Publications
Journal publications
107) Xie, S.; Sun, Z.; Liu, T.; Zhang, J.; Li, T.; Ouyang, X.; Qiu, X.; Luo, S.; Fan, W.; Lin, H.*, Beyond biodegradation: Chemical upcycling of poly(lactic acid) plastic waste to methyl lactate catalyzed by quaternary ammonium fluoride, Journal of Catalysis, 2021, 402, 61-71.(DOI)
106) Liu, Q.; Zhou, L.; Fan, D.; Guan, M.; Ma, Q.; Li, S.; Ouyang, X.*; Qiu, X.*; Fan, W.*, Adsorption-Enhanced Glucan Oligomer Production from Cellulose Hydrolysis over Hyper-Cross-Linked Polymer in Molten Salt Hydrate, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces(DOI)
105) Sabnis, S.; Tanna, V.A.; Gulbinski, J.; Zhu, J.; Nonnenmann, S.S.; Sheng, G.; Lai, Z.; Winter, H.H.; Fan, W.*, Exfoliation of surfactant swollen layered MWW zeolites into two-dimensional zeolite nanosheets using telechelic liquid polybutadiene, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2021, 315, 110883.(DOI)
104) Liu, Q.; Luo, S.; Fan, W.*; Ouyang, X.; Qiu, X., Separation of short-chain glucan oligomers from molten salt hydrate and hydrolysis to glucose, Green Chemistry, 2021, 23, 4114-4124.(DOI)
103) Jain, S.K.; Tabassum, T.; Li, L.; Ren, L.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M.; Caratzoulas, S.; Han, S.*; Scott, S.L.*, P-Site Structural Diversity and Evolution in a Zeosil Catalyst, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 1968-1983.(DOI)
102) Zhang, H.; Luo, J.; Qi, M.; Lin, S.; Dong, Q.; Li, H.; Dulock, N.; Povinelli, C.; Wong, N.; Fan, W.; Bao, J.L.; Wang, D.*, Enabling Lithium Metal Anode in Nonflammable Phosphate Electrolyte with Electrochemically Induced Chemical Reactions, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60, 19183-19190.(DOI)
101) Liu, Q.; Fan, W.*, Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Mesoporous Zeolites by Post-synthetic Method， Supramolecular Self-assembly and Mesopore Generation Agent, Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, 2021, 42, 60-73. (Invited Review)(DOI)
100) Gulbinski, J.; Ren, L.; Vattipalli, V.; Chen, H.; Delaney, J.; Bai, P.; Dauenhauer, P.; Tsapatsis, M.; Abdelrahman, O.A.; Fan, W.*, Role of Silica Support in Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Production of p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2020, 59, 22049-22056.(DOI)
99) Fei, H.-F.; Long, Y.; Yu, H.-J.; Yavitt, B.M.; Fan, W.; Ribbe, A. Watkins, J.J.*, Bimodal Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Small and Ultra-Large Pores Fabricated Using Amphiphilic Brush Block Copolymer Micelle Templates, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 57322-57329.(DOI)
98) Zhou, J.; Fan, W.; Wang, Y.; Xie, Z.*, The Essential Mass Transfer Step in Hierarchical/nano Zeolite: Surface Diffusion, National Science Review, 2019, 7, 1630-1632.(DOI)
97) Fei, H.-F.; Li, W.; Nuguri, S.; Yu, H.-J.; Yavitt, B.M.; Fan, W.; Watkins, J.J.*, One-Step Synthesis of Hierarchical, Bimodal Nanoporous Carbons via Co-templating with Bottlebrush and Linear Block Copolymers, Chemistry of Materials, 2020, 32, 6055-6061.(DOI)
(96) Wang, T.; Luo, S.; Tompsett, G. A.; Timko, M. T.; Fan, W.; Auerbach, S. M., Critical Role of Tricyclic Bridges Including Neighboring Rings for Understanding Raman Spectra of Zeolites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (51), 20318-20324.(DOI)
