Photocatalytic methane conversion over metal oxides: Fundamentals, achievements, and challenges
Jiang Wenbin, Low Jingxiang, Qiu Chang, Long Ran, Xiong Yujie
1. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), School of Chemistry and Materials Science, and National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;<br>2. Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230031, China<br>*Corresponding author: longran@ustc.edu.cn; yjxiong@ustc.edu.cn
About author:Jiang Wenbin is currently a graduate student under the tutelage of Prof. Xiong Yujie at University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests focus on controlled synthesis of metal-oxide hybrid nanostructures for catalytic applications and mechanistic investigations. E-mail: jiangwb@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Low Jingxiang obtained his Ph.D. degree from Wuhan University of Technology in 2018, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests focus on photocatalyst design for carbon dioxide reduction, nitrogen fixation and methane conversion.
Qiu Chang is currently a senior student majoring in materials chemistry at University of Science and Technology of China. Her current research interest is photocatalysis for methane conversion.
Long Ran (corresponding author) is an associate professor at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2009 and Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry under the tutelage of Prof. Xiong Yujie in 2014, both from USTC. Her research interests focus on controlled synthesis and catalytic applications of metal nanocrystals. So far, she has published more than 70 SCI papers in international high-level academic journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Chem. Soc. Rev., Nano Energy and Small.
Xiong Yujie (corresponding author) is the Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Chemistry at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Physics in 2000 and Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2004, both from USTC. From 2004 to 2009, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington in Seattle and as a Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. He was the Principal Scientist of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NSF-NNIN) site at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009～2011, and joined the USTC faculty as a Professor of Chemistry in 2011. His research centers on solar-driven artificial carbon cycle. He has published more than 200 scientific papers with over 25000 total citations (H-index 77), and is among the Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics and the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier.
JIANG Wenbin, LOW Jingxiang, QIU Chang, LONG Ran, XIONG Yujie. Photocatalytic methane conversion over metal oxides: Fundamentals, achievements, and challenges[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 2020, 50(11): 1361-1382.
