Prof. Yu Cong was born in 1969 in Heilongjiang Province of China. She received her bachelor's and Master's degrees in inorganic chemical engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 1992 and 1995. She graduated in 1999 and obtained her doctorate in science from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS. She was promoted to full professor in 2007. She ever made short-term research visits to City University of Hong Kong, Cardiff University, and Poitiers University. Prof. Cong is mainly engaged in basic and applied research on high-performance hydrocarbon fuels and their catalytic conversion. She is the author or coauthor of over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 180 patents. She was selected as a hundred-grade member of the 8th New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Projects of Liaoning Province (2014) and won the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of CAS (2009) and the Science and Technology Progress Award, third prize (2023) as the main contributor.
Research Interests:
☆ Catalytic synthesis of high-performance hydrocarbon fuels
☆ Catalytic conversion application of hydrocarbons
☆ Design and development of new catalytic materials
Selected Publications:
[1]. Nanfang Tang, Qinghao Shang, Shuai Chen, Yuxia Ma, Qingqing Gu, Lu Lin, Qike Jiang, Guoliang Xu, Chuntian Wu, Bing Yang, Zhijie Wu, Hui Shi, Jian Liu*, Wenhao Luo*, Yu Cong*, Reversible encapsulation tailored interfacial dynamics for boosting the water-gas shift performance, Chin. J. Catal., 2025, 68: 394−403
[2]. Nanfang Tang,* Dongyuan Liu, Shuai Chen, Zhenyu Wang, Yuxia Ma, Qi Li, Yunshuai Li, Guoliang Xu, Chuntian Wu, Liqun Kang, Wenhao Luo, Botao Qiao, Houyu Zhu*, Yu Cong*, Pt Atom-Substituted MoC Single-Atom Catalyst for Enhancing H2 Production, ACS Catal., 2024, 14: 14297−14307
[3]. 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., 2020, 41: 1812–1817
[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 propellants. Chin. J. Catal., 2018, 39: 1189–1193
[5]. Nanfang Tang, Yu Cong*, Qinghao Shang, Chuntian Wu, Guoliang Xu, Xiaodong Wang. Coordinatively unsaturated Al3+ sites anchored subnanometric ruthenium catalyst for hydrogenation of aromatics. ACS Catal., 2017, 7: 5987–5991
