My research interests are driven by developing more efficient and environmental benign chemical process and better functional materials for industrial applications and human life.
For many years, my work is mainly on novel but cleaner and more effective catalysts for energy like fuel/chemical production and environmental purifications. The catalysts are mostly based on supported transition metals, oxides, carbides, nitrides or sulphides or noble metal catalysts with high surface area and desirable structure and size, which can be made through our platform technology, e.g, organic metal matrix (OMX) method for catalyst design and preparation. The resultant catalysts showed super performance various catalytic processes.. When exposed under microwave irradiation, our catalyst can selectively break C-C bonds or C-H bonds so as to make hydrogen from plastics waste or make monomers from the polymer waste.
With many years research and expertise in catalysis and chemical and energy industry, we would like further to develop catalysts for circular economy in polymer and sustainable fuel sectors, producing SAF or bio-degradable plastics from CO2, so as to promote the zero-emission economy.