
Research Areas
High resolution electron microscopy
Two-dimensional materials
Nano-materials for energy applications
Openings
PhD positions available:
We are looking for self-motivated students with strong background in physics, materials science or devices.
Postdoc positions available:
We have multiple postdoc positions available on STEM-EELS, 4D STEM, 2D materials, in-situ microscopy.
Visiting students/scholars:
Please email Prof. Zhou with your CV to discuss projects of mutual interest.
Education
2006~2010 Lehigh University Ph.D.
2002~2006 Tsinghua University B.S.
Experience
2016~now, University of Chinese Academy of Science (UCAS), Professor
2012~2015, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Staff Scientist
2012~2014, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Wigner Fellow
2010~2012, Vanderbilt University/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Postdoc Research Associate
Publications
For a complete list of publication, please refer to my Publons page or Google Scholar:
https://publons.com/researcher/1381259/wu-zhou/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wsbzZ_4AAAAJ
50. Zhang, X.#; Zhang, M. T.#; Deng, Y. C.#; Xu, M. Q.#; Artiglia, L.; Wen, W.; Gao, R.; Chen, B. B.; Yao, S. Y.; Zhang, X. C.; Peng, M.; Yan, J.; Li, A. W.; Jiang, Z.; Gao, X. Y.; Cao, S. F.; Yang, C.; Kropf, A. J.; Shi, J. A.; Xie, J. L.; Bi, M. S.; Bokhoven, J. A.; Li, Y. W.; Wen, X. D.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M.; Shi, C.*; Zhou, W.*; Ma, D.*, A stable low-temperature H2-production catalyst by crowding Pt on α-MoC. Nature 589, 396-401, (2021)
49. Ge, Y. Z.#; Qin, X. T.#; Li, A. W.#; Deng, Y. C.; Lin, L. L.; Zhang, M. T.; Yu, Q. L.; Li, S. W.; Peng, M.; Xu, Y.; Zhao, X. Y.; Xu, M. Q.; Zhou, W.*; Yao, S. Y.*; Ma, D.*, Maximizing the Synergistic Effect of CoNi Catalyst on α-MoC for Robust Hydrogen Production. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 628-633, (2021)
48. Lin, L. L.#; Yu, Q. L.#; Peng, M.#; Li, A. W.#; Yao, S. Y.; Tian, S. H.; Liu, X.; Li, A.; Jiang, Z.; Gao, R.*; Han, X. D.; Li, Y. W.; Wen, X. D.; Zhou, W.*; Ma, D.*, Atomically dispersed Ni/α-MoC catalyst for hydrogen production from methanol/water. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 309-317, (2021)
47. Xu, M. Q.#; Li, A. W.#; Gao, M.#; Zhou, W.*, Single-atom electron microscopy for energy-related nanomaterials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8, 16142-16165, (2020)
46. Chen, X. Y.#; Lei, B.#; Zhu, Y.; Zhou, J. D.; Liu, Z.; Ji, W.*; Zhou, W.*, Pristine edge structures of T”-phase transition metal dichalcogenides (ReSe2, ReS2) atomic layers. Nanoscale, 12, 17005-17012, (2020)
45. Zhao, X. X.#; Song, P.#; Wang, C. C.; Riis-Jensen, A. C.; Fu, W.; Deng, Y.; Wan, D. Y.; Kang, L. X.; Ning, S. C.; Dan, J. D.; Venkatesan, T.; Liu, Z.; Zhou, W.; Thygesen, K. S.; Luo, X.*; Pennycook, S. J.*; Loh, K. P.*, Engineering covalently bonded 2D layered materials by self-intercalation. Nature 581, 171-177, (2020)
44. Wu, L. M.#; Shi, J. A.#; Zhou, Z.; Yan, J. H.; Wang, A. W.; Bian, C.; Ma, J. J.; Ma, R. S.; Liu, H. T.; Chen, J. C.; Huang, Y.; Zhou, W.*; Bao, L. H.*; Ouyang, M.; Pantelides, S. T.; Gao, H. J., InSe/hBN/graphite heterostructure for high-performance 2D electronics and flexible electronics. Nano Research 13, 1127–1132, (2020)
43. Zhou, J. D.; Lin, J. H.; Sims, H.; Jiang, C. Y.; Cong, C. X.; Brehm, J. A.; Zhang, Z. W.; Niu, L.; Chen, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Wang, Y. L.; Liu, F. C.; Zhu, C.; Yu, T.; Suenaga, K.; Mishra, R.; Pantelides, S. T.; Zhu, Z. G. *, Gao, W. B. *, Liu, Z. *, Zhou, W. *, Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting. Advanced Materials 32, 1906536, (2020)
42. Gao, C.; Tao, L.; Zhang, Y.*; Du, S.; Pantelides, S.T.; Idrobo, J.C.; Zhou, W.*; Gao, H.J. Spectroscopic signatures of edge states in hexagonal boron nitride. Nano Research 12, 1663-1667 (2019)
41. Lin, L.; Yao, S.; Gao, R.; Liang, X.; Yu, Q.; Deng, Y.; Liu, J.; Peng, M.; Jiang, Z.; Li, S.; Li, Y.; Wen, X.*; Zhou, W.*; Ma. D.* A highly CO-tolerant atomically dispersed Pt catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation. Nature Nanotechnology 14, 354-361 (2019).
