Ziyi Zhong received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University, and Ph.D from Nanjing University in China (1995). He spent five years carrying out postdoctoral research at Bar-Ilan University, the University of Washington at Seattle and finally at the National University of Singapore. In 2002, he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship from NSERC Canada and worked in an institute (BRI) in Montreal. During the period of 02/2003-09/2018, he worked in the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences under Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, and also held an adjunct associate professorship in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore (2013-2017), and a part time position in Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) in NTU (20016-2018). He joined GTIIT as a full professor recently.
Before joining GTIIT, he worked on many projects related to heterogeneous catalysis, material science, wastewater treatment and pharmaceuticals, and some of the industrial projects were supported by companies such as Corning Inc (USA), Honeywell (US), Mitsubishi Chemical Corp (Japan), MicroMil CarbonTech (Singapore) and Glaxo SmithKline plc (GSK), etc.
He has authored/co-authored ca. 200 international journal papers to-date (cited ca. 11000 times), 3 book chapters and 5 granted patents (including 2 US patents), with an h-index of 55 (Google scholar). In addition, he contributed ca. 30 industrial project reports.
The studies to be carried out aim to not only address fundamental scientific issues/problems, but also develop practical applications, particularly for environmental remediation.
Heterogeneous Catalysis, Particularly in the Design and Synthesis of Nanosized Catalysts for Environmental Remediation,
Clean Energy and Energy Storage Materials,
Waste Water Treatment,
Surface Chemistry
Various Nanosized Materials, including Solid Adsorbents.
Papers
Jing Li, Li-Li Yin, Yongjun Ji*, Hezhi Liu, Yu Zhang, Xue-Qing Gong,* Ziyi Zhong*, Fabing Su*, Impact of the Cu2O Crystal Planes on Active Phase Formation in Rochow Reaction and An Experimental and Theoretic Understanding of the Reaction Mechanism, Journal of Catalysis, 2018, 361, 73–83.
Ziyi Zhong, Jianyi Lin, Highly dispersed metal catalysts, US Patent 8926937B2.
Zailei Zhang, Yanhong Wang, Wenfeng Ren,Qiangqiang Tan, Yunfa Chen, Hong Li, Ziyi Zhong,and Fabing Su*, Scalable Synthesis of Interconnected Porous Silicon/Carbon Composites via Rochow Reaction as High Performance Anodes of Li-Ion Batteries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 5165–5169.
Junya Wang, Liang Huang, Ruoyan Yang, Zhang Zhang, Jingwen Wu, Yanshan Gao, Qiang Wang,* Dermot OHare and Ziyi Zhong*, Recent Advances in Solid Sorbents for CO2 Capture and New Development Trends, Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 2014, 7, (11), p 3478-3518.
Nina Perkas, Poernomo Gunawan, Galina Amirian, Zhan Wang, Ziyi Zhong* and Aharon Gedanken*, The sonochemical approach improves the CuO–ZnO/TiO2 catalyst for WGS reaction, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 7521-7530.
Jia Zhang,* Ziyi Zhong, X.-M. Cao, P. Hu, Michael B. Sullivan, Luwei Chen, Ethanol Steam Reforming on Rh catalysts: Theoretical and Experimental Understanding, ACS Catal., 2014, 4, 448-456.
Qiang Wang*, Hui Huang Tay, Ziyi Zhong, Jizhong Luo*, Armando Borgna, Synthesis of high-temperature CO2 adsorbents from organo-layered double hydroxides with markedly improved CO2 capture capacity, Energy & Environmental Sciences (EES), 2012, 5, 7526-7530.
Xu Li, Stella See Soon Fang, Jaclyn Teo,Yong Lim Foo, Armando Borgna, Ming Lin*, ZiyiZhong*, Activation and Deactivation of Au-Cu/SBA-15 Catalyst for Preferential Oxidation of CO in H2-rich Gas. ACS Catal., 2012, 2, 360.
Qiang Wang, Jizhong Luo, Ziyi Zhong,* and Armando Borgna, CO2 Capture by Solid-Adsorbents and Their Applications: Current Status and New Trends, Energy & Environmental Sciences, 2011, 4, 42-55)
Ziyi Zhong*, Jianyi Lin, Siew-Pheng Teh, Jaclyn Teo, Frits. M. Dautzenberg, A Rapid and Efficient Method to Deposit Au and Pt Particles on Catalyst Supports and Its Application for CO Oxidation at Low Temperatures, Adv. Funct. Mater, 2007, 17, 1402-1408.
Books/Book Chapters
Poernomo Gunawan, Rong Xu, Ziyi Zhong,* Heterogeneous gold catalysts for selective oxidation reactions. RSC Catalysis Book Series no. 18 “Heterogeneous gold catalysts and catalysis”, Ma, Z., Dai, S., Eds.; RSC Publishing: London, 2014, p 288-400.
