Fan, Wei - University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Chemical Engineering

个人简介

B.S., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2000 M.S., The University of Tokyo, 2004 Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, 2007 Education 10/2004 - 09/2007 Chemical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: “Crystallization mechanism of aluminosilicate zeolite nanocrystals”Advisor: Prof. Tatsuya Okubo 10/2002 - 09/2004 Chemical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan M.S. Chemical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Tatsuya Okubo 09/1995 - 07/2000 Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), P. R. China B.S. Materials Science and Engineering Professional Appointments 06/2016 – present Associate professor (Tenured), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. 9/2010 – 06/2016 Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. 9/2011 - present Faculty member, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, Energy Frontier Research Center founded by the U.S. Department of Energy 9/2007 - 9/2010 Postdoctoral researcher, Supervisor: Prof. Michael Tsapatsis, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, USA.Research Project: Synthesis of zeolite nanocrystals for ultra-thin zeolite membrane 9/2007 - 9/2010 Technical specialist, X-ray diffraction and scattering, Characterization Facility,University of Minnesota, USA.Project: Consulting X-ray diffraction and scattering measurements for a wide range of users from industries including 3M, Medtronic, Eastman Chemical Company etc. 10/2004 - 4/2007 Research assistant, 21st Century COE Program, Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT), Japan. 10/2002 - 10/2005 Research assistant, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan. 09/2000 - 07/2002 Research assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, P. R. China

研究领域

The research of our group focuses on the rational synthesis of nanoporous materials for the catalysts of biorefinery and drug delivery carriers with engineering their pore structure and size, surface properties and active sites based on the comprehensive understanding of their crystallization mechanism.

