Ziyi Zhong
Professor
Office: R419, North Campus
Research Group Website: Green Catalysis and Energy Group
Ziyi Zhong received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University and his Ph.D. from Nanjing University in China (1995). Later, he did 5-year postdoctoral research at Bar-Ilan University, the University of Washington at Seattle, and finally at the National University of Singapore. In 2002, he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship from NRC Canada and worked at an NRC Institute (BRI) in Montreal. During the period of 02/2003-09/2018, he worked at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore and also held an adjunct associate professorship in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore (2013-2017), and a part-time position in Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) in NTU (2016-2018). He joined GTIIT as a full professor in Oct 2018.
Before joining GTIIT, he worked on projects related to heterogeneous catalysis, material science, wastewater treatment, and pharmaceuticals, and some of the industrial projects were supported by companies such as Corning Inc (USA), Honeywell (U.S.), Mitsubishi Chemical Corp (Japan), MicroMil CarbonTech (Singapore) and Glaxo SmithKline plc (GSK), etc.
As of April 10, 2026, he has authored or co-authored approximately 290 international journal papers, which have received over 24,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He has also written 7 book chapters and holds 10 granted patents, including 3 U.S. patents. His h-index is 80 on Google Scholar. Additionally, he has contributed about 30 technical project reports to the industry.
The studies in his group aim to address fundamental scientific issues/problems and develop practical applications, particularly in the heterogeneous catalysis field.
- Heterogeneous Catalysis, Particularly in the Design and Synthesis of Nanosized Catalysts for Environmental Remediation
- Clean Energy and Energy Storage Materials
- Waste Water Treatment
- Surface Chemistry
- Various Nanosized Materials, including Solid Adsorbents
Ziyi Zhong, Yadong Yin, Byron Gates, and Younan Xia*, Preparation of Mesoscale Hollow Spheres of TiO2 and SnO2 by Templating against Crystalline Arrays of Polystyrene Particles, Advanced Materials, 12, 206 (2000).
Ziyi Zhong*, Sergiy Patskovskyy, Pierre Bouvrette, John H. T. Luong, Aharon Gedanken. The Surface Chemistry of Au Colloids and their Interactions with Functional Amino Acids. J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 4046-4052 (2004).
Ziyi Zhong*, Judith Ho, Jaclyn Teo, Aharon Gedanken, Synthesis of Porous α-Fe2O3 Nanorods and Deposition of Very Small Gold Particles in the Pores for Catalytic Oxidation of CO, Chem. Mater, 19, 4776-4782(2007).
Ziyi Zhong*, Jianyi Lin, Siew-Pheng Teh, Jaclyn Teo, Frits. M. Dautzenberg, A Rapid and Efficient Method to Deposit Au and Pt Particles on Catalyst Supports and Its Application for CO Oxidation at Low Temperatures, Advanced Functional Materials, 17, 1402-1408 (2007).
Qiang Wang, Jizhong Luo, Ziyi Zhong,* and Armando Borgna, CO2 Capture by Solid-Adsorbents and Their Applications: Current Status and New Trends, Energy & Environmental Sciences, 4, 42-55 (2011).
Xu Li, Stella See Soon Fang, Jaclyn Teo, Yong Lim Foo, Armando Borgna, Ming Lin,* Ziyi Zhong*, Activation and Deactivation of Au-Cu/SBA-15 Catalyst for Preferential Oxidation of CO in H2-rich Gas. ACS Catalysis, 2, 360-369(2012).
Junya Wang, Liang Huang, Ruoyan Yang, Zhang Zhang, Jingwen Wu, Yanshan Gao, Qiang Wang,* Dermot OHare and Ziyi Zhong*, Recent Advances in Solid Sorbents for CO2 Capture and New Development Trends, Energy Environmental Science, 7, (11), 3478-3518 (2014).
Chenchen Zhang, Letian Wang, Ubong Jerome Etim, Yibing Song*, Oz M. Gazit*, Ziyi Zhong,* Oxygen Vacancies in Cu/TiO2 Boost Strong Metal–Support Interaction and CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol, Journal of Catalysis, 413, 284–296 (2022).
Ubong J. Etim, Peng Bai, Oz M. Gazit, * Ziyi Zhong*, Low-Temperature Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis and Molecular Oxygen Activation, Catalysis Reviews -Science and Engineering, 65, 2, 239-425 (2023).
Chenchen Zhang, Letian Wang, Yuzhen Chen, Xuezhong He, Yibing Song, Oz M. Gazit*, Ziyi Zhong*, Shifting CO2 Hydrogenation from Producing CO to CH3OH by Engineering Defect Structures of the Cu/ZrO2 and Cu/ZnO Catalysts, Chemical Engineering Journal, 475, 146102 (2023).