He obtained his PhD degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2014, then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in KIT. In 2015 he was an associate professor in the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His recent research focuses on developing porous thin films (e.g. SURMOFs) for guest molecule loading, chiral separation and optical applications. Up to now, He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers like Chem. Soc. Rev., Coord. Chem. Rev., Angew. Chem., ACS Nano, Chem. Sci., Appl. Catal. B: Environ., Small, J. Mater. Chem. A, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces etc.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6538-2917
Contacts: email zggu@fjirsm.ac.cn
Address: No. 155 Yangqiaoxi Road, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, 350002.
Selective publications:
1) Zhi-Gang Gu？, Caihong Zhan？, Jian Zhang*, Xianhui Bu*, “Chiral Chemistry of Metal-camphorate Frameworks”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 3122（inside cover p De-Jing Li, Zhi-Gang Gu* and Jian Zhang* Auto-Controlled Fabrication of Metal-Porphyrin Framework Thin Film with Tunable Optical Limiting Effect, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 1935-1942.
2) Yi-Bo Tian#, Yan-Yue Wang#, Shu-Mei Chen* Zhi-Gang Gu* and Jian Zhang Epitaxial Growth of Highly Transparent Metal-Porphyrin Frame-work Thin Films for Efficient Bifacial Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 1, 1078-1083.
3) Shu-Mei Chen #, Li-Mei Chang #, Xue-Kang Yang, Ting Luo, Hai Xu,* Zhi-Gang Gu* and Jian Zhang, Liquid-Phase Epitaxial Growth of Azapyrene-based Chiral MOF Thin Films for Circularly Polarized Luminescence, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 34, 31421-31426.
4) De-Jing Li,？ Qiao-Hong Li,？ Zhi-Gang Gu* and Jian Zhang, A surface-mounted MOF thin film with oriented nanosheet arrays for enhancing the oxygen evolution reaction, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 18519-18528
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5) Song Lei, Qiao-Hong Li, Yao Kang, Zhi-Gang Gu* and Jian Zhang*, Epitaxial Growth of Oriented Prussian Blue Analogue Derived Well-aligned CoFe2O4 Thin Film for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019, 245, 1–9.
6) Zhi-Gang Gu*, Jian Zhang*, “Epitaxial Growth and Applications of Oriented Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films”, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 378, 513-532.
7) Hao Chen, Zhi-Gang Gu*, Salma Mirza, Shu-Hua Zhang*, Jian Zhang*, “Hollow Cu-TiO2/C Nanospheres Derived from Encapsulated MOF coating for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 7175-7181.
8) De-Jing Li, Zhi-Gang Gu*, Wenhua Zhang, Yao Kang, Jian Zhang*, “Epitaxial Encapsulation of Homodispersed CeO2 in a Cobalt-Porphyrin Network Derived Thin Film for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 20126-20130.
9) M. Ismail Vohra, De-Jing Li, Zhi-Gang Gu*, Jian Zhang*, “Insight into Epitaxial Encapsulation of Pd Nanocatalysts in Oriented Metalloporphyrin Network Thin Film for Tandem Catalysis”, Nanoscale 2017, 9, 7734-7738.
10) Zhi-Gang Gu, De-Jing Li, Chan Zheng, Yao Kang, Christof W？ll, Jian Zhang*, “MOF-Templated Synthesis of Ultra-Small Photoluminescent Carbon Nanodot Arrays for Optical Applications”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 6853-6858.
11) De-Jing Li, Zhi-Gang Gu*, M. Ismail Vohra, Yao Kang, Yong-Sheng Zhu, and Jian Zhang*，Epitaxial Growth of Oriented Metalloporphyrin Network Thin Film for Improved Selectivity of Volatile Organic Compounds, Small, 2017, 1604035.
12) Zhi-Gang Gu？, Shan-Ci Chen？, Wen-Qiang Fu, Qingdong Zheng*, and Jian Zhang* Epitaxial Growth of MOF Thin Film for Modifying Dielectric Layer in Organic Field-Effect Transistors, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 7259.
13) Zhi-Gang Gu,* Wen-Qiang Fu, Min Liu and Jian Zhang* Surface-mounted MOFtemplated fabrication of homochiral polymer thin film for enantioselective adsorption of drugs, Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 1470-1473.
14) Zhi-Gang Gu？, Caihong Zhan？, Jian Zhang*, Xianhui Bu*, “Chiral Chemistry of Metal-camphorate Frameworks”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2016, 45, 3122.
15) Zhi-Gang Gu, Hao Fu, Tobias Neumann, Zong-XiongXu, Wen-Qiang Fu, Wolfgang Wenzel, Lei Zhang*, Jian Zhang*, Christof Woll*, Chiral Porous Metacrystals: Employing Liquid-phase Epitaxy to Assemble Enantiopure Metal-Organic Nanoclusters into Molecular Framework Pores, ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 977.
16) Shumei Chen, Min Liu, Zhi-Gang Gu*, Wen-Qiang Fu, Jian Zhang*, “Chiral Chemistry of Homochiral Porous Thin Film with Different Growth Orientations”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 27332？27338.
17) Zheng Chen, Zhi-Gang Gu*, Wen-Qiang Fu, Fei Wang, Jian Zhang*, “A Confined Fabrication of Perovskite Quantum Dots in Oriented MOF Thin Film”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 28737–28742.
18) Zhi-Gang Gu, Wen-Qiang Fu, Xin Wu, and Jian Zhang*, Liquid-Phase Epitaxy Growth of homochiralMOF thin film on Poly（L-DOPA） functionalized substrate for improved enantiomer separation, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52,772-775.
