General

Prof. Dr. Bo Weng

Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences

1799 Jimei Road, Xiamen 361021, China. 

Email: bweng@iue.ac.cn


Research Interest

Design of environmental functional materials; Photocatalysis; Catalytic ozonation; Urban wastewater treatment

Education

Ph.D., September 2012 ~ July 2018 College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, China

Experience

March 2024  ~ Now, Professor

Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China 

October 2019 ~ October 2023, MSCA/FWO Research Fellow, 

cMACS, KU Leuven, Belgium

September 2018 ~ September 2019, Post-Doc

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China 


Publications

(1)    Bo Weng,* Meng Zhang, Yingzheng Lin, Jiacheng Yang, Jiangquan Lv, Ning Han, Jiafang Xie,* Hongpeng Jia,* Bao-Lian Su, Maarten Roeffaers, Johan Holfken, Yongfa Zhu, Shaobin Wang, Wonyong Choi, Yu-Ming Zheng* Photo-assisted technologies for environmental remediation, Nature Reviews Clean Technology, 2025, 1, 201–215.

(2)  Ning Hana,†, Wei Zhang,†, Jianxiang Wu,†, Kaibin Chu,†*, Shihui Feng, Shuo Wang*, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Jinlin Long, Bo Weng*, Bao-Lian Sui,* Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction on Cobalt-Based Perovskite via Regulating Reaction Pathway through Donation-Back-Donation Modulation Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 10.1002/anie.202504601

(3) Jian Lei, Hongyuan Yang, Bo Weng,* Yu-Ming Zheng, Shifu Chen, Prashanth W. Menezes,* and Sugang Meng* Optimization of Adsorption Sites for Selective Hydrobenzoin and Syngas Production in a Single Photoredox Cycle Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 10.1002/aenm.202500950

(4) Haowei Huang # Jiwu Zhao,# Hele Guo, # Bo Weng*, Hongwen Zhang, Rafikul Ali Saha, Menglong Zhang, Feili Lai, Yufan Zhou, Peng-Cheng Chen, Sibo Wang, Julian A. Steele, Tianxi Liu, Johan Hofkens, Yu-Ming Zheng, Jinlin Long,* and Maarten B. J. Roeffaers* Noble-Metal-Free High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles for Efficient Solar-Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2313209

(5) Haowei Huang,# Jiwu Zhao,# Bo Weng*, Feili Lai, Menglong Zhang, Johan Hofkens, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Julian A. Steele*, Jinlin Long* Site-Sensitive Selective CO2 Photoreduction to CO over Gold Nanoparticles Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2022, e202204563

(6) Haowei Huang, Davy Verhaeghe, Bo Weng*, Biplap Ghosh, Hongwen Zhang, Johan Hofkens, Julian A. Steele, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers* Metal Halide Perovskite-Based Heterojunction Photocatalysts Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2022, e202203261

(7) Bo Weng, Kang-Qiang Lu, Zichao Tang, Hao Ming Chen*, and Yi-Jun Xu*. Stabilizing ultrasmall Au clusters for enhanced photoredox catalysis Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 1543

(8) Huijun Zhang#, Yujie Gao#, Sugang Meng*, Zengrong Wang, Peixian Wang, Zhongliao Wang, Chengwei Qiu, Shifu Chen, Bo Weng*, Yu-Ming Zheng Metal sulfide S-scheme homojunction for photocatalytic selective phenylcarbinol oxidation Advanced Science, 2024, 2400099

(9) Qiang Yu, Shuhan Sun, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Chenglin Wu, Xianqiang Xiong*, Yanxian Jin, and Bo Weng* Zinc mediated electronic structure of CoP toward photocatalytic H2 evolution Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2025, 367, 125098

(10) Juanjuan Li, Xuelong Lv, Bo Weng*, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Hongpeng Jia* Engineering Light Propagation for Synergetic Photo- and Thermocatalysis toward Volatile Organic Compoind Elimination Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 461, 142022


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ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8337-219X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=uo6X3KYAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN


Supported Projects

2024 The '100 Talents Project' of Chinese Academy of Sciences (B level), Principle Investigator

2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship European Union (Horizon 2020), Principle Investigator

2020 The Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) Fellowships, Principle Investigator

2019 National Natural Science Foundation of China—Youth Science Fund, Principle Investigator

2019 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (at station), Principle Investigator