Dr. Tianhua Zhou
Research Areas
1) Photocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction
2) Electrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction
3) Metal-Organic Framework materials
Education
M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Experience
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.
Publications
Selected Publications
(1) Chengdi Ma, Liyang Qin, Tianhua Zhou * and Jian Zhang, Customized Structures of Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks towards Photocatalysis, Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03766A
(2)Yayong Sun,# Yanqiang Li,# Xianyu Song, Sangen Zhao, Tianhua Zhou,*Jian Zhang, A Robust Phosphonate-based Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework Birefringent Crystal, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 10.1002/adfm.202413107.
(3) Na Wen*, Shuangshuang Li, Hongzhi Jiang, Jiachao Yang, Weibo Yang, Yunhao Song, Jinlin Long, Jiwu Zhao, Zhihui Lin, Xunbin Yu, Yen Wei, Shiyun Lu, Xueping Huang,* Tianhua Zhou, * Bio-inspired Self-Healing Hydrogel for Fast Hemostasis and Accelerated Wound Healing of Gastric Ulcers, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 10.1002/adfm.202411959.
(4) Liyang Qin, Chengdi Ma, Jian Zhang and Tianhua Zhou,* Structural Motifs in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202401562.
(5) 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, 34(19), 2313695. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202313695.
(6) Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Minyi Zhang, Xing-liang Chen, Bing Wang, Wen-Juan 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202311223.
(7) 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. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208625.
(8) 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. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202214142.
(9) 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.
(10) 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. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1801136.
(11) 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.
(12) 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.
(13) 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.
(14) 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.
Research Interests
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.