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Overview

Wei Zhou is affiliated with Nanjing Tech University in China and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their work spans several major subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and catalysis.

The main topics of Wei Zhou's research focus on electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in solid oxide fuel cells, advanced battery technologies research, fuel cells and related materials, perovskite materials and applications, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Recent publications by Wei Zhou demonstrate involvement in high-impact research venues, with some of the most cited papers including:

  • Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Thermal-expansion offset for high-performance fuel cell cathodes (2021, Nature)
  • Electrochemical Water Splitting: Bridging the Gaps Between Fundamental Research and Industrial Applications (2022, Energy & Environment Materials)
  • Hydrogen spillover in complex oxide multifunctional sites improves acidic hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Designing High-Valence Metal Sites for Electrochemical Water Splitting (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)

Wei Zhou collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field. Their frequent co-authors include Zongping Shao, Ran Ran, Wei Wang, Guangming Yang, and Daqin Guan.

The researcher's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Small
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Nanotube Networks in Polymer Nanocomposites: Rheology and Electrical Conductivity

    Fangming Du;Robert C. Scogna;Wei Zhou;Stijn Brand

  • Evaluation of microstructural effects on corrosion behaviour of AZ91D magnesium alloy

    Rajan Ambat;Naing Naing Aung;W Zhou

  • Nanoporous carbide derived carbon with tunable pore size

    Yury Gogotsi;Michael W. Barsoum

  • Enhancing Electrocatalytic Activity of Perovskite Oxides by Tuning Cation Deficiency for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions

    Yinlong Zhu;Wei Zhou;Jie Yu;Yubo Chen

  • Recent Progress in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Applications in Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Water Splitting.

    Wei Wang;Xiaomin Xu;Wei Zhou;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • Recent advances and prospective in ruthenium-based materials for electrochemical water splitting

    Jie Yu;Qijiao He;Guangming Yang;Wei Zhou

  • Exploration of porous metal–organic frameworks for gas separation and purification

    Rui Biao Lin;Shengchang Xiang;Huabin Xing;Wei Zhou

  • Surface Tuning for Oxide-Based Nanomaterials as Efficient Photocatalysts

    Liqiang Jing;Wei Zhou;Guohui Tian;Honggang Fu

  • Well-Ordered Large-Pore Mesoporous Anatase TiO2 with Remarkably High Thermal Stability and Improved Crystallinity: Preparation, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Performance

    Wei Zhou;Fanfei Sun;Kai Pan;Guohui Tian

  • Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation.

    Yangli Pan;Yangli Pan;Xiaomin Xu;Yijun Zhong;Lei Ge

  • Facile solvothermal synthesis of hierarchical flower-like Bi2MoO6 hollow spheres as high performance visible-light driven photocatalysts

    Guohui Tian;Yajie Chen;Wei Zhou;Kai Pan

  • Integrated digital inverters based on two-dimensional anisotropic ReS2 field-effect transistors.

    Erfu Liu;Yajun Fu;Yaojia Wang;Yanqing Feng

  • True solutions of single-walled carbon nanotubes for assembly into macroscopic materials

    Virginia A. Davis;A. Nicholas G. Parra-Vasquez;Micah J. Green;Micah J. Green;Pradeep K. Rai

  • Thermal-expansion offset for high-performance fuel cell cathodes

    Yuan Zhang;Bin Chen;Bin Chen;Daqin Guan;Meigui Xu

  • Progress in understanding and development of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ-based cathodes for intermediate-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells: A review

    Wei Zhou;Ran Ran;Zongping Shao

  • Advanced synthesis of materials for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

    Zongping Shao;Wei Zhou;Zhonghua Zhu

  • A Perovskite Electrocatalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

    Xiaomin Xu;Yubo Chen;Wei Zhou;Zhonghua Zhu

  • A Perovskite Nanorod as Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Yinlong Zhu;Wei Zhou;Yijun Zhong;Yunfei Bu

  • Stable Hierarchical Bimetal-Organic Nanostructures as HighPerformance Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Wei Zhou;Dan-Dan Huang;Ya-Pan Wu;Jun Zhao

  • Self-Assembled Triple-Conducting Nanocomposite as a Superior Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell Cathode

    Yufei Song;Yubo Chen;Wei Wang;Chuan Zhou

  • SrNb0.1Co0.7Fe0.2O3-δ perovskite as a next-generation electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution in alkaline solution

    Yinlong Zhu;Wei Zhou;Zhi Gang Chen;Yubo Chen

  • Advances in non-enzymatic glucose sensors based on metal oxides.

    Hua Zhu;Li Li;Wei Zhou;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • A metal-organic framework with optimized open metal sites and pore spaces for high methane storage at room termerature

    Banglin Chen;Zhiyong Guo

  • Perovskite oxides applications in high temperature oxygen separation, solid oxide fuel cell and membrane reactor: A review

    Jaka Sunarso;Siti Salwa Hashim;Na Zhu;Wei Zhou

  • Recent Progress on Advanced Materials for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells Operating Below 500 °C.

    Yuan Zhang;Ruth Knibbe;Jaka Sunarso;Yijun Zhong

  • Perovskite Oxide Based Electrodes for High-Performance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.

    Wei Wang;Meigui Xu;Xiaomin Xu;Wei Zhou

  • Interfacial polymerization of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) on polymeric substrates for molecular separations

    Rui Wang;Xiansong Shi;Ankang Xiao;Wei Zhou

  • Recent Advances in Novel Nanostructuring Methods of Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Energy-Related Applications

    Xiaomin Xu;Wei Wang;Wei Zhou;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • Designing High‐Valence Metal Sites for Electrochemical Water Splitting

    Hainan Sun;Hainan Sun;Xiaomin Xu;Yufei Song;Wei Zhou

  • Perovskite/Carbon Composites: Applications in Oxygen Electrocatalysis

    Yinlong Zhu;Wei Zhou;Zongping Shao;Zongping Shao

  • An Amorphous Nickel–Iron-Based Electrocatalyst with Unusual Local Structures for Ultrafast Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Gao Chen;Yanping Zhu;Hao Ming Chen;Zhiwei Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zongping Shao
Zongping Shao Curtin University
Zhonghua Zhu
Zhonghua Zhu University of Queensland
Yijun Zhong
Yijun Zhong Curtin University
Jaka Sunarso
Jaka Sunarso Swinburne University of Technology
Yinlong Zhu
Yinlong Zhu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Ran Ran
Ran Ran Nanjing Tech University
Meilin Liu
Meilin Liu Georgia Institute of Technology
Lei Ge
Lei Ge University of Southern Queensland
Shaobin Wang
Shaobin Wang University of Adelaide
Feng Miao
Feng Miao Nanjing University

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