40. Yang, S.; Sun, W.; Zhang, Y.; Gong, Y.; Oxley, M.P.; Lupini, A.R.; Ajayan, P.M.; Chisholm, M.F.; Pantelides, S.T.*; Zhou, W.* Direct cation exchange in monolayer MoS2 via recombination-enhanced migration. Physical Review Letters 122, 106101 (2019).
39. Zhao, X.; Ji, Y.; Chen, J.; Fu, W.; Dan, J.; Liu, Y.; Pennycook, S.J.; Zhou, W.*; Loh, K.P.* Healing of planar defects in two-dimensional materials via grain boundary sliding. Advanced Materials 31, 1900237 (2019)
38. Yang, S.; Gong, Y.*; Manchanda, P.; Zhang, Y.; Ye, G.; Chen, S.; Song, L.; Pantelides, S.T.; Ajayan, P.M.*; Chisholm, M.F.; Zhou, W.* Rhenium-doped and stabilized MoS2 atomic layers with basal-plane catalytic activity. Advanced Materials 30, 1803477 (2018)
37. Zhou, W.#,*; Zhang, Y.#; Chen, J.; Li, D.; Zhou, J.; Liu, Z.; Chisholm, M.F.; Pantelides, S.T.; Loh, K.P. Dislocation-driven growth of two-dimensional lateral quantum well superlattices. Science Advances 4, eaap9096 (2018).
36. Zhao, X.; Ding, Z.; Chen, J.; Dan, J.; Poh, S.M.; Fu, W.; Pennycook, S.J.; Zhou, W.*; Loh, K.P.* Strain modulation by van der Waals coupling in bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide. ACS Nano 12, 1940-1948 (2018).
35. Zhao, X.; Dan, J.; Chen, J.; Ding, Z.; Zhou, W.*; Loh, K.P.*; Pennycook, S.J.* Atom-by-atom fabrication of freestanding monolayer molybdenum membranes. Advanced Materials 1707281 (2018).
34. Zhao, X.; Fu, D.; Ding, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Wan, D.; Tan, S.J.R.; Chen, Z.; Leng, K.; Dan, J.; Fu, W.; Geng, D.; Song, P.; Du, Y.; Venkatesan, T.; Pantelides, S.T.; Pennycook, S.J.; Zhou, W.*; Loh, K.P.* Mo-terminated edge reconstructions in nanoporous molybdenum disulfide film. Nano Letters 18, 482-490 (2018).
33. Yao, S.#; Zhang, X.#; Zhou, W.#; Gao, R.; Xu, W.; Ye, Y.; Lin, L.; Wen, X.; Liu, P.; Chen, B.; Crumlin, E.; Guo, J.; Zuo, Z.; Li, W.; Xie, J.; Lu, L.; Kiely, C.J.; Gu, L.; Shi, C.; Rodriguez, J.A.; Ma, D. Atomic layered Au clusters on α-MoC as catalyst for the low temperature water gas shift reaction. Science 357, 389-393 (2017).
32. Lin, L.#; Zhou, W.#; Gao, R.#; Yao, S.; Zhang, X.; Xu, W.; Zheng, S.; Jiang, Z.; Yu, Q.; Li, Y.; Shi, C.; Wen, X.; Ma. D. Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC catalysts. Nature 544, 80-83 (2017).
