School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Tiangong University
Tianjin, 300387, P.R. China
Phone: +86 18202613407
E-mail: dhmei@tiangong.edu.cn
Research Interests
Multi-scale heterogeneous computational modeling for catalytic kinetics
Novel multi-functional porous materials - synthesis, mechanisms, catalytic and separation applications
Multi-scale unified predictive modeling of reaction-transport at the interfaces in condensed phases
Education
Ph. D. 1996 Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
Master 1993 Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Bachelor 1986 Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xian, China
Research and Work Experience
Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China
2018 – 2019
Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tiangong University (now as Tiangong University), Tianjin, China
2006 – 2018
Scientist, Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
1999 – 2006
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA
1997 – 1998
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
1986 – 1990
Assistant Engineer, Shaanxi Xianyang Coking Chemical Plant, Xianyang,
Shaanxi, China
Publications (Web of Science Research ID: A-3251-2011; H-index: 47; Total Citations: 7128)
(Google Scholar: H-index: 53; Total Citations: 9018; Total SCI Publications: 150)
Recent Key Publications
(1) | Kwak, J.H., Hu, J.Z., Mei, D., Yi, C.W., Kim, D.H., Peden, C.H.F.*, Allard, L.F. and Szanyi, J.* “Coordinatively Unsaturated Al3+ Centers as Binding Sites for Active Catalyst Phases of Platinum on γ-Al2O3”, Science, 325, 1670-1673. (2009) |
(2) | Mei, D.*, Karim, A.M. and Wang, Y.“On the Reaction Mechanism of Acetaldehyde Decomposition on Mo(110)”, ACS Catalysis,2, 468-478. (2012) |
(3) | Mei, D.*, Lebarbier, V.M., Rousseau, R., Glezakou, V.A., Albrecht, K.O., Kovarik, L., Flake, M. and Dagle, R.A.* “Comparative Investigation of Benzene Steam Reforming over Spinel Supported Rh and Ir Catalysts”, ACS Catalysis,3, 1133-1143. (2013) (Cover article) |
(4) | Li, W.Z., Kovarik, L., Mei, D., Liu, J., Wang, Y. and Peden, C.H.F.* “Stable Platinum Nanoparticles on Specific MgAl2O4 Spinel Facets at High Temperatures in Oxidizing Atmospheres”, Nature Communications, 4, 2481. (2013) |
(5) | Yoon, Y., Rousseau, R.*, Weber, R.S., Mei, D.* and Lercher, J.A.* “First-Principles Study of Phenol Hydrogenation on Pt and Ni Catalysts in Aqueous Phase”, Journal of the American Chemical Society,136, 10287-10298. (2014) |
(6) | Lu, X. C.*, Li, G.S., Kim, J. Y.*, Mei, D., Lemmon, J. P., Sprenkle, V.L. and Liu, J. “Liquid-metal Electrode to Enable Ultra-low Temperature Sodium–beta Alumina Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage”, Nature Communications, 5, 4578. (2014) |
(7) | Wang, Y.G., Mei, D., Glezakou, V.A., Li, J.* and Rousseau, R.* “Dynamic Formation of Single-atom Catalytic Active Sites on Ceria-supported Gold Nanoparticles”, Nature Communications, 6, 6511. (2015) |
(8) | Cai, Q. X., Wang, J. G.*, Wang, Y.G. and Mei, D.* “Mechanistic Insights into the Structure Dependent Selectivity of Catalytic Furfural Conversion on Platinum Catalysts”, AIChE Journal, 61, 3812-3824. (2015) |
(9) | Mei, D.*, Dagle, V.L., Xing, R., Albrecht, K.O. and Dagle, R.A.* “Steam Reforming of Ethylene Glycol over MgAl2O4 Supported Rh, Ni, and Co Catalysts”, ACS Catalysis, 6, 315-325. (2016) |
(10) | Mei, D.* and Lercher, J.A. “Mechanistic Insights into Aqueous Phase Propanol Dehydration in H-ZSM-5 Zeolite”, AIChE Journal, 63, 172-184. (2017) |
(11) | Zheng, J., Engelhard, M.H., Mei, D., Jiao, B., Zhang, J.G.* and Xu, W.* “Electrolyte Additive Enabled Fast Charging and Stable Cycling Lithium Metal Batteries”, Nature Energy, 2, 17012. (2017) |
(12) | Liu, Y., Vjunov, A., Shi, H., Eckstein, S., Camaioni, D.M., Mei, D., Barath, E. and Lercher, J.A.* “Enhancing the Catalytic Activity of Hydronium Ions through Constrained Environments”, Nature Communications,8, 14113. (2017) |
(13) | Gao, F.*, Mei, D.*, Wang, Y., Szanyi, J. and Peden, C.H.F. “Selective Catalytic Reduction over Cu/SSZ-13: Linking Homo- and Heterogeneous Catalysis”,Journal of the American Chemical Society,139, 4935-4942. (2017) |
(14) | Nie, L.,†Mei, D.,† Xiong, H.F.†, Peng, B., Ren, Z. B., Hernandez, X.I.P., DeLaRiva, A., Wang, M, Engelhard, M.H., Kovarik, L., Datye, A.K.* and Wang, Y.* “Activation of Surface Lattice Oxygen in Single Atom Pt/Ceria for Low Temperature CO Oxidation”, Science, 358, 1419-1423. (2017) |
(15) | Cai, Q.X., Lopez-Ruiz, J., Cooper, A., Wang, J.G.*, Albrecht, K.O.* and Mei, D.*“Aqueous Phase Acetic Acid Ketonization over Monoclinic Zirconia”, ACS Catalysis, 8, 499-502. (2018) |
(16) | Jiao, S., Ren, X., Cao, R., Engelhard, M.H., Liu, Y., Hu, D., Mei, D., Zheng, J., Zhao, W., Li, Q., Liu, N., Adams, B.D., Ma, C., Liu, J., Zhang, J.G.* and Xu, W.* “Stable Cycling of High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries in Ether Electrolytes”, Nature Energy, 3, 739-746.(2018) |
(17) | Wang, A.Y., Chen, Y., Walter, E.D.*, Washton, N.M., Mei, D.*, Varga, T., Wang, Y.L., Szanyi, J., Wang, Y., Peden, C.H.F. and Gao, F.*“Unraveling the Mysterious Failure of Cu/SAPO-34 Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) Catalysts”,Nature Communications,10, 1137. (2019) |
(18) | Niu, C., Pan, L. Xu, W., Xiao, J., Zhang, J.G., Luo, L., Wang, C.M., Mei, D., Meng, J.S., Wang, X.P., Liu, Z., Mai, L. Q. and J. Liu* “Self-smoothing Anode for Achieving High-energy Lithium Metal Batteries under Realistic Conditions”,Nature Nanotechnology, 14, 594-601. (2019) |
(19) | Wang, M., Zhao, Y.T., Mei, D.*, Bullock, M., Gutierrez, O.Y., Camaioni, D.M. and Lercher, J.A.* “The Critical Role of Reductive Steps in the Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis and Hydrolysis of Aryl Ether C-O Bonds”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition,59, 1445-1449. (2020) |
(20) | Li, J., Liu, P., Tang, Y., Huang, H.L.*, Cui, H., Mei, D.* and Zhong, C.L.* “Single-Atom Pt-N3 Sites on the Stable Covalent Triazine Framework Nanosheets for Photocatalytic N2 Fixation”, ACS Catalysis, 10, 2431-2442. (2020) |
