Ning Yan

Research interests

Publications

• Catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals and fuels

  Green Energy & Environment · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gee.2022.07.003

• A unified view on catalytic conversion of biomass and waste plastics

  Nature Reviews Chemistry · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-022-00411-8

• Expanding the Boundary of Biorefinery: Organonitrogen Chemicals from Biomass

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00842

• Self-assembled iron-containing mordenite monolith for carbon dioxide sieving

  Science · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax5776

• Downstream processing of lignin derived feedstock into end products

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00134a

• Zeolite‐Encaged Pd–Mn Nanocatalysts for CO 2 Hydrogenation and Formic Acid Dehydrogenation

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202008962

• Toward the Shell Biorefinery: Processing Crustacean Shell Waste Using Hot Water and Carbonic Acid

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b06853

• Transforming Energy with Single-Atom Catalysts

  Joule · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.09.015

• Sustainable Routes for the Synthesis of Renewable Heteroatom-Containing Chemicals

  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00612

• Production of Primary Amines by Reductive Amination of Biomass‐Derived Aldehydes/Ketones

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201610964

• Base-catalysed, one-step mechanochemical conversion of chitin and shrimp shells into low molecular weight chitosan

  Green Chemistry · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c7gc00089h

• Thermally stable single atom Pt/m-Al2O3 for selective hydrogenation and CO oxidation

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16100

• Recent advances in the synthesis and catalytic applications of ligand-protected, atomically precise metal nanoclusters

  Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2016.05.003

• Shell Biorefinery: Dream or Reality?

  Chemistry - A European Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201602389

• Stabilizing a Platinum1 Single‐Atom Catalyst on Supported Phosphomolybdic Acid without Compromising Hydrogenation Activity

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201602801

• Ni-based bimetallic heterogeneous catalysts for energy and environmental applications

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ee02002j

• Sustainability: Don't waste seafood waste

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/524155a

• A Series of NiM (M = Ru, Rh, and Pd) Bimetallic Catalysts for Effective Lignin Hydrogenolysis in Water

  ACS Catalysis · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cs401199f

• Ultrathin rhodium nanosheets

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4093

• Balancing the Rate of Cluster Growth and Etching for Gram‐Scale Synthesis of Thiolate‐Protected Au 25 Nanoclusters with Atomic Precision

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201311177

• Toward Understanding the Growth Mechanism: Tracing All Stable Intermediate Species from Reduction of Au(I)–Thiolate Complexes to Evolution of Au 25 Nanoclusters

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja505429f

• Scalable and Precise Synthesis of Thiolated Au10–12, Au15, Au18, and Au25 Nanoclusters via pH Controlled CO Reduction

  Chemistry of Materials · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cm304098x

• Transition metal nanoparticle catalysis in green solvents

  Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2010.02.015

• Hydrodeoxygenation of Lignin‐Derived Phenols into Alkanes by Using Nanoparticle Catalysts Combined with Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquids

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201001531

• Selective Degradation of Wood Lignin over Noble‐Metal Catalysts in a Two‐Step Process

  ChemSusChem · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.200800080

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