Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University
Bachelor in Department of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University
Teaching Area
Inorganic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Chemistry in nanocatalysis
Research Area
Carbon materials
Photocatalysis
Electrocatalysis
Chacterization techniques on Photo-/electro- composite interface
Professional Services
Academic Committee Member, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiral Technology, since 2022
Editorial Board Member, 《Nanomaterials》, since 2022
Expert Committee Member, the Chemical New Materials Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, since 2020
Vice Chairman, The Carbon Dot Functional Materials Branch of the Chinese Society for Materials Research, since 2019
Editorial Board Member, 《Acta Chimica Sinica》, since 2018
Working Experience
May. 2021 ~ present, Professor, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, MUST
Jun. 2008 ~ present, Professor, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Soochow University
Jul. 2006 ~ Jun. 2008, Research Fellow, Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF),
City University of Hong Kong
Academic Publication (selected)
1. Tiwei He, Hongchao Tang, Jie Wu, Jiaxuan Wang, Mengling Zhang, Cheng Lu, Hui Huang, Jun Zhong, Tao Cheng, Yang Liu, Zhenhui Kang, A Metal-Free Cascaded Process for Efficient H2O2 Photoproduction Using Conjugated Carbonyl Sites, Nature Communications, accept, 2024.
2. Kai Yu, Hongyuan Yang, Jie Xu, Weijie Yuan, Ruotao Yang, Meiling Hou, Zhenhui Kang, Yang Liu, Prashanth W. Menezes, Ziliang Chen, Synergistic Active Heterostructure Design for Enhanced Two Electron Oxygen Reduction via Chemical and Electrochemical Reconstruction of Heterosulfides, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, e202408508, 2024.
3. Haiwei Yang, Yujin Ji, Qi Shao, Wenxiang Zhu, Miaomiao Fang, Mengjie Ma, Fan Liao, Hui Huang, Yi Zhang, Junjun Yang, Zhenglong Fan, Youyong Li, Yang Liu, Mingwang Shao, Zhenhui Kang, Metastable phase platinum oxide clarifying Pt-O active site for hydrogen evolution reaction, Energy & Environmental Science, 16, 574-583, 2023.
4. Hongyuan Yang, Jie Wu, Zhengran Chen, Kai Zou, Ruihong Liang, Zhenhui Kang, Prashanth W. Menezes, Ziliang Chen, A dynamic piezoelectric effect to promote electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide, Energy & Environmental Science, 16, 210-221, 2023.
5. Ziliang Chen, Hongyuan Yang, Stefan Mebs, Holger Dau, Matthias Driess, Zhaowu Wang, Zhenhui Kang, and Prashanth W. Menezes, Reviving Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis of Bulk La-Ni Intermetallics via Gaseous Hydrogen Engineering, Advanced Materials, 2208337, 2023.
6. Fan Liao, Kui Yin, Yujin Ji, Wenxiang Zhu, Zhenglong Fan, Youyong Li, Jun Zhong, Mingwang Shao, Zhenhui Kang, Qi Shao, Iridium oxide nanoribbons with metastable monoclinic phase for highly efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution, Natural Communications, 14, 1248, 2023.
7. Yunjie Zhou, Liang Xu, Jie Wu, Wenxiang Zhu, Tiwei He, Hao Yang, Hui Huang, Tao Cheng, Yang Liu, Zhenhui Kang, The operation active sites of O2 reduction to H2O2 over ZnO, Energy & Environmental Science, 16, 3526-3533, 2023.
8. Wenxiang Zhu, Xiangcong Song, Fan Liao, Hui Huang, Qi Shao, Kun Feng, Yunjie Zhou, Mengjie Ma, Jie Wu, Hao Yang, Haiwei Yang, Meng Wang, Jie Shi, Jun Zhong, Tao Cheng, Mingwang Shao, Yang Liu, Zhenhui Kang, Stable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide, Natural Communications, 14, 5365, 2023.
9. Tianyang Zhang, Jian Shen, Wan-Shan Shen, Zhenglong Fan, Kai Yu, Yingming Wang, Honglin Si, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, Liang-Sheng Liao, Zhenhui Kang, A simple device-to-device transform for white light-emitting diode with monochromatic carbon dots, Advanced Optical Materials, 2301651, 2023.
10. Xiuhua Yin, Hong Zhou, Mengling Zhang, Juan Su, Xiao Wang, Sijie Li, Zaixing Yang, Zhenhui Kang, Ruhong Zhou, C3N nanodots inhibits Aβ peptides aggregation pathogenic path in Alzheimer's disease, Nature Communications, 14, 5718, 2023.
