National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

Faculty

Tao HE

Title：	Professor
E-mail：	het(AT)nanoctr.cn
Affiliation：	National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) No.11 Beiyitiao Zhongguancun, 100190 Beijing, P. R. China
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Education and Professional Experience:

2009.7 – Present Professor, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

2005.7 – 2009.5 Postdoc Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Department of Chemistry & Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology

2002.10 – 2005.7 Postdoc Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Faculty of Chemistry; Department of Materials and Interfaces

1999.9 – 2002.7 Ph.D. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Institute of Chemistry; Key Laboratory of Photochemistry

1996.9 – 1999.7 M.Sc. Shandong University, Jinan, China

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

1993.8 – 1996.5 Engineer Jinan Refinery of SINOPEC, Jinan, China

Heavy Oil Catalyzing and Cracking Unit

1989.9 – 1993.7 B.Ch.E. Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

School of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests:

Research Interests

Tao HE's research interests are mainly focusing on R&D of novel photoelectric functional namomaterials and related devices that can efficiently utilize light energy at a relatively low cost, mainly including artificial photosynthesis and new-concept optoelectronic devices for IR and THz detection.

1. Photoelectric functional nanomaterials and related devices;

2. Sustainable Nanocatalysis for Energy & Environment;

3. Conversion of CO2 into C1 & C2 compounds over nanocatalysts;

4. IR and THz detection based on new-concept optoelectronic devices.

Selected Publications (full list via UCAS profile)

1. Xuehua Zhang, Lin Lin, Dan Qu, Jiangong Yang, Yuxiang Weng, Zhuan Wang,* Zaicheng Sun,* Yong Chen,* Tao He*, Boosting visible-light driven solar-fuel production over g-C3N4/tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin iron(III) chloride hybrid photocatalyst via incorporation with carbon dots, Appl. Catal. B, 2020, 265, 118595.

2. Hongjia Wang, Yanjie Wang, Lingju Guo, Xuehua Zhang, Caue Ribeiro, Tao He*, Solar-heating boosted catalytic reduction of CO2 under full solar spectrum, Chin. J. Catal., 2020, 41, 131–139.

3. Aamir Hassan Shah, Yanjie Wang,* Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Bilal Akbar, Abebe Reda Woldu, Xuehua Zhang, Tao He*, New aspects of C2 selectivity in electrochemical CO2 reduction over oxide-eerived copper, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 2046–2053.

4. Haifeng Hu, Shan Lu, Meihua Jin,* Kai Wang, Tao He*, Low-epsilon titanium oxide antenna infrared photodetector, Optic. Exp., 2019, 27, 5280–5288.

5. Yanjie Wang, Hongjia Wang, Abebe Reda Woldu, Xuehua Zhang, Tao He*, Optimization of charge behavior in nanoporous CuBi2O4 photocathode for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2, Catal. Today, 2019, 335, 388–394.

6. Shuang Zhu, Lingju Guo,* Pan Li, Bin Zhang, Gaofeng Zhao,* Tao He*, A computational study on linear and bent adsorption of CO2 on different surfaces for its photoreduction, Catal. Today, 2019, 335, 278–285.

7. Lin Lin, Chunchao Hou, Xuehua Zhang,* Yanjie Wang, Yong Chen,* Tao He*, Highly efficient visible-light driven photocatalytic reduction of CO2 over g-C3N4 nanosheets/tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin iron(III) chloride heterogeneous catalyst, Appl. Catal. B, 2018, 221, 312–319.

8. Pan Li, Tao He*, Common-cation based Z-scheme ZnS@ZnO core-shell nanostructure for efficient solar-fuel production, Appl. Catal. B, 2018, 238, 518–524.

9. Pan Li, Xuehua Zhang*, Chunchao Hou, Yong Chen*, Tao He*, Highly efficient visible-light driven solar-fuel production over tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin iron(III) chloride using CdS/Bi2S3 heterostructure as photosensitizer, Appl. Catal. B, 2018, 238: 656–663.

