Dr. XIE Yongbing is a full professor at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Technology from Tianjin University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow in IPE, he has been working in the institute as an assistant professor, associate professor and professor. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University from August 2018 to August 2019. He is mainly engaged in industrial wastewater treatment, carbon adsorbent synthesis and regeneration, and waste industrial salt purification. He co-edited three books, published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers and was authorized 21 patents, and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers). He won the Young Scientist Award from Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, Young Scientist Award from Chinese Society of Particuology, second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, and second prize of the Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award. The catalytic ozonation technology he developed has been applied in dozens of industrial projects in coal chemical industry, iron and steel industry and waste lithium ion battery recycling industry.

1. Hongbin. Cao, Yongbing Xie, Yuxian Wang, Jiadong Xiao. Advanced Ozonation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment：Active catalysts and combined technologies. Royal Society of Chemistry publisher, 2022.

2. Honbin Cao, Yongbing Xie, Yuxian Wang, Yixin Yang. Enhanced ozonation of low-concentration organic wastewater-Principle, technology and application, Scientific and Technical Documentation Press, 2021.

3. Guangfei Yu, Jing Wang, Zhaomeng Xu, Hongbin Cao, Qin Dai, Yiqiu Wu, and Yongbing Xie*. Synergetic Manipulation Mechanism of Single-Atom M−N4 and M−OH (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) Sites for Ozone Activation: Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Verification, Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, 9393−9403

4. Jing Wang, Jiakai Qiu, Zhuan Wang, Zechao Zhuang, Shenning Liu, Yuxian Wang, Yuxiang Weng, Dingsheng Wang, Yongbing Xie*, Hongbin Cao. Iron single atoms and nitrogen vacancies on graphitic carbon nitride synergically shallowing deep electron traps towards efficient photocatalytic ozonation, Journal of Catalysis, 2024, 439, 115772.

5. Zhaomeng Xu, Jing Wang, Jiakai Qiu, Hongbin Cao, and Yongbing Xie*. Unexpectedly enhanced organics removal in persulfate oxidation with high concentration of sulfate: the origin and the selectivity, Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57, 14442. (cover paper)

6. Jiakai Qiu, Jing Wang, Mingzhu Ren, Xin Yang, Jianbo Zhang, Xiaolong Zhang, Hongbin Cao, Yongbing Xie*. Comprehensive effect of water matrix on catalytic ozonation of chloride contained saline wastewater, Water Research, 2023, 234, 119827.

7. Jing Wang, Guangfei Yu, Yuchao Wang, Shenning Liu, Jiakai Qiu, Yanjun Xu, Zhuan Wang, Yuxian Wang, Yongbing Xie*, Hongbin Cao. Surface Density of Cobalt Single Atoms Manipulating Hydroxyl Radical Generation Via Dual Pathways: Electrons Supply and Active sites, Adv. Func. Mater., 2023, 2215245.

8. Guangfei Yu, Yiqiu Wu, Hongbin Cao, Qingfeng Ge*, Qin Dai, Sihan Sun, Yongbing Xie*. Insights into the Mechanism of Ozone Activation and Singlet Oxygen Generation on N‑Doped Defective Nanocarbons: A DFT and Machine Learning Study, Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56, 7853.

9. Hongbin Cao, Jing Wang, Jae-Hong Kim, Zhuang Guo, Jiadong Xiao, Jin Yang, Junjun Chang, Yanchun Shi, Yongbing Xie*. Different roles of Fe atoms and nanoparticles on g-C₃N₄ in regulating the reductive activation of ozone under visible light, Applied Catalysis B, 2021, 296, 120362.

10. Guangfei Yu, Yuxian Wang, Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Yongbing Xie*. Reactive Oxygen Species and Catalytic Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation for Water Purification. Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(10), 5931.

11. Zhuang Guo^†, Yongbing Xie^†, Jiadong Xiao, Zhi-Jian Zhao, Yuxian Wang, Zhaomeng Xu, Yi Zhang, Lichang Yin*, Hongbin Cao*, Jinlong Gong*. Single-atom Mn-N₄ Sites Catalyzed Peroxone Reaction for Efficient Production of Hydroxyl Radicals under Acidic Solution, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 12005. (^†: co-first authors)

12. Jiadong Xiao, Qingzhen Han, Hongbin Cao, Jabor Rabeah*, Jin Yang, Zhuang Guo, Linbi Zhou, Yongbing Xie*, Angelika Brückner*. Number of Reactive Charge Carriers-a Hidden Linker between Band Structure and Catalytic Performance in Photocatalysts, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 8852.