Francis Verpoort，教授、博士生导师

基本情况
出生年月：1963-09籍贯：比利时
最高学历：比利时根特大学（Ghent University），博士；
工作单位：武汉理工大学材料复合新技术国家重点实验室
联系地址：武汉市洪山区武汉理工大学南湖校区化学楼3楼办公室
联系电话：+86-**
Email：francis.verpoort@ghent.ac.kr
个人简介
Francis Verpoort（王光明），教授，博士生导师，在国际知名期刊如 Chem. Rev.，Chem. Soc. Rev.，Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy. Mater., Coord. Chem. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.上发表了 350 多篇高水平论文，总引用次数接近10000次，H因子为58，拥有20余项授权发明专利，成功开发出 2 个商品化催化剂；担任“应用金属有机化学”等 8 个国际期刊的副主编或编委，荣获比利时国王亲自颁发的表彰证书、国际先进材料协会 IAAM 奖章、印度化学会Basudev Banerjee纪念奖、湖北省特聘专家；担任国际工程技术协会（IETI）“杰出会士”、英国皇家艺术协会会士、亚洲科学编辑委员会顾问；入选俄罗斯联邦政府的“高层次专家”、武汉市“黄鹤英才计划”、武汉市“城市合伙人”、武汉理工大学高层次人才。

主要研究领域
1.金属有机催化功能材料：包括金属有机配合物，金属有机骨架（MOFs）及其衍生材料，多孔有机聚合物（POPs）等；
2.绿色化学：利用催化剂将CO₂转化为化工新产品与高分子材料；
3.高分子材料和复合材料：致力于利用催化剂合成各类高分子材料与复合材料；
4.能源方面：主要致力于水分解反应催化剂的研发；
5.有机合成与药物设计：主要致力于化合物库的合理设计与合成以发现具有生物活性的化合物。
教育经历
1991/12–1996/05：根特大学（比利时），金属有机化学与催化，博士
1989/10–1991/07：根特大学（比利时），无机化学，硕士
1987/10–1989/07：鲁汶大学（比利时），无机化学，学士
1981/09–1985/06：布鲁格奥斯滕德理工大学（比利时），工业化学，学士
工作经历
2012/03至今：武汉理工大学材料复合新技术国家重点实验室，国家“高层次人才”，首席教授（全职）
2014/08至今：根特大学国际校区（韩国），教授
2011/03-2011/08：大连理工大学，教授
1998/10至今：根特大学（比利时），教授
1996/10-1998/09: 根特大学（比利时），副教授
1991/12-1996/09: 根特大学（比利时），助理教授
科研项目（仅列出代表性的）
1.武汉理工大学“双一流计划”一流学科培育项目，生命复合材料理论及应用技术，2016/01-2020.12，500万元，已结题，协同首席专家
2.国家自然科学基金委（中国），面上项目，新型多功能化烯烃复分解反应催化剂的设计与性能研究，2012/01-2015/12，60万元，已结题，主持
3.比利时国家基金委(FWO-Flanders)，Development of Luminescent Lanthanide MOF compounds，2010/01-2014/12，折合人民币~110万元，已结题，主持
4.欧盟第七框架计划（FP7），Eumet: Olefin metathesis as a practical synthetic tool，2008/11-2012/10，折合人民币~2879****民币，已结题，共同主持
5.比利时根特大学，Development of chiral, asymmetric imidazolylidene ligands starting from amino acids for group VIII and Ib catalysts，2008/01-2012/12，折合人民币~128万元，已结题，项目负责人
6.比利时国家基金委(FWO-Flanders)，Adsorptive characterisation and application in liquid phase separation of thin zeolite layers，2005/01-2009/12，折合人民币~312万元，已结题，主持
7.弗拉芒区域基金 (Flemisch Region Funds)，Improvement and Evaluation of Ruthenium based catalysts for the Olefin Metathesis in new polymer development and composite materials，2005/01-2007/12，折合人民币~432万元，已结题，主持
8.私人投资，ViaCatt公司成立基金，2004/01-2004/12，折合人民币~800万元，已结题，主持
9.比利时根特大学，Ruthenium based catalytic addition of terminal functional groups to alkenes and alkynes，2004/01-2008/12，折合人民币~128万元，已结题，主持
10.比利时国家基金委(FWO-Flanders)，Intensification of the screening of catalysts for liquid phase C-C coupling reactions，2003/01-2007/12，折合人民币~281万元，已结题，共同主持

荣誉与奖励（仅列出代表性的）
1.入选武汉市“黄鹤英才计划”（2011年）；
2.国家“高层次人才”（2012年）；
3.俄罗斯联邦政府的“高层次专家”（2015年）；
4.哈萨克斯坦科技专家（2016年）；
5.国际工程技术协会（IETI）的特殊专家（2016年）；
6.四川大学化学工程学院的荣誉证书（2016年）；
7.国际先进材料协会颁发的IAAM奖章（2017年）；
8.荣获“Journal of Catalysis”杂志主编精选论文 (2017年)；
9.英国皇家化学会2016年“Top 1%高被引中国作者”之一（2017年）；
10.2018年度荣获RSCTOP1%高被引中国作者榜（2018年）；
11.加拿大“NSERC Discovery grants”项目的外部评审人（2019年）；
12.国际杂志“Catalysis Science & Technology”2019年的热点文章（2019年）；
13.英国皇家艺术协会会士（2019年）；
14.亚洲科学编辑委员会顾问（2019 年）
15.印度化学会Basudev Banerjee纪念奖（2020年）
代表性论文（*通讯作者）
1)Cheng Chen, Zhi-Qin Wang, Yan-Yan Gong, Ji-Chao Wang, Ye Yuan, Hua Cheng, Wei Sang, Somboon Chaemchuen*, Francis Verpoort*. Cobalt embedded in nitrogen-doped porous carbon as a robust heterogeneous catalyst for the atom-economic alcohol dehydrogenation to carboxylic acids, Carbon, 2021, 174, 284-294.
