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Zhi-Yi Hu is affiliated with Wuhan University of Technology in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, notable among which are advancements in battery materials, advanced photocatalysis techniques, advanced battery materials and technologies, copper-based nanomaterials and their applications, quantum dots synthesis and properties, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and zeolite catalysis and synthesis.

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Bao-Lian Su, Yu Li, Lihua Chen, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, and Minghui Sun.

Zhi-Yi Hu's research has appeared in prominent publication venues, with multiple articles in the following journals and platforms:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Significant recent publications illustrating the scope of their research include:

  • "Cobalt single atom site isolated Pt nanoparticles for efficient ORR and HER in acid media" (2021), published in Nano Energy
  • "Ultralow Ru Loading Transition Metal Phosphides as High-Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for a Solar-to-Hydrogen Generation System" (2020), published in Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Mesoporous Pt@Pt-skin Pt3Ni core-shell framework nanowire electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "n-p Heterojunction of TiO2-NiO core-shell structure for efficient hydrogen generation and lignin photoreforming" (2020), published in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • "Hierarchical Zeolite Single-Crystal Reactor for Excellent Catalytic Efficiency" (2020), published in Matter

Best Publications

  • Cobalt single atom site isolated Pt nanoparticles for efficient ORR and HER in acid media

    Lvhan Liang;Huihui Jin;Huang Zhou;Bingshuai Liu

  • A universal synthesis strategy for single atom dispersed cobalt/metal clusters heterostructure boosting hydrogen evolution catalysis at all pH values

    Shuai Yuan;Zonghua Pu;Huang Zhou;Jun Yu

  • Ultralow Ru Loading Transition Metal Phosphides as High‐Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for a Solar‐to‐Hydrogen Generation System

    Ding Chen;Zonghua Pu;Ruihu Lu;Pengxia Ji

  • Mesoporous Pt@Pt-skin Pt3Ni core-shell framework nanowire electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction

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  • Tailoring CuO nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic property.

    Jing Liu;Jun Jin;Zhao Deng;Shao-Zhuan Huang

  • Novel 3DOM BiVO4/TiO2 nanocomposites for highly enhanced photocatalytic activity

    Meriam Zalfani;Meriam Zalfani;Benoit Van Der Schueren;Zhi Yi Hu;Joanna C. Rooke

  • Blue-edge slow photons promoting visible-light hydrogen production on gradient ternary 3DOM TiO2-Au-CdS photonic crystals

    Heng Zhao;Zhiyi Hu;Jing Liu;Yu Li

  • Ag2O nanoparticles decorated TiO2 nanofibers as a p-n heterojunction for enhanced photocatalytic decomposition of RhB under visible light irradiation

    Guo Liu;Guohong Wang;Zhihui Hu;Yaorong Su

  • Nano-single crystal coalesced PtCu nanospheres as robust bifunctional catalyst for hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

    Wenqiang Li;Zhi-Yi Hu;Zhiwei Zhang;Ping Wei

  • BiVO4/3DOM TiO2 nanocomposites: Effect of BiVO4 as highly efficient visible light sensitizer for highly improved visible light photocatalytic activity in the degradation of dye pollutants

    Meryam Zalfani;Meryam Zalfani;Meryam Zalfani;Zhi Yi Hu;Wen Bei Yu;Mounira Mahdouani

  • 2D ZnO mesoporous single-crystal nanosheets with exposed {0001} polar facets for the depollution of cationic dye molecules by highly selective adsorption and photocatalytic decomposition

    Jing Liu;Zhi Yi Hu;Yao Peng;Hua Wen Huang

  • 3D Ferroconcrete-Like Aminated Carbon Nanotubes Network Anchoring Sulfur for Advanced Lithium–Sulfur Battery

    Min Yan;Hao Chen;Yong Yu;Heng Zhao

  • PtO nanodots promoting Ti3C2 MXene in-situ converted Ti3C2/TiO2 composites for photocatalytic hydrogen production

    Jiu Xiang Yang;Wen Bei Yu;Chao Fan Li;Wen Da Dong

  • Oxygen-deficient titanium dioxide as a functional host for lithium–sulfur batteries

    Hong-En Wang;Kaili Yin;Ning Qin;Xu Zhao

  • n-p Heterojunction of TiO2-NiO core-shell structure for efficient hydrogen generation and lignin photoreforming.

    Heng Zhao;Chao-Fan Li;Li-Yang Liu;Bruna Palma

  • Hierarchical Zeolite Single-Crystal Reactor for Excellent Catalytic Efficiency

    Ming-Hui Sun;Ming-Hui Sun;Jian Zhou;Zhi-Yi Hu;Zhi-Yi Hu;Li-Hua Chen

  • Construction of Hierarchical Metal-Organic Frameworks by Competitive Coordination Strategy for Highly Efficient CO2 Conversion.

    Gang-Gang Chang;Xiao-Chen Ma;Yue-Xing Zhang;Li-Ying Wang

  • Meso‐Microporous Nanosheet‐Constructed 3DOM Perovskites for Remarkable Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

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  • Pt-WC/C as a cathode electrocatalyst for hydrogen production by methanol electrolysis

    Zhiyi Hu;Mei Wu;Mei Wu;Zidong Wei;Shuqin Song

  • Carbon quantum dots modified TiO2 composites for hydrogen production and selective glucose photoreforming

    Heng Zhao;Heng Zhao;Xinti Yu;Chao-Fan Li;Wenbei Yu

  • Liquid‐Alloy‐Assisted Growth of 2D Ternary Ga2In4S9 toward High‐Performance UV Photodetection

    Fakun Wang;Ting Gao;Qi Zhang;Qi Zhang;Zhi-Yi Hu

  • In-Situ Growing Mesoporous CuO/O-Doped g-C3N4 Nanospheres for Highly Enhanced Lithium Storage.

    Hemdan S.H. Mohamed;Hemdan S.H. Mohamed;Liang Wu;Chao Fan Li;Zhi Yi Hu

  • All‐Inorganic Perovskite Single‐Crystal Photoelectric Anisotropy

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  • Shearing and rotation of β″ and βʹ precipitates in an Al-Mg-Si alloy under tensile deformation: In-situ and ex-situ studies

    Mingjun Yang;Andrey Orekhov;Zhi-Yi Hu;Man Feng

  • Micron-Sized Zeolite Beta Single Crystals Featuring Intracrystal Interconnected Ordered Macro-Meso-Microporosity Displaying Superior Catalytic Performance

    Ming-Hui Sun;Ming-Hui Sun;Li-Hua Chen;Shen Yu;Yu Li

  • MOF-derived nitrogen-doped core-shell hierarchical porous carbon confining selenium for advanced lithium-selenium batteries.

    Jian-Ping Song;Liang Wu;Wen-Da Dong;Chao-Fan Li

  • Coproduction of hydrogen and lactic acid from glucose photocatalysis on band-engineered Zn1-xCdxS homojunction.

    Heng Zhao;Chao-Fan Li;Xue Yong;Pawan Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Bao-Lian Su
Bao-Lian Su University of Namur
Yu Li
Yu Li Wuhan University of Technology
Xiao-Yu Yang
Xiao-Yu Yang Wuhan University of Technology
Chen Lihua
Chen Lihua Wuhan University of Technology
Tawfique Hasan
Tawfique Hasan University of Cambridge
Xiahan Sang
Xiahan Sang Wuhan University of Technology
Shichun Mu
Shichun Mu Wuhan University of Technology
Hong-En Wang
Hong-En Wang Yunnan Normal University
Jinguang Hu
Jinguang Hu University of Calgary
Christoph Janiak
Christoph Janiak Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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