HUAI Liyuan
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Polymers and Composites
Group：Non-Metal Catalysis & Bio-based Monomer Synthesis
huailiyuan@nimte.ac.cn
Research Interests
Biomass conversion, Reaction Mechanism, Machine Learning, First-Principles Calculations
Representative Publications
1．Liyuan Huai; Jian Zhang*; William A. Goddard III*. The Reaction Mechanism and Rates at Ru Single-Atom Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Biomass BHMF to Produce BHMTHF for Renewable Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 31251-31263.
2．Mingxin Lv#; Liyuan Huai#; Zhilin Chen; Hongfeng Yin*; William A. Goddard III*; Jian Zhang*. The Water-Mediated Reaction Pathway for Catalytic Opening of the Furanic Ring on Platinum Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 29702-29710.
3．Jie Yang#; Liyuan Huai#*; Chunlin Chen; Jian Zhang*. Mechanistic Insights into the Aerobic Oxidation of 2,5-Bis(hydroxymethyl)furfural to 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid on Pd Catalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17, 10168-10178.
4．Mingfu Li; Sufei Feng; Hui Chen; Liyuan Huai*; Jian Zhang*. Hydrogen-Bond-Promoted Sucrose Conversion in a Separable Eutectic Mixture Solvent System. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, 10, 9155-9165.
5．Tongtong Zhang#; Yaoping Hu#; Liyuan Huai*; Zhijin Gao; Jian Zhang*. Facile Synthesis and Isolation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from Diphenyl Sulfoxide. Green Chemistry 2021, 23, 3241-3248.
6．Chunlin Chen#; Mingxin Lv#; Hualei Hu#; Liyuan Huai#; Bin Zhu; Shilin Fan; Qiuge Wang; Jian Zhang*. 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural and Its Downstream Chemicals: A Review of Catalytic Routes. Advanced Materials 2024, 2311464.
7．Peiyuan Liu#; Liyuan Huai#; Bin Zhu; Yang Zhong; Jian Zhang*; Chunlin Chen*. Interaction Between Copper and Nickel Species for Electrooxidation of 2,5-Bis(hydroxymethyl)furan. Green Chemistry 2024, 26, 5377-5385.