(95) Liu, Q.; Ma, Q.; Sabnis, S.; Zheng, W.; Vlachos, D.G.; Fan, W.; Li, W.;Ma, L., Production of high-yield short-chain oligomers from cellulose via selective hydrolysis in molten salt hydrates and separation, Green Chemistry, 2019, 21, 5030-5038.(DOI)
(94) Li, W.; Su, M.; Zhang, T.; Ma, Q.; Fan, W., Production of liquid fuel intermediates from furfural via aldol condensation over potassium-promoted Sn-MFI catalyst, Fuel, 2019, 237, 1281-1290.(DOI)
(93) Cho, H.J.; Gould, N.S.; Vattipalli, V.; Sabnis, S.; Chaikittisilp, W.; Okubo, T.; Xu, B.; Fan, W., Fabrication of hierarchical Lewis acid Sn-BEA with tunable hydrophobicity for cellulosic sugar isomerization, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2019, 278, 387-396.(DOI)
(92) Qi, X.;Fan, W., Selective Production of Aromatics by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Furan with In Situ Dehydrogenation of Propane, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 2626-2632.(DOI)
(91) Lacey, S.D.; Dong, Q.; Huang, Z.; Luo, J.; Xie, H.; Lin, Z.; Kirsch, D.J.; Vattipalli, V.; Povinelli, C.; Fan, W.; Shahbazian-Yassar, R.; Wang, D.;Hu, L., Stable Multimetallic Nanoparticles for Oxygen Electrocatalysis, Nano Letters, 2019, 19, 5149-5158(DOI)
(90) Vattipalli, V.; Paracha, A.M.; Hu, W.G.; Chen, H.Y.; Fan, W., Broadening the Scope for Fluoride-Free Synthesis of Siliceous Zeolites, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2018, 57, 3607-3611.(DOI)
(89) Qi, X.D.; Vattipalli, V.; Dauenhauer, P.J.; Fan, W., Silica Nanoparticle Mass Transfer Fins for MFI Composite Materials, Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30, 2353-2361.(DOI)
(88) Jeon, M.Y.; Kim, D.; Kumar, P.; Lee, P.S.; Rangnekar, N.; Bai, P.; Shete, M.; Elyassi, B.; Lee, H.S.; Narasimharao, K.; Basahel, S.N.; Al-Thabaiti, S.; Xu, W.Q.; Cho, H.J.; Fetisov, E.O.; Thyagarajan, R.; DeJaco, R.F.; Fan, W.; Mkhoyan, K.A.; Siepmann, J.I.;Tsapatsis, M., Ultra-selective high-flux membranes from directly synthesized zeolite nanosheets, Nature, 2017, 543, 690-694.(DOI)
(87) Luo, J.; Yao, X.; Yang, L.; Han, Y.; Chen, L.; Geng, X.; Vattipalli, V.; Dong, Q.; Fan, W.; Wang, D.;Zhu, H., Free-standing porous carbon electrodes derived from wood for high-performance Li-O2 battery applications, Nano Research, 2017, 10, 4318-4326.(DOI)
(86) Wang, X.; Min, S.; Das, S.K.; Fan, W.; Huang, K.-W.;Lai, Z., Spatially isolated palladium in porous organic polymers by direct knitting for versatile organic transformations, Journal of Catalysis, 2017, 355, 101-109.(DOI)
(85) Ponnuru, K.; Manayil, J.C.; Cho, H.J.; Osatiashtiani, A.; Fan, W.; Wilson, K.; Jentoft, F.C., Tuning solid catalysts to control regioselectivity in cross aldol condensations with unsymmetrical ketones for biomass conversion, Molecular Catalysis, 2017, 458, 247-260. (DOI)
(84) Wang, J.; Tang, L.; Somasundaran, P.; Fan, W.; Zeng, G.; Deng, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Wang, J.;Shen, Y., Highly effective antibacterial activity by the synergistic effect of three dimensional ordered mesoporous carbon-lysozyme composite, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2017, 503, 131-141. (DOI)
(83) Abdelrahman, O.A.; Park, D.S.; Vinter, K.P.; Spanjers, C.S.; Ren, L.; Cho, H.J.; Vlachos, D.G.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M. Dauenhauer, P.J., Biomass-Derived Butadiene by Dehydra-Decyclization of Tetrahydrofuran, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 3732-3736. (DOI)