11. Yi Zhang, Mengwen Wang, Wenxiang Zhu, Miaomiao Fang, Mengjie Ma, Fan Liao, Hao Yang, Tao Cheng, Chih-Wen Pao, Yu-Chung Chang, Zhiwei Hu, Qi Shao, Mingwang Shao, Zhenhui Kang, Metastable Hexagonal Phase SnO2 Nanoribbons with Active Edge Sites for Efficient Hydrogen Peroxide Electrosynthesis in Neutral Media, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62, e202218924, 2023.
12. Yunjie Zhou, Huihui Qi, Jie Wu, Hui Huang, Yang Liu, and Zhenhui Kang, Amino modified carbon dots with electron sink effect increase interface charge transfer rate of Cu-based electrocatalyst to enhance the CO2 conversion selectivity to C2H4, Advanced Functional Materials, 2113335, 2022.
13. Ziliang Chen, Jie Wu, Zhengran Chen, Hongyuan Yang, Kai Zou, Xiangyong Zhao, Ruihong Liang, Xianlin Dong, Prashanth W. Menezes, Zhenhui Kang, Entropy Enhanced Perovskite Oxide Ceramic for Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of Oxygen to Hydrogen Peroxide, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, e202200086, 2022.
14. Jie Wu, Meilin Hou, Ziliang Chen, Weiju Hao, Xuelei Pan, Hongyuan Yang, Wanglai Cen, Yang Liu, Hui Huang, Prashanth W. Menezes, Zhenhui Kang, Composition Engineering of Amorphous Nickel Boride Nanoarchitectures Enabling Highly Efficient Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide, Advanced Materials, 34, 2202995, 2022.
15. Mengling Zhang, Wanru Zhang, Xing Fan, Yurong Ma, Hui Huang, Xiting Wang, Yang Liu, Haiping Lin, Youyong Li, He Tian, Mingwang Shao, Zhenhui Kang, Chiral Carbon Dots Derived from Serine with Well-Defined Structure and Enantioselective Catalytic Activity, Nano Letters, 22, 7203-7211, 2022.
16. Ziliang Chen, Hongyuan Yang, Zhenhui Kang, Matthias Driess, Prashanth W. Menezes, The pivotal role of s-, p-, and f-block metals in water electrolysis: status quo and perspectives, Advanced Materials, 34, 2108432, 2022.
17. Huiying Sun, Zhongling Lang, Yingnan Zhao, Xinyu Zhao, Tianyu Qiu, Qiang Hong, Kaiqiang Wei, Huaqiao Tan, Zhenhui Kang, and Yangguang Li, Copper-bridged tetrakis(4-ethynylphenyl)ethene aggregates with photo-regulated 1O2 and O2∙- generation for selective photocatalytic aerobic oxidation, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, 61, e202202914, 2022.
18. Zhenglong Fan, Fan Liao, Yujin Ji, Yang Liu, Hui Huang, Dan Wang,, Kui Yin, Haiwei Yang, Mengjie Ma, Wenxiang Zhu, Meng Wang, Zhenhui Kang, Youyong Li, Mingwang Shao, Zhiwei Hu, Qi Shao, Coupling of nanocrystal hexagonal array and two-dimensional metastable substrate boosts H2-production, Nature Communicaions, 13, 5828, 2022.
19. Ziliang Chen, Yang Liu, and Zhenhui Kang, Diversity and Tailorability of Photoelectrochemical Properties of Carbon Dots, Acc. Chem. Res., 55, 3110-3124, 2022.
20. Wenshuai Jiang, Yajie Zhao, Xupeng Zong, Haodong Nie, Lijuan Niu, Li An, Dan Qu, Xiayan Wang, Zhenhui Kang, Zaicheng Sun, Photocatalyst for High-Performance H2 Production: Ga-Doped Polymeric Carbon Nitride, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, 60, 6124-6129, 2021.
21. Xiao Wang, Bo Wang, Hongshuai Wang, Tianyang Zhang, Huihui Qi, Zhenyu Wu, Yurong Ma, Hui Huang, Mingwang Shao, Yang Liu, Youyong Li, Zhenhui Kang, Carbon-Dot-Based White-Light-Emitting Diodes with Adjustable Correlated Color Temperature Guided by Machine Learning, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, 60, 12585-12590, 2021.
22. Qingyao Wu, Jingjing Cao, Xiao Wang, Yan Liu, Yajie Zhao, Hui Wang, Yang Liu, Hui Huang, Fan Liao, Mingwang Shao, Zhenghui Kang, A metal-free photocatalyst for highly efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction in real seawater, Nature Communications, 12, 483, 2021.
23. Wenya Wei, Siwei Yang, Gang Wang, Teng Zhang, Wei Pan, Zenghua Cai, Yucheng Yang, Li Zheng, Peng He, Lei Wang, Ardeshir Baktash, Quanzhen Zhang, Liwei Liu, Yeliang Wang, Guqiao Ding, Zhenhui Kang, Boris I. Yakobson, Debra J. Searles, Qinghong Yuan, Bandgap engineering of two-dimensional C3N bilayers, Nature Electronics, 4, 486-494, 2021.
