Dr. Bing Bai

Postdoctoral Fellow
Employed since: January 2025
Email: b.bai1@uu.nl
Room: DDW 4.88

Research

Research

In this postdoctoral project, I will focus on CO2 hydrogenation using Ni-based catalysts under reaction conditions employing operando spectroscopy to gain a deeper understanding of the structure-composition-performance relationships and the related reaction and deactivation mechanisms.

CV

CV

Since 2025
Postdoctoral fellow, Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Utrecht University, Netherlands;
Supervisor: Prof. dr. ir. Bert M. Weckhuysen

2019 – 2024
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China;
PhD thesis: Mechanistic study on direct syngas conversion to light olefins OXZEO-TO reaction;
Supervisors: Prof. Xinhe Bao and Prof. Xiulian Pan

2018 – 2019
Visiting Study, Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (UC, Berkeley), the United States;

2015 – 2019
B.S., Material Science and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China;
Supervisor: Prof. Jiannian Yao

Publications

Bai, Bing; Ye, Yihan; Jiao, Feng; Xiao, Jianping; Pan, Yang; Cai, Zehua; Chen, Mingshu; Pan, Xiulian; Bao, Xinhe

Surface Structure Dependent Activation of Hydrogen over Metal Oxides during Syngas Conversion Journal Article

In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 50, pp. 34909 – 34915, 2024, (Cited by: 0).

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Bai, Bing; Guo, Chenxi; Jiao, Feng; Xiao, Jianping; Ding, Yilun; Qu, Shengcheng; Pan, Yang; Pan, Xiulian; Bao, Xinhe

Tuning the Crystal Phase to Form MnGaOx-Spinel for Highly Efficient Syngas to Light Olefins Journal Article

In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 62, no. 25, 2023, (Cited by: 26).

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Jiao, Feng; Bai, Bing; Li, Gen; Pan, Xiulian; Ye, Yihan; Qu, Shengcheng; Xu, Changqi; Xiao, Jianping; Jia, Zhenghao; Liu, Wei; Peng, Tao; Ding, Yilun; Liu, Cheng; Li, Jinjing; Bao, Xinhe

Disentangling the activity-selectivity trade-off in catalytic conversion of syngas to light olefins Journal Article

In: Science, vol. 380, no. 6646, pp. 727 – 730, 2023, (Cited by: 83).

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Li, Na; Zhu, Yifeng; Jiao, Feng; Pan, Xiulian; Jiang, Qike; Cai, Jun; Li, Yifan; Tong, Wei; Xu, Changqi; Qu, Shengcheng; Bai, Bing; Miao, Dengyun; Liu, Zhi; Bao, Xinhe

Steering the reaction pathway of syngas-to-light olefins with coordination unsaturated sites of ZnGaOx spinel Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022, (Cited by: 42; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access).

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Ding, Yilun; Miao, Dengyun; Feng, Jingyao; Bai, Bing; Pan, Xiulian; Bao, Xinhe

Enhanced formation of multi-branched isoparaffins in syngas conversion by ZnCrOx-MCM-22 composites Journal Article

In: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 316, 2022, (Cited by: 11).

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