2)B. Taghavi Shahraki, S. Maghsoudi, Y. Fatahi, N. Rabiee, S. Bahadorikhalili, R. Dinarvand, M. Bagherzadeh, F Verpoort*. The Flowering of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Rotaxanes and Catenanes. Coord. Chem. Rev., 423, 2020, 213484.
3)Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Shaoxian Song, Chih-Ming Kao and Francis Verpoort*. Synergistic performance of a sub-nanoscopic cobalt and imidazole grafted in porous organic polymer for CO2 fixation to cyclic carbonates under ambient pressure without co-catalyst., J. Mater. Chem A, 2020, 8, 13916.
4)Kinetic modeling of oleic acid esterification with UiO-66: from intrinsic experimental data to kinetics via elementary reaction steps. Chaemchuen, Somboon, Verpoort Francis*, Heynderickx Philippe M.*, Chem. Eng. J., 2020, 394 (2020) 124816.
5)Li, Di; Gong, Yanyan; Du, Minchen; Bu, Chao; Chen, Cheng; Chaemchuen, Somboon; Hu, Jia; Zhang, Yongxing; Yuan, Ye*; Verpoort, Francis*. CO₂-Promoted Hydration of Propargylic Alcohols: Green Synthesis of α-Hydroxy Ketones by an Efficient and Recyclable AgOAc/Ionic Liquid System. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2020, 8, 8148–8155.
6)Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Shaoxian Song, Sharmarke Mohamed, Anish Khan, Philippe M. Heynderickx, Francis Verpoort*, Porous Organic Polymer Composites as Surging Catalysts for Visible-Light-Driven Chemical Transformations and Pollutant Degradation. J. Photochem. Photobiol., C, 2019, 41, 100319.
7)Zongkui Kou, Tingting Wang, Qilin Gu, Mo Xiong, Lirong Zheng, Xin Li, Zhenghui Pan, Hao Chen, Francis Verpoort, Anthony K. Cheetham, Shichun Mu*, John Wang*. Rational Design of Holey 2D non-layered Transition Metal Carbide/Nitride Heterostructure Nanosheets for Highly Efficient Water Oxidation. Adv. Energy Mater., 2019, **.
8)Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, Zhang Gaoke, Kristof Van Hecke, and Francis Verpoort*, Direct Synthesis of the 2D Copper(II) 5-Prop-2-ynoxyisophthalate MOF: Comment on "Surface Functionalization of Porous Coordination Nanocages Via Click Chemistry and Their Application in Drug Delivery", Adv. Mater. 2019, 31(19), **.
9)Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Francis Verpoort*, Pd-nanoparticle decorated azobenzene based colloidal porous organic polymer for visible and natural sunlight induced Mott-Schottky junction mediated instantaneous Suzuki coupling. Chem. Eng. J., 2019, 358, 580–588.
10)Ipsita Nath, Jeet Chakraborty, Philippe M. Heynderickx, Francis Verpoort*. Engineered Synthesis of Hierarchical Porous Organic Polymers for Visible Light and Natural Sunlight Induced Rapid Degradation of Azo, Thiazine and Fluorescein Based Dyes in a Unique Mechanistic Pathway. Appl. Catal. B, 2018, 227, 102-113.
