Name:
 wenxiaodong
Education:
 PhD
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Academic title:
Phone:
 0351-4040895
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E-mail:
 wxd@sxicc.ac.cn
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Postal Code:
 030001
Mailing Address:
 27 Taoyuan South Rd. Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001 China

Resume:
05/2014-present: Full Professor, Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science. (Taiyuan, Shanxi, China)
05/2014-present: Deputy Director of Syncat@Beijing, Synfuels China Co. Ltd., Huairou, Beijing
12/2010-04/2014: Seaborg Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM, USA)
11/2007-11/2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY USA)
09/2002-07/2007: Ph.D. Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Taiyuan, Shanxi, China)
09/1998-07/2002: Bachelor of Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University (Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China)

Prof. Xiaodong Wen received his Ph.D. degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007 (advisors: Prof. Haijun Jiao and Prof. Yongwang Li). After his Ph.D., Prof. Wen joined the group of Dr. Roald Hoffmann (the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) and Dr. Neil Ashcroft at Cornell University as a postdoc. After three years, in 2010, he joined the group T-1 in LANL as a Seaborg Institute fellow. After backing to China, Prof. Xiaodong Wen was selected as National Thousand Young Talents of China, Hundred People Plan in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hundred People Plan of Shanxi etc. So far, Prof. Xiaodong Wen is the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion and Deputy Director of Syncat@Beijing of Synfuels China Co. Ltd.
As of 2017, Prof. Wen have published more than 150 scientific articles in various prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Chemical Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), JACS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS nano, Advanced Materials, etc.


Direction:
(1) To rational design catalytic materials for converting carbon-based resource in both theoretical and experimental way.
(2) To deep understand catalysis process including Fischer-Tropsch process, Water-Gas-Shift reaction and reforming process etc.
(3) To design energy conversion materials and renewable energy in fundamental and practical way via theoretical prediction platform and big data platform
Community service:

Achievements:
(1) 2016 National Thousand Young Talents of China,
(2) 2015 Hundred People Plan in Chinese Academy of Sciences
(3) 2015 Hundred People Plan of Shanxi
(4) 2011 Seaborg Institute Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(5) 2007 The Excellent Ph.D. Thesis Award, Shanxi Province
(6) 2007 The Excellent Graduated Student
(7) 2007 Liu Yong Ling Scholarship
(8) 2007 The Excellent President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
(9) 2006 Baosteel Education Scholarship for Excellent Graduate of China