10. Aamir Hassan Shah, Yanjie Wang, Abebe Reda Woldu, Lin Lin, Muzaffar Iqbal, David Cahen, Revisiting electrochemical reduction of CO2 on Cu electrode: Where do we stand about the intermediates Tao He*, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122(32): 18528–18536.

11. Yanjie Wang, Jiarui Jin, Weiguo Chu, David Cahen, Tao He*, Synergistic effect of charge generation and separation in epitaxially grown BiOCl/Bi2S3 nano-heterostructure, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 15304–15313.

12. Muzaffar Iqbal, Yanjie Wang, Haifeng Hu, Meng He, Aamir Hassan Shah, Pan Li, Lin Lin, Abebe Reda Woldu, Tao He*, Interfacial charge kinetics of ZnO/ZnTe heterostructured nanorod arrays for CO2 photoreduction, Electrochim. Acta, 2018, 272: 203–211.

13. Muzaffar Iqbal, Yanjie Wang, Haifeng Hu, Meng He, Aamir Hassan Shah, Lin Lin, Pan Li, Kunjuan Shao, Abebe Reda Woldu, Tao He*, Cu2O-tipped ZnO nanorods with enhanced photoelectrochemical performance for CO2 photoreduction, Appl. Surf. Sci., 2018, 443, 209–216.

14. Kunjuan Shao, Yanjie Wang, Muzaffar Iqbal, Lin Lin, Kai Wang, Xuehua Zhang, Meng He, Tao He*, Modification of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of SrTiO3 and resultant influence on photoreduction of CO2, Appl. Surf. Sci., 2018, 434, 717–724.

15. Jiarui Jin, Tao He*, Bi2S3 nanorods with different aspect ratio: Facile synthesis and photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into methanol, Appl. Surf. Sci., 2017, 394, 364–370.

16. Lingju Guo, Yanjie Wang, Tao He*, Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 over heterostructure semiconductors into value-added chemicals, Chem. Rec., 2016, 16 (4), 1918–1933.

17. Kai Wang, Haifeng Hu, Shan Lu, Lingju Guo*, Tao Zhang, Yunzhong Han, Aosong Zhou, Tao He*, Design and analysis of a square spiral nano-rectenna for infrared energy harvest and conversion, Opt. Mater. Exp., 2016, 6 (12), 3977–3991.

18. Muhammad Fahad Ehsan, Tao He*, In-Situ Synthesis of ZnTe/ZnO Common cation heterostructure and its visible-light photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into CH4, Appl. Catal. B, 2015, 166–167, 345–352.

19. Sana Ijaz, Muhammad Fahad Ehsan, Muhammad Naeem Ashiq*, Tao He*, Synthesis of Bi2S3/CeO2 nanocatalyst and its visible-light-driven conversion of CO2 into CH3OH and CH4, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2015, 5 (12), 5208–5215.

20. Yan Huang, Yanjie Wang, Yiqing Bi, Jiarui Jin, Muhammad Fahad Ehsan, Min Fu*, Tao He*, Preparation of 2D hydroxyl-rich carbon nitride nanosheets for photocatalytic reduction of CO2, RSC Adv., 2015, 5 (42), 33254–33261.

21. Yiqing Bi, Muhammad Fahad Ehsan, Yan Huang, Jiarui Jin, Tao He*, Synthesis of Cr-doped SrTiO3 photocatalyst and its application in visible-light-driven transformation of CO2 into CH4, J. CO2 Util., 2015, 12, 43–48.

22. Lingju Guo, Zhi Zeng, Tao He*, From 1D chain to 3D network: a theoretical study on TiO2 low dimensional structures, J. Chem. Phys., 2015, 142 (22), 224305.

23. Kai Wang, Haifeng Hu, Shan Lu, Lingju Guo*, Tao He*, Design of a sector bowtie nano-rectenna for optical power and infrared detection, Front. Phys. Beijing, 2015, 10 (5), 104101.

24. Yanlong Yu, Tao He*, Lingju Guo, Yajun Yang, Limei Guo, Yue Tang, Yaan Cao*, Efficient visible-light photocatalytic degradation system assisted by conventional Pd catalysis, Sci. Rep. UK, 2015, 5, 9561.