Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1996
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2000
• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Louisiana University, 2005

Research Interests

• Catalytic conversion of biomass into liquid fuels;
• Renewable hydrogen production;
• Fuel cell electrocatalysis;
• Advanced functional nanomaterials for energy conversion;
• Photocatalysis.

 Jung-Nam Park; Arnold Forman; Wei Tang; Jihong Cheng; Yong-Sheng Hu; Hongfei Lin; EricW. McFarland. "Highly Active and Sinter-Resistant Pd-Nanoparticle Catalysts Encapsulated in Silica". Small, 4 (10), pp. 1694-1697. (2008)

Hongfei Lin; Jeffery Gerbec; Michael Sushchikh; Eric W McFarland. "Synthesis of SiC Nanoparticles in a Low Pressure Microwave Plasma Reactor". Nanotechnology, 19, pp. 325601-325609. (2008)

Hongfei Lin; Wei Tang; Alan Kleinman; Eric W McFarland. "Oxygen Electroreduction on Bifunctional Gold-Cobalt Oxide Nanocluster Catalysts". Journal of Electrochemistry Society, 155 (2), pp. B200-B206. (2008)

Wei Tang; Hongfei Lin; Alan Kleinman; Galen D. Stucky, Eric W. McFarland. "Size-Dependent Activity of Gold Nanoparticles for Oxygen Electroreduction in Alkaline Electrolyte". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112 (28), pp. 10515–10519. (2008)

Zhanhu Guo; Hongfei Lin, Amar B. Karki; Suyin Wei; David P. Young; Sung Park; John Willis; Thomas Hahn. "Facile monomer stabilization approach to fabricate iron/vinyl ester resin nanocomposites". Composites science and technology, 68 (12), pp. 2551-2556. (2008)

Hongfei Lin; Kalliat T. Valsaraj. "An Optical Fiber Monolith Reactor for Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment". AIChE Journal, 52(6), pp. 2271-2280. (2006)

Hongfei Lin; Kalliat T. Valsaraj. "Development of an Optical Fiber Monolith Reactor for Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment". Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 35 (7), pp. 699-708. (2005)

Hongfei Lin; Kalliat T. Valsaraj. "A Titania Thin Film Annular Photocatalytic Reactor for the Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Dilute Water Streams". Journal of Hazardous Materials, 99 (2), pp. 203-219. (2003)

Hongfei Lin; R. Ravikrishna; Kalliat T. Valsaraj. "Reusable Adsorbents for Dilute Solution Separation. 6. Batch and Continuous Reactors for the Adsorption and Degradation of 1, 2Dichlorobenzene from Dilute Wastewater Streams using Titania as a Photocatalyst". Separation and Purification Technology, 28 (2), pp. 87-102. (2002)

Hongfei Lin; Minghan Han; Jinfu Wang; Zhanwen Wang; Yong Jin. "Study on a Catalytic Distillation Column with a Novel Internal". Chemical Engineering Communications, 189 (11), pp. 1498-1516. (2002)