(82) Sabnis, S.; Tanna, V.A.; Li, C.; Zhu, J.; Vattipalli, V.; Nonnenmann, S.S.; Sheng, G.; Lai, Z.; Winter, H.H. Fan, W.*, Exfoliation of two-dimensional zeolites in liquid polybutadienes, Chemical Communications, 2017, 53, 7011-7014. (DOI)
(81) Gou, J.; Wang, Z.; Li, C.; Qi, X.; Vattipalli, V.; Cheng, Y.-T.; Huber, G.; Conner, W.C.; Dauenhauer, P.J.; Mountziaris, T.J. Fan, W.*, The effects of ZSM-5 mesoporosity and morphology on the catalytic fast pyrolysis of furan, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 3549-3557. (DOI)
(79) Nguyen, H.; DeJaco, R.F.; Mittal, N.; Siepmann, J.I.; Tsapatsis, M.; Snyder, M.A.; Fan, W.; Saha, B. Vlachos, D.G., A Review of Biorefinery Separations for Bioproduct Production via Thermocatalytic Processing, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2017, 8, 115-137. (DOI)
(78) Abdelrahman, O.A.; Park, D.S.; Vinter, K.P.; Spanjers, C.S.; Ren, L.; Cho, H.J.; Zhang, K.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M. Dauenhauer, P.J., Renewable Isoprene by Sequential Hydrogenation of Itaconic Acid and Dehydra-Decyclization of 3-Methyl-Tetrahydrofuran, ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 1428-1431. (DOI)
(77) Jeon, M.Y.; Kim, D.; Kumar, P.; Lee, P.S.; Rangnekar, N.; Bai, P.; Shete, M.; Elyassi, B.; Lee, H.S.; Narasimharao, K.; Basahel, S.N.; Al-Thabaiti, S.; Xu, W.; Cho, H.J.; Fetisov, E.O.; Thyagarajan, R.; DeJaco, R.F.; Fan, W.; Mkhoyan, K.A.; Siepmann, J.I. Tsapatsis, M., Ultra-selective high-flux membranes from directly synthesized zeolite nanosheets, Nature, 2017, 543, 690-694. (DOI)
(76) Patet, R.E.; Fan, W.; Vlachos, D.G. Caratzoulas, S., Tandem Diels-Alder Reaction of Dimethylfuran and Ethylene and Dehydration to para-Xylene Catalyzed by Zeotypic Lewis Acids, ChemCatChem, 2017, 9, 2523-2535.(DOI)
(75) Zhang, T.W.; Fan, W.; Li, W.Z.; Xu, Z.P.; Xin, H.S.; Su, M.X.; Lu, Y.J. Ma, L.L., One-Pot Conversion of Carbohydrates into 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural using Heterogeneous Lewis-Acid and Bronsted-Acid Catalysts, Energy Technology, 2017, 5, 747-755.(DOI)
(74) Yang, H.P.; Coolman, R.; Karanjkar, P.; Wang, H.Y.; Dornath, P.; Chen, H.P.; Fan, W.; Conner, W.C.; Mountziaris, T.J. Huber, G., The effects of contact time and coking on the catalytic fast pyrolysis of cellulose, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 286-297.(DOI)
(73) Yang, X.K.; Yang, L.S.; Fan, W. Lin, H.F., Effect of redox properties of LaCoO3 perovskite catalyst on production of lactic acid from cellulosic biomass, Catalysis Today, 2016, 269, 56-64.(DOI)
(72) Park, D.S.; Joseph, K.E.; Koehle, M.; Krumm, C.; Ren, L.; Damen, J.N.; Shete, M.H.; Lee, H.S.; Zuo, X.; Lee, B.; Fan, W.*; Vlachos, D.G.; Lobo, R.F.; Tsapatsis, M. Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Tunable Oleo-Furan Surfactants by Acylation of Renewable Furans, ACS Central Science, 2016, 2, 820-824.(DOI)
(71) Cho, H.J.; Ren, L.; Vattipalli, V.; Yeh, Y.-H.; Gould, N.G.; Xu, B.; Gorte, R.J.; Lobo, R.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Tsapatsis, M., Fan, W.*, Renewable p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene Using Phosphorus-containing Zeolite Catalysts, ChemCatChem, 2016.(DOI)
(70) Vattipalli, V.; Qi, X.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Fan, W.*, Long Walks in Hierarchical Porous Materials due to Combined Surface and Configurational Diffusion, Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 7852-7863.(DOI)
