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Yuxin Wang
Assistant Professor
Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Masud MAA, Araia A, Wang Y, Hu J, Tian Y. Machine learning-aided process design using limited experimental data: A microwave-assisted ammonia synthesis case study. AIChE J. 2024; e18621. doi:10.1002/aic.18621

  2. Ogunniyan, Opeyemi, Md Emdadul Haque, Yuxin Wang, Jianli Hu, and Debangsu Bhattacharyya. "Plant-wide modeling and techno-economic optimization of a low-pressure microwave-assisted ammonia synthesis process with adsorption separation." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 86 (2024): 300-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.08.383

  3. Thang Luong, Chunlin Luo, Brandon Robinson, Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang*. "Microwave Catalytic Co-upcycling of Polyethylene and Polystyrene", ACS Sustainable Resource Management, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00110 

  4. Shishuai Li, Chunlin Luo, Brandon Robinson, Jianli Hu, Jiangfeng Yang, Yuxin Wang*. “Production of syngas at lower temperatures through microwave-enhanced dry reforming of methane” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 81, ( 2024): 187-192 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.07.254

  5. Opeyemi Ogunniyan, Md Emdadul Haque, Yuxin Wang, Debangsu Bhattacharyya, John Hu. "Low-Pressure Microwave-Assisted Ammonia Synthesis: Evaluation of Novel Separation Technologies, Plant-wide Process Design, and Techno-economic Analysis" Applied Energy. 373, (2024): 123877 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123877

  6. Tuli, Vishal, Chunlin Luo, Brandon Robinson, Jianli Hu, and Yuxin Wang*. "Microwave-assisted catalytic technology for sustainable production of valuable chemicals from plastic waste with enhanced catalyst reusability." Chemical Engineering Journal 489 (2024): 151551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.151551

  7. Balyan, Sonit, Kshitij Tewari, Brandon Robinson, Changle Jiang, Yuxin Wang*, and Jianli Hu. CO2 hydrogenation to olefins in a microwave-thermal hybrid heating reactor. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 9, no. 2 (2024): 222-225. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RE00636K

  8. Parmar, Kaushal R., Vishal Tuli, Ashley Caiola, Jianli Hu, and Yuxin Wang*. Sustainable production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes/nanofibers from plastic waste through microwave degradation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 51 (2024): 488-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.08.224

  9. Thang Luong, Yuxin Wang*, Kaushal Parmar, Changle Jiang, Qiang Wang, and Jianli Hu. Exploring Synergistic Interactions between Polystyrene and Polyethylene. ChemPlusChem (2023): e202300210. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202300210

  10. Xiaoyan Wang, Yuxin Wang, Brandon Robinson, Ashley Caiola, and Jianli Hu. Selectivity modulated oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane with CO2 under microwave catalytic processing. Catalysis Science & Technology (2023). Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023,13, 3499-3504. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CY00485F

  11. Yuxin Wang, Tara Biddle, Changle Jiang, Thang Luong, Roujia Chen, Sean Brown, Xiangyu Jie, Jianli Hu. Microwave-driven upcycling of single-use plastics using zeolite catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal 465 (2023): 142918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142918

  12.  Alazar Araia, Yuxin Wang, Changle Jiang, Sean Brown, Ashley Caiola, Brandon Robinson, Wenyuan Li, and Jianli Hu. Insight into Enhanced Microwave Heating for Ammonia Synthesis: Effects of CNT on the Cs–Ru/CeO2 Catalyst. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 20, 24296–24305. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00132

  13. Ashley Caiola, Brandon Robinson, Sean Brown, Xiaoyan Wang, Yuxin Wang, Jianli Hu. Oxidative ethane dehydrogenation under thermal vs. microwave heating over Ga/ZSM-5 and GaPt/ZSM-5. Catalysis Communications 176 (2023): 106631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2023.106631

  14. Sean Brown, Saleh Ahmat Ibrahim, Brandon R. Robinson, Ashley Caiola, Sarojini Tiwari, Yuxin Wang, Debangsu Bhattacharyya, Fanglin Che, Jianli Hu. Ambient Carbon-Neutral Ammonia Generation via a Cyclic Microwave Plasma Process. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c02508

  15. Yixian Pei, Yuxin Wang, An-Yi Chang, Yixin Liao, Shuan Zhang, Xiufang Wen, and Shengnian Wang. "Nanofiber-in-microfiber carbon/silicon composite anode with high silicon content for lithium-ion batteries." Carbon 203 (2023): 436-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.11.100

