Tiancheng Mu

Mail address: E-mail: tcmu@ruc.edu.cn

Phone number: 010-62514925

http://123.206.59.245/index.php

Dr. Tiancheng Mu received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004 under the guidance of Academician Buxing Han. He worked in the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Oldenburg University as a postdoctor from 2005 to 2007. He is currently an associate professor in Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China. His research interests involve ionic liquids, chemical thermodynamics, and green chemistry. He has authored over 100 peer-review scientific publications and two book chapters. Now he also serves as an associate editor for RSC Advances, editorial board member for The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, section editor for Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids, vice director of Beijing Thermal Analysis Society, a member of ionic liquids professional committee of Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, a member of supercritical fluid professional committee of Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and a member of green chemistry professional committee of Chinese Chemical Society.

Honors and awards

2017 First class of science and technology award of China Association for Instrumental Analysis (CAIA Award)

Research area

The team of Dr. Tiancheng Mu focus on the key scientific applications of green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry, in the field of energy, environment, catalysis, and advanced materials. Currently, the group is active in major research areas including:

(1) Green synthesis or process of new nanomaterials applying to electrical energy storage, environmental pollution treatment, and electrocatalysis;

(2) Designing environmental friendly solvent systems in the catalytic reaction, as substitutions of the traditional organic solvent, to achieve efficient conversion of reactants and rapid separation of products;

(3) Efficient dissolution and separation of natural products (biomacromolecule) using the modern green process theory and methods;

(4) Comprehensive physicochemical property and frontier hot applications of green solvents such as ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, and supercritical carbon dioxide;

(5) Key technologies for dissolution and finishing of rare earth metal ore.

Publication list (less than 10)

Zhimin Xue*, Feijie Liu, Jingyun Jiang, Jinfang Wang and Tiancheng Mu*, Scalable and super-stable exfoliation of graphitic carbon nitride in biomass-derived γ-Valerolactone: Enhanced catalytic activity for alcoholysis and cycloaddition of epoxides eith CO2, Green Chem., 2017, 19, 5041-5045. front cover, hot article.

Zhao, X.; Jiang, J.; Xue, Z.; Yan, C.; Mu, T.*, An ambient temperature, CO2-assisted solution processing of amorphous cobalt sulfide in a thiol/amine based quasi-ionic liquid for oxygen evolution catalysis. Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 9418-9421.

Jingyun Jiang, Chuanyu Yan, Xinhui Zhao, Hongxia Luo, Zhimin Xue, Tiancheng Mu*, PEGylated deep eutectic solvent for controllable solvothermal synthesis of porous NiCo2S4 for efficient oxygen evolution reaction, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 3023-3031.

Binshen Wang#, Li Qin#, Tiancheng Mu*, Zhimin Xue, Guohua Gao*, Are Ionic Liquids Chemically Stable? Chemical Reviews, 2017, 117(10), 7113–7131.

Jinfang Wang, Zhimin Xue, Chuanyu Yan, Wancheng Zhao, Xinhui Zhao and Tiancheng Mu,* Fine Regulation of the Cellulose Dissolution and Regeneration by Low Pressure CO2 in DMSO/Organic Base: the Dissolution Behavior and Mechanism, Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2016, 18(48), 32772 – 32779.

Guofeng Li, Zhimin Xue, Bobo Cao, Chuanyu Yan, Tiancheng Mu*, Preparation and properties of C=X, (X is O, N, S) based distillable ionic liquids and their application for rare earth separation, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2016, 4(12), 6258−6262.

Jingyun Jiang, Wancheng Zhao, Zhimin Xue, Qingbo Li, Chuanyu Yan, Tiancheng Mu*, PEGylated quasi-ionic liquid electrolytes: fundamental physiochemical properties and electrodeposition of aluminium, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2016, 4(10), 5814-5819.

Zhimin Xue,* Xinhui Zhao, Run-cang Sun, Tiancheng Mu*, Biomass-Derived γ-Valerolactone-Based Solvent Systems for Highly Efficient Dissolution of Various Lignins: Dissolution Behaviour and Mechanism Study, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2016, 4(7), 3864–3870.

Zhimin Xue,* Jingyun Jiang, Guofeng Li, Wancheng Zhao, Jinfang Wang, Tiancheng Mu*, Zirconium-cyanuric acid coordination polymer: Highly efficient catalyst for conversion of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone, Catalysis Science and Technology, 2016, 6,  6(14), 5374–5379.

Guofeng Li, Chuanyu Yan, Bobo Cao, Jingyun Jiang, Wancheng Zhao, Jinfang Wang, Tiancheng Mu*, Highly Efficient I₂ Capture by Simple and Low-cost Deep Eutectic Solvents, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 2522 – 2527.