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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For groundbreaking work on low-dimensional ice and clathrate gas hydrates, structures of ligand-covered gold clusters, catalysis with surface-supported gold and metal clusters and computational design of low-dimensional materials.
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Xiao Cheng Zeng is affiliated with the City University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans materials science and engineering, with a focus on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. They have contributed significantly to the fields of renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, atmospheric science, and biomedical engineering.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Xiao Cheng Zeng has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include Joseph S. Francisco, Jian Jiang, Zonglong Zhu, Xiongyi Liang, and Yuan Liu, with collaboration counts ranging from 14 to 39 publications for each coauthor.

Among recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Xiao Cheng Zeng are:

  • "A droplet-based electricity generator with high instantaneous power density" (2020, Nature)
  • "Atomic imaging of the edge structure and growth of a two-dimensional hexagonal ice" (2020, Nature)
  • "Resolving the puzzle of single-atom silver dispersion on nanosized γ-Al2O3 surface for high catalytic performance" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Factors influencing carbon emissions from China's electricity industry: Analysis using the combination of LMDI and K-means clustering" (2021, Environmental Impact Assessment Review)
  • "Revisiting the universal principle for the rational design of single-atom electrocatalysts" (2024, Nature Catalysis)

Over the course of their career, Xiao Cheng Zeng has received several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2019) for work related to low-dimensional ice, clathrate gas hydrates, ligand-covered gold clusters, catalysis with surface-supported gold and metal clusters, and computational design of low-dimensional materials
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004

Best Publications

  • Defect passivation in hybrid perovskite solar cells using quaternary ammonium halide anions and cations

    Xiaopeng Zheng;Bo Chen;Jun Dai;Yanjun Fang

  • A universal principle for a rational design of single-atom electrocatalysts

    Haoxiang Xu;Daojian Cheng;Dapeng Cao;Xiao Cheng Zeng;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • A droplet-based electricity generator with high instantaneous power density

    Wanghuai Xu;Wanghuai Xu;Huanxi Zheng;Yuan Liu;Xiaofeng Zhou

  • Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes.

    Kenichiro Koga;G. T. Gao;G. T. Gao;Hideki Tanaka;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Bilayer Phosphorene: Effect of Stacking Order on Bandgap and Its Potential Applications in Thin-Film Solar Cells

    Jun Dai;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Two-Dimensional Boron Monolayer Sheets

    Xiaojun Wu;Jun Dai;Yu Zhao;Zhiwen Zhuo

  • Highly stable and efficient all-inorganic lead-free perovskite solar cells with native-oxide passivation.

    Min Chen;Ming Gang Ju;Hector F. Garces;Alexander D. Carl

  • Tailoring Passivation Molecular Structures for Extremely Small Open-Circuit Voltage Loss in Perovskite Solar Cells

    Shuang Yang;Jun Dai;Zhenhua Yu;Yuchuan Shao

  • High-gain and low-driving-voltage photodetectors based on organolead triiodide perovskites.

    Rui Dong;Yanjun Fang;Jungseok Chae;Jungseok Chae;Jun Dai

  • Phosphorene Nanoribbons, Phosphorus Nanotubes, and van der Waals Multilayers

    Hongyan Guo;Hongyan Guo;Ning Lu;Ning Lu;Jun Dai;Xiaojun Wu

  • Phosphorene nanoribbons, nanotubes and van der Waals multilayers

    Hongyan Guo;Ning Lu;Jun Dai;Xiaojun Wu

  • Simultaneously Dual Modification of Ni-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode for High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Huiping Yang;Hong Hui Wu;Mingyuan Ge;Lingjun Li

  • π-Conjugated Lewis Base: Efficient Trap-Passivation and Charge-Extraction for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

    Yuze Lin;Liang Shen;Jun Dai;Yehao Deng

  • Intrinsic Ferroelasticity and/or Multiferroicity in Two-Dimensional Phosphorene and Phosphorene Analogues.

    Menghao Wu;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Planar-to-tubular structural transition in boron clusters: B20 as the embryo of single-walled boron nanotubes.

    Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Satya S. Bulusu;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Soohaeng Yoo

  • Cesium Titanium(IV) Bromide Thin Films Based Stable Lead-free Perovskite Solar Cells

    Min Chen;Ming Gang Ju;Alexander D. Carl;Yingxia Zong

  • Coexistence and transition between Cassie and Wenzel state on pillared hydrophobic surface

    Takahiro Koishi;Kenji Yasuoka;Shigenori Fujikawa;Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

  • Strain-dependent electronic and magnetic properties of MoS2 monolayer, bilayer, nanoribbons and nanotubes.

    Peng Lu;Peng Lu;Xiaojun Wu;Wanlin Guo;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Nanosheet Supported Single-Metal Atom Bifunctional Catalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Chongyi Ling;Li Shi;Yixin Ouyang;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Markedly Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Activity of Single-Atom Fe Catalysts via Integration with Fe Nanoclusters

    Xiang Ao;Xiang Ao;Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Zhishan Li;Jian-Gang Li

  • Evidence of hollow golden cages

    Satya S. Bulusu;Xi Li;Lai-Sheng Wang;Xiao Cheng Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Gao
Yi Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun Dai
Jun Dai University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Xiaojun Wu
Xiaojun Wu University of Science and Technology of China
Lai-Sheng Wang
Lai-Sheng Wang Brown University
Hui Li
Hui Li Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Jinlong Yang
Jinlong Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Bing Gong
Bing Gong University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Yong Pei
Yong Pei Xiangtan University
Menghao Wu
Menghao Wu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Kenji Yasuoka
Kenji Yasuoka Keio University

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