Education and Research Experience: 

Bachelor of Science, Xiamen University, China (June 2010);

Doctor of Science, Xiamen University, China (June 2016);

Exchange Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (October 2012-April 2013);

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, UK (October 2016-June 2022)

Principal Research Interests:
Ethylene glycol synthesis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogenation, Carbon catalysis, Fullerene, CO₂ utilization, Hydrogen energy

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Jianwei Zheng†, Lele Huang†, Cun-Hao Cui, Zuo-Chang Chen, Xu-Feng Liu, Xinping Duan, Xin-Yi Cao, Tong-Zong Yang, Hongping Zhu, Kang Shi, Peng Du, Si-Wei Ying, Chang-Feng Zhu, Yuan-Gen Yao, Guo-Cong Guo, Youzhu Yuan*, Su-Yuan Xie*, Lan-Sun Zheng, Ambient-pressure synthesis of ethylene glycol catalyzed by C₆₀-buffered Cu/SiO_2. Science, 2022, 376, 288-292.

2. Jianwei Zheng, Konstantin Lebedev, Simson Wu, Chen Huang, Tuğçe Ayvalı, Tai-Sing Wu, Yiyang Li, Ping-Luen Ho, Yun-Liang Soo, Angus Kirkland, and Shik Chi Edman Tsang, High loading of transition metal single atoms on chalcogenide catalysts. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 7979–7990.

3. Jianwei Zheng†, Fenglin Liao†, Simson Wu†, Glenn Jones, Josh Fellowes, Tim Sudmeier, Ian Macpherson, Ian Wilkinson, Edman Tsang, Efficient non‐dissociative activation of dinitrogen to ammonia over lithium‐promoted ruthenium Nanoparticles at low pressure. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 17335–17341.

4. Molly Meng-Jung Li†, Hanbo Zou†, Jianwei Zheng†, Tai-Sing Wu, Ting-Shan Chan, Yun-Liang Soo, Xin-Ping Wu, Xue-Qing Gong, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Methanol synthesis at a wide range of H₂/CO₂ ratios over Rh-In bimetallic catalyst. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 16039–16046.

5. Jianwei Zheng, Jin Qu, Haiqiang Lin, Qian Zhang, Xiang Yuan, Yanhui Yang, Youzhu Yuan, Surface composition control of the binary Au–Ag catalyst for enhanced oxidant-free dehydrogenation. ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 6662–6669.

6. Jianwei Zheng, Simson Wu, Lilin Lu, Chen Huang, Ping-Luen Ho, Angus Kirkland Tim Sudmeier, Rosa Arrigo, Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Structural insight into [Fe–S₂–Mo] motif in electrochemical reduction of N₂ over Fe₁-supported molecular MoS₂. Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 688–695.

7. Jianwei Zheng, Lilin Lu, Konstantin Lebedev, Simson Wu, Pu Zhao, Ian J. McPherson, Tai-Sing Wu, Ryuichi Kato, Yiyang Li, Ping-Luen Ho, Guangchao Li, Linlu Bai, Jianhui Sun, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Robert A. Taylor, Yun-Liang Soo, Kazu Suenaga, and Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Fe on molecular layer MoS₂ as inorganic nitrogenase-mimic [Fe-S₂-Mo] motifs for light-driven nitrogen fixation to ammonia at elevated temperatures. Chem Catal., 2021, 1, 162–182.

8. Jianwei. Zheng, Huihuang Fang, Xinping Duan, Haiqiang Lin, Yanhui Yang, Youzhu Yuan. Spatial ensembles of copper-silica with carbon nanotubes as ultrastable nanostructured catalysts for selective hydrogenation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 27268–27276.

9. Jianwei Zheng, Xinping Duan, Haiqiang Lin, Zhengqiang Gu, Huihuang Fang, Jianhui Li, Youzhu Yuan, Silver nanoparticles confined in carbon nanotubes: on the understanding of the confinement effect, promotional catalysis for the selective hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 5959–5967.

10.  Jianwei Zheng, Junfu Zhou, Haiqiang Lin, Xinping Duan, Christopher T. Williams, Youzhu Yuan. CO-mediated deactivation mechanism of SiO₂-supported copper catalysts during dimethyl oxalate hydrogenation of ethylene glycol. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 13758–13766.