Guoqiang Zhao, Researcher, obtained Ph.D. in 2019 from Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), University of Wollongong, Australia, and was selected for the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program in 2020. He focused on designing and synthesizing functional materials, as well as exploring the intrinsic relationship between the macroscopic characteristics and the atomic structures. He has published 15 papers as the first or communicating author in Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, etc., and two of them are ESI highly cited papers.

2014.07-2015.12 Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Assistant

2016.01-2016.07 Amperex Technology Limited R & D Engineer

2019.12-2021.09 University of Wollongong Associate Research Fellow

2020.10-2022.09 Zhejiang University Associate Researcher

2022.10-Present Engineering research center of nano geomaterials ministry of education, China University of Geosciences Researcher

2007.08-2011.07 Harbin Engineering University, Materials Science and Technology Bachelor

2011.09-2014.07 Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Materials Science and Technology Mater

2017.01-2019.12 University of Wollongong, Materials Science and Technology Ph.D.

1. Nanoclay-based energy materials

2. Nanoclay-based functional materials

3. Electrochemical devices

1. Controllable Synthesis of In-plane Confined Iridium Nanoclusters toward Long-term Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction，69th China Postdoc Science Foundation General Program - First class (2021M690132)，2020~2022

2. Preparation and Stability Investigation of Ruthenium Nanoclusters-Based Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction，14th China Postdoc Science Foundation Special Program (2021T140588)，2020~2022

3. Structure Design and Structure-Function Relation of Supported Ruthenium Nanocluster for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid Media, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ22B030005), 2022~2024

[1] Kehui Yuan, Chao Gao, Guoqiang Zhao*, Huaming Yang*. Electronic interaction between biochar and montmorillonite toward enhanced peroxymonosulfate activation. Appl. Clay Sci., 2024, 249: 107260.

[2] Guoqiang Zhao, Tianci Chen, Aidong Tang*, Huaming Yang*. Modulating Coal-Derived Carbon toward Electrocatalytic Generation of Hydroxyl Radicals for Organic Contaminant Removal. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 7227

[3] Guoqiang Zhao, Wei Guo, Minmin Shan, Yanyan Fang, Gongming Wang, Mingxia Gao, Yongfeng Liu, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun*. Metallic Ru‐Ru Interaction in Ruthenium Oxide Enabling Durable Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis. Adv. Mater. 2024, 2404213

[4] Zhouxin Luo+, Xiao Han+, Zhentao Ma+, Bingxing Zhang, Xusheng Zheng, Yongfeng Liu, Mingxia Gao, Guoqiang Zhao*, Yue Lin*, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun*, Unraveling the Unique Strong Metal‐Support Interaction in Titanium Dioxide Supported Platinum Clusters for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202406728

[5] Guoqiang Zhao, Peng Li, Ningyan Cheng, Shi Xue Dou, Wenping Sun*. An Ir/Ni(OH)2 Heterostructured Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: Breaking the Scaling Relation, Stabilizing Iridium(V), and Beyond. Adv. Mater. 2020, 2000872 

[6] Guoqiang Zhao#, Lixue Xia#, Peixin Cui, Yumin Qian, Yinzhu Jiang*, Yan Zhao*, Hongge Pan, Shi Xue Dou, and Wenping Sun* Atomic-Level Modulation of the Interface Chemistry of Platinum–Nickel Oxide toward Enhanced Hydrogen Electrocatalysis Kinetics. Nano Lett. 2021, 21(11), 4845–4852

[7] Guoqiang Zhao, Yinzhu Jiang, Shi-Xue Dou, Wenping Sun*, Hongge Pan*. Interface Engineering of Heterostructured Electrocatalysts towards Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Electrocatalysis. Sci. Bull. 2020, 66(1): 85-96

[8] Guoqiang Zhao, Kun Rui, Shi Xue Dou, Wenping Sun*. Heterostructures for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: A Review. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 1803291

[9] Guoqiang Zhao, Peng Li, Kun Rui, Yaping Chen, Shi Xue Dou, Wenping Sun*. CoSe2/MoSe2 Heterostructures with Enriched Water Adsorption/Dissociation Sites towards Enhanced Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 11158-11165

[10] Peng Li, Guoqiang Zhao*, Ningyan Cheng, Lixue Xia, Xiaoning Li, Yaping Chen, Mengmeng Lao, Zhenxiang Cheng, Yan Zhao, Xun Xu*, Yinzhu Jiang, Hongge Pan, Shi Xue Dou, Wenping Sun*. Toward enhanced alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis with transition metal-functionalized nitrogen-doped carbon supports. Chin. J. Catal. 2022, 43(5): 1351-1359

[1] Wenping Sun, Guoqiang Zhao, Hongge Pan; Preparation and application of a long-term noble-metal-oxide-based electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction. Application number:202210581869.4

[2] Wenping Sun, Guoqiang Zhao, Hongge Pan, Mingxia Gao, Yongfeng Liu; Preparation and application of a long-term supported electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction. Application number: 202210590228.5

Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis

International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program