Hu Xiaonan

Personal Information

Hu Xiaonan

Distinguished Researcher

Contact: huxiaonan@ncu.edu.cn

Address: Room C525, Environmental Building, Qianhu Campus, Nanchang University, No. 999 Xuefu Avenue, Honggutan District, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China

I am committed to a mutually inspiring and rewarding journey with students. As a supervisor, I will fulfill my duties wholeheartedly to support and empower students’ growth; in return, I hope students will devote themselves fully to rigorous scientific research. Together, we will strive to become better versions of ourselves.

My research is conducted in the research group led by Professor Honggen Peng at the School of Resources & Environment, Nanchang University. The team also includes distinguished scholars in the field of air pollution control: Professor Guobo Li, Professor Jian Ji, Professor Fengbo Yu, and Postdoctoral Ying Zhang. We boast a strong faculty team with a collaborative, inclusive, and proactive research atmosphere.

Warmly welcome students and young doctors with aspirations in the research of environmental functional materials and air pollution reduction and carbon mitigation to join our team for mutual development!

Education and Work Experience

2026.02~Present, Nanchang University, Distinguished Researcher

2022.07~2026.02, Shanghai University, Postdoctoral Researcher, Supervisor: Prof. Dengsong Zhang

2020.07~2022.07, Jinan University, Postdoctoral Researcher, Supervisor: Prof. Mingshan Zhu

2017.09~2020.06, Fudan University, Ph.D., Supervisor: Prof. Wenbo Dong

2014.09~2017.06, Shanghai University, M.S., Supervisors: Prof. Dengsong Zhang & Prof. Lei Huang

Field of Investigation

Focusing on the fields of environmental chemistry and air pollution control, this research takes typical atmospheric pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as research objects. It centers on cutting-edge technical pathways including photothermal catalysis and electrothermal catalysis, conducting studies on key scientific issues and core mechanisms for the highly efficient catalytic purification of atmospheric pollutants. Meanwhile, it is committed to the interdisciplinary integration of machine learning and air pollution control systems, exploring novel approaches for intelligent catalyst design and optimization of pollution control processes.

Research Overview

A total of 35 SCI papers have been published. Among them, 11 SCI papers have been published as the first author or corresponding author in domestic and international journals including Chemical Reviews, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy.

Representative Achievements

1. Some of the main papers：

(1) Xiaonan Hu, and Mingshan Zhu*. Were Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes Really Understood? Basic Concepts, Cognitive Biases, and Experimental Details. Environmental Science & Technology 2024, 58, 10415-10444.

(2) Yongjie Shen,† Xiaonan Hu,† Xin Chen, Tianwei Lan, Jiang Deng, Danhong Cheng, and Dengsong Zhang*. Chlorine-Tolerant Chlorobenzene Combustion over Mullite Catalysts via In Situ Constructing Ru-O-Mn Sites. Environmental Science & Technology 2025, 59, 3826-3835.

(3) Jiang Deng,† Xiaonan Hu,† Alex J. Klaver, Jun Liu, Bin Liu, Linsheng Bai, Ming Xie, and Dengsong Zhang*. Catalyst Deactivation in the Abatement of Atmospheric Pollutants: Origin, Resistance, and Regeneration. Chemical Reviews 2025, 125, 11260-11357.

(4) Bin Liu,^⊥ Yuan Wang,^⊥ Xiaonan Hu,^⊥ Jiang Deng,^⊥ Zhenyuan Teng, Wenqiang Qu, Zhenggang Xue, Haiyan Duan, Lupeng Han, Yongjie Shen, Jun Liu, Bin Liu,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Photothermal Dry Reforming of Methane Over Supported Bimetal Dual-Atom Pairs. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2026, 148, 4743-4753.

(5) Xiaonan Hu, Yang Ye, Wenbo Dong, Yichao Huang, and Mingshan Zhu*. Quantitative evaluation of structure-activity relationships in heterogeneous photocatalytic oxidation towards organic contaminants. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2022, 309, 121238.

(6) Xiaonan Hu, Yao Zhang, Boji Wang, Hongjing Li,* and Wenbo Dong*. Novel g-C₃N₄/BiOCl_xI_1-x nanosheets with rich oxygen vacancies for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants under visible and simulated solar light. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2019, 256, 117789.

(7) Lei Huang,* Xiaonan Hu, Shuai Yuan, Hongrui Li, Tingting Yan, Liyi Shi, and Dengsong Zhang*. Photocatalytic preparation of nanostructured MnO₂-(Co₃O₄)/TiO₂ hybrids: The formation mechanism and catalytic application in SCR deNO_x reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2017, 203, 778-788.

(8) Xiaonan Hu, Yang Ye, Gang Lu,* Gang Ren, Chuanyi Wang, and Mingshan Zhu*. Ingenious integration of Fe⁰ and multiphased MoS₂ to activate peroxymonosulfate for carbamazepine removal at high salinity condition. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 473, 145141.

