Research interests

1. Heterogeneous catalysis and related industrial catalysis; 2. Metal oxide and acid-base catalysis; 3. Catalysis by ceria and related materials.

Publications

1. Zhixin Zhang, Yehong Wang, Jianmin Lu, Chaofeng Zhang, Min Wang, Mingrun Li, Xuebin Liu, Feng Wang*. Conversion of isobutene and formaldehyde to diol using praseodymium-doped CeO₂ catalyst. ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 8248–8254.

2. Zhixin Zhang, Yehong Wang, Min Wang, Jianmin Lu, Chaofeng Zhang, Lihua Li, Jingyang Jiang, Feng Wang*. The cascade synthesis of α,β-unsaturated ketones via oxidative C–C coupling of ketones and primary alcohols over a ceria catalyst. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016, 6, 1693-1700.

3. Zhixin Zhang, Yehong Wang, Min Wang, Jianmin Lü, Lihua Li, Zhe Zhang, Mingrun Li, Jingyang Jiang*, Feng Wang*. An investigation of the effects of CeO₂ crystal planes on the aerobic oxidative synthesis of imines from alcohols and amines. Chin. J. Catal., 2015, 36(9), 1623-1630.