Oct. 2025: Houqian's paper on upcycling waste plastics to biodegradable surfactants was published in Angewandte Chemie!
Sep. 2025: Houqian is awarded the EPSCoR Research Fellow, NSF-NASA to support our research on critical elements recovery.
Aug. 2025: We welcome Lakma Abeyratne as a new postdoctoral researcher in our group!
Jul. 2025: Houqian is appointed to serve as secretary of the Rocky Mountain Catalysis Society.
Jan. 2025: We welcome Mohammad Al-Aqtash, Joel Olivas, and Bianca Perez as undergraduate researchers in our group!
Expanding Plastics Recycling Technologies: Chemical Aspects, Technology Status and Challenges.
Li et al., Green Chemistry (2022)
Elucidating the Cooperative Roles of Water and Lewis Acid–Base Pairs in Cascade C–C Coupling and Self-Deoxygenation Reactions.
Li et al., JACS Au (2021)
Hydroformylation of pyrolysis oils to aldehydes and alcohols from polyolefin waste.
Li et al., Science (2023)