24. Zhenglong Fan, Yujin Ji, Qi Shao, Shize Geng, Wenxiang Zhu, Yang Liu, Fan Liao, Zhiwei Hu, Yu-Chung Chang, Chih-Wen Pao, Youyong Li, Zhenhui Kang, Mingwang Shao, Extraordinary Acidic Oxygen Evolution on New Phase 3R-Iridium Oxide, Joule, 5, 3221-3234, 2021.
25. Lunan Zhang, Rui Li, Hongying Zang, Huaqiao Tan, Zhenhui Kang, Yonghui Wang, and Yangguang Li, Advanced hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts promising a sustainable hydrogen and chlor-alkali co-production, Energy & Environmental Science, 14, 6191-6210, 2021.
26. Jipeng Li, Siwei Yang, Zeyang Liu, Gang Wang, Peng He, Wei Wei, Muyue Yang, Yuan Deng, Ping Gu, Xiaoming Xie, Zhenhui Kang, Guqiao Ding, Huifang Zhou, Xianqun Fan, Imaging cellular aerobic glycolysis using carbon dots for early warning of tumorigenesis, Advanced Materials, 33, 2005096, 2021.
27. Lunan Zhang, Zhongling Lang, Yonghui Wang, Huaqiao Tan, Hongying Zang, Zhenhui Kang, Yangguang Li, Cable-like Ru/WNO@C Nanowires for Simultaneously Highefficient Hydrogen Evolution and Low-energy Consumption Chloralkali Electrolysis, Energy & Environmental Science, 12, 2569, 2019.
28. Qing Zhang, Zhengming Wu, Yuan Lv, Yali Li, Yajing Zhao, Rui Zhang, Yushuang Xiao, Xiaofei Shi, Danrui Zhang, Rui Hua, Jianlin Yao, Jun Guo, Rong Huang, Yi Cui, Zhenhui Kang, Subhadip Goswami, Lee Robison, Kepeng Song, Xinghua Li, Yu Han, Lifeng Chi, Omar K. Farha, Guang Lu, Oxygen-Assisted Cathodic Deposition of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks with Controlled Thickness, Angewandte Chemie-international Edition, 58, 1123-1128, 2019.
29. Yuanyuan Ma, Zhongling Lang, Likai Yan, Yonghui Wang, Huaqiao Tan, Kun Feng, Yujian Xia, Jun Zhong, Yang Liu, Zhenhui Kang, Yangguang Li, High efficient hydrogen evolution triggered by a multi-interfacial Ni/WC hybrid electrocatalyst, Energy & Environmental Science, 11, 2114-2123, 2018.
30. Naiyun Liu, Mumei Han, Yue Sun, Cheng Zhu, Yunjie Zhou, Yalin Zhang, Hui Huang, Vladimir Kremnican, Yang Liu, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Zhenhui Kang, A g-C3N4 based photoelectrochemical cell using O2/H2O redox couples, Energy & Environmental Science, 11, 1841-1847, 2018.
31. Sijie Guo, Siqi Zhao, Xiuqin Wu, Hao Li, Yunjie Zhou, Cheng Zhu, Nianjun Yang, Xin Jiang, Jin Gao, Liang Bai, Yang Liu, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Shuit-Tong Lee, and Zhenhui Kang, A Co3O4-CDots-C3N4 three component electrocatalyst design concept for efficient and tunable CO2 reduction to syngas, Nature Communications, 8, 1828, 2017.
32. Si-Wei Yang, Wi Li, Caichao Ye, Gang Wang, He Tian, Chong Zhu, Peng He, Guqiao Ding, Xiaoming Xie, Yang Liu, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Shuit-Tong Lee, Zhenhui Kang, Mianheng Jiang, C3N-A 2D Crystalline, Hole-Free, Tunable-Narrow-Bandgap Semiconductor with Ferromagnetic Properties, Advanced Materials, 29, 1605625, 2017.
33. Juan Liu, Yang Liu, Naiyun Liu, Yuzhi Han, Xing Zhang, Hui Huang, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Shuit-Tong Lee, Jun Zhong, and Zhenhui Kang, Metal-free efficient photocatalyst for stable visible water splitting via a two-electron pathway, Science, 347, 970-974, 2015.
Research Grants
2023.01--2024.12 Property regulation of carbon-based nonmetallic electrocatalysts and their application demonstration of hydrogen fuel cells（FDCT）
2023.05--2025.04 Development of nonmetallic carbon-based electrocatalysts and their application in low power hydrogen fuel cells
Professional Certification and Awards
Medal of International Association of Advanced Materials in 2022
China's Top 10 Scientific Advances in 2015.
Student Awards
Top 100 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Nationwide in China in 2007
Professional Society Membership
Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow, International Association of Advanced Materials
