Recently, the team from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, made a breakthrough in the research of non-metallic heteroatom doping to regulate catalytic performance. The researchers synthesized N and P co-doping carbon-coated cobalt-based catalysts (Co@NPC) and explored the effect of heteroatom doping in the catalyst on the selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde. The study was published in the Journal of Catalysis.