(69) Dornath, P.; Ruzycky, S.; Pang, S.; He, L.; Dauenhauer, P.; Fan, W.*, Adsorption-enhanced hydrolysis of glucan oligomers into glucose over sulfonated three-dimensionally ordered mesoporous carbon catalysts, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 6637-6647.(DOI)
(68) Gamliel, D.P.; Cho, H.J.; Fan, W.; Valla, J.A.*, On the effectiveness of tailored mesoporous MFI zeolites for biomass catalytic fast pyrolysis, Applied Catalysis A: General, 2016, 522, 109-119. (DOI)
(67) Williams, C.L.; Vinter, K.P.; Chang, C.-C.; Xiong, R.; Green, S.K.; Sandler, S.I.; Vlachos, D.G.; Fan, W.;Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Kinetic regimes in the tandem reactions of H-BEA catalyzed formation of p-xylene from dimethylfuran, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2016, 6, 178-187. (DOI)
(66) Williams, C.L.; Vinter, K.P.; Patet, R.E.; Chang, C.-C.; Nikbin, N.; Feng, S.; Wiatrowski, M.R.; Caratzoulas, S.; Fan, W.; Vlachos, D.G. Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Inhibition of Xylene Isomerization in the Production of Renewable Aromatic Chemicals from Biomass-Derived Furans, ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 2076-2088. (DOI)
(65) Yu, J.; Luo, J.; Zhang, Y.; Cao, J.; Chang, C.-C.; Gorte, R.J.;* Fan, W., An examination of alkali-exchanged BEA zeolites as possible Lewis-acid catalysts, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2016, 225, 472-481. (DOI)
(64) Xie, J.; Dong, Q.; Madden, I.; Yao, X.H.; Cheng, Q.M.; Dornath, P.; Fan, W.; Wang, D.W.*, Achieving Low Overpotential Li-O₂ Battery Operations by Li₂O₂ Decomposition through One-Electron Processes; Nano Lett., 2015, 15(12), 8371-8376. (DOI)
(63) Rieger, K.; Cho, H.J.; Yeung, H. F.; Fan, W.; Schiffman, J.*, Antibacterial Activity of Silver Ion Release from Zeolites Immobilized on Cellulose Nanofiber Mats; ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (5), 3032-3040. (DOI)
(62) Chang, C.-C.; Je Cho, H.; Yu, J.; Gorte, R.J.; Gulbinski, J.; Dauenhauer, P. Fan, W.*, Lewis acid zeolites for tandem Diels-Alder cycloaddition and dehydration of biomass-derived dimethylfuran and ethylene to renewable p-xylene, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 1368-1376. (DOI)
(61) Chang, C.-C.; Cho, H.J.; Wang, Z.; Wang, X.T; Fan, W.*, Fluoride-free synthesis of a Sn-BEA catalyst by dry gel conversion, Green Chemistry, 2015, 17, 2943-2951. (DOI)
(60) Green, S.K.; Patet, R.E.; Nikbin, N.; Williams, C.L.; Chang, C.-C.; Yu, J.; Gorte, R.J.; Caratzoulas, S.; Fan, W.; Vlachos, D.G.; Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 2-methylfuran and ethylene for renewable toluene, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016, 180, 487-496. (DOI)
(59) Xie, J.; Yao, X.H.; Cheng, Q.M.; Madden, I.P.; Dornath, P.; Chang, C.C.; Fan, W.*; Wang, D.W.*, Three Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous Carbon as a Stable, High-Performance Li-O-2 Battery Cathode, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2015, 54, 4299-4303. (DOI)
(58) Teixeira, A.R.; Qi, X.D.; Conner, W.C.; Mountziaris, T.J.; Fan, W.; Dauenhauer, P.J.*, 2D Surface Structures in Small Zeolite MFI Crystals, Chemistry of Materials, 2015, 27, 4650-4660. (DOI)
(57) Teixeira, A.R.; Krumm, C.; Vinter, K.P.; Paulsen, A.D.; Zhu, C.; Maduskar, S.; Joseph, K.E.; Greco, K.; Stelatto, M.; Davis, E.; Vincent, B.; Hermann, R.; Suszynski, W.; Schmidt, L.D.; Fan, W.; Rothstein, J.P.; Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Reactive Liftoff of Crystalline Cellulose Particles, Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 6. (DOI)
