Recently, cooperated with Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) Frontier Engineering Center of University College London, UK, the catalytic reaction engineering research group of the School of Chemical Engineering of ECUST explored the mass transfer process of molecular sieve surface interface and its influence on catalytic reaction by combining the technologies of molecular sieve controllable preparation, diffusion measurement and reaction test. The research article entitled “Effect of External Surface Diffusion Barriers on Pt/Beta Catalyzed Isomerization of n-Pentane” was published online in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

The research article is first-authored by ECUST doctoral candidate Hu Shen, and corresponding-authored by ECUST Associate Professor Ye Guanghua and co-corresponding authored by Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens of University College London. The research work also received support and careful guidance from Academician Yuan Weikang and Professor Zhou Xinggui, and financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the First-class Discipline Construction Funds of East China University of Science and Technology.