The person in charge of the research group, Assistant Professor Zhou Peng, graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the research group of Professor Yu Jiaguo at Wuhan University of Technology in 2014, and graduated with a doctoral degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017 (supervisors: Academician Zhao Jincai and Researcher Chen Chuncheng). He has successively engaged in postdoctoral research at Peking University (co-supervisor: Professor Guo Shaojun, 2017-2019) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (co-supervisor: Professor Mizetian, 2019-2023). The project leader has 12 years of research experience in the field of photocatalytic dehydrogenation transformation of organic compounds and hydrogen fuel preparation. As the first author (including co-first author) or corresponding author, he has published 43 papers in academic journals such as Nature, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Nature Synthesis (two papers), Nature Communications (four papers), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society (two papers), Advanced Materials (two papers), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (three papers), etc. The total citation count is 11,562 times, and the h-factor is 53. He has obtained the National Outstanding Youth Fund (Overseas) in 2023 and was selected into the "Top 2% of the World's Leading Scientists List 2023" released by Stanford University in the United States.
Research
1. photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production
2. photocatalytic organic synthesis and reaction mechanism
3. photocatalytic high-value conversion of biomass
4. photocatalytic plastic recycling and utilization
5. design and development of photocatalytic device
Publications
2024：
1. Jiaming Zhang, Kaiwei Liu, Boyang Zhang, Jifang Zhang, Meng Liu, Yao Xu, Ke Shi, Haifeng Wang, Zihao Zhang, Peng Zhou,* and Guijun Ma.* Anisotropic Charge Migration on Perovskite Oxysulfide for Boosting Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 4068-4077.
2023 or earlier：
1. Peng Zhou, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, Yongjin Ma, Yixin Xiao, Ping Wang, Zhengwei Ye, Baowen Zhou, Kai Sun & Zetian Mi*. Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of >9% in photocatalytic water splitting. Nature, 2023, 613, 66-70.
2. Peng Zhou, Mingchuan Luo and Shaojun Guo*. Optimizing the semiconductor-metal single atom interaction for efficient photocatalytic reactivity. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022, 6, 823-838.
3. Hao Tan†, Peng Zhou†, Meixian Liu, Qinghua Zhang, Fuyang Liu, Hongyu Guo, Yin Zhou, Yan Chen, Lingyou Zeng, Lin Gu, Zhanfeng Zheng, Meiping Tong & Shaojun Guo*. Photocatalysis of water into hydrogen peroxide over an atomic Ga-N5 site. Nature Synthesis 2023, 2, 557–563.
5. Peng Zhou, Hui Chen, Yuguang Chao, Qinghua Zhang, Weiyu Zhang, Fan Lv, Lin Gu, Qiang Zhao, Ning Wang, Jinshu Wang, Shaojun Guo*. Single-atom Pt-I3 sites on all-inorganic Cs2SnI6 perovskite for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 4412.
6. Ji Wu, Zhonghuan Liu, Xinyu Lin, Enhui Jiang, Shuai Zhang, Pengwei Huo, Yan Yan*, Peng Zhou* & Yongsheng Yan. Breaking through water-splitting bottlenecks over carbon nitride with fluorination. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 6999.
7. Fuyang Liu†, Peng Zhou†, Yanghui Hou, Hao Tan, Yin Liang, Jialiang Liang, Qing Zhang, Shaojun Guo, Meiping Tong, Jinren Ni. Covalent organic frameworks for direct photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water, air and sunlight. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 4344.
8. Peng Zhou, Qinghua Zhang, Zhikun Xu, Qiuyu Shang, Liang Wang, Yuguang Chao, Yiju Li, Hui Chen, Fan Lv, Qing Zhang, Lin Gu and Shaojun Guo*. Atomically dispersed Co-P3 on CdS nanorods with electron-rich feature boosts photocatalysis. Advanced Materials, 2019, 32, 1904249.
9. Peng Zhou, Jiaguo Yu*, Mietek Jaroniec*. All-solid-state Z-scheme photocatalytic systems. Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 4920–4935.
10. Peng Zhou, Qinghua Zhang, Yuguang Chao, Liang Wang, Yiju Li, Hui Chen, Lin Gu and Shaojun Guo*. Partially-reduced Pd single atoms on CdS nanorods enable photocatalytic reforming of ethanol into high value-added multicarbon compound. Chem, 2021, 7, 1033-1049.
11. Peng Zhou, Ning Li, Yuguang Chao, Weiyu Zhang, Fan Lv, Kai Wang, Wenxiu Yang, Peng Gao and Shaojun Guo*. Thermolysis of Noble Metal Nanoparticles into Electron-Rich Phosphorus-Coordinated Noble Metal Single Atoms at Low Temperature. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58,14184–14188.
12. Xiaoxiao Ge†, Peng Zhou†, Qinghua Zhang, Zhonghong Xia, Shulin Chen, PengGao, Zhe Zhang, Lin Gu and Shaojun Guo*. Palladium Single Atoms on TiO2 as a Photocatalytic Sensing Platform for Analyzing the Organophosphorus Pesticide Chlorpyrifos. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 232–236.
13. Shikang Yin, Xiaoxue Zhao, Enhui Jiang, Yan Yan*, Peng Zhou*, Pengwei Huo*. Boosting Water Decomposition by Sulfur Vacancy for Efficient CO2 Photoreduction. Energy & Environmental Science, 2022,15, 1556-1562.
14. Yuanpeng Wu†, Peng Zhou†, Yixin Xiao, Kai Sun, Ding Wang, Ping Wang, and Zetian Mi. Achieving atomically ordered GaN/AlN quantum heterostructures: The role of surface polarity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023, 120 (44), e2303473120.
