Personnel:

Weiling Deng, Ph.D. 2008
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, IL

Education:

2002- 2007	Ph.D studies, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, Medford MA Dissertation title: The Catalytic Activity of Gold Clusters on Oxide Supports for the Low-temperature Oxidation of CO by Dioxygen and Water in H2 -rich gas Streams. Advisor: Prof. M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
1999	M.E., Applied Chemistry, Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology, P.R.China Thesis title: Study of the electrosynthesis of anisaldehyde Advisor: Prof. G. Wang
1996	B.S., Fine Chemicals, Southeast University, P.R.China

Awards:

• Graduate Student Research Award, Tufts University (Oct 2006)
• Outstanding Graduate Researcher, Tufts University (Apr 2006)
• Kokes Award, North American Catalysis Society (May 2005)
• Chair’s Fund, Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis (Jun 2004)

Research Interests:
Nanocatalysis, Fuel Cells, CO oxidation, Water-gas shift reaction, Gold activity and stability

Recent Publications:

1. W. Deng, A. I. Frenkel, R. Si, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Reaction-relevant gold structures in the low temperature water-gas shift reaction on Au-CeO₂”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (2008) 12834–12840.
2. W. Deng, C. Carpenter, N. Yi, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Comparison of the activity of Au-CeO₂ and Au-Fe₂O₃ catalysts for the CO oxidation and the water-gas shift reactions”, invited paper, Topics in Catalysis, 44 (2007) 199-208.
3. D. Pierre, W. Deng, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “The importance of strongly bound Pt-CeO_x species for the water-gas shift reaction: catalyst activity and stability evaluation”, invited paper, Topics in Catalysis, 46 (2007) 363-373.
4. M. Manzoli, F. Boccuzzi, A. Chiorino, F. Vindigni, W. Deng, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Spectroscopic features and reactivity of CO adsorbed on different Au/CeO₂ catalysts”, Journal of Catalysis, 245 (2007) 308-315.
5. F. C. Meunier, D. Reid, A. Goguet, S. Shekhtman, C. Hardacre, R. Burch, W. Deng, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos,  “Quantitative analysis of the reactivity of formate species seen by DRIFT over a Au/Ce(La)O₂ water-gas shift catalyst: first unambiguous evidence of the minority role of formates as reaction intermediates”, Journal of Catalysis, 247 (2007) 277-287.
6. W. Deng, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “On the issue of deactivation of Au- and Pt-ceria water-gas shift catalysts in practical fuel cell applications”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 45 (2006) 2285-2289.
7. Q. Fu, W. Deng, H. Saltsburg, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Activity and stability of low-content gold–cerium oxide catalysts for the water–gas shift reaction”, special issue, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 56 (1-2) (2005) 57-68.
8. W. Deng, J. De Jesus, H. Saltsburg, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, “Low-content gold-ceria catalysts for the water–gas shift and preferential CO oxidation reactions”, invited paper, Applied Catalysis A, 291 (2005) 126-135.  
9. W. Deng, G. Wang, “Studies on electrosynthesis of aromatic aldehydes – Kinetics for synthesis of anisaldehyde”, Chemical Research and Application, 12 (1) (2000) 35-38.
10. Q. Xiao, W. Deng, M. Zhang, G. Wang, “Electrosynthesis of 2, 6- Dichlorobenzaldehyde”, J. Qingdao Inst. of Chem. Tech., 20 (3) (1999) 233-236.
11. W. Deng, H. Liu, Y. Yang, G. Wang, “Electrosynthesis of anisaldehydes”, Fine Chemicals, 16 (4) (1999) 29-31.