Article:
(1) Lili Lin, Wu Zhou, Rui Gao, Siyu Yao, Xiao Zhang, Wenqian Xu, Shijian Zheng, Zheng Jiang, Yong Wang Li, Chuan Shi*, Xiao-Dong Wen*, Ding Ma*, Low temperature H2 production from methanol/H2O over atomically dispersed Pt/α-MoC catalysts. Nature, 2017, 544, 80-83.
(2) Siyu Yao, Xiao Zhang, Wu Zhou, Rui Gao, Wenqian Xu, Yifan Ye, Lili Lin, Xiaodong Wen, Ping Liu, Bingbing Chen, Ethan Crumlin, Jinghua Guo, Zhijun Zuo, Weizhen Li, Jinglin Xie, Li Lu, Christopher J. Kiely, Lin Gu, Chuan Shi, José A. Rodriguez, Ding Ma, Atomic-layered Au clusters on a-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction, Science, 2017, 357, 389–393.
(3) Peng Zhai, Cong Xu, Rui Gao, Xi Liu, Mengzhu Li, Weizhen Li, Xinpu Fu, Chunjiang Jia, Jinglin Xie, Ming Zhao, Xiaoping Wang, Yong-Wang Li, Qianwen Zhang*, Xiao-Dong Wen*, Ding Ma*, Highly Tunable Selectivity for Syngas-Derived Alkenes over Zinc and Sodium-Modulated Fe5C2 Catalyst, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 9902–9907.
(4) When Density Functional Approximations Meet Iron Oxides.Yu Meng, Xing-Wu Liu, Chun-Fang Huo, Wen-Ping Guo, Dong-Bo Cao, Qing Peng, Albert Dearden, Xavier Gonze, Yong Yang, Jianguo Wang, Haijun Jiao, Yongwang Li*, and Xiao-Dong Wen*, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2016, 12, 5132–5144.
(5) Oxide-Modified Nickel Photocatalyst for the Production of Hydrocarbons in Visible Light. Yufei Zhao, Bo Zhao, Jinjia Liu, Guangbo Chen, Rui Gao, Siyu Yao, Mengzhu Li, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Jinglin Xie, Xiaodong Wen*, Li-Zhu Wu, Chen-Ho Tung, Ding Ma*, Tierui Zhang*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 4215
(6) Wen, X.-D.; Martin, R. L.; Henderson, T. M.; Scuseria, G. E. Density Functional Theory Studies of the Electronic Structure of Solid State Actinide Oxides. Chemical Reviews, 2013, 2012, 113, 1063-1096.
(7) Wen, X.-D.; Yang, T.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Martin, R. L.; Rudin, S. P.; Zhu, J.-X. Graphane Nanotubes. ACS nano, 2012, 6(8), 7142-7150.
(8) Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W. Two-Dimensional CdSe nanosheets and their interaction with stabilizing ligands. Advanced Materials, 2013, 25, 261-266.
(9) Wen, X.-D.; Rudin, S. P.; Batista, E. R.; Scuseria, G. E.; Martin, R. L. Rotational Rehybridization and the High Temperature Phase of UC2. Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 51, 12650-12659.
(10) Wen, X.-D.; Rudin, S. P.; Batista, E. R.; Scuseria, G. E.; Martin, R. L. Effect of SOC on actinide dioxides series, AnO2 (An=Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu and Am): A hybrid functional study. J. Chemical Physics, 2012, 137, 154707.
(11) Wen, X.-D.; Hand, L.; Labet, V.; Yang, T.; Hoffmann, R.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Oganov, A. R.; Lyakhov, A. O. Graphane sheets and crystals under high pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011, 108, 6833-6837.
(12) Wen, X.-D.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Hoffmann, R. Benzene under high pressure: a story of molecular crystals transforming to saturated networks, with a possible intermediate metallic phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 9023-9025.
(13) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R. Exploring Group 14 Structures: 1D to 2D to 3D. Chemistry: A European Journal. 2010, 16, 6555-6566.
(14) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R. Element Lines: Bonding in the Ternary Gold Polyphosphides: Au2MP2 with M=Pb, Tl or Hg, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 2199–2207.
(15) Wen, X.-D.; Cahill, T. J.; Hoffmann, R.; Miura, A. Tuning of Metal-Metal Bonding by Counterion Size in Hypothetical AETiO2 Compounds, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 14632-14633.
(16) Wen, X.-D.; Cao, Z.; Li, Y.-W.; Wang, J.-G.; Jiao, H. Structure and Energy of Mo27SxCy Cluster: A density functional theory study. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006, 110, 23860-23869.
(17) Wen, X.-D.; Zeng, T.; Li, Y.-W.; Wang, J. -G.; Jiao, H. Surface Structure and Stability of MoSx Model Clusters. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005, 109, 18491-18499.
(18) Rogachev, A. Y.; Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R. Jaibreaking Benzene Dimers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 8062-8067.
(19) Zurek, E.; Wen, X.-D.; Edwards, P. P.; Ashcroft, N. W.; Hoffmann, R. (Barely) Solid Li(NH3)4: The electronics of an expanded metal. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 3535-3547.
(20) Wang, Z.; Wen, X.-D.; Hoffmann, R.; Son, J. S.; Li, R.; Fang, C.C.; Smilgies, D. M.; Hyeon, T. Reconstructing a solid-solid phase transformation pathway in CdSe nanosheets with associated soft ligands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, 107, 17119-17124.


Commitment to research the situation:
(1) Key Project of National Science Foundation of China
(2) General Project of National Science Foundation of China