General

Professor (Fellow) Lianhai Zu

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email: zulh@sari.ac.cn

Address: 409, Building 2, No. 99 Haike Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 201210

Web: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kPNF9HMAAAAJ&hl=zh 


Research Areas

1: Creation of orderly catalytic materials and mesoscopic mass- transfer mechanism

2: Precise construction of ordered three-phase interface and in-situ spectroscopy characterization

​3: Microscopic electric field regulation and catalytic kinetics at the electrode-electrolyte interface


Education

2013-Sep to 2018-June,  Tongji University (China), Ph.D


Experience

   
Work Experience

2024-Sep~Present, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor (Fellow)  

2021-Oct.~2024-Sep, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Postdoctoral Fellow

2021-Jan~2021-Oct, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Visiting Scholar

2018-Oct~2021-Feb, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Postdoctoral Fellow


Publications

   
Papers

(1) Key Role of Bridge Adsorbed Hydrogen Intermediate on Pt-Ru Pair for Efficient Acidic Hydrogen Production, Adv. Mater., 2025.  (Corresponding Author)

(2) Self-assembly of Ir-based nanosheets with ordered interlayer space for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022. (1st author)

(3) Zero-Strain High-Capacity Silicon/Carbon Anode Enabled by a MOF-Derived Space Confined Single Atom Catalytic Strategy for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Mater., 2022. (co-first author)

(4) A Space-Confined Atom-Cluster Catalytic Strategy for Direct Superassembly of Silicon Nanodots Carbon Frameworks for Lithium-ion Batteries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020. (2nd author)
(5) Silicon-Based Self-Assemblies for High Volumetric Capacity Li-Ion Batteries via Effective Stress Management, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020 (2nd author)
(6) Mesoporous Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Adv. Energy Mater., 2020. (1st author)
(7) Anti-Pulverization Electrode Based on Low-Carbon Triple-Shelled Superstructures for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Mater., 2017 (1st Author)
(8) Amorphous Semiconductor Nanowires Created by Site-Specific Heteroatom Substitution with Significantly Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Performance, ACS NANO, 2016. (co-first author)
(9) Direct Super-Assemblies of Freestanding Metal-Carbon Frameworks Featuring Reversible Crystalline-Phase Transformation for Electrochemical Sodium Storage, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016. (co-first author)
(10) In-situ Synergistic Crystallization-induced Synthesis of Novel Au Nanostar-encrusted ZnO Mesocrystals with High-quality Heterojunctions for High-performance Gas Sensors, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015. (1st author)


Conferences

(1) Controllable Construction of Ordered Iridium-based Electrocatalysts, 2024 Inorganic Chemistry in the New Era-Innovation and Crossover: Young Scholars Forum (2024-Nov)
(2) Controllable Assembly of Ordered Iridium-based Electrocatalysts and Application of Water Electrolysis 2024 National Science Review International Frontier Forum on Chemistry and Materials Science  (2024-Nov)
(3) Controllable Assembly of Mesoscopic Iridium-based Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts, 2024, Chinese Electrochemical Society  (2024-Nov)


Honors & Distinctions

(1) Shanghai Overseas Talent Program Youth Program, 2024
(2) Chinese Academy of Sciences Overseas Talent Program, 2024
(3) Top Talents, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2024


Active Research Projects

( 1 ) Controllable Construction and Application of Mesoporous Hydrogen Electroconversion Catalysts, PI, Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025-Jan to 2027-Dec. ( 2 ) Research on self-assembly synthesis of ordered mesoporous low/non-noble metal PEM electrocatalysts and their integrated applications, PI, Independent deployment of the Institute, 2024-Sep to 2029-Sep.