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Youquan Deng is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their work spans multiple disciplines within engineering and chemical engineering, with a significant emphasis on chemistry and its practical applications.

Their research contributions cover various specialized fields, including:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Catalysis
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

Deng has focused on several main topics throughout their academic career, particularly in the areas of:

  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Random lasers and scattering media
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity

Their publication record includes papers in a variety of journals, with recurrent contributions to these venues:

  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Optics Express
  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • Scientia Sinica Chimica
  • Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Deng include:

  • High-efficiency terahertz single-pixel imaging based on a physics-enhanced network, 2023, Optics Express
  • Green non-phosgene process for manufacturing isocyanates, 2020, Scientia Sinica Chimica

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored several papers with Deng include:

  • Xiaoping Zhang
  • Yongji Guan
  • Bo Yang
  • Fulong Yang
  • Huanwang Jing

Best Publications

  • Nano-Gold Catalysis in Fine Chemical Synthesis

    Yan Zhang;Xinjiang Cui;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Recent advances in ionic liquid catalysis

    Qinghua Zhang;Shiguo Zhang;Youquan Deng

  • Cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to propylene oxide catalyzed by ionic liquids

    Jiajian Peng;Youquan Deng

  • Nanoconfined Ionic Liquids

    Shiguo Zhang;Shiguo Zhang;Jiaheng Zhang;Yan Zhang;Youquan Deng

  • Ionic liquids catalyzed Biginelli reaction under solvent-free conditions

    Jiajian Peng;Youquan Deng

  • Low-temperature CO oxidation over supported Pt, Pd catalysts: Particular role of FeOx support for oxygen supply during reactions

    Lequan Liu;Feng Zhou;Liguo Wang;Xiujuan Qi

  • Alternatives to Phosgene and Carbon Monoxide: Synthesis of Symmetric Urea Derivatives with Carbon Dioxide in Ionic Liquids

    Feng Shi;Youquan Deng;Tianlong SiMa;Jiajian Peng

  • Silica-gel-confined ionic liquids: a new attempt for the development of supported nanoliquid catalysis.

    Feng Shi;Qinghua Zhang;Dongmei Li;Youquan Deng

  • From CO oxidation to CO2 activation: an unexpected catalytic activity of polymer-supported nanogold.

    Feng Shi;Qinghua Zhang;Yubo Ma;Yude He

  • Development of a General Non-Noble Metal Catalyst for the Benign Amination of Alcohols with Amines and Ammonia

    Xinjiang Cui;Xingchao Dai;Youquan Deng;Feng Shi

  • Electrochemical activation of carbon dioxide in ionic liquid: synthesis of cyclic carbonates at mild reaction conditions

    Hongzhou Yang;Yanlong Gu;Youquan Deng;Feng Shi

  • Efficient synthesis of glycerol carbonate from glycerol and urea with lanthanum oxide as a solid base catalyst

    Liguo Wang;Yubo Ma;Ying Wang;Shimin Liu

  • Facile electropolymerized-PANI as counter electrode for low cost dye-sensitized solar cell

    Zuopeng Li;Baoxi Ye;Xiaodong Hu;Xiangyuan Ma

  • Methylation of amines, nitrobenzenes and aromatic nitriles with carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen

    Xinjiang Cui;Xingchao Dai;Yan Zhang;Youquan Deng

  • Organic Ligand‐Free Alkylation of Amines, Carboxamides, Sulfonamides, and Ketones by Using Alcohols Catalyzed by Heterogeneous Ag/Mo Oxides

    Xinjiang Cui;Yan Zhang;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Esterification of aliphatic acids with olefin promoted by Brønsted acidic ionic liquids

    Yanlong Gu;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Pechmann Reaction in Non-Chloroaluminate Acidic Ionic Liquids under Solvent-Free Conditions

    Yanlong Gu;Yanlong Gu;Juan Zhang;Zhiying Duan;Youquan Deng

  • Ionic Liquid as an Efficient Promoting Medium for Fixation of CO2: Clean Synthesis of α-Methylene Cyclic Carbonates from CO2 and Propargyl Alcohols Catalyzed by Metal Salts under Mild Conditions

    Yanlong Gu;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Catalytic Beckmann rearrangement of ketoximes in ionic liquids

    Jiajian Peng;Youquan Deng

  • Ionic liquid as a green catalytic reaction medium for esterifications

    Youquan Deng;Feng Shi;Jiajian Beng;Kun Qiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Shi
Feng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qinghua Zhang
Qinghua Zhang Southwest Jiaotong University
Xiao-Ping Zhang
Xiao-Ping Zhang University of Birmingham
Yanlong Gu
Yanlong Gu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Botao Qiao
Botao Qiao Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Feng Zhou
Feng Zhou Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
Jian Li
Jian Li ShanghaiTech University
Man Kin Tse
Man Kin Tse University of Rostock
Jinhua Ye
Jinhua Ye National Institute for Materials Science
Alexei R. Khokhlov
Alexei R. Khokhlov Lomonosov Moscow State University

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