Prof. Zhou Tianhua
Tianhua Zhou received his Ph.D. degrees in Organic Chemistry from Fuzhou University, Fujian, China. After completing doctor's degree in July 2008, he joined the group of Professor Jiang-Gao Mao as a research associate at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter Chinese, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2012 he moved to the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as a Research Fellow, Singapore. During April-Oct 2016, He worked as visiting scholar in Emory University to study ultrafast laser spectroscopy. She joined Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter Chinese, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Full professor in 2017. Our research group focuses on functional materials for photo/electrocatalysis for application in energy conversion and energy storage. To date, he has published over 50 paper in the preer review journals including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, Energy&Environmental Science, Advanced Functional Materials. ACS Catalysis and so on.
Research Interests:
1). Metal/Covalent-organic frameworks for energy conversion and storage
2). Photo-/Electro-catalysis for CO2 reduction and water splitting
3). Heterogeneous catalysis for environmental applications.
Selected Publications:
(1) Hai-Xia Zhang, Qin-Long Hong, Jing Li, Fei Wang,* Xinsong Huang, Shumei Chen, Wenguang Tu, Dingshan Yu, Rong Xu, Tianhua Zhou* and Jian Zhang. Isolated Square Planar Copper in Boron Imidazolate Nanocages for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2019, 58, 11752-11756.
(2) Mei-Rong Liu, Qin-Long Hong, Qiao-Hong Li, Yonghua Du, Hai-Xia Zhang, Shumei Chen, Tianhua Zhou,* Jian Zhang.* Cobalt boron imidazolate framework derived cobalt nanoparticles encapsulated in B/N codoped nanocarbon as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting. Adv. Funct. Mater, 2018, 28, 1801136.
(3) Tianhua Zhou, Yonghua Du, Danping Wang, Shengming Yin, Wenguang Tu, Zhong Chen, § Armando Borgna, Rong Xu*. Phosphonate-based Metal-Organic Framework Derived Co-P-C Hybrid as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS catalysis, 2017, 7, 6000？6007.
(4) Tianhua Zhou, Yonghua Du, Shengming Yin, xuezeng Tian, Hongbin Yang, Xin Wang, Bin Liu, Haimei Zheng, Shizhang Qiao * and Rong Xu.* Nitrogen-Doped Cobalt Phosphate@Nanocarbon Hybrids for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction, Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 2563-2570.
(5) Tianhua Zhou, Danping Wang, Simon Chun-Kiat Goh, Jindui Hong, Jianyu Han, Jianggao Mao* and Rong Xu.* Bio-inspired organic cobalt(II) phosphonates toward water oxidation, Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 526-534.
(6) Tianhua Zhou, Yonghua Du, Armando Borgna, Jindui Hong, Yabo Wang, Jianyu Han, Wei Zhang, and Rong Xu.* Post-Synthesis Modification of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Construct a Bifunctional Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production. Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 3229-3234.
