XUEBING ZHAO Accociate Professor    Tel：+86106277 2130   Mail：zhaoxb@tsinghua.edu.cn

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●  Professional Career

2016.09 -present      Assocaite Professor at Dept .Chem. Eng., Tsinghua University

2011.07-2016.08      Assistant Professor at Dept .Chem. Eng., Tsinghua University

2014.02-2015.03     Postdoctor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

2009.07-2011.06     Postdoctor, Dept .Chem. Eng., Tsinghua University  

●  Research interest

Dr. Zhao’s research interests include a wide range of lignocellulosic biomass conversion via chemical and biological approaches, primarily focusing on the biomass recalcitrance and its molecular mechanisms, process and reaction kinetic modeling of biomass pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and the process intensification, simulation and economic evaluation of the biomass conversion process, and development of direct biomass fuel cell technology.

●  Selected Publications

1. Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Multi-products co-production improves the economic feasibility of cellulosic ethanol: A case of Formiline pretreatment-based biorefining. Applied Energy 2019, 25, 229-244

2. Muhammad Sajid, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF): A recent progress focusing on the chemical-catalytic routes. Green Chemistry,  2018,20, 5427-5453 (Inside back cover paper)

3. Yu-An Chen, Yan Zhou, Yanlin Qin, Dehua Liu, Xuebing Zhao*. Evaluation of the action of Tween 20 non-ionic surfactant during enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose: Pretreatment, hydrolysis conditions and lignin structure. Bioresource Technology, 2018, 269: 329-338

4. Xuebing Zhao*, Jialong Wen, Hongmei Chen, Dehua Liu. The fate of lignin during atmospheric acetic acid pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse and its impact on cellulose enzymatic hydrolyzability. Renewable Energy, 2018, 12: 200-209

5. Xuebing Zhao*, Ruchun Wu, Dehua Liu. Evaluation of the mass transfer effects on delignification kinetics of atmospheric acetic acid fractionation of sugarcane bagasse with a shrinking-layer model. Bioresource Technology, 2018, 261: 52-61.

6. Xingkai Cui, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. A novel route for flexible preparation of hydrocarbon jet-fuels from biomass based platform chemicals: case of using furfural and 2, 3-butanediol as feedstocks. Green Chemistry, 2018, 20:2018-2026

7. Tian Li, Nan Liu, Xianjin Ou, Xuebing Zhao*, Feng Qi, Jianzhong Huang, Dehua Liu. Development of a fungi cellulose binding module (CBM) based fluorescent probe protein to visualize cellulase adsorption and quantitatively determine cellulose accessibility. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2018, 11:105

8. Lei Dong, Ruchun Wu, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Phenomenological modeling and evaluation of formic acid fractionating pretreatment of wheat straw with an extended combined severity factor. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2017, 81: 140-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jtice.2017.09.038

9. Tian Li, Qi Fang, Hongmei Chen, Feng Qi, Xianjin Ou, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Solvent-based delignification and decrystallization of wheat straw for efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and ethanol production with low cellulase loadings. RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 10609-0617.

10. Xuebing Zhao*, Siming Li, Ruchun Wu, Dehua Liu. Organosolv fractionating pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for efficient enzymatic saccharification: chemistry, kinetics and substrate structures. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 2017,11: 567-590. DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1768 (Cover paper)

11. Yi Ding, Bo Du, Xuebing Zhao*, J.Y. Zhu, Dehua Liu. Phosphomolybdic acid and ferric iron as efficient electron mediators for coupling biomass pretreatment to produce bioethanol and electricity generation from wheat straw. Bioresource Technology, 2017, 228:279–289 (Cover paper).

12. Xuebing Zhao, Wei Liu, Yulin Deng*, J.Y. Zhu*. Low-temperature Microbial and Direct Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Electricity: Advances and Challenges. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017, 71: 268-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.12.055.

13. Xuebing Zhao*, Yi Ding, Bo Du, J.Y. Zhu, Dehua Liu. Polyoxometalate- mediated lignin oxidation for efficient enzymatic production of sugars and generation of electricity from lignocellulosic biomass. Energy Technology, 2017, 5, 1179–1185, DOI: 10.1002/ente.201600662.

14. Hongmei Chen, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Relative significance of the negative impacts of hemicelluloses on enzymatic cellulose hydrolysis is dependent on lignin content: evidences from substrate structural features and protein adsorption ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2016, 4 (12): 6668–6679

15. Ardak Akimkulova, Yan Zhou, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Improving the enzymatic hydrolysis of dilute acid pretreated wheat straw by metal ion blocking of non-productive cellulase adsorption on lignin. Bioresource Technology, 2016, 208:110-116.

16. Ruchun Wu, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Structural features of Formiline pretreated sugarcane bagasse and their impacts on the enzymatic digestibility of cellulose. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2016, 4 (3):1255–1261

17. Xuebing Zhao, J.Y. Zhu*, Efficient Conversion of Lignin to Electricity Using A Novel Direct Biomass Fuel Cell Mediated by Polyoxometalates at Low Temperatures. ChemSusChem 2016, 9(2): 197–207.

18. Zhou Yan, Zhao Xuebing*, Liu Dehua. Effects of Non-ionic Surfactants on the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lignocellulose and Corresponding Mechanism. Progress in Chemistry 2015, 27(11): 1555-1565.

19. Hongmei Chen, Tianhang Hu, Jia Zhao, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. A comparison of several organosolv pretreatments for increasing the enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw: substrate digestibility, fermentability and structural features. Applied Energy, 2015,150:224-232

20. Yan Zhou, Hongmei Chen, Feng Qi, Xuebing Zhao*, Dehua Liu. Non-ionic surfactants do not consistently improve the enzymatic hydrolysis of pure cellulose. Bioresource Technology, 2015, 182:136-143