Prof. Yu Cong was born in 1969 in Heilongjiang Province of China. She received her BSc and MSc Degree in Chemical Process from Dalian University of Technology in 1992 and 1995 respectively. She graduated in 1999 and obtained her PhD Degree in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was promoted to full professor in 2007. She ever made short-term academic visits to City University of Hong Kong, Cardiff University, and Poitiers University. Professor Cong’s main research interests involve the synthesis of high performance hydrocarbon fuels and their catalytic applications . She is the author or coauthor of over 60 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and 80 patents.
Research Interests:
☆ Synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels and fuel additives, including high energy fuel, high thermally stable fuel, etc.
☆ Catalytic cracking and catalytic reforming of hydrocarbon fuels.
☆ Catalytic production of hydrogen via the WGS reaction.
Selected Publications:
1. Tenglong Guo, Nanfang Tang, Feng Lin, Qinghao Shang, Shuai Chen, Haifeng Qi, Xiaoli Pan, Chuntian Wu, Guoliang Xu, Jian Zhang, Dezhu Xu, Yu Cong.*
High Loading Single-Atom Copper Catalyst Supported with Coordinatively Unsaturated Al2O3 for Selective Synthesis of Homoallylboronates, ChemSusChem,
13, 1 – 8, 2020
2. Qinghao Shang, Nanfang Tang, Haifeng Qi, Shuai Chen, Guoliang Xu, Chuntian Wu, Xiaoli Pan, Xiaodong Wang, Yu Cong.* A palladium single-atom catalyst
towards efficient activation of molecular oxygen for cinnamyl alcohol oxidation, Chin. J. Catal., 1812–1817, 2020
3. Qinghao Shang, Guoliang Xu, Nanfang Tang, Chuntian Wu, Shuai Chen, Yu Cong*. Fluoride-modified ZSM-5 for endothermic catalytic cracking of n-decane,
Micropor. Mesopor. Mat., 288, 109616-109622, 2019
4. Shuang Liu, Nanfang Tang, Qinghao Shang, Chuntian Wu, Guoliang Xu, Yu Cong.* Superior performance of iridium supported on rutile titania for the catalytic
decomposition of N2O propellant. Chin. J. Catal., 39, 1189 (2018).
5. Nanfang Tang, Yu Cong*, Qinghao Shang, Chuntian Wu, Guoliang Xu, and Xiaodong Wang. Coordinatively unsaturated Al3+ sites anchored subnanometric
ruthenium catalyst for hydrogenation of aromatics, ACS Catal., 7, 5987(2017).