(9) Xiaonan Hu, Yang Ye, Yanxi Chen, Min Liu, Wenchao Zhang, and Mingshan Zhu*. The synergistic interactions of reaction parameters in heterogeneous peroxymonosulfate oxidation: Reaction kinetic and catalytic mechanism. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2022, 421, 126841.

(10) Xiaonan Hu, Lei Huang,* Jianping Zhang, Hongrui Li, Kaiwen Zha, Liyi Shi, and Dengsong Zhang*. Facile and template-free fabrication of mesoporous 3D nanosphere-like Mn_xCo_3-xO₄ as highly effective catalysts for low temperature SCR of NO_x with NH₃. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6, 2952.

(11) Lupeng Han,† Yinglin Song,† Hui Zhang, Fuli Wang, Huijun Yu, Jin Zhang, Dengchao Peng, Xiaonan Hu,* Ming Xie, and Dengsong Zhang*. Synergistic Catalytic Elimination of NO_x and CH₃SH in CaO-Containing Flue Gases. ACS ES&T Engineering 2025, 5, 2108-2117.

(12) Xiaonan Hu, Liyi Shi, Dengsong Zhang,* Xin Zhao, and Lei Huang*. Accelerating the decomposition of KMnO₄ by photolysis and auto-catalysis: a green approach to synthesize a layered birnessite-type MnO₂ assembled hierarchical nanostructure. RSC Advances 2016, 6, 14192-14198.

(13) Xiangyu Liu, Xiaonan Hu, Kai Zhang, Qiuying Yi, Hengxiang Zhang, Tingting Yan, Danhong Cheng, Lupeng Han,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Selective Synergistic Catalytic Elimination of NO_x and CH₃SH via Engineering Deep Oxidation Sites against Toxic Byproducts Formation. Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57, 21470-21482.

(14) Yongjie Shen,^† Jiang Deng,^† Xiaonan Hu, Xin Chen, Huiqian Yang, Danhong Cheng, and Dengsong Zhang*. Expediting Toluene Combustion by Harmonizing the Ce-O Strength over Co-Doped CeZr Oxide Catalysts. Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57, 1797-1806.

(15) Zhi Shen, Penglu Wang, Xiaonan Hu, Wenqiang Qu, Xiangyu Liu, and Dengsong Zhang*. Ultrahighly Alkali-Tolerant NO_x Reduction over Self-Adaptive CePO₄/FePO₄ Catalysts. Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57, 14472-14481.

(16) Fuli Wang, Tianwei Lan, Xiaonan Hu, Aling Chen, Xin Chen, Xinrui Xu, Mengxue Wang, Ming Xie, Yongjie Shen, Penglu Wang,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Cl-Resistant Synergistic Removal of NO_x and Chlorobenzene over SmMn₂O₅‑Zeolite Composite Catalysts. Environmental Science & Technology 2025, 59, 17361-17371.

(17) Huiqian Yang, Aling Chen, Fuli Wang, Tianwei Lan, Jin Zhang, Xiaonan Hu, Yongjie Shen, Danhong Cheng,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Phosphotungstic Acid as a Dechlorination Agent Collaborates with CeO₂ for Synergistic Catalytic Elimination of NO_x and Chlorobenzene. Environmental Science & Technology 2024, 58, 7672-7682.

(18) Wenqiang Qu, Zixiang Xu, Christoph G. Gruber, Hongmei Li, Xiaonan Hu, Limin Zhou, Haiyan Duan, Jin Zhang, Min Liu, Emiliano Cortés,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Accelerating Toluene Oxidation over Boron-Titanium-Oxygen Interface: Steric Hindrance of the Methyl Group Induced by the Plane-Adsorption Configuration. Environmental Science & Technology 2024, 58, 16215-16224.

(19) Tianwei Lan, Rambabu Yalavarthi, Yongjie Shen, Min Gao, Fuli Wang, Qingmin Hu, Pengfei Hu, Mohsen Beladi-Mousavi, Xin Chen, Xiaonan Hu, Huiqian Yang, Emiliano Cortés,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Polyoxometalates-Mediated Selectivity in Pt Single-Atoms on Ceria for Environmental Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202415786.

(20) Yanqi Chen, Penglu Wang,* Wenqiang Qu, Yongjie Shen, Ya Tang, Edoardo Mariani, Yongbo Ni, Xiaonan Hu, Fuli Wang, Jin Zhang, Dengchao Peng, Xue Ding, Ming Xie, Yuejin Li,* Emiliano Cortes,* and Dengsong Zhang*. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202517918.

2. Some of the main projects

(1) National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (Type C), No. 22306117, 2024.01-2026.12, ¥300,000, ongoing, Principal Investigator.

(2) Shanghai “Super Postdoctoral” Incentive Program, Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, No. 2022250, 2023.01-2025.01, ¥300,000, completed, Principal Investigator.

(3) Regional Joint Fund-Young Scientist Fund, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, No. 2021A1515110914, 2021.10-2024.09, ¥100,000, completed, Principal Investigator.