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2025

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Materials Science

D-Index
130
Citations
49930
World Ranking
344
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Zhen Zhou is affiliated with Zhengzhou University in China and specializes in engineering with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, automotive engineering, and biomedical engineering. Their research primarily addresses topics related to advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and MXene and MAX phase materials.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Towards practical lithium-metal anodes, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Machine learning: Accelerating materials development for energy storage and conversion, 2020, InfoMat
  • Frenkel-defected monolayer MoS2 catalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution, 2022, Nature Communications
  • What is the Real Origin of the Activity of Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts in the O2 Reduction Reaction? Critical Roles of Coordinating Pyrrolic N and Axially Adsorbing Species, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Atomic Fe-N4/C in Flexible Carbon Fiber Membrane as Binder-Free Air Cathode for Zn-Air Batteries with Stable Cycling over 1000 h, 2021, Advanced Materials

Zhen Zhou frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Xu Zhang
  • Zhaojun Xie
  • Letian Chen
  • Bin Tang
  • Menggai Jiao

Their publications appear most often in these venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Are MXenes Promising Anode Materials for Li Ion Batteries? Computational Studies on Electronic Properties and Li Storage Capability of Ti3C2 and Ti3C2X2 (X = F, OH) Monolayer

    Qing Tang;Zhen Zhou;Panwen Shen

  • MoS2 nanoribbons: high stability and unusual electronic and magnetic properties.

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Shengbai Zhang;Zhongfang Chen

  • Recent advances in MXene: Preparation, properties, and applications

    Jin-Cheng Lei;Xu Zhang;Zhen Zhou

  • Recent progress in high-voltage lithium ion batteries

    Meng Hu;Xiaoli Pang;Zhen Zhou

  • Graphene-analogous low-dimensional materials

    Qing Tang;Zhen Zhou

  • S‐Doped N‐Rich Carbon Nanosheets with Expanded Interlayer Distance as Anode Materials for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

    Jiqian Yang;Xianlong Zhou;Dihua Wu;Xudong Zhao

  • Graphene-related nanomaterials: tuning properties by functionalization

    Qing Tang;Zhen Zhou;Zhongfang Chen

  • MXene-based materials for electrochemical energy storage

    Xu Zhang;Zihe Zhang;Zhen Zhou

  • Metallic VS2 Monolayer: A Promising 2D Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Yu Jing;Yu Jing;Zhen Zhou;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • Towards practical lithium-metal anodes

    Xin Zhang;Xin Zhang;Yongan Yang;Zhen Zhou;Zhen Zhou

  • Li ion battery materials with core–shell nanostructures

    Liwei Su;Yu Jing;Zhen Zhou

  • Spin gapless semiconductor-metal-half-metal properties in nitrogen-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons.

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Panwen Shen;Zhongfang Chen

  • CO Catalytic Oxidation on Iron-Embedded Graphene: Computational Quest for Low-Cost Nanocatalysts

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Guangtao Yu;Wei Chen

  • Enhanced Li Adsorption and Diffusion on MoS2 Zigzag Nanoribbons by Edge Effects: A Computational Study.

    Yafei Li;Yafei Li;Dihua Wu;Zhen Zhou;Carlos R. Cabrera

  • Recent Breakthroughs in Supercapacitors Boosted by Nitrogen-Rich Porous Carbon Materials

    Mei Yang;Zhen Zhou

  • Atomic Interface Engineering and Electric-Field Effect in Ultrathin Bi 2 MoO 6 Nanosheets for Superior Lithium Ion Storage

    Yang Zheng;Tengfei Zhou;Xudong Zhao;Wei Kong Pang

  • Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and MOF-Derived Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

    Xu Zhang;An Chen;Ming Zhong;Zihe Zhang

  • A Fluorogenic Probe for the Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide−Alkyne Ligation Reaction: Modulation of the Fluorescence Emission via 3(n,π*)−1(π,π*) Inversion

    Zhen Zhou;Christoph J Fahrni

  • Metal–Organic Polymers Containing Discrete Single-Walled Nanotube as a Heterogeneous Catalyst for the Cycloaddition of Carbon Dioxide to Epoxides

    Zhen Zhou;Cheng He;Jinghai Xiu;Lu Yang

  • MnPSe 3 Monolayer: A Promising 2D Visible-Light Photohydrolytic Catalyst with High Carrier Mobility

    Xu Zhang;Xudong Zhao;Dihua Wu;Yu Jing

  • Core double-shell Si@SiO2@C nanocomposites as anode materials for Li-ion batteries

    Liwei Su;Zhen Zhou;Manman Ren

  • Fast Sodium Storage in TiO2@CNT@C Nanorods for High‐Performance Na‐Ion Capacitors

    Yuan-En Zhu;Leping Yang;Jian Sheng;Yanan Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongfang Chen
Zhongfang Chen University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Yafei Li
Yafei Li Nanjing Normal University
Qing Tang
Qing Tang Chongqing University
Yanan Chen
Yanan Chen Tianjin University
Xue-Ping Gao
Xue-Ping Gao Nankai University
Masahiko Morinaga
Masahiko Morinaga Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Jijun Zhao
Jijun Zhao Dalian University of Technology
Shengbai Zhang
Shengbai Zhang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xian-He Bu
Xian-He Bu Nankai University
Carlos R. Cabrera
Carlos R. Cabrera University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

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