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Nan Zhang is affiliated with Hunan University in China and specializes in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of Nan Zhang's research work cover advanced photocatalysis techniques, MXene and MAX phase materials, 2D materials and their applications, catalytic processes in materials science, copper-based nanomaterials and their applications, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, as well as ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials.

Nan Zhang has contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • Metal-Organic Framework Membranes Encapsulating Gold Nanoparticles for Direct Plasmonic Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Positioning MXenes in the Photocatalysis Landscape: Competitiveness, Challenges, and Future Perspectives (2020), Advanced Functional Materials
  • Uncovering the Promotion of CeO2/CoS1.97 Heterostructure with Specific Spatial Architectures on Oxygen Evolution Reaction (2021), Advanced Materials
  • Flexible MXene-coated melamine foam based phase change material composites for integrated solar-thermal energy conversion/storage, shape memory and thermal therapy functions (2021), Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing
  • Artificial nitrogen fixation over bismuth-based photocatalysts: fundamentals and future perspectives (2020), Journal of Materials Chemistry A

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Nan Zhang are:

  • Xiuqiang Xie
  • Zhenjun Wu
  • Guanshun Xie
  • Guohao Li
  • Yong Wang

Nan Zhang frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Electrocatalysis for the oxygen evolution reaction: recent development and future perspectives

    Nian Tzu Suen;Sung Fu Hung;Quan Quan;Nan Zhang

  • Defective TiO2 with oxygen vacancies: synthesis, properties and photocatalytic applications

    Xiaoyang Pan;Min-Quan Yang;Xianzhi Fu;Nan Zhang

  • Biaxially strained PtPb/Pt core/shell nanoplate boosts oxygen reduction catalysis

    Lingzheng Bu;Nan Zhang;Shaojun Guo;Xu Zhang

  • Recent progress on graphene-based photocatalysts: current status and future perspectives

    Nan Zhang;Yanhui Zhang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Waltzing with the Versatile Platform of Graphene to Synthesize Composite Photocatalysts.

    Nan Zhang;Min-Quan Yang;Siqi Liu;Yugang Sun

  • Graphene Transforms Wide Band Gap ZnS to a Visible Light Photocatalyst. The New Role of Graphene as a Macromolecular Photosensitizer

    Yanhui Zhang;Nan Zhang;Zi-Rong Tang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Synthesis of M@TiO2 (M = Au, Pd, Pt) Core–Shell Nanocomposites with Tunable Photoreactivity

    Nan Zhang;Siqi Liu;Xianzhi Fu;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Recent advances in dye-sensitized solar cells: from photoanodes, sensitizers and electrolytes to counter electrodes

    Meidan Ye;Xiaoru Wen;Mengye Wang;Mengye Wang;James Iocozzia

  • The origin of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution crystals

    Fei Li;Fei Li;Shujun Zhang;Shujun Zhang;Tiannan Yang;Zhuo Xu

  • Transparent ferroelectric crystals with ultrahigh piezoelectricity

    Chaorui Qiu;Bo Wang;Nan Zhang;Shujun Zhang;Shujun Zhang

  • Artificial photosynthesis over graphene–semiconductor composites. Are we getting better?

    Min-Quan Yang;Nan Zhang;Mario Pagliaro;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Recent progress on metal core@semiconductor shell nanocomposites as a promising type of photocatalyst

    Nan Zhang;Siqi Liu;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Nanochemistry-derived Bi2WO6 nanostructures: towards production of sustainable chemicals and fuels induced by visible light

    Nan Zhang;Rosaria Ciriminna;Mario Pagliaro;Yi-Jun Xu

  • One-dimensional CdS@MoS2 core-shell nanowires for boosted photocatalytic hydrogen evolution under visible light

    Bin Han;Siqi Liu;Nan Zhang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Assembly of CdS Nanoparticles on the Two-Dimensional Graphene Scaffold as Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalyst for Selective Organic Transformation under Ambient Conditions

    Nan Zhang;Yanhui Zhang;Xiaoyang Pan;Xianzhi Fu

  • Synthesis of One-Dimensional CdS@TiO2 Core–Shell Nanocomposites Photocatalyst for Selective Redox: The Dual Role of TiO2 Shell

    Siqi Liu;Nan Zhang;Zi-Rong Tang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Synthesis of graphene–ZnO nanorod nanocomposites with improved photoactivity and anti-photocorrosion

    Zhang Chen;Nan Zhang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Identification of Bi2WO6 as a highly selective visible-light photocatalyst toward oxidation of glycerol to dihydroxyacetone in water

    Yanhui Zhang;Nan Zhang;Zi-Rong Tang;Yi-Jun Xu

  • Microstructure and surface control of MXene films for water purification

    Xiuqiang Xie;Chi Chen;Nan Zhang;Zi-Rong Tang

  • Hierarchically CdS Decorated 1D ZnO Nanorods‐2D Graphene Hybrids: Low Temperature Synthesis and Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance

    Chuang Han;Zhang Chen;Nan Zhang;Juan Carlos Colmenares

  • Improving the photocatalytic performance of graphene–TiO2 nanocomposites via a combined strategy of decreasing defects of graphene and increasing interfacial contact

    Yanhui Zhang;Nan Zhang;Zi-Rong Tang;Yi-Jun Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi-Jun Xu
Yi-Jun Xu Fuzhou University
Zi-Rong Tang
Zi-Rong Tang Fuzhou University
Xiuqiang Xie
Xiuqiang Xie Hunan University
Xianzhi Fu
Xianzhi Fu Fuzhou University
Rosaria Ciriminna
Rosaria Ciriminna National Research Council (CNR)
Yugang Sun
Yugang Sun Temple University
Mario Pagliaro
Mario Pagliaro National Research Council (CNR)
Hao Ming Chen
Hao Ming Chen National Taiwan University
Jianjun Jiang
Jianjun Jiang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Zhongfang Chen
Zhongfang Chen University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

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