Research

catalytic materials on energy conversion and storage

PersonalProfile

I am currently an associate professor in Materials Chemistry in Nankai University and my current research focuses on new energy materials and environmental catalysis listed briefly below:

a) synthesis of hierarchical porous materials, including MOFs, porous carbon material, and porous metal oxides and their applications on energy storage

b) heterogenous catalysis mainly focus on the organic liquid hydrogen storage

c) electrochemistry, including supercapacitor and electrocatalysis

Academic Visitor (12/2016~12/2017)

Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Associate Professor (7/2015~ now)

Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering,

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Key Lab. (Ministry of Education) of Advanced Energy Materials Chemisty, Tianjin, China

Associate Professor (12/2008~ 7/2015)

Lecturer (07/2006~ 12/2008)

Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, College of Chemistry, Nankai University,

Tianjin, China

Key Lab. (Ministry of Education) of Advanced Energy Materials Chemisty, Tianjin, China

Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry (09/2003~ 06/2006)

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Master in Physical Chemistry (09/2000~ 06/2003)

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

B.S. in Physical Chemistry (09/1996 ~ 07/2000)

Nankai University, Tianjin, China


Representative results

1. Hydrogen production by catalytic dehydrogenation of methylcyclohexane over Pt catalysts supported on
pyrolytic waste tire char. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2011, 36(15): 8902-8907.
2. Hierarchical porous carbon hollow-spheres as a high performance electrical double-layer capacitor
material. Journal of Power Sources. 2012, 211: 92-96
3. Easy synthesis of honeycomb hierarchical porous carbon and its capacitive performance. Journal of
Power Sources. 2013, 227: 118-122.
4. Ammonia-assisted epitaxial assembly of Cu2O@Ag yolk–shell and Ag cage,RSC Advances,2014,
4(1):21171-21175。
5. Capacitive Performance of Nitrogen-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbon Easily Synthesized with
Double Metal Organic Salt. ECS ELECTROCHEMISTRY LETTERS. 2015, 4(7): 67-71
6. Application of Activated Carbons Derived from Scrap Tires as Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors.
ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2015, 4(5):35-40
7. High-Performance Supercapacitors Based on Electrospun Multichannel Carbon Nanofibers. RSC
Advances,2015, 5(130):107313-107317.
8. In situ synthesis of highly-active Pt nanoclusters via thermal decomposition for high- temperature
catalytic reactions. RSC Advances, 2016, 6(55):49777-49781.
9. Hierarchical porous carbon nanofibers as binder-free electrode for high-performance supercapacitor.
Electrochimica Acta, 2016, 196:189-196
10. Hierarchical Ni0.54Co0.46O2 nanowire and nanosheet arrays grown on carbon fiber cloth for
high-performance supercapacitors. Journal of power sources. 2016, 329: 473-483
11. Hierarchical walnut-like Ni0.5Co0.5O hollow nanospheres comprising ultra-thin nanosheets for
advanced energy storage devices. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2017, 5: 5781–5790

12.Uniform copper–cobalt phosphides embedded in N-doped carbon frameworks as efficien t bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries, Nanoscale, 2019, 11(37 ): 17384-17395

13.Ultrasound-treated metal-or ganic framework with efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution activity, Ultrasonics Sonochemis try, 2019, 59: 104714

14.Oxygen-deficient 3D-ordered multistage porous interfacial catalysts with enhanced water oxidati on performance, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8(43): 22886-22892

15.Space-Confined S ynthesis of Lasagna-like N-Doped Graphene- Wrapped Copper−Cobalt Sulfides as Efficient and Durabl e Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Oxygen Evolution Reactions, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng ., 2020, 8: 1004-1014

16.Spontaneous migration induced Co nanokarstcave encapsulated in N-doped carbon hybrids for efficient oxygen el ectrocatalyst, Nano Research, 2021, 14(12): 4569-4576

17.Self-reconstruction of cationic activated Ni-MOFs enhanced the intrinsic activity of electrocatalytic water oxidation, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022,9: 179-185