Name: HE Yuanqing

Gender: Male

Job title: Distinguished Professor

Major: Energy and Chemical Engineering

Email Address: heyuanqing@ncu.edu.cn

Research Interests: Electrocatalytic Conversion of Biomass; Electrocatalytic Utilization of Gas Molecules

Education and Work Experience:

2026.09–Present, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Distinguished Professor.

2021.12–2026.08, Hunan University/Yangzhou University, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Researcher; Co-supervisors: Shuangyin Wang, Huan Pang.

2018.09–2019.09, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, CSC-funded Joint Ph.D. Training; Co-supervisor: Takayoshi Sasaki.

2016.09–2021.10, Central South University, Ph.D.; Supervisor: Renzhi Ma.

2013.07–2016.07, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, M.S.; Supervisor: Tingsheng Qiu.

2009.09–2013.06, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, B.S.

Teaching:

Research fields: 

Research focuses on the high-value utilization of biomass resources and the electrocatalytic conversion of small gas molecules, employing strategies such as paired electrolysis, pulse electrocatalysis, and interfacial adsorption regulation, with emphasis on the selective depolymerization of lignin, the synthesis of N-heteroaromatic compounds, and the adsorptive activation and selective electrocatalytic conversion of small gas molecules. Related results have been published as first-author papers in Nature Synthesis, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Science Bulletin, ACS Nano, Chemistry of Materials, etc.

Research projects:

Principal Investigator of the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Recipient of the Jiangsu Province Excellent Postdoctoral Program; etc. Participated as a key member in the National Key R&D Program of China, the General Program of NSFC, and other funded projects, as well as related industry–academia collaborative research.

Academic Service: 

Reviewer for international academic journals in related fields.

Awards and Honors: 

Second Prize (Provincial Level), “Challenge Cup”; Provincial Third Prize, China Postgraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling; Outstanding Graduation Thesis (University Level).

Representative papers and patents:

Yuanqing He, Shiheng Mo, Xu Zeng, Yuhao Zhang, Ta Thi Thuy Nga, Chung-Li Dong, Yulu Yang, Zhuoran Lu, Yajing Zhang, Zhongcheng Xia, Qinghua Liu, Shuangyin Wang*, Yuqin Zou*. Paired electrolysis enables selective C-N coupling for the synthesis of nitrogenous aromatics. Nature Synthesis, 2026, 10.1038/s44160-026-01057-w.

Yuanqing He, Chongyang Ma, Shiheng Mo, Chung-Li Dong, Wei Chen, Shuo Chen, Huan Pang*, Renzhi Ma, Shuangyin Wang, Yuqin Zou*. Unilamellar MnO₂ nanosheets confined Ru-clusters combined with pulse electrocatalysis for biomass electrooxidation in neutral electrolytes. Science Bulletin, 2025, 70(2), 193-202.

Yuanqing He, Xu Zeng, Zhuoran Lu, Shiheng Mo, Qizheng An, Qinghua Liu, Yulu Yang, Wu Lan, Shuangyin Wang, Yuqin Zou*. Aqueous electrocatalytic hydrogenation depolymerization of lignin beta-O-4 linkage via selective C_aryl-O(C) bond cleavage: the regulation of adsorption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146(46), 32022-32031.

Yuanqing He, Lulu Jia, Xueyi Lu, Chenhui Wang, Xiaohe Liu*, Gen Chen, Dan Wu, Zuxin Wen, Ning Zhang, Yusuke Yamauchi, Takayoshi Sasaki, Renzhi Ma*. Molecular-Scale Manipulation of Layer Sequence in Heteroassembled Nanosheet Films toward Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts. ACS Nano, 2022, 16(3), 4028-4040.

Yuanqing He, Xiaohe Liu*, Gen Chen, Jiangling Pan, Ailing Yan, An Li, Xueyi Lu, Daiming Tang, Ning Zhang, Tingsheng Qiu*, Renzhi Ma*, Takayoshi Sasaki. Synthesis of Co(II)-Fe(III) hydroxide nanocones with mixed octahedral/tetrahedral coordination toward efficient electrocatalysis. Chemistry of Materials, 2020, 32(10), 4232-4240.

Yuanqing He, Xiaohe Liu*, Ailing Yan, Hao Wan, Gen Chen, Jiangling Pan, Ning Zhang, Tingsheng Qiu*, Renzhi Ma*, Guanzhou Qiu. Hybrid Nanostructures of Bimetallic NiCo Nitride/N-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7(24), 19612-19620.

Yuanqing He, Zihan Zhang, Gen Chen*, Ying Zhang, Xiaohe Liu*, Renzhi Ma*. Silicon Nanosheets Derived from Silicate Minerals: Controllable Synthesis and Energy Storage Application. Nanoscale, 2021, 13(44), 18410-18420.

Wei Chen, Yuanqing He, Leitao Xu, Yuqin Zou*, Shuangyin Wang, Huan Pang*. Pulse potential modulation of Cu-based catalysts for stabilizing formaldehyde oxidation with anodic hydrogen production. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 514, 162960. (Co-first author)

Renzhi Ma, Yuanqing He, Takayoshi Sasaki, Nanostructures, Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, and Method for Producing Nanostructures, Japanese Patent No. 7511881. (Original Japanese title: ナノ構造体、酸素発生反応用の触媒、及び、ナノ構造体の製造方法)