ZHANG, Liang

Homepage:http://lz.nano.suda.edu.cn

Research Experience：

Dr. Liang Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in application of synchrotron radiation from University of Science and Technology of China under the supervision of Prof. Junfa Zhu in 2013. He then got the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship and stayed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrück. From May of 2016, he worked at the Advanced Light Source of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Postdoc under the supervision of Dr. Jinghua Guo. He joined FUNSOM at Soochow University as a full professor since 2019.

Contact information：liangzhang2019@suda.edu.cn

Research area:(1) High-energy and high-power secondary batteries; (2) Nano materials for energy storage and catalysis; (3) Application of synchrotron radiation.

Research Accomplishment:

Dr. Liang Zhang has been working on the energy storage materials and synchrotron radiation, including (1) high-energy and high-power secondary batteries (Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, Li-S battereis, Na-S batteries); (2) application of in-situ/operando X-ray spectroscopy (XAS/XES/RIXS/XPS); and (3) the development of newin situ/operandosynchrotron radiation-based spectroscopy and microscopy methods and their applications in energy storage and conversion materials. He has published ~130 papers in the journals of Science, Nature Catalysis, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., CCS Chem., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, etc.

Selected awards:

• 2023Electronic Structure Emerging Leaders

• 2023Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators

• 2022Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators

• 2020Jinji Lake High-level Talents of Suzhou Industrial Park

• 2019Talents Introduction Plan for Innovation and Enterprise Foundation, Jiangsu Province

• 2019JPhysD Emerging Leaders Award

• 2014Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

• 2013Chinese Academic Society Presidential Scholarship

Selected publications:

1. Xiao Xia,⁺Tong Liu,⁺Chen Cheng, Hongtai Li, Tianran Yan, Haolv Hu, Yihao Shen, Huanxin Ju, Ting-Shan Chan, Zhenwei Wu, Yuefeng Su, Yu Zhao,* Duanyun Cao,* andLiang Zhang,* Suppressing the Dynamic Oxygen Evolution of Sodium Layered Cathodes through Synergistic Surface Dielectric Polarization and Bulk Site-Selective Co-Doping,Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2209556.

2. Hongtai Li,⁺Pei Shi,⁺Lei Wang, Tianran Yan, Tong Guo, Xiao Xia, Chi Chen, Jing Mao, Dan Sun, andLiang Zhang,* Cooperative Catalysis of Polysulfides in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries through Adsorption Competition by Tuning Cationic Geometric Configuration of Dual-active Sites in Spinel Oxides,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202216286.

3. Pan Zeng,⁺Hao Zhou,⁺Chen Cheng, Lei Wang, Cheng Yuan, Genlin Liu, Jing Mao, Ting-Shan Chan, Qingyuan Wang,*Liang Zhang,* In-Situ Non-Topotactic Reconstruction-Induced Synergistic Active Centers for Polysulfide Cascade Catalysis,Adv. Functional Mater., 2023, 33, 2214770.

4. Liyan Ding, Lei Wang, Jiechang Gao, Tianran Yan, Hongtai Li, Jing Mao, Fei Song, Stanislav Fedotov, Luo-Yueh Chang, Ning Li, Yuefeng Su,* Tiefeng Liu,*Liang Zhang,*Facile Zn2+ Desolvation Enabled by Local Coordination Engineering for Long-Cycling Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries,Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2301648.

5. Pan Zeng, Bin Su, Xiaolian Wang, Xiaoqin Li, Cheng Yuan, Genlin Liu, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Dongliang Chao,* Qingyuan Wang,*Liang Zhang,*In Situ Reconstruction of Electrocatalysts for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Progress and Prospects,Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2301743.

6. Chen Cheng, Chi Chen, Shiyong Chu, Tianran Yan, Haolv Hu, Xiao Xia, Xuefei Feng, Jinghua Guo, Dan Sun, Jinpeng Wu,* Shaohua Guo,* andLiang Zhang*, Enhancing the Reversibility of Lattice Oxygen Redox Through Modulated Transition Metal-Oxygen Covalency for Layered Battery Electrodes,Adv. Mater., 2022, 34, 2201152.

7. Cheng Yuan, Pan Zeng, Chen Cheng, Tianran Yan, Genlin Liu, Wenmin Wang,* Jun Hu, Xin Li, Junfa Zhu,Liang Zhang,* Boosting the Rate Performance of Li-S batteries via Trace Cobalt Nanoparticles Embedded into Nitrogen-Doped Hierarchical Porous Carbon,CCS Chem.,2022, 4, 2829.

8. Genlin Liu,⁺Wenmin Wang,⁺Pan Zeng, Cheng Yuan, Lei Wang, Hongtai Li, Hao Zhang, Xuhui Sun, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Xin Li,Liang Zhang,* Strengthenedd-pOrbital Hybridization through Asymmetric Coordination Engineering of Single-Atom Catalysts for Durable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries,Nano Lett., 2022, 22, 6366.

9. Hongtai Li, Chi Chen, Yingying Yan, Tianran Yan, Chen Cheng, Dan Sun*,Liang Zhang*, Utilizing the Built-in Electric Field of p-n Junction to Spatially Propel the Stepwise Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries,Adv. Mater.,2021, 33, 2105067.

10. Pan Zeng⁺, Cheng Liu⁺, Xiaofeng Zhao, Cheng Yuan, Yungui Chen,* Haiping Lin,* andLiang Zhang*, Enhanced Catalytic Conversion of Polysulfides Using Bimetallic Co₇Fe₃for High-performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries,ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 11558.