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Overview

Lin Gu is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing primarily in materials science and engineering. Their scholarly output includes a significant number of publications in leading journals and conferences with a research focus on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and sustainability-related fields.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in battery materials, and advanced photocatalysis techniques. Additional research interests include electronic and structural properties of oxides, catalytic processes in materials science, and innovative battery technologies.

Lin Gu's notable recent papers illustrate a focus on nanozyme catalysis, hydrogen evolution, and energy storage mechanisms. These include:

  • "Matching the kinetics of natural enzymes with a single-atom iron nanozyme," 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • "Single-Atom Vacancy Defect to Trigger High-Efficiency Hydrogen Evolution of MoS2," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host-guest strategy," 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • "Ultrahigh energy storage in superparaelectric relaxor ferroelectrics," 2021, Science
  • "Extra storage capacity in transition metal oxide lithium-ion batteries revealed by in situ magnetometry," 2020, Nature Materials

Lin Gu frequently collaborates with several scientists, including Qinghua Zhang, Fanqi Meng, Ting Lin, and Er-Jia Guo, among others.

Their research outputs are regularly published in prominent venues such as:

  • Advanced Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

The main fields of study for Lin Gu include Materials Science and Engineering, with major subfields comprising Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Best Publications

  • Photochemical route for synthesizing atomically dispersed palladium catalysts

    Pengxin Liu;Yun Zhao;Ruixuan Qin;Shiguang Mo

  • Understanding the High Activity of Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts in Oxygen Reduction: Fe/Fe3C Nanoparticles Boost the Activity of Fe-N(x).

    Wen-Jie Jiang;Lin Gu;Li Li;Yun Zhang;Yun Zhang

  • Smaller sulfur molecules promise better lithium-sulfur batteries.

    Sen Xin;Lin Gu;Na-Hong Zhao;Ya-Xia Yin

  • Enhanced strength and ductility in a high-entropy alloy via ordered oxygen complexes

    Zhifeng Lei;Xiongjun Liu;Yuan Wu;Hui Wang

  • Exploring atomic defects in molybdenum disulphide monolayers

    Jinhua Hong;Zhixin Hu;Matt Probert;Kun Li

  • Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

    Mufan Li;Zipeng Zhao;Tao Cheng;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Tuning element distribution, structure and properties by composition in high-entropy alloys.

    Qingqing Ding;Yin Zhang;Xiao Chen;Xiaoqian Fu

  • Metal–organic frameworks as selectivity regulators for hydrogenation reactions

    Meiting Zhao;Kuo Yuan;Kuo Yuan;Yun Wang;Guodong Li

  • Matching the kinetics of natural enzymes with a single-atom iron nanozyme

    Shufang Ji;Bing Jiang;Haigang Hao;Yuanjun Chen

  • Ultrahigh–energy density lead-free dielectric films via polymorphic nanodomain design

    Hao Pan;Fei Li;Fei Li;Yao Liu;Qinghua Zhang

  • High phase-purity 1T′-MoS 2 - and 1T′-MoSe 2 -layered crystals

    Yifu Yu;Yifu Yu;Gwang-Hyeon Nam;Qiyuan He;Xue-Jun Wu

  • An Electrolytic Zn-MnO 2 Battery for High-Voltage and Scalable Energy Storage

    Dongliang Chao;Wanhai Zhou;Chao Ye;Qinghua Zhang

  • Direct observation of noble metal nanoparticles transforming to thermally stable single atoms.

    Shengjie Wei;Ang Li;Jin-Cheng Liu;Zhi Li

  • Single-Atom Vacancy Defect to Trigger High-Efficiency Hydrogen Evolution of MoS2

    Xin Wang;Yuwei Zhang;Haonan Si;Qinghua Zhang

  • Cobalt carbide nanoprisms for direct production of lower olefins from syngas

    Liangshu Zhong;Fei Yu;Fei Yu;Yunlei An;Yunlei An;Yonghui Zhao

  • Cascade anchoring strategy for general mass production of high-loading single-atomic metal-nitrogen catalysts.

    Lu Zhao;Yun Zhang;Yun Zhang;Lin-Bo Huang;Xiao-Zhi Liu

  • Direct atomic-scale confirmation of three-phase storage mechanism in Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 anodes for room-temperature sodium-ion batteries

    Yang Sun;Liang Zhao;Huilin Pan;Xia Lu

  • Electric-field control of tri-state phase transformation with a selective dual-ion switch

    Nianpeng Lu;Pengfei Zhang;Qinghua Zhang;Ruimin Qiao

  • Atomically isolated nickel species anchored on graphitized carbon for efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis.

    Lili Fan;Peng Fei Liu;Xuecheng Yan;Lin Gu

  • Atomic-layered Au clusters on α-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperature water-gas shift reaction

    Siyu Yao;Xiao Zhang;Wu Zhou;Wu Zhou;Rui Gao

  • Direct Z-scheme g-C_3N_4/WO_3 photocatalyst with atomically defined junction for H_2 production

    Weilai Yu;Weilai Yu;Junxiang Chen;Tongtong Shang;Linfeng Chen

  • Rutile-TiO2 nanocoating for a high-rate Li4Ti5O12 anode of a lithium-ion battery.

    Yong Qing Wang;Lin Gu;Yu Guo Guo;Hong Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Qinghua Zhang
Qinghua Zhang Southwest Jiaotong University
Yue Gong
Yue Gong National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Zhenzhong Yang
Zhenzhong Yang Tsinghua University
Yan Yu
Yan Yu University of Science and Technology of China
Hong Li
Hong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ce-Wen Nan
Ce-Wen Nan Tsinghua University
Liquan Chen
Liquan Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong-Sheng Hu
Yong-Sheng Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Yadong Li
Yadong Li Tsinghua University

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