(56) Courtney, T.D.; Chang, C.-C.; Gorte, R.J.; Lobo, R.F.; Fan, W.; Nikolakis, V.*, Effect of water treatment on Sn-BEA zeolite: Origin of 960 cm-1 FTIR peak, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2015, 210, 69-76. (DOI)
(55) Patet, R.E.; Nikbin, N.; Williams, C.L.; Green, S.K.; Chang, C.-C.; Fan, W.; Caratzoulas, S.*; Dauenhauer, P.J.* Vlachos, D.G.*, Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products, ACS Catalysis, 2015, 2367-2375. (DOI)
(54) Maduskar, S.; Teixeira, A.R.; Paulsen, A.D.; Krumm, C.; Mountziaris, T.J.; Fan, W. Dauenhauer, P.J.*, Quantitative carbon detector (QCD) for calibration-free, high-resolution characterization of complex mixtures, Lab on a Chip, 2015, 15, 440-447. (DOI)
(53) Wang, Z.; Li, C.; Cho, H.J.; Kung, S.-C.; Snyder, M.A. Fan, W.*, Direct, single-step synthesis of hierarchical zeolites without secondary templating, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 1298-1305. (DOI)
(52) Auerbach, S.M.; Fan, W. Monson, P.A.*, Modelling the assembly of nanoporous silica materials, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2015, 34, 35-70. (DOI)
(51) Dornath, P.; Cho, H.J.; Paulsen, A.; Dauenhauer, P. Fan, W.*, Efficient mechano-catalytic depolymerization of crystalline cellulose by formation of branched glucan chains, Green Chemistry, 2015, 17, 769-775. (DOI)
(50) Teixeira, A. R.; Qi, X.; Chang, C.-C.; Fan, W.; Conner, W. C.; Dauenhauer, P. J.*, On Asymmetric Surface Barriers in MFI Zeolites Revealed by Frequency Response. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2014, 118 (38), 22166-22180. (DOI)
(49) Kung, S.-C.; Chang, C.-C.; Fan, W.; Snyder, M. A., Template-Free Ordered Mesoporous Silicas by Binary Nanoparticle Assembly. Langmuir 2014, 30 (39), 11802-11811. (DOI)
(48) Pan, Z.; Stemmler, E. A.; Cho, H. J.; Fan, W.; LeBlanc, L. A.; Patterson, H. H.; Amirbahman, A., Photocatalytic degradation of 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) in the presence of TiO2-doped zeolite, Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2014, 279 (0), 17-25. (DOI)
(47) Cho, H. J.; Chang, C.-C.; Fan, W.*, Base free, one-pot synthesis of lactic acid from glycerol using a bifunctional Pt/Sn-MFI catalyst, Green Chemistry. 2014, 16, 3428-3433.(DOI)
(46) Cho, H. J.; Dornath, P.; Fan, W.*, Synthesis of Hierarchical Sn-MFI as Lewis Acid Catalysts for Isomerization of Cellulosic Sugars, ACS Catalysis. 2014, 4, 2029-2037. (DOI)
(45) Chen, S. S.; Rotaru, A. E.; Shrestha, P. M.; Malvankar, N. S.; Liu, F. H.; Fan, W.; Nevin, K. P.; Lovley, D. R.*, Promoting Interspecies Electron Transfer with Biochar. Scientific Reports.2014, 4, 7. (DOI
(44) Rajabbeigi, N.; Torres, A. I.; Lew, C. M.; Elyassi, B.; Ren, L.; Wang, Z.; Je Cho, H.; Fan, W.; Daoutidis, P.; Tsapatsis, M.*, On the kinetics of the isomerization of glucose to fructose using Sn-Beta. Chemical Engineering Science2014, 116, 235-242. (DOI)
(43) Dornath, P.; Fan, W.*; Dehydration of Fructose into Furans over Zeolite Catalyst using Carbon Black as Adsorbent, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 2014, 191, 10-17. (DOI)
(42) Teixeira, R. A.; Chang, C,-C.; Fan, W.*; Dauenhauer, P. J.*, Dominance of Surface Barriers in Molecular Transport through Silicalite-1, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2013, 117 (48), 25545–25555. (DOI).