11)Naz, F., Zuber, M., Zia, KM., Salman, M., Chakraborty, J., Nath, I., Verpoort, F*. Synthesis and characterization of chitosan-based waterborne polyurethane for textile finishes. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2018, 200, 54-62.
12)Tingting Wang, Zongkui Kou, Shichun Mu*, Jingping Liu, Daping He, Ibrahim Saana Amiinu, Wen Meng, Kui Zhou, Zhixiong Luo, Somboon Chaemchuen, Francis Verpoort*, 2D Dual-Metal Zeolitic-Imidazolate-Framework-(ZIF)-Derived Bifunctional Air Electrodes with UltrahighElectrochemicalPropertiesforRechargeableZinc-AirBatteries, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28(5), **.
13)Adriano Zanon, Francis Verpoort*, Metals@ZIFs: Catalytic applications and size selective catalysis, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2017, 353, 201–222.
14)Zhaoxuan Wu, Kui Zhou, Andrey V. Ivanov, Mekhman Yusobov, Francis Verpoort*, The simplest and fascinating metal-organic polyhedra: Tetrahedra. Coord. Chem. Rev. 2017, 353, 180–200.
15)Ye Yuan, Yu Xie, Cheng Zeng, Dandan Song, Somboon Chaemchuen, Cheng Chen*, Francis Verpoort*, A Recyclable AgI/OAc- Catalytic System for the Efficient Synthesis of α-Alkylidene Cyclic Carbonates: Carbon Dioxide Conversion at Atmospheric Pressure, Green Chem., 2017,19, 2936-2940.
16)Kui Zhou, Somboon Chaemchuen, Francis Verpoort*, Alternative materials in technologies for Biogas upgrading via CO₂ capture. Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev., 2017, 79, 1414–1441.
17)Kui Zhou, Bibimaryam Mousavi, Zhixiong Luo, Shophot Phatanasri, Somboon Chaemchuen and Francis Verpoort*, Characterization and properties of Zn/Co zeolitic imidazolate frameworks vs. ZIF-8 and ZIF-67, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5(3), 952-957.
18)Hussein A. Younus, Nazir Ahmad, Adeel H. Chughtai, Matthias Vandichel, Michael Busch, Kristof Van Hecke, Mekhman Yusubov, Shaoxian Song, Francis Verpoort*. A robust molecular catalyst generated in-situ for photo- and electrochemical water oxidation. ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 862-875.
19)Jeet Chakraborty, Ipsita Nath, Francis Verpoort*, Snapshots of Encapsulated Porphyrins and Heme Enzymes in Metal-Organic Materials: A Prevailing Paradigm of Heme Mimicry, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2016, 326, 135-163.
20)Ipsita Nath, Jeet Chakraborty and Francis Verpoort*, Metal organic frameworks mimicking natural enzymes: a structural and functional analogy, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45(15), 4127-4170.
21)Chizoba I. Ezugwu, Nawsad Alam Kabir, Mekhman Yusubov, Francis Verpoort*, Metal-organic frameworks containing N-heterocyclic carbenes and their precursors, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2016, 307, 188-210.
22)Harsh Vardhan, Mehman Yusubov, and Francis Verpoort*, Self-assembled Metal-organic polyhedra: An overview of various applications. Coord. Chem. Rev., 2016, 306, 171–194.
23)C. I. Ezugwu, B. Mousavi, Md. A. Asraf, Z. Luo, and F. Verpoort*. Post-synthetic modified MOF for Sonogashira cross-coupling and Knoevenagel condensation reactions, J. Catal., 2016, 344, 445–454.
24)Adeel H. Chughtai, Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, A. Laypkov, Francis Verpoort*, Metal–organic frameworks: versatile heterogeneous catalysts for efficient catalytic organic transformations, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44(19), 6804-6849.
25)Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus, Adeel H. Chughtai and Francis Verpoort*, Metal–organic molecular cages: applications of biochemical implications, Chem. Soc. Rev, 2015,44, 9-25.
26)S. Chaemchuen, N. A. Kabir, K. Zhou, F. Verpoort*. Metal-Organic Frameworks for upgrading Biogas via CO₂ adsorption to Biogas green energy, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 9304-9332 .
27)Heriberto Díaz Velázquez, Francis Verpoort*. N-Heterocyclic carbene transition metal complexes for catalysis in aqueous media. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 7032–7060.
28)Ana M. Lozano-Vila, Stijn Monsaert, Agata Bajek, Francis Verpoort*. Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Derived from Alkynes. Chem. Rev., 2010, 110, 4865 – 4909
29)Opstal T, Verpoort F*. Synthesis of highly active ruthenium indenylidene complexes for atom-transfer radical polymerization and ring-opening-metathesis polymerisation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 2876-2879.