Biography

Prof. Fei-Jian Chen is from the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, and is a member of International Center of Future Science, Jilin University.

Dr Chen is currently a full Professor (TANG Auchin Scholar-Leading Professor since 2022) at Jilin University (China). He earned his PhD from Nanjing University in 2014, for his work on rational synthesis of large and extra-large pore zeolites (focus on germanosilicates). Then he went to Bengbu Medical College as an associate professor, working on the synthesis of extra-large pore zeolite (focus on aluminosilicate and pure silica zeolites). In 2022, he joined Jilin University, continuing her fundamental research on extra-large pore zeolites; he developed a Supra-molecular Assemble Templating (SAT) method for OSDA design to facile synthesis of large and extra-large pore zeolites, succeed in synthesizing some new type of zeolites, like NUD-1 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014), NUD-2 (Chem. Eur. J. 2016), NUD-3 (Chem. Commun. 2021), NUD-5 (Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2019) and NUD-6 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020).

Since 2021, he invented the 3D stable extra-large pore zeolites named ZEO series. ZEO-1 is the first stable 3D stable extra-large pore aluminosilicate zeolites, which was a great breakthrough in zeolite science (Science, 2021). He also discovered a new mechanism of 1D-to-3D topotactic condensation of a chain silicate into 3D stable extra-large pore pure silica zeolite ZEO-3, which was commented as “clicking” reactions in zeolite science (Science, 2023). He is also an awardee of the national youth talent support program of China.

Education

2014    Ph.D., Chemistry, Nanjing University

2010    M.S., Applied Chemistry, China University of Mining and Technology

2007    B.S., Applied Chemistry, China University of Mining and Technology

Positions

2022-present    Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jilin University

2020-2022    Associate Professor, Bengbu Medical College

2019-2020    Visiting Scholar, UMASS Amherst

2017-2018    Associate Professor, Bengbu Medical College

2014-2017    Assistant Professor, Bengbu Medical College

Research Interest

Rational synthesis of large and extra-large pore zeolite, ultrathin zeolite nanosheets and chiral zeolite.

Selected Publications

• 1. Li, J.*†; Gao, Z.†; Lin, Q.†; Liu, C.; Gao, F.; Lin, C.; Zhang, S.; Deng, H.; Mayoral, A.; Fan, W.; Luo, S.; Chen, X.; He, H.; Camblor, M.*; Chen, F.*; Yu, J.*, A 3D extra-large-pore zeolite enabled by 1D-to-3D topotactic condensation of a chain silicate, Science 2023, 379, 283-287. DOI: 10.1126/science. ade1771.

• 2. Lin, Q.†; Gao, Z.†; Lin, C. †; Zhang, S.; Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Liu, X.; Fan, W.; Li, J.*; Chen, X. *; Camblor, M.*; Chen, F.*, A stable aluminosilicate zeolite with intersecting three-dimensional extra-large pores, Science 2021, 374, 1605-1608. DOI: 10.1126/science.abk3258.

• 3. Chen, F. †; Gao, Z.†; Li, J.*; Gómez-Hortigüela, L.; Lin, C.; Xu, L.; Du, H.*; Márquez-Álvarez, C.; Sun, J.; Camblor, M.*, Structure–direction towards the new large pore zeolite NUD-3, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 191-194. DOI: 10.1039/d0cc07333d

• 4. Zi, W. †; Gao, Z.†; Zhang, J.; Zhao, B.; Cai, X.; Du, H.* and Chen, F.*, An extra‐large‐pore pure silica zeolite with 16×8×8‐membered ring pore channels synthesized by using an aromatic organic directing, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 3948-3951. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201915232.

• 5. Chen, F.; Xu, Y.; Du, H.*, An extra-large pore zeolite with intersecting 18-, 12- and 10-membered ring channels, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 9592-9596. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404608.

• 6. Gao, Z.†; Chen, F. †; Xu, L.; Sun, L.; Xu, Y.*; Du, H.*, A stable, extra-large-pore zeolite with intersecting 14- and 10-membered ring channels, Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 14367-14372. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602419.

Projects

2023.1-2026.12 Rational Synthesis of New Ultra-thin Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Applications, General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China