Bio

Dr. Ji Yang joins the college of Chemistry, Central China Normal University (CCNU) as a Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in Physic Chemistry from CCNU in 2021 and later conducted postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was promoted to Staff Research Associate in 2024. His research has mainly focused on greenhouse gas mitigation and valorization, air pollutant control, and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) technology development, high-entropy material development for lignin depolymerization etc. He has published 10 first/corresponding-author papers in top journals, including Science, Nature Communications, and Angewandte Chemie, etc., with over 2,000 total citations. His work on sustainable environmental and energy materials has resulted in three granted Chinese patents and seven pending international applications. He was a Guest Editor for the Journal of Topics in Catalysis in 2023 and 2024.

Email: jiyang@ccnu.edu.cn

Research Interest

Greenhouse gas mitigation and valorization

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) technology

High-entropy material development for environmental and energy catalysis

Selected Honors and Awards

“Chemistry Letters Young Award” in the 9th East Asia Joint Symposium on Environmental Catalysis and Eco-materials (International class) 2019

“Best Poster Award” in the 9th East Asia Joint Symposium on Environmental Catalysis and Eco-materials (International class) 2019

“President Scholarship” of Central China Normal University2019

Selected Publications (Citations of >2000)

1. Ji Yang (First author), Lorenz J. Falling, Siyang Yan, Biluan Zhang, Pragya Verma, Luke Daemen, Yongqiang Cheng, Xiao Zhao, Shuchen Zhang, Jeng-Lung Chen, Bingqing Yao, Shengdong Tan, Sudong Chae, Qian He, Slavomir Nemsak, Zili Wu, David Prendergast*, Yanbing Guo*, Jiaxu Liu*, Miquel Salmeron*, Ji Su*.  Formation of hydrided Pt-Ce-H sites in efficient, selective oxidation catalysts. Science 2025, 10.1126/science.adv0735.

2. Ji Yang (First author), Lu Wang, Ji Su* et al., Atomically-Synergistic Binuclear-Site Zn-Cr Catalyst for Iso-Stoichiometric Co-Conversion of Ethane and CO2 to Ethylene and CO, Nature Commun. 2024, 15, 911.

3. Ji Yang (First author), Juan Zheng, Ji Su, et al., Unveiling Highly Sensitive Active Site in Atomically Dispersed Gold Catalysts for Enhanced Ethanol Dehydrogenation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202408894.

4. Ji Yang (First author), Siyu Hu, Limin Shi, Son Hoang, Weiwei Yang, Yarong Fang, Zhenfeng Liang, Chuanqi Pan, Yuhua Zhu, Li Li, Jian Wu, Jinpeng Hu, Yanbing Guo*, Oxygen Vacancy and Lewis Acid Site Synergistically Promoted Catalytic Methane Combustion over Perovskite Oxides, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 9243–9254.

5. Ji Yang (First author), Wen Xiao, Xiao Chi, Xingxu Lu, Siyu Hu, Zili Wu, Wenxiang Tang, Zheng Ren, Sibo Wang, Xiaojiang Yu, Lizhi Zhang, Andrivo Rusydi, Jun Ding, Yanbing Guo*, Pu-Xian Gao, Solar-driven efficient methane catalytic oxidation over epitaxial metal oxide heterojunctions, Appl. Catal. B Environ. 2020, 265, 118469.

6. Ji Yang (First author), Siyu Hu, Yarong Fang, Son Hoang, Li Li, Weiwei Yang, Zhenfeng Liang, Jian Wu, Jinpeng Hu, Wen Xiao, Chuanqi Pan, Zhu Luo, Jun Ding, Lizhi Zhang, Yanbing Guo*, Oxygen Vacancy Promoted Molecule O2 Activation over Perovskite Oxide for Low-Temperature CO oxidation, ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 9751-9763.

7. Ji Yang (First author), Limin Shi, Li Li, Yarong Fang, Chuanqi Pan, Yuhua Zhu, Zhenfeng Liang, Son Hoang, Zhenguo Li, YanbingGuo*, Surface modification of macroporous La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 perovskite oxides integrated monolithic catalysts for improved propane oxidation, Catal. Today 2021, 376, 168-176.

8. Ji Yang (First author), Yanbing Guo*, Nanostructured perovskite oxides as promising substitutes of noble metals catalysts for catalytic combustion of methane. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2018, 29, 252-260.

9. Yarong Fang, Ji Yang* (Corresponding author), Chuanqi Pan, The Surface/Interface Modulation of Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Catalysts for VOCs and CO Catalytic Oxidation, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 37379–37389.

10. Sudong Chae, Yi Chen, Ji Yang* (Corresponding author), Ji Su*, The stability of single-atom catalysts in thermocatalysis. Surf. Sci. Technol., 2024, 2, 18.

Granted Patents

1. Yanbing Guo, Ji Yang “The fabrication of epitaxial interface coupled metal oxide/perovskite composite catalyst and its application”, P. R. China patent: ZL 201910211518.2

2. Yanbing Guo, Ji Yang, Hongtao Deng “The fabrication of ordered macroporous perovskite oxides based Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) and its application”, P. R. China patent: ZL 201811647594.X

3. Yanbing Guo, Ji Yang “Perovskite framework based monolithic catalysts and its preparation”, P. R. China patent: ZL 201811646324.7

We cordially invite motivated researchers at all career stages (undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars) to join our multidisciplinary catalysis team. Please inquire or send your resume to: 793920738@qq.com or jiyang@ccnu.edu.cn