Introduction:
Name: Xianyuan Wu
Title: Professor
E-mail: andywuxy@scut.edu.cn
Personal homepage:
Supervisor: Master’s ＆ PhD Supervisor
Area:
Biomass conversion and plastic recycling
Education:
09/2011-07/2015 Bachelor in college of chemical Engineering and TechnologyHuaibei Normal University， P. R. China
09/2015-07/2018 Master in College of Chemical EngineeringZhejiang University of Technology， P. R. China. Supervisor: Dahao Jiang
12/2017-04/2018 Visiting student in College of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of Maryland， United States， Supervisor: Dongxia Liu
10/2018-12/2022 PhD Candidate in Stratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of Groningen， The Netherlands， Supervisor: Katalin Barta
03/2020-12/2022 Visiting student in Institute for ChemistryUniversity of Graz， Austria， Supervisor: Katalin Barta
12/2022-03/2023 Research assistant in Institute for Chemistry，University of Graz， Austria， Supervisor: Katalin BartaSpecialization: Sustainable production of biobased and easily recyclable thermosets
03/2023-02/2025 Postdoc associate in Institute of Chemical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology， United States， Supervisor: Yuriy Román03/2025-Present Professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringSouth China University of Technology， China
Research interests:
Heterogeneous Catalysis， Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization， Biomass Conversion，Bio-based Nitrogen-Containing chemical synthesis， Polymer chemistry， Thermoplastic andThermosets Recycling， Bio-based fuels， Green chemistry， Organic chemistry.
Representative publications :
(1) Wu， X. Y.; Hartmann， P.; Berne， D.; De bruyn M.; Placet， V.; Boese， A.D.;Caillol， S.; Barta， K.; Closed-loop recycling of a fully bio-based epoxy-aminethermoset amenable to low-temperature methanolysis， Science， 2024， 384，eadj9989.
(2) Wu， X. Y.; Galkin， M.V.; Stern， T.; Sun， Z.; Barta， K.， Fully lignocellulosebased PET analogues for the circular economy. Nat. Commun. 2022， 13， 3376.
(3) Wu， X. Y.; Galkin， M.V.; Barta， K.， A well-defined diamine from lignindepolymerization mixtures for constructing bio-based polybenzoxazines. ChemCatal. 2021， 1， 1466-1479.
(4) Wu， X. Y.; Brasil， H.; Sun， Z.; Barta， K.， High yield production of 1， 4-cyclohexanediol and 1， 4-cyclohexanediamine from high molecular-weight ligninoil. Green Chem. 2023， 25， 211-220.
(5) Wu， X. Y.; De Bruyn， M.; Trimmel， G.; Zangger， K.; Barta， K.， HighPerformance Thermoplastics from a Unique Bicyclic Lignin-Derived Diol. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2023， 11， 2819-2829.