Dr. Runping Ye （叶闰平）
Special-term Professor at Nanchang University
Address: No. 999 Xuefu Road, Nanchang 330031, P. R. China.
Email：rye@ncu.edu.cn; TEL: +86-18250153018
Education & Working Experiences
2009.09-2013.07, Bachelor Degree, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
2013.09-2019.06, Ph.D. Degree, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China
2017.09-2018.12, Ph.D. Visiting students, University of Wyoming, USA
2019.06-2021.09, Postdoctoral fellow, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Science
2021.09-present, Special-term Professor, College of Chemistry, Nanchang University
Research Interests
• Hydrogen energy, Synthesis of natural gas, Utilizaiton of coals.
• Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate, CO2 utilizations
• Metal-organic frameworks, Nanoreactors
Academic Service
• Reviewer for several international journals, such as Chem. Eng. J. Nat. Commun., Appl. Catal. B: Environ., Chem. Sci., J. Mater. Chem. A, Chem. Eng. Sci., Fuel, Mater. Today Sustain..
Awards and Honors
• One of the winners of “Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles in 2019”.
• The Second Prize of Rare Earth Science and Technology Award (R2, 2025)
• The First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Particle Society (R6, 2025)
Selected Publications
1. R. Ye, J. Ding, T. R. Reina, M. S. Duyar, H. Li, W. Luo, R. Zhang, M. Fan*, G. Feng*, J. Sun*, J. Liu*, Design of catalysts for selective CO2 hydrogenation. Nature Synthesis, 2025, 4, 288-302.
2. R. Ye#, L. Ma#, J. Mao#, X. Wang, X. Hong, A. Gallo, Y. Ma, W. Luo, B. Wang, R. Zhang*, M. S. Duyar*, Z. Jiang*, J. Liu*, A Ce-CuZn catalyst with abundant Cu/Zn-OV-Ce active sites for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 2159. (Top 25 Read Articles of Chemistry and Materials Science, ESI hot paper)
3. R. Ye#, J. Ding#, W. Gong#, M.D. Argyle, Q. Zhong, Y. Wang, C.K. Russell, Z. Xu, A.G. Russell, Q. Li, M. Fan*, Y.G. Yao*, CO2 hydrogenation to high-value products via heterogeneous catalysis, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 5698. (Top 50 Read Articles of Chemistry and Materials Science, ESI hot paper)
4. R. Ye#, L. Ma#, X. Hong#, T. R. Reina, W. Luo, L. Kang, G. Feng, R. Zhang, M. Fan*, R. Zhang*, J. Liu*, Boosting low-temperature CO2 hydrogenation over Ni-based catalysts by tuning strong metal-support interactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 136, e202317669. (ESI highly cited paper and hot paper)
5. R. Ye*#, X. Wang#, Z.-H. Lu, R. Zhang*, G. Feng*, Construction of robust Ni-based catalysts for low-temperature Sabatier reaction. Chemical Communication 2024, 60, 11466-11482.
6. X. Sun#, R. Wu#, M. A. Nawaz, S. Meng, T. Guan, C. Zhang, C. Sun, Z.-H. Lu, R. Zhang, G. Feng, R. Ye*, Investigation of Sn promoter on Ni/CeO2 catalysts for enhanced acetylene semihydrogenation to ethylene. Inorg. Chem. Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, 63, 24313-24330.
7. L. Ma#, R.P. Ye#*, Y. Huang, T. R. Reina, X. Wang, C. Li, X. L. Zhang, M. Fan, R. Zhang*, J. Liu*, Enhanced low-temperature CO2 methanation performance of Ni/ZrO2 catalysts via a phase engineering strategy. Chemical Engineering Journal 2022, 446, 137031.
8. D. Liu#, R. Wu#, X. Wang, R. Ye*, F. Hu, X. Chen, T. Wang, B. Han, Z.-H. Lu, G. Feng*, R. Zhang*, Catalytic CO oxidation on the Cu+-Ov-Ce3+ interface constructed by an electrospinning method for enhanced CO adsorption at low temperature. Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, 63, 4312-4327.
9. H. Hu, Z. Tu, X. Yan, X. Chen, L. Zhou, Z.-H. Lu, R. Ye*, G. Feng*, R. Zhang*, Effects of organic compounds on Ni/AlLaCe catalysts for ammonia decomposition to hydrogen. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024, 63, 3910-3920.
10. J. Ding#, R. Ye#, Y. Fu, Y. He, Y. Wu, Y. Zhang, Q. Zhong*, H.H. Kung*, M. Fan*, Direct synthesis of urea from carbon dioxide and ammonia, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 4586.
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