1) Photocatalytic water splitting and CO₂ reduction

2) Electrocatalytic water splitting and CO₂ reduction

3) Metal-Organic Framework materials

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

2017.02-present   Full Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Science, China.

2012.2-2017.01   Research Fellow, Division of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2016.04-10          Visiting scholar, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

2008-2012          Research Associate, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Science, China.

   

Selected Publications

 (1)   Yangrui Xu, Yewei Ren, Guosheng Zhou, Sheng Feng, Zhenzhen Yang, Sheng Dai, Ziyang Lu, * Tianhua Zhou, * Amide-Engineered Metal-Organic Porous  Liquids Towards Enhanced CO₂ Photoreduction Performance, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202313695.

(2)   Zhiqiang Jiang, Minyi Zhang, Xingliang Chen, Bing Wang, Wenjuan Fan, Chenhuai Yang, Xiaoju YangZhicheng Zhang, Xuan Yang,* Chunsen Li,* Tianhua Zhou,*A Bismuth-Based Zeolitic Organic Framework withCoordination-Linked Metal Cages for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to HCOOH, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202311223.

(3)   Yayong Sun, Jing Wei, Zhihua Fu, Minyi Zhang, Sangen Zhao, Gang Xu, Chunsen Li, Jian Zhang, Tianhua Zhou.* Bio‐Inspired Synthetic Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Frameworks for Efficient Proton Conduction, Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2208625.

(4)   Huaxing Lin, Yuan Liu, Zirui Wang, Liying Ling, Hao Huang, Qiaohong Li, Linxiu Cheng, Yibao Li, Jilong Zhou, Kaifeng Wu, Jian Zhang, Tianhua Zhou.* Enhanced CO₂ Photoreduction through Spontaneous Charge Separation in End‐Capping Assembly of Heterostructured Covalent‐Organic Frameworks, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202214142.

(5)   Huaxing Lin, You Xu, Bing Wang, Dong-Sheng Li, Tianhua Zhou,* Jian Zhang. Postsynthetic modification of metal− organic frameworks for photocatalytic applications, Small Structures., 2022, 3, 2100176.

(6)   Hai-Xia Zhang, Qin-Long Hong, Jing Li, Fei Wang,* Xinsong Huang, Shumei Chen, Wenguang Tu, Dingshan Yu, Rong Xu, Tianhua Zhou* and Jian Zhang. Isolated Square Planar Copper in Boron Imidazolate Nanocages for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CO. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 11752-11756.

(7) Mei-Rong Liu, Qin-Long Hong, Qiao-Hong Li, Yonghua Du, Hai-Xia Zhang, Shumei Chen, Tianhua Zhou,* Jian Zhang.* Cobalt boron imidazolate framework derived cobalt nanoparticles encapsulated in B/N codoped nanocarbon as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting. Advanced Functional Materials., 2018, 28, 1801136.

(8) Tianhua Zhou, Yonghua Du,  Danping Wang,  Shengming Yin, Wenguang Tu,  Zhong Chen, § Armando Borgna, Rong Xu*. Phosphonate-based Metal-Organic Framework Derived Co-P-C Hybrid as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS catalysis, 2017, 7, 6000−6007.

(9) Tianhua Zhou,   Yonghua Du,   Shengming Yin,   xuezeng Tian,  Hongbin Yang,   Xin Wang,   Bin Liu,   Haimei Zheng,  Shizhang Qiao * and  Rong Xu.* Nitrogen-Doped Cobalt Phosphate@Nanocarbon Hybrids for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction, Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 2563-2570.

(10) Tianhua Zhou, Danping Wang, Simon Chun-Kiat Goh, Jindui Hong, Jianyu Han, Jianggao Mao^* and Rong Xu.* Bio-inspired organic cobalt(II) phosphonates toward water oxidation, Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 526-534.

(11) Tianhua Zhou, Yonghua Du, Armando Borgna, Jindui Hong, Yabo Wang, Jianyu Han, Wei Zhang, and Rong Xu.* Post-Synthesis Modification of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Construct a Bifunctional Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production. Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 3229-3234.

 

 

 

 

• Synthetic design and photocatalytic hydrogen production, water oxidation, and CO₂ reduction based on metal complexes/metal organic frameworks/transition metal materials.

• Synthetic design of efficient catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).

• Synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots.

• Synthetic design and application of metal-organic frameworks (MOF) including metal-organic phosphonates/arsonates.

• Design, synthesis and thermal liquid-crystalline properties of dissymmetric gemini amphiphiles.