Areas of research interest

(1) Novel elemental photocatalysts;
(2) Novel photoelectrode materials;
(3) Graphene-like ultrathin nanomaterials;
(4) Nanoscale coordination polymer for photocatalysis and others.

Teaching

Ceramics Petrology

Honors and awards

Beiyang Scholar Plans-Young distinguished teacher (2014);
Third prize in Class competition in College of Materials science and Engineering (2015);
Hexuan Li Scholarship for postgraduate student in Nankai University (2010);
First class scholarship for postgraduate student in Nankai University (2009)

Research projects

Tunable fabrication of graphene-like lathanide molybdates and study for their catalytic oxidation properties, National Natural Science FundYoung Scholar project
Hydrothermal and ultrosonic methods toward graphene-like lanthanide molybdates and their propylene epoxidation, New teachers' fund of Ministry of Education project
Inorganic graphene-like materials and their catalytic properties, Beiyang Scholar Plans-Young distinguished teacher project

Selected publications (Journal articles, patents and books)

1. Zhuofeng Hu, Gang Liu, Xingqiu Chen, Zhurui Shen*, Jimmy C. Yu*, Enhancing charge separation in metallic photocatalysts: a case study of the conducting molybdenum dioxide, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, Early view, http://dx.doi. org/10.1002/adfm201600239.
2. Zhuofeng Hu, Zhurui Shen*, Jimmy C. Yu*, Covalent fixation of surface oxygen atoms on hematite photoanode for enhanced water oxidation, Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 564-572.
3. Dehua Xia, Zhurui Shen (Co-first author), Guocheng Huang, Jimmy C. Yu* et al. Red phosphorus: an earth-abundant photocatalyst for "green" bacterial inactivation under visible light, Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49, 6264-6273.
4. Zhurui Shen, Shoutian Sun, Wanjun Wang et al. A red-black phosphorus heterostructure for efficient visible-light-driven photocatalysis, Journal of Materials Chemisry A, 2015, 3, 3285-3288.
5. Zhurui Shen, Jingui Wang, Pingchuan Sun et al, Fabrication of lanthanide oxide microspheres and hollow spheres by thermolysis of pre-molding lanthanide coordination compounds, Chemical Communications, 2009, 1742.
6.Zhurui Shen, Guijun Zhang, Huijing Zhou et al., Macroporous Lanthanide-Organic Coordination Polymer Foams and Their Corresponding Lanthanide Oxides, Advanced Materials, 2008, 20, 984.

Social Appointments

Member of Chinese Chemical Society 
Reviewer of several SCI journals including Adv. Funct. Mater., Chem. Mater., RSC Adv., Nanoscale Research Letters