Ph.D. Supervisor and Master's Supervisor
Name: 刘伟
Professional Title: Professor
Administrative Position: Professor
Name (Pinyin): liuwei
Sex: Male
School/Department: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Education Level: Postgraduate (Doctoral)
Date of Employment: 2021-03-08
Degree: Doctoral degree
Alma Mater: Georgia Institute of Technology
Status: Employed

刘伟,中南大学教授,长沙新能源创新研究院副院长,国家海外高层次青年人才,湖南省杰青,湖南省科技创新领军人才。分别获得美国佐治亚理工学院(Georgia Institute of Technology)和湖南大学博士学位。曾在美国可再生生物产品研究院(Renewable Bioproducts Institute)进行访问学者研究、美国德州农工大学(Texas A&M University) 从事博士后研究。研究方向为生物质可再生能源的高效电-化学转化。
主持国家“十四五”重点研发计划青年科学家项目、国家自然科学基金面上项目、湖南省自然科学杰出青年、科技创新领军人才项目,国家自然科学基金重点项目研发骨干。以第一作者和通讯作者在Nature Energy、Nature Comm.、 Angew. Chem.、 EES、Green Chemistry 等国际期刊上发表论文60余篇,h-index 31,合著英文专著 1 部,获授权中国发明专利 10余件,加拿大发明专利 1 件。提出了多金属氧酸盐催化的低温直接生物质燃料电池和生物质直接电解制氢,在国内外引起广泛关注,美国近50家报纸、网站媒体、电台,国内新华社、人民网和科学网等详细报道了相关研究成果。
研究领域
基于可再生能源转化的催化化学、电化学
研究方向
[1]金属氧簇化合物的功能设计及催化
[2]可再生能源制氢及氢能利用
[3]燃料电池、液流电池设计及其电化学研究
[4]绿色多相催化和生物质精炼
所获奖励
• 2023年10月 首届中南大学新能源科技大会优秀青年人才奖
• 2023年8月 氢能精特新创业大赛优秀项目奖
• 2018年 教育部国际合作与交流司第十三届“春晖杯”优胜奖(只设优胜奖)
• 2017年 美国化学化工年会研究奖助金 (Travel Award)
承担项目
• 2024年 湖南省“拔尖”人才(科技创新领军)项目
• 2024年 承担国家自然科学基金重点项目
• 2023年 主持国家“十四五”重点研发计划青年科学家项目
• 2022年 主持国家海外高层次人才项目
• 2022年 主持 国家自然科学基金面上项目
• 2021年 主持湖南省自然科学杰出青年项目
• 2021年 中南大学科研启动项目
• 2021年 中国石化工程建设有限公司 生物质转化项目
• 2015-2016年 承担美国Neo Sitech LLC.公司的研发项目,用于通信光纤的高折光率有机-无机复合物研究
• 2015年 参与国电新能源集团直接生物质燃料电池的研究
会议报告
• 2017 年 11 月 明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯,美国化学化工年会 (AIChE)
报告题目: Surface Structure Patterning for Fabricating Non-fluorinated Superhydrophobic Cellulosic Membranes
•2015 年 夏威夷火奴鲁鲁,International Chemical Congress of the Pacific Basin Societies (PacifiChem)
报告题目: High efficient biomass-to-hydrogen conversion by polyoxometalate solution catalyzed electrolysis
•2014 年 10 月 佐治亚州亚特兰大,可再生生物质研究所(Renewable Bioproducts Institute)年会
报告题目: Solar-induced direct biomass-to-electricity hybrid cell using polyoxometalate as photo- catalyst and charge carrier
• 2014 年 11 月 SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation)
报告题目:Direct conversion of biomass-to-electricity and chemicals using groundbreaking fuel cell technology
招聘信息
课题组招收2027年理论计算、电池研究方向硕士、博士生,并欢迎本科生及访问研究生来组学习、交流。

›G. Xu, Z. Sun, K. He, X. He, K. Liu, J. Liu, B. Zhou, Y. Deng, W. Liu, Electrolytic upcycling of PET waste plastics for energy-efficient hydrogen evolution, Green Chemistry, 27 (2025) 5471-5481.
›G. Xu, H. Ge, K. He, Z. Sun, X. He, J. Liu, B. Zhou, Y. Deng, J. Song, W. Liu, Efficient waste polyester plastics recycling in organic–inorganic acid catalytic system, Chemical Engineering Journal, 511 (2025) 161791.
›W. Tang, L. Zhang, T. Qiu, H. Tan, Y. Wang, W. Liu, Y. Li, Efficient conversion of biomass to formic acid coupled with low energy consumption hydrogen production from water electrolysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62 (2023) e202305843.