(41)Chang, C,-C.; Teixeira, R. A.; Li, C.; Dauenhauer, P. J.*; Fan, W.*, Enhanced molecular transport in hierarchical silicalite-1,Langmuir, 2013, 29 (45), 13943-13950. (DOI)
(40) Wang, Z.; Dornath, P.; Chang, C.-C.; Chen, H.; Fan, W.*, "Confined synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered mesoporous-imprinted zeolites with tunable morphology and Si/Al ratio". Microporous Mesoporous Materials. 2013, 181, 8-16. (DOI)
(39) Chang, C.-C.; Green, S. K.; Williams, C. L.; Dauenhauer, P. J.*; Fan, W.*, "Ultra-selective cycloaddition of dimethylfuran for renewable p-xylene with H-BEA". Green Chemisty. 2014, 16, 585-588. (Link)
(38) Cychosz, K.A.; Guo, X.; Fan, W.; Cimino, R.; Gor, G.Yu.; Tsapatsis, M.; Neimark, A.V.; Thommes, M. Characterization of the Pore Structure of Three-Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous Carbons Using High Resolution Gas Sorption, Langmuir, 2012, 28 (34), 12647-12654. (DOI)
(37) Cheng, Y. T.; Wang Z.; Gilbert, C.J.; Fan, W.*; Huber, G.W.* Production of p-Xylene from Biomass by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Using ZSM-5 Catalysts with Reduced Pore Openings, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2012, 51, 11097 -11100. (DOI)
(36) Chang, C.-C.; Wang, Z.; Dornath, P.; Cho, H.J.; Fan, W.*Rapid Synthesis of Sn-Beta for the Isomerization of Cellulosic Sugars, RSC Advances, 2012, 2, 10475-10477. (DOI)
(35) Williams, C.L.; Chang, C.-C.; Do, P.; Nikbin, N.; Caratzoulas, S.; Vlachos, D.G.; Lobo, R.F.; Fan, W. Dauenhauer, P.J., Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Furans for Catalytic Production of Renewable p-Xylene, ACS Catalysis, 2012, 2, 935-939. (DOI)
(34) Cheng, Y.T.; Jae, J.; Shi, J.; Fan, W. Huber, G.W., Production of Renewable Aromatic Compounds by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass with Bifunctional Ga/ZSM-5 Catalysts, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2012, 51, 1387-1390. (DOI)
(33) Skinner, M.J.; Michor, E.L.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M.; Bhan, A. Schmidt, L.D., Ethanol Dehydration to Ethylene in a Stratified Autothermal Millisecond Reactor, Chemsuschem, 2011, 4, 1151-1156. (DOI)
(32) Chen, H.; Wydra J.; Zhang, X.Y.; Lee, S. P.; Wang, Z, Fan, W.*; Tsapatsis, M.*, Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zeolites with Three-Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous-Imprinted Structure. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 12390-12393. (DOI)
(31) Lee, P. S.; Zhang, X. Y.; Stoeger, J. A.; Malek, A.; Fan, W.; Kumar, S.; Yoo, W. C.; Al Hashimi, S.; Penn, R. L.; Stein, A.; Tsapatsis, M., Sub-40 nm Zeolite Suspensions via Disassembly of Three-Dimensionally Ordered Mesoporous-Imprinted Silicalite-1, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133 (3), 493-502. (DOI)
(30) Atchison, N.; Fan, W.; Brewer, D. D.; Arunagirinathan, M. A.; Hering, B. J.; Kokkoli E.; Kumar, S.; Papas, K. K.; Tsapatsis, M. Silica Nanoparticle Coatings by Adsorption from Lys-Sil Sols on Inorganic and Biological Surfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 1617-1621. (DOI)
Patents and Patent Application
(1) Chang, C.-C.; Wang, Z.; Dornath, P.; Cho, H.J.; Fan, W.; Rapid synthesis of beta zeolites, U.S. Patent No. US 9108190B1
(2) Cheng, Y,-T.; Wang, Z.; Fan, W.; Huber, W. G.; Selective production of p-xylene by catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass, World Patent. Patent No. WO2015089442 A1
