Associate Professor Nan Zhang

Associate Professor

Office: Jiangnan University, National Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology B1101

Phone: 18896732917

Email:nzhang@jiangnan.edu.cn

Biography:

Dr. Nan Zhang received her M.S. degree at College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineeing and Materials Science of Soochow University in 2017 and Ph.D. degree in School of Physics and Technology from Wuhan University in 2020. Now she is an assistant professor in Professor Tianxi Liu’s group at School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University.

Research:

Dr. Nan Zhang’s research focuses on the design of nanoscale materials for heterogenous catalysis, electrocatalysis, energy conversion and beyond.

Key Publications:

1.Nan Zhang, Yonggang Feng, Xing Zhu, Shaojun Guo, Jun Guo, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Superior Bifunctional Liquid Fuel Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis Enabled by PtNiPd Core-Shell Nanowires.Adv. Mater.2017, 29, 1603774.

2.Nan Zhang^#,Fangfang Zheng^#, Bolong Huang^#, Yujin Ji, Qi Shao, Youyong Li, Xiangheng Xiao, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Exploring Bi₂Te₃Nanoplates as Versatile Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of Small Molecules.Adv. Mater.2020, 32, 1906477.

3.Nan Zhang, Leigang Li, Juan Wang, Zhiwei Hu, Qi Shao, Xiangheng Xiao, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Surface-Regulated Rhodium-Antimony Nanorods for Nitrogen Fixation.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2020, 59, 8066-8071.

4.Nan Zhang^#, Qi Shao^#, Xiangheng Xiao, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Advanced Catalysts Derived from Composition-Segregated Platinum-Nickel Nanostructures: New Opportunities and Challenges.Adv. Funct. Mater.2019, 29, 1808161.

5.Nan Zhang, Lingzheng Bu, Shaojun Guo^*, Jun Guo, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Screw Thread-Like Platinum-Copper Nanowires Bounded with High-Index Facets for Efficient Electrocatalysis.Nano Lett.2016, 16, 5037-5043.

6.Nan Zhang^#, Qi Shao^#, Pengtang Wang, Xing Zhu, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Porous Pt-Ni Nanowires within In Situ Generated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Highly Chemoselective Cinnamaldehyde Hydrogenation.Small2018, 14, 1704318.

7.Nan Zhang, Yiming Zhu, Qi Shao, Xing Zhu, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Ternary PtNi/Pt_xPb/Pt Core/Multishell Nanowires as Efficient and Stable Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cell Reactions.J. Mater. Chem. A2017, 5, 18977-18983.

8.Nan Zhang, Shaojun Guo^*, Xing Zhu, Jun Guo, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Hierarchical Pt/Pt_xPb Core/Shell Nanowires as Efficient Catalysts for Electrooxidation of Liquid Fuels.Chem. Mater.2016, 28, 4447-4452.

9.Nan Zhang, Qi Shao, Yecan Pi, Jun Guo, Xiaoqing Huang^*,Solvent-Mediated Shape Tuning of Well-Defined Rhodium Nanocrystals for Efficient Electrochemical Water Splitting.Chem. Mater.2017, 29, 5009-5015.

10.Nan Zhang, Leigang Li, Qi Shao, Ting Zhu, Xiaoqing Huang^*, Xiangheng Xiao^*,Fe-Doped BiOCl Nanosheets with Light-Switchable Oxygen Vacancies for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation.ACS. Appl. Energy Mater.2019, 2, 8394-8398.

11.Chongyang Tang^#,Nan Zhang^#, Yujin Ji^#, Qi Shao, Youyong Li, Xiangheng Xiao, Xiaoqing Huang*,Fully Tensile Strained Pd₃Pb/Pd Tetragonal Nanosheets Enhance Oxygen Reduction Catalysis.Nano Lett.2019, 19, 1336-1342.

12.Lingzheng Bu,Nan Zhang, Shaojun Guo^*, Xu Zhang, Jing Li, Jianlin Yao, Tao Wu, Gang Lu, Jingyuan Ma, Dong Su^*, Xiaoqing Huang*,Biaxially Strained PtPb/Pt Core/Shell Nanoplate Boosts Oxygen Reduction Catalysis.Science2016, 354, 1410-1414.