National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

Faculty

Shenlong ZHAO

Title：	Professor
E-mail：	zhaosl@nanoctr.cn
Affiliation：	National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST） No.11 Beiyitiao Zhongguancun, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
Group Webpage：	https://zhaoslgroup.com/

Education and Professional Experience:

Zhao Shenlong, Professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Doctoral Supervisor, and recipient of the National High-Level Overseas Talent Program.

2011: B.S. in Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University.

2017: Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Zhiyong Tang and Prof. Shaoqin Liu.

2017–2019: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, under the mentorship of Prof. Liming Dai.

2019–2022: Independent researcher and Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Dec 2022–Present: Joined the NCNST as a PI and Group Leader.

Research Interests:

Shenlong Zhao's research interests focus on advanced materials manufacturing and renewable energy technologies. So far, he has published more than 110 publications in internationally recognized academic journals, with an H-index of 60 (Google Scholar), more than 16,000 citations, and 36 highly cited papers in the top 1% of ESI. Fifty of these publications are as first/corresponding author, including Nat. Energy (2), Nat. Commun. (4), Sci. Adv. , JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (4), Adv. Mater. (4), Joule. , Chem(3), Matter(5), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Energy Environ. Sci. etc. For his outstanding contribution, He has received several awards and grants including the 2021-2024 Clarivate highly cited researcher, National Natural Science Foundation of China, ARC DECRA, ARC DP, UNSW-Australian Academy of Science Collaborative Research Seed Program and FH Loxton Scholarships. Also, He has been invited to serve on the youth editorial boards of the following journals (eScience, The Innovation, Nano Research Energy and CarbonNeutralization) and the Individual Reviewer of various prestigious Journals (e.g. Joule, Matter, Chem, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Acc. Chem. Res.).

Selected Publications (full list via Google Scholar)

[1] Juncai Dong*, Yangyang Liu, Jiajing Pei, Haijing Li, Shufang Ji, Lei Shi, Yaning Zhang, Can Li*, Cheng Tang, Jiangwen Liao, Shiqing Xu, Huabin Zhang, Qi Li, Shenlong Zhao*, Continuous electroproduction of formate via CO₂ reduction on local symmetry-broken single-atom catalysts. Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 6849.

[2] Zilong Wu, Xiangyu Liu, Haijing Li, Zhiyi Sun, Maosheng Cao, Zezhou Li, Chaohe Fang, Jihan Zhou, Chuanbao Cao, Juncai Dong*, Shenlong Zhao*, Zhuo Chen*, A semiconductor-electrocatalyst nano interface constructed for successive photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 2574.

[3] Yangyang Liu, Can Li, Chunhui Tan, Zengxia Pei, Tao Yang, Shuzhen Zhang, Qianwei Huang, Yihan Wang, Zheng Zhou, Xiaozhou Liao, Juncai Dong, Hao Tan*, Wensheng Yan, Huajie Yin, Zhao-Qing Liu, Jun Huang*, Shenlong Zhao*, Electrosynthesis of chlorine from seawater-like solution through single-atom catalysts. Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 2475.

[4] Zengxia Pei*, Hao Tan, Jinxing Gu, Linguo Lu, Xin Zeng, Tianqi Zhang, Cheng Wang, Luyao Ding, Patrick J. Cullen, Zhongfang Chen*, Shenlong Zhao*, A polymeric hydrogel electrocatalyst for direct water oxidation, Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 818.

[5] Meng Dan, Xiting Zhang, Yongchao Yang, Jingfei Yang, Fengxiu Wu, Shenlong Zhao*, Zhao-Qing Liu*, Dual-axial engineering on atomically dispersed catalysts for ultrastable oxygen reduction in acidic and alkaline solutions. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2024, 121, e2318174121.

[6] Bin‐Wei Zhang*, Liuyue Cao, Cheng Tang, Chunhui Tan, Ningyan Cheng, Wei‐Hong Lai, Yun‐Xiao Wang, Zhen‐Xiang Cheng, Juncai Dong, Yuan Kong*, Shi‐Xue Dou, Shenlong Zhao*, Atomically dispersed dual‐site cathode with a record high sulfur mass loading for high‐performance room‐temperature sodium–sulfur batteries, Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2206828.

