Academic Staff
Dr Armin REZAYAN
Research Assistant Professor (Collaborator: Prof. Charles XU)
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- Advanced Biorefinery Laboratory (ABL)
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Dr. Rezayan completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (BNUT), Iran. He then pursued his doctoral studies at Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China, receiving his PhD in 2023 with a focus on catalytic biomass conversion into high-value platform chemicals. After serving as a short-term postdoctoral fellow at ZZU, he joined the Advanced Biorefinery Laboratory (ABL) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked for nearly three years.
His research expertise lies in thermocatalytic technologies that convert biomass and waste into high-value products, including biofuels, platform chemicals, and functional materials, supporting a circular economy and carbon neutrality targets. He has published 30+ peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, with 700+ citations (h-index: 13), and has served as an early career editor and peer reviewer for several international journals.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- MSc in Chemical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran
- BSc in Chemical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran
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Publications
- Armin Rezayan, Dan Wu, Zhen Zhang, Xiaomeng Yang, Renfeng Nie, Tianliang Lu, Jianshe Wang, Xiaoqin Si, Yongsheng Zhang, and Chunbao Xu. “Efficient and switchable production of bio-diol/triol chemicals from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural.” Green Chemistry (2025).
- Armin Rezayan, Renfeng Nie, Jianshe Wang, Tianliang Lu, Chunbao Charles Xu, and Yongsheng Zhang. “Efficient one-pot synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from functionalized microcrystalline cellulose: An alternative approach to strong acidic/basic catalysis.” Chemical Engineering Journal462 (2023): 142219.
- Zhang, Yongsheng*, Armin Rezayan*, Ke Wang, Jianshe Wang, Chunbao Charles Xu, and Renfeng Nie. “On-demand, highly tunable, and selective 5-hydroxymethylfurfural hydrogenation to furan diols enabled by Ni and Ni3Ga alloy catalysts.” ACS Catalysis 13, no. 1 (2022): 803-814. (*Co-First Authors)
- Armin Rezayan, Ke Wang, Renfeng Nie, Jianshe Wang, Tianliang Lu, Yongsheng Zhang, and Chunbao Charles Xu. “Eco-friendly preparation of phosphated gallia: A tunable dual-acidic catalyst for the efficient 5-hydroxymethylfurfural production from carbohydrates.” Journal of Catalysis 414 (2022): 186-198.
- Armin Rezayan, Ke Wang, Renfeng Nie, Tianliang Lu, Jianshe Wang, Yongsheng Zhang, and Chunbao Charles Xu. “Synthesis of bifunctional tin-based silica–carbon catalysts, Sn/KIT-1/C, with tunable acid sites for the catalytic transformation of glucose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural.” Chemical Engineering Journal 429 (2022): 132261.
