Hua Zhang
简 历:Dr. Hua Zhang joined the Department of Chemistry in City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor in 2019. His current research interests focus on the (crystal-)phase engineering of nanomaterials and controlled epitaxial growth of heterostructures, including the synthesis of ultrathin two-dimensional nanomaterials, novel metallic and semiconducting nanomaterials, novel amorphous nanomaterials and their applications in biosensors, clean energy and other fields. He has published 5 invited book chapters, 74 patent applications, and over 460 papers, among which 207 papers were published in IF>10 journals and 103 papers were published in 8<IF<10 journals. Some of his papers have been published in Science (1), Nat. Chem. (5), Nat. Catal. (1), Nat. Rev. Mater. (2), Nat. Commun. (8), Sci. Adv. (1), Nat. Protocols (1), Chem. Rev. (2), Chem. Soc. Rev. (12), Acc. Chem. Res. (2), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (16), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (28), Adv. Mater. (53), etc. Based on Web of Science on May 26, 2019, the total citation times of his papers are over 61,000 with H-index of 120. He has been invited to give more than 300 Plenary, Keynote or Invited Talks in international conferences, universities and institutes, and serve as the Session Chair. He has organized several tens of international conferences and served as the Symposium Chair or Conference Co-Chair. He is one of three Chairmen of the Editorial Board of ChemNanoMat (2015-). In 2015, he was elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). In Nov. 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2016, he was listed in the top 300 most cited researchers in the field of materials science and engineering (Elsevier Scopus). In 2015-2018, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers" in Chemistry and Materials Science (Thomson Reuters). In 2015, he was listed as one of 19 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the world in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 (Thomson Reuters, 2015). In 2014, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers 2014" in Materials Science, and also listed as one of 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” and No. 1 in Materials and More in the world in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 (Thomson Reuters, 2014). Moreover, he got the Young Investigator Award (Young Giants of Nanoscience 2016, Hong Kong), Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholar Award (University of Wollongong, Australia, 2016), ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2015), World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award (2013), the ONASSIA Foundation Lectureship (Greece, 2013), Asian Rising Stars (15th Asian Chemical Congress, 2013), SMALL Young Innovator Award (Wiley-VCH, 2012) and Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2011).
题 目:Phase Engineering of Novel Nanomaterials
摘 要:In this talk, I will summarize the recent research on the phase engineering of nanomaterials in my group. It includes the first-time synthesis of hexagonal-close packed (hcp) Au nanosheets (AuSSs) on graphene oxide, the first-time synthesis of 4H hexagonal phase Au nanoribbons (NRBs), the synthesis of crystal-phase heterostructured 4H/fcc Au nanorods, the epitaxial growth of metals with novel phases on the aforementioned Au nanostructures, and the synthesis of amorphous/crystalline hetero-phase Pd nanosheets. In addition, the first-time synthesis of 1T'-MoS2 and 1T'-MoSe2 crystals have been achieved. Moreover, the phase transformation of transition metal dichalcogenide nanomaterials during our developed electrochemical Li-intercalation method will also be introduced. Interestingly, the lithiation-induced amorphization of Pd3P2S8 is also achieved. Currently, my group focuses on the (crystal) phase-based properties and applications in catalysis, surface enhanced Raman scattering, waveguide, photothermal therapy, chemical and biosensing, clean energy etc., which we believe are quite unique and very important not only in fundamental studies, but also in practical applications. Importantly, the concepts of crystal-phase heterostructures and hetero-phase nanomaterials are proposed.