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Overview

Zhenhui Kang is a researcher affiliated with Soochow University in China with a focus on materials science and energy. Their research output spans multiple subfields including materials chemistry, renewable energy and sustainability, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and catalysis.

Their work covers a range of specialized topics including advanced photocatalysis techniques, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and carbon and quantum dots applications. Other areas of focus include advanced battery technologies research, catalytic processes in materials science, nanocluster synthesis and applications, and covalent organic framework applications.

They have published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Nano Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Advances in carbon dots: from the perspective of traditional quantum dots" (2020) in Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Pt-O bond as an active site superior to Pt0 in hydrogen evolution reaction" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Light-Induced Variation of Lithium Coordination Environment in g-C3N4 Nanosheet for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reactions" (2024) in ACS Nano
  • "Crystallized RuTe2 as unexpected bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting" (2020) in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • "Stable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide" (2023) in Nature Communications

Kang frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Yang Liu
  • Hui Huang
  • Mingwang Shao
  • Fan Liao
  • Yu Zhao

Their extensive publication record reflects a sustained contribution to key areas within materials science and energy research. The research themes include photocatalysis, electrocatalyst development, and nanomaterial applications, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach intersecting chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Metal-free efficient photocatalyst for stable visible water splitting via a two-electron pathway

    Juan Liu;Yang Liu;Naiyun Liu;Yuzhi Han

  • Carbon nanodots: synthesis, properties and applications

    Haitao Li;Zhenhui Kang;Yang Liu;Shuit-Tong Lee

  • Water‐Soluble Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and Photocatalyst Design

    Haitao Li;Xiaodie He;Zhenhui Kang;Zhenhui Kang;Hui Huang

  • One-step ultrasonic synthesis of water-soluble carbon nanoparticles with excellent photoluminescent properties

    Haitao Li;Xiaodie He;Yang Liu;Hui-Hui Huang

  • Large scale electrochemical synthesis of high quality carbon nanodots and their photocatalytic property

    Hai Ming;Zheng Ma;Yang Liu;Keming Pan

  • Carbon quantum dots/Ag3PO4 complex photocatalysts with enhanced photocatalytic activity and stability under visible light

    Hengchao Zhang;Hui Huang;Hai Ming;Haitao Li

  • In vivo NIR fluorescence imaging, biodistribution, and toxicology of photoluminescent carbon dots produced from carbon nanotubes and graphite.

    Huiquan Tao;Kai Yang;Zhen Ma;Jianmei Wan

  • Highly efficient hydrogen evolution from seawater by a low-cost and stable CoMoP@C electrocatalyst superior to Pt/C

    Yuan-Yuan Ma;Cai-Xia Wu;Xiao-Jia Feng;Hua-Qiao Tan

  • One-step ultrasonic synthesis of fluorescent N-doped carbon dots from glucose and their visible-light sensitive photocatalytic ability

    Zheng Ma;Hai Ming;Hui Huang;Yang Liu

  • Large-scale fabrication of heavy doped carbon quantum dots with tunable-photoluminescence and sensitive fluorescence detection

    Siwei Yang;Jing Sun;Xiubing Li;Wei Zhou

  • Carbon Quantum Dot/NiFe Layered Double-Hydroxide Composite as a Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation

    Di Tang;Juan Liu;Xuanyu Wu;Ruihua Liu

  • C3N—A 2D Crystalline, Hole-Free, Tunable-Narrow-Bandgap Semiconductor with Ferromagnetic Properties

    Siwei Yang;Wei Li;Wei Li;Caichao Ye;Gang Wang

  • Carbon quantum dots/Cu2O composites with protruding nanostructures and their highly efficient (near) infrared photocatalytic behavior

    Haitao Li;Ruihua Liu;Yang Liu;Hui Huang

  • Carbon dots: advances in nanocarbon applications

    Zhenhui Kang;Shuit-Tong Lee

  • Fe2O3/carbon quantum dots complex photocatalysts and their enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light

    Hengchao Zhang;Hai Ming;Suoyuan Lian;Hui Huang

  • Carbon dots as solid-state electron mediator for BiVO4/CDs/CdS Z-scheme photocatalyst working under visible light

    Xiuqin Wu;Juan Zhao;Liping Wang;Mumei Han

  • Degradable Carbon Dots with Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Activity

    Hao Li;Jian Huang;Yuxiang Song;Mengling Zhang

  • Advances in carbon dots: from the perspective of traditional quantum dots

    Yanhong Liu;Hui Huang;Weijing Cao;Baodong Mao

  • Metal Nanoparticle/Carbon Quantum Dot Composite as a Photocatalyst for High-Efficiency Cyclohexane Oxidation

    Ruihua Liu;Hui Huang;Haitao Li;Yang Liu

  • Graphitic carbon quantum dots as a fluorescent sensing platform for highly efficient detection of Fe3+ ions

    Yong-Lai Zhang;Yong-Lai Zhang;Lei Wang;Heng-Chao Zhang;Yang Liu

  • Near-infrared light controlled photocatalytic activity of carbon quantum dots for highly selective oxidation reaction

    Haitao Li;Ruihua Liu;Suoyuan Lian;Suoyuan Lian;Yang Liu

  • Carbon quantum dot sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation under visible light

    Xing Zhang;Fang Wang;Hui Huang;Haitao Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Huang
Hui Huang Soochow University
Shuit-Tong Lee
Shuit-Tong Lee Macau University of Science and Technology
Enbo Wang
Enbo Wang Northeast Normal University
Lin Xu
Lin Xu Jilin University
Baodong Mao
Baodong Mao Jiangsu University
Mingwang Shao
Mingwang Shao Soochow University
Yeshayahu Lifshitz
Yeshayahu Lifshitz Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Siwei Yang
Siwei Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guqiao Ding
Guqiao Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhong-Min Su
Zhong-Min Su Northeast Normal University

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