Hongyuan Chuai
Dr. Hongyuan Chuai obtained her PhD degree from Nankai University in 2019. During her PhD study, she worked as a joint PhD student in Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRPP, CNRS, supervisor Rodolphe Clérac) from October 2016 to October 2018. Then she worked as a research fellow at Tianjin University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
She has long been dedicated to research in inorganic synthesis and catalysis, achieving a series of original breakthroughs and making significant pioneering contributions to the field of chemistry. She first discovered a novel carbon reduction reaction, pioneering a new direction for the electroreforming of carbon materials to produce high carbon chemicals. She proposed the hydrogen dissociation-delocalized π-electron synergistic mechanism (HD-πES), establishing a new paradigm for organic synthesis based on carbon-carbon bond cleavage and reconstruction. She pioneered the carbon atomic-level reconstruction theory and developed the concept of electroreforming and electrorefining, which laid the foundation for the new decipline “Atomic Chemistry”. Her work has provided new perspectives for the development of future energy and chemical science.