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Overview

Zhongfang Chen is affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of materials science and energy, with a specialization in materials chemistry and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Their work also extends into electrical and electronic engineering, catalysis, and organic chemistry.

Their main research topics encompass multiple domains related to advanced materials and energy conversion, including:

  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Chen has published extensively in a number of scientific venues, with a frequent presence in:

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

Their recent papers include:

  • "Tackling the Activity and Selectivity Challenges of Electrocatalysts toward the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction via Atomically Dispersed Biatom Catalysts," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Controllable CO2 Electrocatalytic Reduction via Ferroelectric Switching on Single Atom Anchored In2Se3 Monolayer," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Establishing a Theoretical Landscape for Identifying Basal Plane Active 2D Metal Borides (MBenes) toward Nitrogen Electroreduction," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Directly Predicting Limiting Potentials from Easily Obtainable Physical Properties of Graphene-Supported Single-Atom Electrocatalysts by Machine Learning," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • "Identifying the Activity Origin of a Cobalt Single-Atom Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Using Supervised Learning," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chen include:

  • Linguo Lu
  • Fengyu Li
  • Jinxing Gu
  • Shiru Lin
  • Carlos R. Cabrera

With over 100 publications in materials science, Zhongfang Chen's contributions mainly lie within materials chemistry and energy fields. Their research integrates computational and experimental approaches to develop and understand advanced materials and their catalytic properties for energy conversion and sustainability applications.

Best Publications

  • Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) as an aromaticity criterion.

    Zhongfang Chen;Chaitanya S Wannere;Clémence Corminboeuf;Ralph Puchta

  • Atomically Thin Arsenene and Antimonene: Semimetal-Semiconductor and Indirect-Direct Band-Gap Transitions

    Shengli Zhang;Zhong Yan;Yafei Li;Zhongfang Chen

  • Defect-rich and ultrathin N doped carbon nanosheets as advanced trifunctional metal-free electrocatalysts for the ORR, OER and HER

    Hao Jiang;Hao Jiang;Jinxing Gu;Xusheng Zheng;Min Liu

  • Single Mo Atom Supported on Defective Boron Nitride Monolayer as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Nitrogen Fixation: A Computational Study

    Jingxiang Zhao;Zhongfang Chen

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

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Shengbai Zhang;Zhongfang Chen

  • Tackling the Activity and Selectivity Challenges of Electrocatalysts toward the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction via Atomically Dispersed Biatom Catalysts

    Xiangyu Guo;Jinxing Gu;Shiru Lin;Shengli Zhang

  • Semiconducting Group 15 Monolayers: A Broad Range of Band Gaps and High Carrier Mobilities

    Shengli Zhang;Meiqiu Xie;Fengyu Li;Zhong Yan

  • Recent progress in 2D group-VA semiconductors: from theory to experiment

    Shengli Zhang;Shiying Guo;Zhongfang Chen;Yeliang Wang

  • Curved pi-conjugation, aromaticity, and the related chemistry of small fullerenes (< C60) and single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Xin Lu;Zhongfang Chen

  • Graphene-related nanomaterials: tuning properties by functionalization

    Qing Tang;Zhen Zhou;Zhongfang Chen

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

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

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

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Panwen Shen;Zhongfang Chen

  • Spherical Aromaticity: Recent Work on Fullerenes, Polyhedral Boranes, and Related Structures†

    Zhongfang Chen;R Bruce King

  • Simultaneously Achieving High Activity and Selectivity toward Two-Electron O2 Electroreduction: The Power of Single-Atom Catalysts

    Xiangyu Guo;Shiru Lin;Jinxing Gu;Shengli Zhang

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

    Yafei Li;Zhen Zhou;Guangtao Yu;Wei Chen

  • Spherical Aromaticity inIh Symmetrical Fullerenes: The 2(N+1)2 Rule

    Andreas Hirsch;Zhongfang Chen;Haijun Jiao

  • 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

  • Computational Screening of Efficient Single‐Atom Catalysts Based on Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g‐C3N4) for Nitrogen Electroreduction

    Zhe Chen;Jingxiang Zhao;Carlos R. Cabrera;Zhongfang Chen

  • Graphene oxide as an ideal substrate for hydrogen storage.

    Lu Wang;Kyuho Lee;Yi-Yang Sun;Michael Lucking

  • Membraneless enzymatic biofuel cells based on graphene nanosheets.

    Chang Liu;Subbiah Alwarappan;Zhongfang Chen;Xiangxing Kong

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhen Zhou
Zhen Zhou Zhengzhou University
Yafei Li
Yafei Li Nanjing Normal University
Walter Thiel
Walter Thiel Max Planck Society
Andreas Hirsch
Andreas Hirsch University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jijun Zhao
Jijun Zhao Dalian University of Technology
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Shengbai Zhang
Shengbai Zhang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jingxiang Zhao
Jingxiang Zhao Harbin Normal University
Carlos R. Cabrera
Carlos R. Cabrera University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Aijun Du
Aijun Du Queensland University of Technology

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