[7] Zheng Zhou, Yuan Kong, Hao Tan*, Qianwei Huang, Cheng Wang, Zengxia Pei, Haozhu Wang, Yangyang Liu, Yihan Wang, Sai Li, Xiaozhou Liao, Wensheng Yan, Shenlong Zhao*, Cation‐vacancy‐enriched nickel phosphide for efficient electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxides, Adv. Mater., 2022, 34, 2106541

[8] Shucong Zhang, Chunhui Tan, Ruipeng Yan, Xifei Zou, Fei‐Long Hu, Yan Mi*, Cheng Yan*, Shenlong Zhao*, Constructing built‐in electric field in heterogeneous nanowire arrays for efficient overall water electrolysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 135, e202302795

[9] Bin‐Wei Zhang*, Liuyue Cao, Cheng Tang, Chunhui Tan, Ningyan Cheng, Wei‐Hong Lai, Yun‐Xiao Wang, Zhen‐Xiang Cheng, Juncai Dong, Yuan Kong*, Shi‐Xue Dou, Shenlong Zhao*, Atomically dispersed dual‐site cathode with a record high sulfur mass loading for high‐performance room‐temperature sodium–sulfur batteries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 35, 2206828

[10] Wen‐Kai Han, Jin‐Xin Wei, Kang Xiao, Ting Ouyang, Xinwen Peng, Shenlong Zhao*, Zhao‐Qing Liu*, Activating lattice oxygen in layered lithium oxides through cation vacancies for enhanced urea electrolysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 134, e202206050

[11] Tao Yang, Zhixiang Chen, Yongchao Yang*, Shenlong Zhao*, Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells with ionomerless cathodes. Joule, 2024, 8, 287

[12] Yangyang Liu, Thomas Maschmeyer, Shenlong Zhao*, From nitric oxide to ammonia: Unpacking the potential of electrochemistry. Chem, 2024,10, 437.

[13] Lei Shi, Shenlong Zhao*, Misorientation strategy on high-entropy metal oxides for enhanced acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Chem, 2023, 9, 3025.

[14] Haozhu Wang, Tao Yang, Jingyang Wang, Zheng Zhou, Zengxia Pei, Shenlong Zhao*, Coordination engineering in single-site catalysts: General principles, characterizations, and recent advances. Chem, 2024, 10, 1.

[15] Dong Liu, Shenlong Zhao*, An efficient combination strategy for high-performance asymmetric-electrolyte metal–air batteries, Matter, 2021, 4, 1090.

[16] Yongchao Yang, Yuwei Yang, Zengxia Pei, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Chunhui Tan, Haozhu Wang, Li Wei, Asif Mahmood, Cheng Yan, Juncai Dong, Shenlong Zhao*, Yuan Chen*. Recent Progress of Carbon-supported Single-atom Catalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage. Matter, 2020, 3, 1442.

[17] Shenlong Zhao^#, Chunhui Tan^#, Chun-Ting He^#, Pengfei An, Feng Xie, Shuai Jiang, Yanfei Zhu, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Binwei Zhang, Haijing Li, Jing Zhang, Yuan Chen, Shaoqin Liu*, Juncai Dong*, Zhiyong Tang*. Structural Transformation of Highly Active Metal–Organic Framework Electrocatalysts during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Nat. Energy, 2020, 5, 881.

[18] Shenlong Zhao, Yun Wang, Juncai Dong, Chun-Ting He, Huajie Yin, Pengfei An, Kun Zhao, Xiaofei Zhang, Chao Gao, Lijuan Zhang, Jiawei Lv, Jinxin Wang, Jianqi Zhang, Abdul Muqsit Khattak, Niaz Ali Khan, Zhixiang Wei, Jing Zhang, Shaoqin Liu*, Huijun Zhao*, Zhiyong Tang*. Ultrathin Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Nat. Energy, 2016, 1, 16184.