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Overview

Qichun Zhang is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their publications span key subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Polymers and Plastics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their scholarly work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Qichun Zhang has published frequently in several scientific venues, reflecting the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of their work. Prominent publication venues include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Small
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Among their recent papers are:

  • Hydrated Eutectic Electrolytes with Ligand-Oriented Solvation Shells for Long-Cycling Zinc-Organic Batteries, 2020, Joule
  • Covalent-Organic Frameworks: Advanced Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Recent Progress on Two-Dimensional Materials, 2021, Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
  • Recent Progress in Metal-Free Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts, 2020, Small
  • Recent advances in vacancy engineering of metal-organic frameworks and their derivatives for electrocatalysis, 2021, SusMat

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Qichun Zhang has coauthored numerous papers with scholars including Fangyuan Kang, Cheng Zhang, Kuaibing Wang, Xiang Wang, and Qianfeng Gu. The extent of collaboration is evident, with dozens of joint publications in some cases.

Best Publications

  • Graphene-Based Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

    Xiao Huang;Zongyou Yin;Shixin Wu;Xiaoying Qi

  • Imparting functionality to a metal–organic framework material by controlled nanoparticle encapsulation

    Guang Lu;Shaozhou Li;Zhen Guo;Omar K. Farha

  • Preparation of novel 3D graphene networks for supercapacitor applications

    Xiehong Cao;Yumeng Shi;Wenhui Shi;Gang Lu

  • Strained endotaxial nanostructures with high thermoelectric figure of merit

    Kanishka Biswas;Jiaqing He;Qichun Zhang;Guoyu Wang

  • Electrochemical deposition of ZnO nanorods on transparent reduced graphene oxide electrodes for hybrid solar cells.

    Zongyou Yin;Shixin Wu;Xiaozhu Zhou;Xiao Huang

  • Hydrated Eutectic Electrolytes with Ligand-Oriented Solvation Shells for Long-Cycling Zinc-Organic Batteries

    Wuhai Yang;Wuhai Yang;Xiaofan Du;Jingwen Zhao;Zheng Chen

  • Covalent–Organic Frameworks: Advanced Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries

    Tao Sun;Jian Xie;Wei Guo;Dong-Sheng Li

  • A Robust Luminescent Tb(III)-MOF with Lewis Basic Pyridyl Sites for the Highly Sensitive Detection of Metal Ions and Small Molecules.

    Jun Zhao;Jun Zhao;Ye-Nan Wang;Wen-Wen Dong;Ya-Pan Wu

  • Recent progress in metal-organic frameworks-based hydrogels and aerogels and their applications

    Luyu Wang;Hui Xu;Junkuo Gao;Juming Yao

  • Reducing aggregation caused quenching effect through co-assembly of PAH chromophores and molecular barriers

    Yinjuan Huang;Jie Xing;Qiuyu Gong;Li-Chuan Chen

  • Surfactants as promising media in the field of metal-organic frameworks

    Jun Zhao;Xiang Liu;Yapan Wu;Dong-Sheng Li

  • Recent progress in metal-organic frameworks as active materials for supercapacitors

    Kuai-Bing Wang;Kuai-Bing Wang;Qun Xun;Qichun Zhang

  • Recent Progress on Two-Dimensional Materials

    Cheng Chang;Wei Chen;Ye Chen;Yonghua Chen

  • A p-type Ti(IV)-based metal–organic framework with visible-light photo-response

    Junkuo Gao;Jianwei Miao;Pei-Zhou Li;Wen Yuan Teng

  • Recent progress in non-fullerene small molecule acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs)

    Wangqiao Chen;Qichun Zhang

  • Recent Progress in Multivalent Metal (Mg, Zn, Ca, and Al) and Metal‐Ion Rechargeable Batteries with Organic Materials as Promising Electrodes

    Jian Xie;Qichun Zhang

  • Recent Progress in Metal‐Free Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts

    Yongfeng Zhi;Zongrui Wang;Hao-Li Zhang;Qichun Zhang;Qichun Zhang

  • Organic Cocrystals: Beyond Electrical Conductivities and Field-Effect Transistors (FETs).

    Yinjuan Huang;Zongrui Wang;Zhong Chen;Qichun Zhang

  • Lanthanide-doped NaxScF3+ x nanocrystals : crystal structure evolution and multicolor tuning

    Xue Teng;Yihan Zhu;Wei Wei;Shuchao Wang

  • Nanostructured Conjugated Polymers: Toward High-Performance Organic Electrodes for Rechargeable Batteries

    Jian Xie;Peiyang Gu;Qichun Zhang

  • Recent Advances on Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Detection of Small Molecules and Ions in Biosystems.

    Bin Gu;Qichun Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Junkuo Gao
Junkuo Gao Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Guankui Long
Guankui Long Nankai University
Yanli Zhao
Yanli Zhao Nanyang Technological University
Xiao Wei Sun
Xiao Wei Sun Southern University of Science and Technology
Pei-Zhou Li
Pei-Zhou Li Shandong University
Yongxin Li
Yongxin Li Nanyang Technological University
Qingyu Yan
Qingyu Yan Nanyang Technological University
Freddy Yin Chiang Boey
Freddy Yin Chiang Boey City University of Hong Kong
Wei Huang
Wei Huang Northwestern Polytechnical University

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