  16. Alazar Araia, Yuxin Wang, Brandon Robinson, Changle Jiang, Sean Brown, Christina Wildfire, Dushyant Shekhawat, Jianli Hu, Microwave-assisted ammonia synthesis over Cs-Ru/CeO2 catalyst at ambient pressure: Effects of metal loading and support particle size, Catal. Commun.  170 (2022) 106491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106491

  17. Xiaoyan Wang, Yuxin Wang, Brandon Robinson, Qiang Wang, and Jianli Hu. Ethane oxidative dehydrogenation by CO2 over stable CsRu/CeO2 catalyst. Journal of Catalysis 413 (2022) 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2022.06.021

  18. Alazar Araia, Yuxin Wang, Changle Jiang, Sean Brown, Ashley Caiola, Brandon Robinson, Jianli Hu, Intuitive study on the effect of support morphology over Cs-Ru/CeO2 catalyst for microwave-initiated ammonia synthesis, Catal. Commun. 172 (2022) 106551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106551

  19. Sean Brown, Brandon Robinson, Yuxin Wang, Christina Wildfire, Jianli Hu, Microwave heated chemical looping ammonia synthesis over Fe and CoMo particles, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, RSC, July 2022 https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA03241D
  20. Changle Jiang, Yuxin Wang, Thang Luong, Brandon Robinson, Wei Liu, and Jianli Hu. Low temperature upcycling of polyethylene to gasoline range chemicals: Hydrogen transfer and heat compensation to endothermic pyrolysis reaction over zeolites. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 10 (2022) 107492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.107492
  21. Yuxin Wang, Christina Wildfire, Tuhin S. Khan, Dushyant Shekhawat, Jianli Hu, Pedram Tavazohi, Rosalynn Quiñones-Fernández, Effects of Support and Promoter on Ru Catalyst Activity in Microwave-assisted Ammonia Synthesis, Chem. Eng. J. 425 (2021) 130546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.130546
  22. Yuxin Wang, Tuhin S. Khan, Christina Wildfire, Dushyant Shekhawat, Jianli Hu, Microwave-enhanced catalytic ammonia synthesis under moderate pressure and temperature, Catal. Commun. 159 (2021) 106344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2021.106344
  23. Yuxin Wang, Ashley Caiola, Brandon Robinson, Qingyuan Li, and Jianli Hu, Hierarchical Galloaluminosilicate MFI Catalysts for Ethane Nonoxidative Dehydroaromatization. Energy Fuels, 34 (2020) 3100–3109. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b04457
  24. Yuxin Wang, Huijiang Huang, Nathan C. Baxter, Yixin Liao, Yujun Zhao, Shengnian Wang, Guaiacol Hydrodeoxygenation over Pd Catalyst with Mesoporous ZSM-5 Support Synthesized by Solid-State Crystallization. Catal. Today, 358 (2020) 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2020.03.009
  25. Yixian Pei, Yuxin Wang (co-first author), Yusuf Darraf, An-Yi Chang, Hao Zhao, Xuan Liu, Jianguo Liu, Yuri Lvov, Shengnian Wang, Confining sulfur particles in clay nanotubes with improved cathode performance of lithium–sulfur batteries. J. Power Sources, 450 (2020) 227698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.227698
  26. Yixian Pei, An-Yi Chang, Xuan Liu, Hua Wang, Hongbo Zhang, Adarsh Radadia, Yuxin Wang*, William W. Yu, Shengnian Wang, Nitrogen-doped carbon dots from Kraft lignin waste with inorganic acid catalyst and their brain cell imaging applications, AIChE J., 2021; 67:e17132. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.17132
  27. Qingyuan Li, Yuxin Wang, George Skoptsov, Jianli Hu, Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene to Ethylene over Bimetallic Catalysts, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res, 58 (2019) 20620-20629, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.9b04604
  28. Amoolya Lalsare, Yuxin Wang, Qingyuan Li, Ali Sivri, Roman J. Vukmanovich, Cosmin E. Dumitrescu, and Jianli Hu, Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Production through Synergistic Methane-Activated Catalytic Biomass Gasification. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 7 (2019) 1916060-16071. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02663
  29. Xinwei Bai, Brandon Robinson, Casey Killmer, Yuxin Wang , Li Lili, Jianli Hu, Microwave Catalytic Reactor for Upgrading Stranded Shale Gas to Aromatics. Fuel, 243 (2019) 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.01.147
  30. Yuxin Wang, Jianjun Song, Nathan C. Baxter, Guan-Tsern Kuo, Shengnian Wang, Synthesis of Hierarchical ZSM-5 Zeolites by Solid-State Crystallization and Their Catalytic Properties. J. Catal., 349 (2017) 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2017.03.005
  31. Chao Ju, Yuxin Wang, Yong Huang, Yunming Fang, Design of mesoporous KA zeolite supported sulfur-tolerant noble metal catalyst for naphthalene hydrogenation. Fuel, 2015, 154, 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2015.03.035
  32. Yuxin Wang, Xiufang Wen, Juan Chen, Shengnian Wang. Foamed Mesoporous Carbon/Silicon Composite Nanofiber Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries. J. Power Sources, 281 (2015) 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.01.184
  33. Tao He, Yuxin Wang (co-first author), Pengjie Miao, Jianqing Li, Jinhu Wu, Yunming Fang, Hydrogenation of Naphthalene over Noble Metal Supported on Mesoporous Zeolite in the Absence and Presence of Sulfur. Fuel, 106 (2013) 365-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2012.12.025
  34. Yuxin Wang, Jinhu Wu, Shengnian Wang, Hydrodeoxygenation of Bio-oil over Pt-based Supported Catalysts: Importance of Mesopores and Acidity of the Support to Compounds with Different Oxygen Contents, RSC Adv., 3 (2013) 12635-12640. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA41405A
  35. Yuxin Wang, Kaituo Liu, Tao He, Jinhu Wu, Yunming Fang, Zeolite with Trimodal Porosity by Desilication of Zeolite Nanocrystals Aggregate. J. Solid State Chem., 194 (2012) 416-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2012.04.028
  36. Yuxin Wang, Tao He, Kaituo Liu, Jinhu Wu, Yunming Fang, From Biomass to Advanced Bio-fuel by Catalytic Pyrolysis/Hydro-processing: Hydrodeoxygenation of Bio-oil Derived from Biomass Catalytic Pyrolysis, Bioresour. Technol., 108 (2012) 280-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.132
  37. Yuxin Wang, Yunming Fang, Tao He, Haoquan Hu, Jinhu Wu, Hydrodeoxygenation of Dibenzofuran over Noble Metal Supported on Mesoporous Zeolite, Catal. Commun., 12 (2011) 1201-1205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2011.04.010