(3) Williams, C.L.; Chang, C.-C.; Vlachos, D.G.; Lobo, R.F.; Fan, W.; Dauenhauer, P.J. Production of para-xylene by catalytically reacting 2,5-dimethylfuran and ethylene in a solvent, U.S. Patent No. US US20140296600 A1
(4) Paul, Dornath; Dauenhauer, P.J.; Fan, W.; Improved production of water-soluble oligomers, U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 62/152,107
2010 and Before
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A. Nanofabrication of zeolites and their crystallization mechanism
(29) Tsapatsis, M.; Fan, W., A New, Yet Familiar, Lamellar Zeolite, Chemcatchem, 2010, 2, 246-248. (DOI)
(28) Fan, W.; Synder, M. A.; Sandeep, K.; Lee, S. P.; Yoo, C. W.; McCormick, A. V.; Penn, L. R.; Stein, A.; Tsapatsis, M. Hierarchical nanofabrication of microporous crystals with ordered mesoporosity. Nature Materials, 2008, 7, 984-991. (DOI)
(27) Yoo, C. W.; Sandeep, K.; Wang, Z. Y.; Ergang, S. N.; Fan, W.; Karanikolos, N. G.; McCormick, A. V.; Penn, L. R.; Tsapatsis, M.; Stein, A. Nanoscale Reactor Engineering: Hydrothermal Synthesis of Uniform Zeolite Particles in Massively Parallel Reaction Chambers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008, 47, 9096–9099. (DOI)
(26) Fan, W.; Morozumi, K.; Kimura, R.; Yokoi, T.; Okubo, T. Synthesis of nanometer-sized sodalite without adding organic additives. Langmuir, 2008, 24, 6952-6958. (DOI)
(25) Fan, W.; Ogura, M.; Sankar, G.; Okubo, T. In situ small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering investigation on nucleation and crystal growth of nanosized zeolite A. Chemistry of Materials, 2007, 19, 1906-1917. (DOI)
(24) Fan, W.; O'Brien, M.; Ogura, M.; Sanchez-Sanchez, M.; Martin, C.; Meneau, F.; Kurumada, K.; Sankar, G.; Okubo, T. In situ observation of homogeneous nucleation of nanosized zeolite A. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2006, 8, 1335-1339. (DOI)
(23) Fan, W.; Meneau, F.; Bras, W.; Ogura, M.; Sankar, G.; Okubo, T. Effects of silicon sources on the formation of nanosized LTA: An in situ small angle X-ray scattering and wide angle X-ray scattering study. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2007, 101, 134-141. (DOI)
(22) Fan, W.; Shirato, S.; Gao, F.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T. Phase selection of FAU and LTA zeolites by controlling synthesis parameters. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2006, 89, 227-234. (DOI)
(21) Wakihara, T.; Suzuki, Y.; Fan, W.; Saito, S.; Kohara, S.; Sankar, G.; Sanchez-Sanchez, M.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T.; Changes in the medium-range order during crystallization of aluminosilicate zeolites characterized by high-energy X-ray diffraction technique. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 2009, 117, 277-282. (DOI)
(20) Wakihara, T.; Fan, W.; Kohara, S.; Ogura, M.; Sankar, G.; Okubo, T. Intermediate-range order in mesoporous silicas investigated by a high-energy X-ray diffraction technique. Chemistry Letters, 2008, 37, 30-31. (DOI)
(19) Sankar, G.; Okubo, T.; Fan, W.; Meneau, F. New insights into the formation of microporous materials by in situ scattering techniques. Faraday Discussions, 2007, 136, 157-166. (DOI)
(18) Wakihara, T.; Fan, W.; Suzuki, Y.; Kohara, S.; Ogura, M.; Sankar, G.; Okubo, T. Role of heteroatoms in precursor formation of zeolites. Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 2007, 170, 506-511.
