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Dr Mingwu TAN

Research Fellow

Dr Mingwu TAN joined Cambridge CARES in 2021 as a Research Fellow affiliated with NTU. His research was focused on the research of formic acid dehydrogenation and CO2 hydrogenation reaction. Dr Tan received his PhD from Shanghai University in 2016. He then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Xiamen University under the supervision of Prof Yong Wang (Lab Fellow in PNNL). He then joined Prof Johannes A. Lecher’s group as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technical University of Munich. He then become an Associate Researcher in Shenzhen University from 2020 to 2021.

Dr Tan has published 20 papers in Nature Communications, Journal of Catalysis, ACS Catalysis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, etc.

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Tan, M., Yang, Y., Yang, Y. et al. Hydrogen spillover assisted by oxygenate molecules over nonreducible oxides. Nat Commun 13, 1457 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29045-6

Yanling Yang, Mingwu Tan, Aidan Garcia, Zhaoxia Zhang, Jingdong Lin, Shaolong Wan, Jean-Sabin McEwen, Shuai Wang, and Yong Wang. 2020. Controlling the Oxidation State of Fe-Based Catalysts through Nitrogen Doping toward the Hydrodeoxygenation of m-Cresol, ACS Catalysis, 10(14), 7884-7893, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c00626

Tan, M., Yang, Y., Wang, X., Huang, H., Zou, X., and Lu, X. 2020. Enhanced Coke Resistance and Antioxidation Stability of γ-Alumina-Supported Nickel-Based Catalysts via Decoration with Lanthanum for Propane Pre-Reforming, Chemistry Select, 5, 2482-8, https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201904701

Yanling Yang, Jiali Chen, Lijie Zhang, Mingwu Tan, Jingdong Lin, Shaolong Wan, Shuai Wang, and Yong Wang. 2018. Enhanced Antioxidation Stability of Iron-Based Catalysts via Surface Decoration with ppm Platinum, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 6(11), 14010-14016, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b02505

Haigen Huang, Mingwu Tan, Xueguang Wang, Man Zhang, Shuoqiang Guo, Xiujing Zou, and Xionggang Lu. 2018. Synthesis of Mesoporous γ-Alumina-Supported Co-Based Catalysts and Their Catalytic Performance for Chemoselective Reduction of Nitroarenes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(6), 5413-5428, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b14513

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