Book

  1. Pranjali Muley, Yuxin Wang, Dushyant Shekhawat, Jianli Hu, book chapter, Microwave Assisted Heterogeneous Catalysis, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2021

  2. Vishal Tuli, Kaushal Parmar, Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang*, Microwave-Assisted Depolymerization of Polymeric Materials, Advances in Microwave assisted Heterogeneous Catalysis, UK, 2023

U.S. Patents

  1. Jianlu Hu, Brandon Robinson, Alazar Kesete Araia, Yuxin Wang, Methods and Systems for Efficient Chemical Processing, U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/646,015.
  2. Yuxin Wang, Jianli Hu, Methods and Compositions for Conversion of Plastic Materials to Value-Added Products, U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/472,952.
  3. Jianli Hu, Sean W. Brown, Sarojini Tiwari, Yuxin Wang, Brandon Robinson, Methods and Compositions for Chemical Looping Ammonia Synthesis at Low Pressure, U.S. Appl. No. 63/313,672 and 63/358,516. February 2022.
  4. Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang, Method to Convert Waste Plastics into Value-Added Chemicals Using Microwave-Assisted Catalysis, Pub. No.: US 2021/0347960 A1, Pub. Date: Nov. 11, 2021.
  5. Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang, Compositions, Methods, And Systems for Microwave Enhanced Carbon Dioxide-Dehydroaromatization Over Multi, U.S. Appl. No. 63/217,903 July 2, 2021.
  6. Jianli Hu, Yuxin Wang, Dushyant Shekhawat, Christina Wildfire, Improved Methods and Compositions for Microwave Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis, U.S. Provisional Application No.  63/166997 March 27, 2021.
  7.  Yuxin Wang, Shengnian Wang. Synthesis of hierarchical zeolites by solid state crystallization of aluminosilicate nanogels, US10343926B1