Prof. Weiguo Cheng, earned his Ph.D. degree from Dalian University of Technology in 2005. He was rewarded the senior visiting scholarship for visiting the University of Waterloo with Professor Flora Ng who is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada between 2010 and 2011. He has been professor of chemical engineering at Institute of Process Engineering, CAS since 2016. He is mainly engaged in green catalysis. He proposed synergistic catalytic effect of ionic liquids which provides a molecular level understanding of effect of hydrogen bond on the reaction and forms the basis of rational design of ionic liquids. He specializes in design of novel catalytic materials and catalytic process. He has promoted the novel technology application and industrialization. The plant for production of dimethyl carbonate and ethylene glycol was put into operation. He is author of 67 journal papers among which two papers were selected as Back Cover of Green Chemistry and 31 invention patents granted including 1 PCT patent. As project leader, he presided National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China, National High-Tech R&D Program, Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ect. He has been awarded Hou De-bang Innovation Award of Chemical Science and Technology of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China in 2018, CAS Science and Technology Promotion and Development Prize in 2017, First-class Award of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association Scientific and Technological Progress Prize in 2009, and Second-class Award of Beijing Municipality Scientific and Technological Innovation Prize in 2008. He is the member of Committee of integration of IT application and industrialization and the member of Ionic Liquids Professional Committee. His research interests include design of novel catalytic materials and catalytic process, synthesis of ionic liquid catalysts, mechanisms and kinetics of catalytic reaction, new catalytic process for CO₂ utilization.

1.Qian Su, Xin Tan, Xiaoqian Yao, Ting Ying, Li Dong, Mengqian Fu, Weiguo Cheng*, Suojiang Zhang*. Sterically controlling 2-carboxylated imidazolium salts for one-step efficient hydration of epoxides into 1,2-diols. Green Chemistry, DOI: 10.1039/D1GC00788B 

2.Qian Su, Yaqiong Qi, Xiaoqian Yao, Weiguo Cheng*, Li Dong, Songsong Chen, Suojiang Zhang*.Ionic liquids tailored and confined by one-step assembly with mesoporous silica for boosting catalytic conversion of CO2 into cyclic carbonates. Green Chemistry, 2018, 20: 3232 Back Cover 

3.Qian Su, Xiaoqian Yao, Weiguo Cheng*, Xiangping Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. Boron-doped melamine-derived carbon nitrides tailored by ionic liquids for catalytic conversion of CO2 into cyclic carbonates Green Chemistry, 2017, 19: 2957 Back Cover 

4.Wei Qian, Lei Liu, Zengliang Zhang, Qian Su, Weizhen Zhao, Weiguo Cheng*, Li Dong, Zifeng Yang, Ruibing Bai, Fei Xu, Yanqiang Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. Synthesis of bioderived polycarbonates with molecular weight adjustability catalyzed by phenolic-derived ionic liquids. Green Chemistry, 2020, 22: 2488 

5.Wei Qian, Xifei Ma, Lei Liu, Lili Deng, Qian Su, Ruibing Bai, Zengliang Zhang, Haibin Gou, Li Dong, Weiguo Cheng*, Fei Xu. Efficient synthesis of bio-derived polycarbonates from dimethyl carbonate and isosorbide: regulating exo-OH and endo-OH reactivity by ionic liquids. Green Chemistry, 2020, 22: 5357 

6.Ting Ying, Xin Tan, Qian Su, Weiguo Cheng*, Li Dong, Suojiang Zhang*. Polymeric ionic liquids tailored by different chain groups for the efficient conversion of CO2 into cyclic carbonates. Green Chemistry, 2019, 21: 2352 

7.Jinquan Wang, Jian Sun, Chunyan Shi, Weiguo Cheng*, Xiangping Zhang, Suojiang Zhang*. Synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from CO2 and ethylene oxide catalyzed by K2CO3 based-binary salts in the presence of H2O. Green Chemistry, 2011, 13: 3213 

8.Wei Qian, Xin Tan, Qian Su, Weiguo Cheng*, Fei Xu, Li Dong, Suojiang Zhang*. Transesterfication of isosorbide with dimethyl carbonate catalyzed by task-specific ionic liquids. ChemSusChem, 2019, 12: 1169 

9.Weiguo Cheng, Xiangsheng Wang, Gang Li, Xinwen Guo, Suojiang Zhang. Highly efficient epoxidation of propylene to propylene oxide over TS-1 using urea+hydrogen peroxide as oxidizing agent. Journal of Catalysis, 2008, 255: 343 

10. Congkai Ma, Fei Xu, Weiguo Cheng*, Xin Tan, Qian Su, Suojiang Zhang*. Tailoringmolecular weight of bio-derived polycarbonatesvia bifunctional ionic liquids catalysts under metal-free conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6: 2684