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2025

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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
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Overview

Lirong Zheng is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, with extensive contributions across the fields of engineering, energy, and materials science. Their scholarly work spans numerous subfields, including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, catalysis, and organic chemistry.

Their research is focused on topics such as electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, advanced photocatalysis techniques, advanced battery technologies, fuel cells and related materials, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, and nanomaterials for catalytic reactions.

Among Lirong Zheng's notable recent papers are:

  • Engineering unsymmetrically coordinated Cu-S1N3 single atom sites with enhanced oxygen reduction activity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host-guest strategy, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Electrocatalytic upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate to commodity chemicals and H2 fuel, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Regulating Photocatalysis by Spin-State Manipulation of Cobalt in Covalent Organic Frameworks, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Zheng's frequent co-authors include:

  • Wenling Gu
  • Chengzhou Zhu
  • Dingsheng Wang
  • Lin Gu
  • Buxing Han

The most common publication venues for Zheng's work are:

  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Homogeneously dispersed, multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

    Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xueli Zheng;Xueli Zheng;Oleksandr Voznyy;Riccardo Comin

  • Single Cobalt Atoms with Precise N-Coordination as Superior Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

    Peiqun Yin;Tao Yao;Yuen Wu;Yuen Wu;Lirong Zheng

  • Isolated Single Iron Atoms Anchored on N-Doped Porous Carbon as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Yuanjun Chen;Shufang Ji;Yanggang Wang;Juncai Dong

  • Fe–N–C electrocatalyst with dense active sites and efficient mass transport for high-performance proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    Xin Wan;Xiaofang Liu;Yongcheng Li;Ronghai Yu

  • Design of Single-Atom Co–N5 Catalytic Site: A Robust Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction with Nearly 100% CO Selectivity and Remarkable Stability

    Yuan Pan;Rui Lin;Yinjuan Chen;Yinjuan Chen;Shoujie Liu;Shoujie Liu

  • Ag/ZnO heterostructure nanocrystals: synthesis, characterization, and photocatalysis.

    Yuanhui Zheng;Lirong Zheng;Yingying Zhan;Xingyi Lin

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

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

  • Defect Effects on TiO2 Nanosheets: Stabilizing Single Atomic Site Au and Promoting Catalytic Properties.

    Jiawei Wan;Wenxing Chen;Chuanyi Jia;Lirong Zheng

  • Functionalized Nano-MoS2 with Peroxidase Catalytic and Near-Infrared Photothermal Activities for Safe and Synergetic Wound Antibacterial Applications

    Wenyan Yin;Jie Yu;Fengting Lv;Liang Yan

  • Enhanced oxygen reduction with single-atomic-site iron catalysts for a zinc-air battery and hydrogen-air fuel cell

    Yuanjun Chen;Shufang Ji;Shu Zhao;Wenxing Chen

  • A Voltage-Boosting Strategy Enabling a Low-Frequency, Flexible Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Device.

    Hualiang Lv;Hualiang Lv;Zhihong Yang;Paul Luyuan Wang;Guangbin Ji

  • Engineering unsymmetrically coordinated Cu-S 1 N 3 single atom sites with enhanced oxygen reduction activity

    Huishan Shang;Xiangyi Zhou;Juncai Dong;Ang Li

  • A Single-Atom Nanozyme for Wound Disinfection Applications

    Bolong Xu;Hui Wang;Weiwei Wang;Lizeng Gao

  • Copper atom-pair catalyst anchored on alloy nanowires for selective and efficient electrochemical reduction of CO 2

    Jiqing Jiao;Jiqing Jiao;Rui Lin;Shoujie Liu;Weng Chon Cheong

  • High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics

    Bo Zhang;Lie Wang;Zhen Cao;Sergey M. Kozlov

  • Bismuth Single Atoms Resulting from Transformation of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Use as Electrocatalysts for CO 2 Reduction

    Erhuan Zhang;Tao Wang;Ke Yu;Jia Liu

  • MXene (Ti3C2) Vacancy-Confined Single-Atom Catalyst for Efficient Functionalization of CO2

    Di Zhao;Zheng Chen;Wenjuan Yang;Shoujie Liu;Shoujie Liu

  • Layered‐Double‐Hydroxide Nanosheets as Efficient Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalysts for Dinitrogen Fixation

    Yufei Zhao;Yunxuan Zhao;Yunxuan Zhao;Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse;Lirong Zheng

  • Active Site Dependent Reaction Mechanism over Ru/CeO2 Catalyst toward CO2 Methanation

    Fei Wang;Shan He;Hao Chen;Bin Wang

  • Doping-Enhanced Short-Range Order of Perovskite Nanocrystals for Near-Unity Violet Luminescence Quantum Yield

    Zi-Jun Yong;Shao-Qiang Guo;Ju-Ping Ma;Jun-Ying Zhang

  • Fe Isolated Single Atoms on S, N Codoped Carbon by Copolymer Pyrolysis Strategy for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Qiheng Li;Wenxing Chen;Hai Xiao;Yue Gong

  • Hollow N-Doped Carbon Spheres with Isolated Cobalt Single Atomic Sites: Superior Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction.

    Yunhu Han;Yang-Gang Wang;Wenxing Chen;Ruirui Xu

  • Uncoordinated Amine Groups of Metal–Organic Frameworks to Anchor Single Ru Sites as Chemoselective Catalysts toward the Hydrogenation of Quinoline

    Xin Wang;Wenxing Chen;Lei Zhang;Tao Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadong Li
Yadong Li Tsinghua University
Dingsheng Wang
Dingsheng Wang Tsinghua University
Wenxing Chen
Wenxing Chen Beijing Institute of Technology
Buxing Han
Buxing Han Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qing Peng
Qing Peng Tsinghua University
Lin Gu
Lin Gu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xingang Li
Xingang Li Tianjin University
Juncai Dong
Juncai Dong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhifang Chai
Zhifang Chai Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen Chen
Chen Chen Xi'an Jiaotong University

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