Research Areas
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been a powerful tool to explore the microstructures of a wide range of energy material systems, such as photochatalysts, electrochatalysts, aiming to build the relation between microstructures and properties of energy materials, and further to unveil the potential catalytic mechanism for guiding the design of new kinds of energy materials. Here we mainly focus on in-situ TEM to study the real-time dynamic process under external stimulation to reveal key issues related to material science, chemistry, physics, life science etc. In addition, the design of photocatalysts and electrochatalysts is also studied combing with in-situ TEM and DFT calculations.
Publications
1. Shiming Yu, Xing Cheng, Yueshuai Wang, Bo Xiao, Yiran Xing, Jun Ren, Yue Lu, Hongyi Li*, Chunqiang Zhuang*, Ge Chen*, High activity and selectivity of single palladium atom for oxygen hydrogenation to H2O2, Nature communications, 13 (2022) 4737.
2. Chunqiang Zhuang, Heyang Qi, Xing Cheng, Ge Chen, Chunlang Gao, Lihua Wang, Shaorui Sun*, Jin Zou* and Xiaodong Han*, In Situ Observation of Dynamic Galvanic Replacement Reactions in Twinned Metallic Nanowires by Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (2019) 18627.
3. Lin Ma, Zhengguang Yan, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Yiqun Pi, Yiping Du, Jie Huang, Kaiwen Wang, Ke Wu, Chunqiang Zhuang, Xiaodong Han, A polymer controlled nucleation route towards the generalized growth of organic-inorganic perovskite single crystals, Nature communications, 12 (2021) 2023.
4. Yuanli Li, Chunlang Gao, Wenshuai Jiang, Chunqiang Zhuang*, Wuyuan Tan, Weiming Li, Yongli Li, Lihua Wang, Xiaozhou Liao, Zaicheng Sun*, Jin Zou*, Xiaodong Han*, A game-changing design of low-cost, large-size porous cocatalysts decorated by ultra-small photocatalysts for highly efficient hydrogen evolution, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 286 (2021) 119923.
5. Chunlang Gao, Yuanli Li, Zhenghan Zhang, Weiming Li, Jiaxing Zhong, Hang Zhang, Yihong Zhang, Lichun Deng, Zaicheng Sun*, Ge Chen*, Hui Zhang, Lihua Wang, Chunqiang Zhuang*, Xiaodong Han, Improving photocatalytic hydrogen production via ultrafine-grained precipitates formed nearby surface defects of NiFe-LDH nanosheets, Chemical Engineering Journal, 446 (2022) 137301.
Personal statement
Dr. Chunqiang Zhuang received his B. A in Material Science from Dalian University of Technology, China in 2006, and then received his Master's degree in Material Science from Dalian University of Technology, China in2009. He received his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from University of Siegen, Germany in 2013. Between 2013 and 2015 he worked as the Postdoctoral Fellow in Beijing University of Technology, China. He became a faculty member in Beijing University of Technology, China in 2015. He has published more than 40 scientific papers, covering a wide range of material systems, together with DFT calculations.
