NanoCat@TJU

Dr. Shi Hu is the group leader of NanoCat in the school of science, Tianjin University. He obtained his PhD from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2012 and worked as postdoc fellow in NC State University and Penn State Univeristy hereafter. He has worked on the controllable synthesis and property investigation of nanomaterials for more than 10 years and published more than 20 SCI papers, including a few on the top-tier journals like J Am Chem Soc, Nano Lett, Adv Mater and Chem Soc Rev. with overall citation number over 1400. (Jan. 24, 2019, Google Scholar data). He is selected into the Project of Thousand Youth Talents of Tianjin (2016) and Project of Peiyang Young Scholars (2018).

He chose to work at Tianjin University since the summer of 2016 and has assembled a vibrant team of 13 graduate students and 5 undergraduates by the time of 2019. The members come from China, Pakistan, Malaysia and Zimbabwe. Their current research interests focus on the development of functional nanomaterials towards the energy, environment and food challenges, which include:

1. Nanostructured Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst for CO₂ Reduction;

2. Nanostructured Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation;

3. Nanostructured Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst for Water Splitting;

4. Nanomaterials Sensor Materials for Hazardous-Gas;

The research are based on a close academic cooperation with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Institute of Physics CAS and Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Team NanoCat own their own Transmission Electron Microscope and essential equipment for the research including gas chromatograph, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, electrochemical workstation and gas-sensing evaluation platform. Synthetic tools for the hydrothermal synthesis and chemical vapor deposition are available including ovens, furnaces, Schlenk line and mini-glovebox. The weekly groupmeeting are given in English.

International students pursuing a PhD and Master degree are encouraged to contact Dr. Hu by himself through rychushi@qq.com. We would like to have self-motivated students join us with the background of chemistry, physics, chemical engineering and/or material science. Fluency of English is required and mastery of Chinese will be very helpful.

The website of Hu Group is https://www.x-mol.com/groups/hu_group

• Nanomaterials for Self-Learning Hazardous-Gas Sensor
• Nanostructured Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting
• Nanostructured Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst for CO2 Reduction
• Nanostructured Electrocatalyst and Photocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation

• Peiyang Young Scholar Award 2019

• Pengjian Wang, Xiaoyan Zheng,* Yuxin Zhao,* Shi Hu*, et al. Ultrafine Nanoparticles of W-Doped SnO2 for Durable H2S Sensor with Fast Response and Recovery, RSC Adv, accepted (2019).RSC Advance.2019
• Ying Zhang, Miao Zhang,* Shi Hu,* et al. Narrow-Bandgap Nb2O5 Nanowires with Enclosed Pores as High-Performance Photocatalyst, Science China Materials, 62, 203-210 (2018).2018,62 :203–210
• Shi Hu.Shi Hu, Xun Wang,* et al. Inorganic Nanostructures with Sizes down to 1 nm: A Macromolecule Analogue, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135, 11115-11124 (2013)..Journal of the Am....2013,135 :11115-11124
• Shi Hu and Xun Wang,* Ultrathin nanostructures: smaller size with new phenomena. Chemical Society Reviews, 42, 5577-5594 (2015)..2019
• Yuxin Zhao, Shi Hu,* Ziyang Huo,* et al. A general method for ultrathin 1D oxide nanomaterials, Nanoscale, 9, 12830-12834 (2017).2019
• Yifei Yu,# Shi Hu,# Linyou Cao,* etal. Equally Efficient Interlayer Exciton Relaxation and Improved Absorption in Epitaxial and Non-epitaxial MoS2/WS2Heterostructures. Nano Letters 15, 486–491 (2015). (#equal contribution).Nano Letters.2015
• Shi Hu, Xun Wang, et al. Nanocrystals of Uranium Oxide: Controlled Synthesis and Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrogen Evolution by Ce-doping, Small, 11, 2624-2630 (2015). (#equal contribution).2019
• Song, J., Yu, Z., Gordin, M. L., Hu, S., Yi, R., Tang, D., Walter, T., Regula, M., Choi, D., Li, X., Manivannan, A. and Wang, D. Chemically Bonded Phosphorus/Graphene Hybrid as a High Performance Anode for Sodium-Ion Batteries. Nano Letters 14, 6329-6335 (2014)..2019
• Hu, S. and Wang, X. Fullerene-Like Colloidal Nanocrystal of Nickel Hydroxychloride. Journal of the American Chemical Society 132, 9573-9575 (2010)..2019
• Hu, S., Ling, X., Lan, T. and Wang, X. Cluster-Based Self-Assembly Route toward MoO3 Single-Walled Nanotubes. Chemistry-a European Journal 16, 1889-1896 (2010)..2019
• Wang, P., Bai, B., Hu, S., Zhuang, J. and Wang, X. Family of Multifunctional Layered-Lanthanum Crystalline Nanowires with Hierarchical Pores: Hydrothermal Synthesis and Applications. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 16953-16960 (2009)..2019
• Shi Hu and Xun Wang, Single-Walled MoO3 Nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, 8126–8127 (2008)..Journal of the Am....2008,130 :8126–8127
• Xu, X., Wang, X., Nisar, A., Liang, X., Zhuang, J., Hu, S. and Zhuang, Y. Combinatorial Hierarchically Ordered 2D Architectures Self-assembled from Nanocrystal Building Blocks. Advanced Materials 20, 3702-3708 (2008)..2019
• Wang, D., Zhao, J., Hu, S., Yin, X., Liang, S., Liu, Y. and Deng, S. Where And How Does A Nanowire Break? Nano Letters 7, 1208-1212 (2007)..2019