個人簡介
2010年本科畢業於
華東理工大學套用化學專業,獲工學學士學位;2013年博士畢業於英國
貝爾法斯特女王大學物理化學專業,導師為Christopher Hardacre教授與Peijun Hu教授。後於2013年至2015年在
史丹福大學化學工程系與直線加速器國家實驗室(SLAC)的SUNCAT界面科學與催化研究中心從事博士後研究工作,合作導師為Jens Nørskov教授與Thomas Bligaard研究員。獲得了由英國工程與自然科學研究理事會(EPSRC)和Johnson Matthey公司聯合頒發的Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards,由歐洲催化學會聯合會(EFCATS)頒發的EFCATS PhD Student Award,以及由
愛爾蘭皇家科學院頒發的Royal Irish Academy Young Chemist’s Prize等獎項。
研究內容
包括多相催化,表面化學,計算化學和催化材料設計等方面,目前主要專注於解決可再生能源利用與環境保護過程中的催化問題。運用密度泛函理論(Density Functional Theory)計算手段對催化劑表面的化學反應機理及反應活性物種進行熱力學與動力學分析,同時運用Bayesian誤差分析的手段對計算所得結果進行可靠性分析,目標是運用理論計算的方法篩選與設計出理想的催化材料與催化活性位,並指導後續的催化劑的製備,表征與測試。
代表論文
B. Yang, R. Burch, C. Hardacre, G. Headdock, and P. Hu, Understanding the Optimal Adsorption Energies for Catalyst Screening in Heterogeneous Catalysis, ACS Catal., 2014, 4, 182-186
B. Yang, R. Burch, C. Hardacre, P. Hu and P. Hughes, Mechanistic Study of 1, 3-Butadiene Formation in Acetylene Hydrogenation over the Pd-Based Catalysts Using Density Functional Calculations, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 1560-1567
B. Yang, R. Burch, C. Hardacre, P. Hu and P. Hughes, Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene over Pd-Boron Catalysts: A Density Functional Study, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 3664-3671
B. Yang, X.-Q. Gong, H.-F. Wang, X.-M. Cao, J. Rooney and P. Hu, Evidence to Challenge the Universality of the Horiuti-Polanyi Mechanism for Hydrogenation in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Origin and Trend of the Preference of a Non-Horiuti-Polanyi Mechanism, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 15244-15250 (Highlighted by Nature China, Catalysis: A new way to bind)
B. Yang, R. Burch, C. Hardacre, G. Headdock, and P. Hu, Influence of Surface Structures, Subsurface Carbon and Hydrogen and Surface Alloying on the Activity and Selectivity of Acetylene Hydrogenation on Pd Surfaces: a Density Functional Theory Study, J. Catal., 2013, 305, 264-276
B. Yang, R. Burch, C. Hardacre, G. Headdock, and P. Hu, Origin of the Increase of Activity and Selectivity of Nickel Doped by Au, Ag, and Cu for Acetylene Hydrogenation, ACS Catal., 2012, 2, 1027-1032