目前，已在国内外著名杂志ACS Catal.、Appl. Catal. B、J. Catal.、中国科学等发表论文70余篇，申请专利20余项，已授权11项。获教育部“长江学者奖励计划”青年学者、辽宁省优青、辽宁省“兴辽英才”青年拔尖人才、辽宁省“百千万人才工程”万人层次、辽宁省高等学校创新人才支持计划、服务沈阳先进个人、沈阳市优秀科技工作者等荣誉称号；获辽宁省青年科技奖（1/1）、辽宁省研究生教学成果特等奖（2/10）、中国化工学会基础研究成果奖一等奖（4/8）、中国稀土学会稀土科学技术奖基础研究类一等奖（5/15）等。现任中国能源学会能源与环境专业委员会秘书长、中国稀土学会催化专业委员会委员、中国能源学会专家委员会新能源专家委员、辽宁省化工学会石油化工专业委员会委员、中国化工学会专业会员和中国化学会高级会员。
代表论文10篇
1. Di Yu, Yu Ren, Yinguang Zhang*, Siyu Gao, Xinyu Zhang, Xinyu Chen, Siyuan Chen, Lanyi Wang, Chunlei Zhang, Xuehua Yu*, Xiaoqiang Fan, Zhen Zhao*. Investigation of sodium-manganese oxides with various crystal phases for the efficient catalytic removal of diesel soot particles. Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2024, 358, 124407. （IF=20.2）
2. Chunlei Zhang, Siyu Gao, Shengran Zhou, Di Yu, Lanyi Wang, Xiaoqiang Fan, Xuehua Yu*, Bing Liu*, Zhen Zhao*. New method for the preparation of hierarchical nanotube K0.3xMnxCe1-xOδ catalysts and their excellent catalytic performance for soot combustion. Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 2024, 355, 124169.（IF=20.2）
3. Shengran Zhou, Lanyi Wang, Siyu Gao, Xinyu Chen, Chunlei Zhang, Di Yu, Xiaoqiang Fan, Xuehua Yu*, Zhen Zhao* Research Progress on Preparation of Metal Oxide Catalysts with Porous Structure and Their Catalytic Purification of Diesel Engine Exhausts Gases. ACS Catalysis, 2024, 14, 6062-6127.（IF=11.3）
4. Di Yu, Chao Peng, Yu Ren, Lanyi Wang, Chunlei Zhang, Xiaoqiang Fan, Xuehua Yu*, Zhen Zhao*. Low temperature oxidation of diesel soot particles over one-dimensional 2 × 3 tunnel-structured Na2Mn5O10 catalysts. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy, 2024, 344, 123614.（IF=20.2）
5. Di Yu, Xuehua Yu*, Chunlei Zhang, Lanyi Wang, Xiaoqiang Fan, Zhen Zhao*, Yuechang Wei, Jian Liu, Joanna Gryboś, Bartosz Leszczyński, Anna Wach, Dominik Wierzbicki, Andrzej Kotarba, Zbigniew Sojka*. Layered Na2Mn3O7 decorated by Cerium as the robust catalysts for efficient low temperature soot combustion. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023, 338, 123022.（IF=20.2）
6. Lanyi Wang, Yu Ren, Xuehua Yu*, Chao Peng, Di Yu, Chengming Zhong, Jia Hou, Chengyang Yin, Xiaoqiang Fan, Zhen Zhao*, Jian Liu, Yuechang Wei. Novel preparation method, catalytic performance and reaction mechanisms of PrxMn1-xOδ/3DOM ZSM-5 catalysts for the simultaneous removal of soot and NOx. Journal of Catalysis, 2023, 417, 226-247. （IF=6.5）
7. Chunlei Zhang, Di Yu, Chao Peng, Lanyi Wang, Xuehua Yu*, Yuechang Wei, Jian Liu, Zhen Zhao*. Research progress on preparation of 3DOM-based oxide catalysts and their catalytic performances for the combustion of diesel soot particles.Applied Catalysis B: Environmental,2022, 319, 121946.（IF=20.2）
8. Di Yu, Lanyi Wang, Chunlei Zhang, Chao Peng, Xuehua Yu*, Xiaoqiang Fan, Bing Liu*, Kaixiang Li, Zhenguo Li, Yuechang Wei, Jian Liu, and Zhen Zhao*. Alkali Metals and Cerium-Modified La–Co-Based Perovskite Catalysts: Facile Synthesis, Excellent Catalytic Performance, and Reaction Mechanisms for Soot Combustion. ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 15056-15075.(IF=11.3)
9. Di Yu, Yu Ren, Xuehua Yu*, Xiaoqiang Fan, Lanyi Wang, Ruidan Wang, Zhen Zhao*, Kai Cheng, Yongsheng Chen*, Zbigniew Sojka, Andrzej Kotarba, Yuechang Wei, Jian Liu. Facile synthesis of birnessite-type K2Mn4O8 and cryptomelane-type K2-xMn8O16 catalysts and their excellent catalytic performance for soot combustion with high resistance to H2O and SO2. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021, 285, 119779. （IF=20.2）
10. Xuehua Yu#, Yu Ren#, Di Yu, Maozhong Chen, Lanyi Wang, Ruidan Wang, Xiaoqiang Fan,Zhen Zhao*, Kai Cheng, Yongsheng Chen, Joanna Gryboś, Andrzej Kotarba, Zbigniew Sojka*, Yuechang Wei, Jian Liu. Hierarchical porous K-OMS-2/3DOM-m Ti0.7Si0.3O2 catalysts for soot combustion: Easy preparation, high catalytic activity, and resistance to H2O and SO2. ACS Catalysis, 2021, 11, 5554-5571. (IF=11.3)