›L. Tang, W. Xu, Z. Sun, W. Li, G. Xu, X. He, Y. Deng, W. Sun, B. Zhou, W. Liu, Efficient Electrochemical Reforming of Biomass Carbohydrates to Syngas Catalyzed by Lacunary Phosphomolybdic Acid, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, (2025).
›W. Li, W. Xu, Z. Sun, L. Tang, G. Xu, X. He, Y. Deng, W. Sun, B. Zhou, J. Song, A tungsten polyoxometalate mediated aqueous redox flow battery with high open-circuit voltage up to 2 V, Nature Communications, 16 (2025) 4654.
›Wei Liu, Wenqin You, Wei Sun, Weisheng Yang, Akshay Korde, Yutao Gong, Yulin Deng. Ambient-pressure and low-temperature upgrading of lignin bio-oil to hydrocarbons using a hydrogen buffer catalytic system. Nature Energy, 2020, 5: 759-767. DOI: 10.1038/s41560-020-00680-x.
›Wei Liu, Wenqin You, Yutao Gong, and Yulin Deng. High-efficiency electrochemical hydrodeoxygenation of bio- phenols to hydrocarbon fuels by a superacid-noble metal particle dual-catalyst system. Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13 (3): 917-927. DOI: 10.1039/c9ee02783a.
›Wei Liu, Wei Mu, Mengjie Liu, Xiaodan Zhang, Hongli Cai, and Yulin Deng. Solar-induced direct biomass-to- electricity hybrid fuel cell using polyoxometalates as photocatalyst and charge carrier. Nature communications, 2014, 5 3208, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4208.
›Wei Liu, Yong Cui, Xu Du, Zhe Zhang, Zisheng Chao, and Yulin Deng. High efficiency hydrogen evolution from native biomass electrolysis. Energy & Environmental Science, 2016, 9 (2): 467-472, DOI: 10.1039/C5EE03019F.
›Wei Liu, Wei Mu, and Yulin Deng. High-Performance Liquid-Catalyst Fuel Cell for Direct Biomass-into- Electricity Conversion (Very Important paper (VIP) ). Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 126 (49): 13776-13780, DOI:10.1002/ange.201408226.
›Wei Liu, Yutao Gong, Weibing Wu, Weisheng Yang, Congmin Liu, Yulin Deng, and Zi-Sheng Chao. Efficient Biomass Fuel Cell Powered by Sugar with Photo-and Thermal-Catalysis by Solar Irradiation (Cover featured). ChemSusChem, 2018, 11: 2229, DOI:10.1002/cssc.201800719.
›Wei Liu, Yutao Gong, Andrew Tricker, Gaoxiang Wu, Congmin Liu, Zi-Sheng Chao, and Yulin Deng. Fundamental Study Toward Improving the Performance of High-Moisture Biomass Fueled Redox Flow Fuel Cell. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59 (10): 4817-4828, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b06982.
›Wei Liu, Feifei Sun, Lu Jiang, J Carson Meredith, and Yulin Deng. Surface Structure Patterning for Fabricating Non-fluorinated Superhydrophobic Cellulosic Membranes. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019, 1 (5): 1220- 1229, DOI:10.1021/acsapm.9b00215.
›Wei Liu , Congmin Liu , Parikshit Gogoi and Yulin Deng. Overview of Biomass Conversion to Electricity and Hydrogen and Recent Developments in Low-Temperature Electrochemical Approaches. Engineering, 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2020.02.021.
›Wei Liu, Yutao Gong, Xueping Li, Cai-Wu Luo, Congmin Liu, and Zi-Sheng Chao. A TiO2/C catalyst having biomimetic channels and extremely low Pt loading for formaldehyde oxidation. RSC Advances, 2019, 9 (7): 3965- 3971, DOI:10.1039/C8RA10314C.
›Jian Gong, Wei Liu (Co-1st author), Xu Du, Congmin Liu, Zhe Zhang, Feifei Sun, Le Yang, Dong Xu, Hua Guo, and Yulin Deng. Direct Conversion of Wheat Straw into Electricity with a Biomass Flow Fuel Cell Mediated by Two Redox Ion Pairs. ChemSusChem, 2017, 10 (3): 506-513, DOI:10.1002/cssc.201601441.
›Weibing Wu, Wei Liu (Co-1st author), Wei Mu, and Yulin Deng. Polyoxymetalate liquid-catalyzed polyol fuel cell and the related photoelectrochemical reaction mechanism study. Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 318 86-92, DOI:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.03.074.
›Yongfeng Li, Wei Liu (Co-1st author), Zhe Zhang, Xu Du, Lin Yu, and Yulin Deng. A self-powered electrolytic process for glucose to hydrogen conversion. Communications Chemistry, 2019, 2 (1): 67, DOI:10.1038/s42004- 019-0169-5.