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Associate Professor

Shuai Wei

School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering · Xuzhou University of Technology

Studies the design and structure–activity relationships of composite catalysts, with work on carbon monoxide oxidation and formic acid dehydrogenation.

Portrait of Shuai Wei

Shuai Wei is an associate professor at Xuzhou University of Technology, having received a BSc and PhD from Shandong University in 2015 and 2020, respectively. Wei joined Xuzhou University of Technology in 2020 and was selected for Jiangsu Province’s “Shuangchuang Doctor” programme in 2021.

Research interests

Wei’s research focuses on composite catalysts with controlled mesoscopic structures, combining catalyst design and synthesis with detailed structural analysis and in situ characterization to investigate structure–activity relationships at the atomic scale. This work includes carbon monoxide oxidation over supported gold catalysts and hydrogen production through formic acid dehydrogenation over palladium-based catalysts.

  • Structural design, synthesis and catalytic properties of composite materials.
  • In situ characterization and structure–activity relationships of catalytic sites.
  • Adsorption, reaction and interfacial effects in carbon monoxide oxidation and formic acid dehydrogenation.

Education

  • 2015–2020: PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University.
  • 2011–2015: BSc in Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University.

Appointment and talent programme

  • 2020: Joined Xuzhou University of Technology; current position: associate professor.
  • 2021: Selected for Jiangsu Province’s “Shuangchuang Doctor” programme.

Research projects and industry collaboration

  • Jiangsu Science and Technology Vice President programme, 2025: selected under record FZ20251063, with Xuzhou University of Technology as the sending institution and 苏州德优博测新材料有限公司 as the partner company. This records a placement for technical collaboration with industry.
  • Development of dual-function nanomaterials for enhanced optical transmission and self-cleaning: participant in Jiangsu industry–university–research collaboration project BY20240306. Peng Wang is the principal investigator; Xuzhou University of Technology is the undertaking institution and 徐州盛唐光电科技有限公司 is the partner company.
  • Development and application of non-precious-metal catalysts for converting biomass-derived syngas into higher alcohols: participant in Jiangsu industry–university–research collaboration project BY2022778, with a 2022–2023 period listed in the provincial award table. Peng Wang is the principal investigator; Xuzhou University of Technology is the undertaking institution and 新沂市绿康生物质能源有限公司 is the partner company.

Sources: 2022 second-batch collaboration-project list, BY2022778, 2025 provincial placement notice, page 51 and provincial collaboration-project list, page 155. Programme and project titles are descriptive translations; company names retain their Chinese legal forms.

Selected patents

The following entries represent distinct patents and retain the recorded inventor order. Granted patents and published applications are identified separately; the patent holder or applicant is Xuzhou University of Technology in each case. Inventor names are retained in their Chinese legal forms. English titles are descriptive translations.

  1. A carbon nitride nanocomposite catalytic material, its preparation method and applications. Grant publication CN113941354B; filed 2021-10-09, grant published 2022-04-19. Inventors: 王鹏、卫帅、何昌春、李靖、蔡可迎、周颖梅、葛奉娟、徐艳、堵锡华. Shuai Wei is the second-listed inventor.
  2. A preparation method for carbon nitride catalytic materials modified through precursor pretreatment. Grant publication CN116174006B; filed 2023-02-13, grant published 2023-09-15. Inventors: 王鹏、卫帅、李靖、荆凯强、刘园园、韩燕玲、何昌春、周颖梅、王士凡、宋明、庄文昌. Shuai Wei is the second-listed inventor.
  3. Preparation of a Pd-loaded, walnut-shell-doped carbon nitride catalyst by deposition–precipitation and its application to hydrogen production from formic acid decomposition. Application 202510463396.1, filed 2025-04-14; application publication CN120394058A, published 2025-08-01. This entry cites the published application record. Inventors: 卫帅、王鹏、刘园园、梁慧、韩燕玲、何昌春、张瑶、郑忠伟、宋明、庄文昌、谭文轶. Shuai Wei is the first-listed inventor.

Academic recognition and student supervision

  • Outstanding natural-science paper: the assessment-results notice published in 2024 for Xuzhou's 2022–2023 outstanding academic papers in the natural sciences lists a third prize for the study of CeO₂-regulated Co⁰–Coδ⁺ dual sites in syngas conversion to higher alcohols. The notice lists “王鹏、卫帅、孙凯等” (Peng Wang, Shuai Wei, Kai Sun and others). This corresponds to the 2022 Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research paper below. Xuzhou science association notice, third-prize entry 43, page 22.
  • Student competition, 2025: co-supervised Xuzhou University of Technology's “砜华正茂” team with Peng Wang, Hui Liang, Yuanyuan Liu and Yan Xu. The team received a third prize in the East China regional round of the 19th National Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Design Competition. This was a student-team regional award, with Wei listed as one of the supervising teachers. Confirmed regional list, page 14.

Selected publications

The following selection includes recent collaborative research and doctoral work at Shandong University. The 2018 and 2019 papers were published during doctoral study.

  1. Shuai Wei; Yuanyuan Liu; Wenzhu Yu; Yan Xu; Yanling Han; Hui Liang; Ming Song; Wenchang Zhuang; Zhenzhou Zhang; Wenyi Tan; Peng Wang. Biomass-Engineered Defect-Rich g-C3N4 Anchors Pd2+-Rich Ultrafine Particles for Highly Efficient Formic Acid Dehydrogenation. Rare Metals, 45(4), e70268 (2026). This study investigates biomass-modified, defect-rich carbon nitride supports and palladium species for formic acid dehydrogenation. Shuai Wei is the first author, with Yuanyuan Liu as a co-first author.
  2. Shuai Wei; Hui Liang; Xuan Xu; Jun-Hao Hu; Yu Li; An-Qi Xu; Ye-Qiang Tang; Wen-Zhu Yu; Ling-Ling Guo; Peng Wang. Enhanced Formic Acid Dehydrogenation over Basic Site-Rich Pd/Al2O3 Hollow Sphere Catalyst. Inorganic Chemistry, 64(25), 12804–12814 (2025). Shuai Wei is the first author. The study concerns basic-site-rich Pd/Al₂O₃ hollow-sphere catalysts for formic acid dehydrogenation.
  3. Peng Wang; Shuai Wei; Kai Sun; Jing Li; Changchun He; Yan Xu; Xihua Du; Yisheng Tan; Yingquan Wu; Xinhua Gao. Study on the Synergistic Catalysis of CeO2 Regulated Co0–Coδ+ Dual Sites for Direct Synthesis of Higher Alcohols from Syngas. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 61(11), 3900–3909 (2022). Shuai Wei is the second-listed author and a corresponding author. The study examines CeO₂-regulated cobalt sites for direct synthesis of higher alcohols from syngas.
  4. Shuai Wei, Wei-Wei Wang, Xin-Pu Fu, Shan-Qing Li, Chun-Jiang Jia. The effect of reactants adsorption and products desorption for Au/TiO2 in catalyzing CO oxidation. Journal of Catalysis, 376, 134–145 (2019).
  5. Shuai Wei, Xin-Pu Fu, Wei-Wei Wang, Zhao Jin, Qi-Sheng Song, Chun-Jiang Jia. Au/TiO2 Catalysts for CO Oxidation: Effect of Gold State to Reactivity. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(9), 4928–4936 (2018).

Academic contact

Published correspondence email: weishuai@xzit.edu.cn.