2017.09.31)

  4. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, The selective alkanes oxidation based on highly efficient gold nanoreactors (10ZR1407200, 2010.01.01-2012.12.31)

  5. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Integration technology for biomass-derived succinic acid (WA1313007, 2013.06-2017.05)

  6. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Enhanced visible light photocatalystic activity over metal oxides with exposed polar surface, (WA0911015, 2009.11-2011.10)

  1. Wenrong Cao, Zhenyou Gui, Lifang Chen*, Xuedong Zhu, and Zhiwen Qi. Facile synthesis of sulfate-doped Ag3PO4 with enhanced visible light photocatalystic activity. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2017, 200, 681-689.

  2. Daili Peng, Jianan Zhang, Hongye Cheng, Lifang Chen*, and Zhiwen Qi*. Computer-aided ionic liquid design for separation processes based on group contribution method and COSMO-SAC model. Chemical Engineering Science, 2017, 159, 58-68.

  3. Zhenyou Gui, Wenrong Cao, Shunmugavel Saravanamurugan, Anders Riisager, Lifang Chen,* and Zhiwen Qi*. Efficient aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in aqueous media with Au–Pd supported on zinc hydroxycarbonate. ChemCatChem, 2016, 8, 3636-3643

  4. Chi Zhang, Wenrong Cao, Hongye Cheng, Lifang Chen, * and Zhiwen Qi, Regenerable Subnanometer Pd Clusters on zirconia for highly selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived succinic acid in water. Catalysts, 2016, 6, 100; doi:10.3390/catal6070100

  5. Zhenyou Gui, Wenrong Cao, Lifang Chen,* and Zhiwen Qi*. Propene carbonate intensified cyclohexane oxidation over Au/SiO2 catalyst. Catalysis Communication, 2015, 64, 58-61.

  6. Wenrong Cao, Lifang Chen,* and Zhiwen Qi*. Microwave-assisted synthesis of Ag/Ag2SO4/ZnO nanostructures for efficient visible-light-driven photocatalysis. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2015, 401, 81-89.

  7. Lifang Chen, Juncheng Hu, Feng Lin, Christopher Cadigan, Wenrong Cao, Zhiwen Qi,* Marta Pozuelo, Sergey V. Prikhodko, Suneel Kodambakad and Ryan M. Richards*. Self-assembled single-crystalline ZnO nanostructures, CrystEngComm, 2013, 15, 3780-3784.

  8. Cuihua Wang, Lifang Chen,* and Zhiwen Qi*. One-pot synthesis of gold nanoparticles embedded in silica for cyclohexane oxidation. Catalysis Science and Technology, 2013, 3, 1123-1128.

  9. Lifang Chen, G. Jeremy Leong, Maxwell Schulze, Huyen N. Dinh, Bryan Pivovar, Juncheng Hu, Zhiwen Qi,* Yunjin Fang, Sergey Prikhodko, Marta Pozuelo, Suneel Kodambaka and Ryan M. Richards*. Controlled synthesis of nanoscale icosahedral gold particles at room temperature. ChemCatChem, 2012, 4, 1661-1667.

  10. Lifang Chen, Juncheng Hu, Zhiwen Qi, Yunjin Fang, Ryan Richards*. Gold nanoparticles intercalated into the walls of mesoporous silica as a versatile redox catalyst. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2011, 50, 13642–13649.

Selected Publications

Contact Info

Office: +86- 21-64250935
Fax: +86- 21-64253528
Address: PO Box 369, Meilong Road 130, Shanghai 200237, China
Email: lchen@ecust.edu.cn

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