Basic Information

 

 Chun-Ran Chang

Ph.D.,  Professor

  

Contact

 

Office: Room 401 of SCET Office Building

E-mail: changcr@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

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School of Chemical Engineering and Technology

Xian Jiaotong University

Xi'an, 710049, P. R.China 


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Personal Profile

  

Prof. Chun-Ran Chang was born in May 1986, Shandong Province. He received his Ph.D. degree  from Tsinghua University in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Jun Li. He is now a doctoral tutor in chemical engineering and a member of Chinese Chemical Society (CCS). He has presented several projects sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers with total citations more than 2600 and an H-index of 26.

 

Education

 

>>   2009.09-2013.07, Ph,D., Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
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>>   2010.04-2011.04, Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München

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>>   2006.09-2009.07, M. E., Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University

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>>   2002.09-2006.07, B. E., Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University

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Work Experience

>>   2021.01-present, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Professor

 

>>   2016.07-2020.12, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Associate Professor

 

>>   2013.08-2016.06, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Lecturer

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Research Focuses

 

>>   Design and construction of novel catalytic materials

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>>   Computational catalysis under realistic conditions

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>>   Development of green catalytic processes by joint theoretical and experimental studies

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Selected Publications

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17. Huang, Z.-W.; Ban, T.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, L.-P.; Guo, S.-F.; Chang, C.-R.*; Jing, G.-H.*. Boosting the thermal stability and catalytic performance by confining Ag single atom sites over antimony-doped tin oxide via atom trapping. Applied Catalysis B: Enviromental, 2021, 283, 119625.

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16. Liu, Y.; Duan, Z.-H.; Li, J.; Chang, C.-R.*. Gas-Phase Mechanism Study of Methane Nonoxidative Conversion by ReaxFF Method. Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. 2021, 37(11), 2011012.

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15. Zhang, Y.-Y.; Wang, M.-J.; Chang, C.-R.; Xu, K.-Z.*; Ma, H.-X.; Zhao, F.-Q. A DFT study on the enthalpies of thermite reactions and enthalpies of formation of metal composite oxide. Chemical Physics, 2018, 507, 19-27.

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14. Huang, C.-D.; Wu, J.; Chen,Y.-T.; Tian, M.; Rykov, A.I,; Hou,B.-L.; Lin, J.*; Chang, C.-R.*; Pan, X.-L.; Wang, J.-H.; Wang, A.-Q. & Wang, X.-D.*. In situ encapsulation of iron(0) for solar thermochemical syngas production over iron-based perovskite material. Communications Chemistry2018, 1, 55.

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13. Ma, Y.-Y.; , Zhang, S.; Chang, C.-R.; Huang, Z.-Q.;, Ho, J.C.  and Qu, Y.-Q.*, Semi-solid and solid frustrated Lewis pair catalysts. Chem. Soc. Rev2018, 47, 5541-5553.

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12. Zhang, W.; Zhang, X.; Chen, L.; Dai, J.-Y.; Ding, Y.; Ji, L.-F.; Zhao, J.;  Yan, M.; Yang, F.-C.*; Chang, C.-R.*, and  Guo, S.-J., Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Induced Optimized Electron Polarization of Rhodium Nanocrystals To Develop an Interface Catalyst for Highly Efficient Electrocatalysis. ACS Catal2018, 8, 8092−8099.

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11. Huang, Z.-Q.; Liu, L.-P.; Qi, S.; Zhang, S.; Qu, Y.; Chang, C.-R.*. Understanding All-Solid Frustrated-Lewis-Pair Sites on CeO2 from Theoretical Perspectives. ACS Catal2018, 8, 546-554.

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10. Wang, J.; Huang, Z.-Q.; Liu, W.; Chang, C.-R.*; Tang, H.; Li, Z.; Chen, W.; Jia, C.; Yao, T.; Wei, S.; Wu, Y.*; Li, Y.Design of N-Coordinated Dual-Metal Sites: A Stable and Active Pt-Free Catalyst for Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc2017,139, 17281-17284. 

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9. Gao, W.; Yan, M.(co-first author); Cheung, H.-Y.; Xia, Z.; Zhou, X.; Qin, Y.;Wong, C.-Y.; Ho, J. C.*; Chang, C.-R.*; Qu. Y.* Modulating Electronic Structure of CoP Electrocatalysts towards Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution by Ce Chemical Doping in both Acidic and Basic Media. Nano Energy2017, 38, 290.

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8. Zhang, S.; Huang, Z.-Q.; Ma, Y.; Gao, W.; Li, J.; Cao, F.; Li, L.; Chang, C.-R.*; Qu, Y.* Solid Frustrated-Lewis-pair Catalysts Constructed by Regulations on Surface Defects of Porous Nanorods of CeO2. Nature Commun. 2017. 8, 15266.

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7. Li, J.; Yan, M.; Zhou, X.; Huang, Z.-Q.; Xia, Z.; Chang, C.-R.*; Ma, Y.*; Qu, Y.* Mechanistic Insights on Ternary Ni2−xCoxP for Hydrogen Evolution and Their Hybrids with Graphene as Highly Efficient and Robust Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting. Adv. Funct. Mater.2016, 26, 6785-6796.

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6. Chang, C.-R.; Huang, Z.-Q.; Li, J.* The Promotional Role of Water in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Mechanism Insights from Computational Modeling. WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci.2016, 6, 679-693. 

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5. Liu, J.-C.; Tang, Y.; Chang, C.-R.*; Wang, Y.-G.*; Li J.* Mechanistic Insights into Propene Epoxidation with O2-H2O Mixture on Au7/α-Al2O3: A Hydroproxyl Pathway from ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations. ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 2525-2535.

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4. Zhang, S.; Chang, C.-R.; Huang, Z.-Q.; Li, J.; Wu, Z.; Ma, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Wang, Y.; Qu, Y.* High Catalytic Activity and Chemoselectivity of Sub-nanometric Pd Clusters on Porous Nanorods of CeO2 for Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 2629-2637.

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3. Zhang, S.; Chang, C.-R.; Huang, Z.; Ma Y.; Gao, W.; Li, J.; Qu, Y.* Visible-Light-Activated Suzuki-Miyaura

Coupling Reactions of Aryl Chlorides over the Multifunctional Pd/Au/Porous Nanorods of CeO2. ACS Catal2015, 5, 6481-6488.

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2. Duan, H; Yan, N.; Yu, R.; Chang, C.-R.; Zhou, G.; Hu, H.-S.; Rong, H.; Niu, Z.; Mao, J.; Asakura, H.;

Tanaka, T.; Dyson, P. J.; Li, J.*; Li, Y.* Ultrathin Rhodium Nanosheets. Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 3093.

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1. Chang, C.-R.; Yang, X. F.; Long, B.; Li, J.* A Water-Promoted Mechanism of Alcohol Oxidation on a Au(111) Surface: Understanding the Catalytic Behavior of Bulk Gold. ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 1693-1699.

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