(17) Wakihara, T.; Kohara, S.; Sankar, G.; Saito, S.; Sanchez-Sanchez, M.; Overweg, A. R.; Fan, W.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T. A new approach to the determination of atomic-architecture of amorphous zeolite precursors by high-energy X-ray diffraction technique. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2006, 8, 224-227. (DOI)
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B. Fabrication of mesoporous silica nanoparticles, films and their applications
(16) Wang, Z.P.; Snyder, M.A.; Fan, W.; Tsapatsis, M., Hollow cubic silica shells and assembled porous coatings, Scripta Materialia, 2010, 62, 504-507. (DOI)
(15) Atchison, N.A.; Fan, W.; Papas, K.K.; Hering, B.J.; Tsapatsis, M.; Kokkoli, E., Binding of the Fibronectin-Mimetic Peptide, PR_b, to alpha(5)beta(1) on Pig Islet Cells Increases Fibronectin Production and Facilitates Internalization of PR_b Functionalized Liposomes, Langmuir, 2010, 26, 14081-14088. (DOI)
(14) Rexeisen, E. L., Fan, W., Pangburn, T. O., Taribagil, R., Bates, F. S., Lodge, T. P., Tsapatsis, M., Kokkoli, E. Self-Assembly of Fibronectin Mimetic Peptide-Amphiphile Nanofibers. Langmuir, 2009, 26, 1953-1959. (DOI)
(13) Fukao, M.; Sugawara, A.; Shimojima, A.; Fan, W.; Arunagirinathan, M. A.; Tsapatsis M.; Okubo T. One-Dimensional Assembly of Silica Nanospheres Mediated by Block Copolymer in Liquid Phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 16344-16345. (DOI)
(12) Yokoi, T.; Wakabayashi, J.; Otsuka, Y.; Fan, W.; Iwama, M.; Watanabe, R.; Aramaki, K.; Shimojima, A.; Tatsumi, T.; Okubo, T. Mechanism of Formation of Uniform-Sized Silica Nanospheres Catalyzed by Basic Amino Acids. Chemistry of Materials 2009, 21, 3719-3729. (DOI)
(11) Gu, J.; Fan, W.; Shimojima, A.; Okubo, T. Organic-inorganic mesoporous nanocarriers, integrated with biogenic ligands. Small, 2007, 3, 1740-1744. (DOI)
(10) Gu, J.; Fan, W.; Shimojima, A.; Okubo, T. Microwave-induced synthesis of highly dispersed gold nanoparticles within the pore channels of mesoporous silica. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2008, 181, 957-963. (DOI)
(9) Naik, S. P.; Fan, W.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T. Phase transformation in mesoporous silica films induced by the degradation of organic moiety. Journal of Porous Materials, 2006, 13, 303-306. (DOI)
(8) Naik, S. P.; Fan, W.; Yokoi, T.; Okubo, T. Synthesis of a three-dimensional cubic mesoporous silica monolith employing an organic additive through an evaporation-induced self-assembly process. Langmuir, 2006, 22, 6391-6397. (DOI)
(7) Naik, S. P.; Yokoi, T.; Fan, W.; Sasaki, Y.; Wei, T. C.; Hillhouse, H. W.; Okubo, T. Versatile fabrication of distorted cubic mesoporous silica film using CTAB together with a hydrophobic organic additive. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006, 110, 9751-9754. (DOI)
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C. Synthesis of novel microporous materials
(6) Lin, Z. E.; Fan, W.; Gu, J. L.; Okubo, T. Crystal structures and spectroscopic properties of a new zinc phosphite cluster and an unexpected chainlike zinc phosphate obtained by hydrothermal reactions. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2007, 180, 981-987. (DOI)
(5) Lin, Z. E.; Fan, W.; Chino, N.; Gao, F. F.; Yokoi, T.; Okubo, T. Synthesis and characterization of a new three-dimensional organically templated nickel-zinc phosphate. Zeitschrift Fur Anorganische Und Allgemeine Chemie, 2006, 632, 465-468. (DOI)
(4) Lin, Z. E.; Fan, W.; Gao, F. F.; Chino, N.; Yokoi, T.; Okubo, T. A new organically templated zinc phosphite synthesized in phosphorous acid flux and its hydrothermal analogue. Crystal Growth & Design, 2006, 6, 2435-2437. (DOI)
(3) Lin, Z. E.; Fan, W.; Gao, F. F.; Chino, N.; Yokoi, T.; Okubo, T. A novel layered bimetallic phosphite intercalating with organic amines: Synthesis and characterization of Co(H2O)4Zn4(HPO3)6.C2N2H10. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2006, 179, 723-728. (DOI)
(2) Xu, Y.; Fan, W.; Chino, N.; Uehara, K.; Hikichi, S.; Mizuno, N.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T. The hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of (H2O)[Ge5O10] and [(CH3)4N][Ge10O20OH], two novel porous germanates. Chemistry Letters, 2004, 33, 74-75. (DOI)
(1) Xu, Y.; Fan, W.; Elangovan, S. P.; Ogura, M.; Okubo, T. [Ge9O14(OH)12](C6N2H16)2.H2O: a novel germanate with Ge-O helical chains from hydrothermal synthesis involving in situ separation for trans- and cis-isomers. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2004, 4547-4549. (DOI)