主要围绕基于多孔材料的新型多相纳米催化材料以及纳米生物传感材料的定向设计与应用研究。通过控制模板剂分子组装、胶体与界面相互作用以及结晶过程调节干预等，实现纳米多孔材料的可控合成，设计具有丰富组成、多种形貌的功能性纳米多孔材料。

主要研究方向包括：

(1) 基于沸石分子筛功能化改性与修饰，以及在多相催化反应（醇脱水制烯烃、烯烃齐聚与裂解等）中表现和机理研究；

(2) 新颖生物传感材料研究，在微纳米尺度进行可控构筑及其电化学、光谱学等性能研究；

(3) 多孔材料的工业催化剂；

(4) 废旧分子筛催化剂的固废资源化利用。

《Chinese Chemical Letters》青年编委

• 2016年，上海市浦江人才计划

• 2013年，中国科学技术信息研究所，中国精品科技期刊顶尖学术论文

• 2010年，教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（技术发明类）二等奖

• 2009年，上海市科学技术奖（技术发明类）二等奖

• 1999年至2003年：复旦大学化学系  本科

• 2003年至2008年：复旦大学化学系  博士

• 2008年至2014年：复旦大学化学系  讲师

• 2013年至2014年：法国国家科学院  博士后

• 2015年至今：     复旦大学化学系  副教授

• 近代无机化学进展

• 元素发现史

• 物理化学实验

• 普通化学实验

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2. Panpan Pan, Qin Yue, Juan Li, Meiqi Gao, Xuanyu Yang, Yuan Ren, Xiaowei Cheng*, Penglei Cui*, Yonghui Deng*, Smart Cargo Delivery System based on Mesoporous Nanoparticles for Bone Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Adv. Sci., 2021, 8, 2004586.

3. Xuanyu Yang, Pengpeng Qiu*, Jianping Yang, Yuchi Fan, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang, Xiaowei Cheng*, Yonghui Deng, Wei Luo*, Mesoporous Materials-Based Electrochemical Biosensors from Enzymatic to Nonenzymatic, Small, 2021, 17, 1904022.

4. Jichun Li, Xuanyu Yang, Junhao Ma, Chenyi Yuan, Yuan Ren, Xiaowei Cheng*, Yonghui Deng*, Controllable Multicomponent Co-Assembly Approach to Ordered Mesoporous Zirconia Supported with Well-Dispersed Tungsten Oxide Clusters as High-Performance Catalysts, ChemCatChem, 2021, 13, 2863.

5. Yuye Zhao, Beiying Zhou, Pengpeng Qiu, Yuchi Fan, Qi Zheng, Wei Luo*, Xiaowei Cheng*, Lianjun Wang*, Wan Jiang, Ultra-low Temperature Preparation of Mullite Glass-ceramics with High Transparency Sintered from EMT-type Zeolite, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 2021, 104, 3158.

6. Debing Li, Yiming Chen, Junpin Hu, Baoqin Deng, Xiaowei Cheng*, Yi Zhang*, Synthesis of Hierarchical Chabazite Zeolite via Interzeolite Transformation of Coke-containing Spent MFI, Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 2020, 270, 118881.

7. Xuanyu Yang, Penghao Lu, Lei Yu, Panpan Pan, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Wei Luo, Xiaowei Cheng*, Yonghui Deng, An Efficient Emulsion-induced Interface Assembly Approach for Rational Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Versatile Architectures, Adv. Func. Mater., 2020, 30, 2002488.

8. Jiachen Ge, Xuanyu Yang, Jiahang Luo, Junhao Ma, Yidong Zou, Jichun Li, Wei Luo*, Xiaowei Cheng*, Yonghui Deng, Ordered Mesoporous CoO/CeO2 Heterostructures with Highly Crystallized Walls and Enhanced Peroxidase-Like Bioactivity, Appl. Mater. Today, 2019, 15, 482.

9. Xuanyu Yang, Xiaowei Cheng*, Junhao Ma, Yidong Zou, Wei Luo*, Yonghui Deng*, Large-Pore Mesoporous CeO2-ZrO2 Solid Solutions with In-Pore Confined Pt Nanoparticles for Enhanced CO Oxidation, Small, 2019, 15, 1903058.

10. Xiaowei Cheng*, Le Huang, Xuanyu Yang, Ahmed A. Elzatahry*, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Yonghui Deng, Rational Design of a Stable Peroxidase Mimic for Colorimetric Detection of H2O2 and Glucose: A Synergistic CeO2/Zeolite Y Nanocomposite, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2019, 535, 425.

11. Xuanyu Yang, Xiaowei Cheng*, Hongyuan Song, Junhao Ma, Panpan Pan, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Jiacan Su*, Yonghui Deng*, 3D Interconnected Mesoporous Alumina with Loaded Hemoglobin as a Highly Active Electrochemical Biosensor for H₂O₂, Adv. Healthcare Mater., 2018, 7, 1800149.