Research Interests: ●Understanding the nature of surface active sites of catalysts to develop low cost and highly effective catalysts. ●Heterogeneous catalysis in selective hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds like nitriles, benzene, aldehyde, etc. ●Investigating the reactivity of metal catalysts and some nonmetal catalysts like transition metal carbides, nitrides and phosphides. Ph. D Thesis Title: Hydrogenation of Acetonitrile on Molybdenum Phosphide Catalysts Supervisor: Prof. Can Li Defense Date: May 20, 2008 Committee: Prof. Anjie Wang (chairman) Prof. Zhibin Lei Prof. Wenjie Shen Prof. Qihua Yang Prof. Zhijian Tian Correspondence E-mail: penfee@yahoo.com |