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Li, W.*; Su, M.; Zhang, T.; Ma, Q.; Fan, W., Production of liquid fuel intermediates from furfural via aldol condensation over potassium-promoted Sn-MFI catalyst, Fuel, 2019, 237, 1281-1290. Cho, H.J.; Gould, N.S.; Vattipalli, V.; Sabnis, S.; Chaikittisilp, W.; Okubo, T.; Xu, B.; Fan, W.*,Fabrication of hierarchical Lewis acid Sn-BEA with tunable hydrophobicity for cellulosic sugar isomerization, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2019, 278, 387-396. Qi, X.;Fan, W.*, Selective Production of Aromatics by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Furan with In Situ Dehydrogenation of Propane, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 2626-2632. Lacey, S.D.; Dong, Q.; Huang, Z.; Luo, J.; Xie, H.; Lin, Z.; Kirsch, D.J.; Vattipalli, V.; Povinelli, C.; Fan,W.; Shahbazian-Yassar, R.; Wang, D.;Hu, L., Stable Multimetallic Nanoparticles for Oxygen Electrocatalysis, Nano Letters, 2019, 19, 5149-5158 Vattipalli, V.; Paracha, A.M. Ø; Hu, W.G.; Chen, H.Y.; Fan, W.*, Broadening the Scope for Fluoride-Free Synthesis of Siliceous Zeolites, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2018, 57, 3607-3611. Qi, X.D.; Vattipalli, V.; Dauenhauer, P.J.; Fan, W.*, Silica Nanoparticle Mass Transfer Fins for MFI Composite Materials, Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30, 2353-2361. Ponnuru, K.; Manayil, J.C.; Cho, H.J.; Osatiashtiani, A.; Fan, W.; Wilson, K.;Jentoft, F.C.*, Tuning solid Catalysts to control regioselectivity in cross aldol condensations with unsymmetrical ketones for biomass Conversion, Molecular Catalysis, 2018, 458, 247-260. Ponnuru, K.; Manayil, J.C.; Cho, H.J.; Fan, W.; Wilson, K.;Jentoft, F.C.*, Intraparticle Diffusional versus Site Effects on Reaction Pathways in Liquid-Phase Cross Aldol Reactions, Chemphyschem, 2018, 19,386-401. Jeon, M.Y.; Kim, D.; Kumar, P.; Lee, P.S.; Rangnekar, N.; Bai, P.; Shete, M.; Elyassi, B.; Lee, H.S.;Narasimharao, K.; Basahel, S.N.; Al-Thabaiti, S.; Xu, W.Q.; Cho, H.J.; Fetisov, E.O.; Thyagarajan, R.;DeJaco, R.F.; Fan, W.; Mkhoyan, K.A.; Siepmann, J.I.;Tsapatsis, M., Ultra-selective high-flux membranes from directly synthesized zeolite nanosheets, Nature, 2017, 543, 690-. Luo, J.; Yao, X.; Yang, L.; Han, Y.; Chen, L.; Geng, X.; Vattipalli, V.; Dong, Q.; Fan, W.; Wang, D.;Zhu, H.,Free-standing porous carbon electrodes derived from wood for high-performance Li-O2 battery applications,Nano Research, 2017, 10, 4318-4326. Wang, J.; Tang, L.; Somasundaran, P.; Fan, W.; Zeng, G.; Deng, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Wang, J.;Shen, Y., Highly effective antibacterial activity by the synergistic effect of three dimensional ordered mesoporous carbon-lysozyme Composite, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 503, 131-141. Wang, X.; Min, S.; Das, S.K.; Fan, W.; Huang, K.-W.;Lai, Z., Spatially isolated palladium in porous organic polymers by direct knitting for versatile organic transformations, Journal of Catalysis, 2017, 355, 101-109. Gou, J.; Wang, Z.; Li, C.; Qi, X.; Vattipalli, V.; Cheng, Y.-T.; Huber, G.; Conner, W.C.; Dauenhauer, P.J.; Mountziaris, T.J.; Fan, W.*, The effects of ZSM-5 mesoporosity and morphology on the catalytic fast pyrolysis of furan, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 3549-3557. Patet, R.E.; Fan, W.; Vlachos, D.G.;Caratzoulas, S., Tandem Diels-Alder Reaction of Dimethylfuran and Ethylene and Dehydration to para-Xylene Catalyzed by Zeotypic Lewis Acids, ChemCatChem, 2017, 9,2523-2535.Wei Fan, University of Massachusetts Amherst Cho, H.J.; Ren, L.; Vattipalli, V.; Yeh, Y.-H.; Gould, N.G.; Xu, B.; Gorte, R.J.; Lobo, R.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Tsapatsis, M., Fan, W*, Renewable p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene Using Phosphoruscontaining Zeolite Catalysts, ChemCatChem, 2017, 9, 398-402. (DOI) Zhang, T.W.; Fan, W.; Li, W.Z.; Xu, Z.P.; Xin, H.S.; Su, M.X.; Lu, Y.J.;Ma, L.L., One-Pot Conversion of Carbohydrates into 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural using Heterogeneous Lewis-Acid and Bronsted-Acid Catalysts, Energy Technology, 2017, 5, 747-755. Abdelrahman, O.A.; Park, D.S.; Vinter, K.P.; Spanjers, C.S.; Ren, L.; Cho, H.J.; Vlachos, D.G.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M.;Dauenhauer, P.J., Biomass-Derived Butadiene by Dehydra-Decyclization of Tetrahydrofuran,ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 3732-3736. Abdelrahman, O.A.; Park, D.S.; Vinter, K.P.; Spanjers, C.S.; Ren, L.; Cho, H.J.; Zhang, K.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M.;Dauenhauer, P.J., Renewable Isoprene by Sequential Hydrogenation of Itaconic Acid and DehydraDecyclization of 3-Methyl-Tetrahydrofuran, ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 1428-1431. Cho, H.J.; Ren, L.; Vattipalli, V.; Yeh, Y.-H.; Gould, N.G.; Xu, B.; Gorte, R.J.; Lobo, R.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Tsapatsis, M., Fan, W*, Renewable p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene Using Phosphoruscontaining Zeolite Catalysts, ChemCatChem, 2017, 9, 398-402. (DOI) Vattipalli, V.; Qi, X.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Fan, W.*, Long Walks in Hierarchical Porous Materials due to Combined Surface and Configurational Diffusion, Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 7852-7863. (DOI)