Education

• 2017.09–2022.06 Ph.D. in Energy Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

• 2021.02–2022.02 Joint Ph.D. Training, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Job Experience

• 2025.03–present Associate Professor, College of Energy, Xiamen University (Master’s & Ph.D. Supervisor)

• 2022.07–2025.02 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Mass Transfer and Separation

• Graduate: Transport Phenomena and Reaction Engineering

Research

Published over 50 papers in journals such as Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Commun., JACS, Angew, AIChE J., etc., and been granted more than ten patents. Some representative papers are as follows (# Co-first authors, *Corresponding author):

1. Yunchao Feng, Hongtao Wang, Tianxiang Chen, Minghao Gao, Zhe He, Gaoqian Yuan, Lichen Liu*, Shape-selective conversion of high-density polyethylene into benzene with zeolite-encapsulated subnanometer Pt catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c14646.

2. Yunchao Feng, Hongtao Wang, Tianxiang Chen, Benedict Tsz-Woon Lo, Miguel Lopez-Haro and Lichen Liu*, Water-promoted oxidative coupling of aromatics with subnanometer palladium clusters confined in zeolites, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 9373.

3. Yunchao Feng, Sishi Long, Xing Tang, Yong Sun, Rafael Luque, Xianhai Zeng* and Lu Lin, Earth-abundant 3d-transition-metal catalysts for lignocellulosic biomass conversion, Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50, 6042-6093.