Huayu Gu（古华宇）
Email: huayu_gu@163.com
Adress: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010000
Education Experience
2018.09–2022.07 Doctor of Science, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University
2015.09–2018.07 Master of Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University
2022.12–2026.01 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2026.03–Present Distinguished Research Fellow, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University
Research Fields
Mineralization treatment of atmospheric pollutants via traditional thermal catalytic technologies
Resource utilization of atmospheric CO₂ driven by the carbon neutrality goal
Research Projects
Research Startup Fund for High-Level Talents under the Junma Program of Inner Mongolia University, 2026–2031, Principal Investigator (PI).
(1) Huayu Gu; Fanyu Wang; Sai Chen; Jintong Lan; Jun Wang; Chunlei Pei; Xiao Liu; Jinlong Gong; Suppressing Jahn-Teller distortion of MnO2 via B-Ni dual single-atoms integration for methane catalytic combustion, Nature Communications, 2025, 16(1).
(2) Huayu Gu; Xiao Liu; Xiufan Liu; Cancan Ling; Kai Wei; Guangming Zhan; Yanbing Guo; Lizhi Zhang; Adjacent single-atom irons boosting molecular oxygen activation on MnO2, Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1).
(3) Huayu Gu; Jintong Lan; Hongqi Shi; Bo Xie; Zhihui Ai; Lizhi Zhang; Xiao Liu; Channel Confinement Enables K Species with Rich Electrons in α-MnO2 for Water Molecules Activation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34(18).
(4) Huayu Gu; Jintong Lan; Yi Liu; Cancan Ling; Kai Wei; Guangming Zhan; Furong Guo; Falong Jia; Zhihui Ai; Lizhi Zhang; Hua Wang; Water Enables Lattice Oxygen Activation of Transition Metal Oxides for Volatile Organic Compound Oxidation, ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12(18): 11272-11280.
(5) Huayu Gu; Jintong Lan; Haolu Hu; Falong Jia; Zhihui Ai; Lizhi Zhang; Xiao Liu; Surface oxygen vacancy-dependent molecular oxygen activation for propane combustion over α-MnO2, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 460: 132499.
(6) Huayu Gu; Dongshuang Wu; Unveiling the support LUMO-activity correlation in single-atom catalysis, Chem catalysis, 2025, 5(6).
(7) Huayu Gu; Dongshuang Wu; Catalyst design strategies to overcome temperature constrained relationship in CO2-to-methanol conversion, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025,524,169121.