31. Zhou, W.; Soultanidis, N.; Xu, H.; Wong, M. S.; Neurock, M.; Kiely, C. J.; Wachs, I. E. Nature of catalytic active sites in the supported WO3/ZrO2 solid acid system: A current perspective. ACS Catalysis 7, 2181-2198 (2017)
30. Yin, K.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Sun, L.; Chisholm, M. F.; Pantelides, S. T.; Zhou, W.* Unsupported single-atom-thick copper oxide monolayers. 2D Materials 4, 011001 (2017).
29. Zheng, W.; Lin, J.; Feng, W.; Xiao, K.; Qiu, Y.; Chen, X.; Liu, G.; Cao, W.; Pantelides, S.T.; Zhou, W.*; Hu, P.* Patterned growth of p-type MoS2 atomic layers using sol-gel as precursor. Advanced Functional Materials 26, 6371-6379 (2016).
28. Lin, J.*; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, W.*; Pantelides, S.T. Structural flexibility and alloying in ultrathin transition-metal chalcogenide nanowires. ACS Nano 10, 2782-2790 (2016).
27. Zhou, W.*; Yin, K.; Wang, C.; Zhang, Y.; Xu, T.; Borisevich, A.; Sun, L.; Idrobo, J.C.; Chisholm, M.; Pantelides, S.T.; Klie, R.; Lupini, A.R. The observation of square ice in graphene questioned. Nature 528, E1-E2 (2015).
26. Gong, Y.; Lin, J.; Wang, X.; Shi, G.; Lei, S.; Lin, Z.; Zou, X.; Ye, G.; Vajtai, R.; Yakobson, B.I.; Terrones, H.; Terrones, M.; Tay, B.K.; Lou, J.; Pantelides, S.T.; Liu, Z.; Zhou, W.*; Ajayan, P.M.* Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers. Nature Materials 13, 1135-1142 (2014).
25. Shen, X.#, *; Hernandez-Pagan, E. A.#; Zhou, W.#, *; Idrobo, J. C.; MacDonald, J.; Pennycook, S. J.; Pantelides, S. T. Interlaced crystals having a perfect Bravais lattice and complex chemical order revealed by real-space crystallography. Nature Communications 5, 5431 (2014).
24. Lin, J.*; Cretu, O.; Zhou, W.* et al. Flexible metallic nanowires with self-adaptive contact to semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers. Nature Nanotechnology 9, 436-442 (2014).
23. Zhou, W. Electron microscopy: A phase transition glides into view. Nature Nanotechnology 9, 333-334 (2014).
22. Gong, M.#; Zhou, W.#; Tsai, M.; Zhou, J.; Guan, M.; Lin, M.; Zhang, B.; Hu, Y.; Wang, D.; Yang, J.; Pennycook, S. J.; Hwang, B.; Dai, H. Nanoscale nickel oxide/nickel hetero-structures for active hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis. Nature Communications 5, 4695 (2014).
21. Najmaei, S.#; Liu, Z.#; Zhou, W.#; Zou, X.; Shi, G.; Lei, S.; Yakobson, B. I.; Idrobo, J. C.; Ajayan, P. M.; Lou, J. Vapor phase growth and grain boundary structure of molybdenum disulfide atomic layers. Nature Materials 12, 754-759 (2013).
20. Lee, J.#; Zhou, W.#; Pennycook, S. J.; Idrobo, J. C.; Pantelides, S. T. Direct visualization of reversible dynamics in a Si6 cluster embedded in a graphene pore. Nature Communications 4, 1650 (2013). (Highlighted on DOE homepage)
19. Zhou, W.*; Lee, J.; Nanda, J.; Pantelides, S. T.; Pennycook, S. J.; Idrobo, J. C.* Atomically localized plasmon enhancement in monolayer graphene. Nature Nanotechnology 7, 161-165 (2012). (Highlighted on DOE homepage)
18. Li, Y.; Zhou, W.; Wang, H.; Xie, L.; Liang, Y; Wei, F.; Idrobo, J.C.; Pennycook, S. J.; Dai, H. An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube-graphene complexes. Nature Nanotechnology 7, 394-400 (2012).
17. Zhou, W.; Ross-Medgaarden, E. I.; Knowles, W. V.; Wong, M. S.; Wachs, I. E.; Kiely, C. J. Identification of active Zr-WOx clusters on a ZrO2 support for solid acid catalysts. Nature Chemistry 1, 722-728 (2009).
16. Zhou, W.*; Kapetanakis, M.; Prange, M. P.; Pantelides, S. T.; Pennycook, S. J.; Idrobo, J. C.* Direct determination of the chemical bonding of individual impurities in graphene. Physical Review Letters 109, 206803 (2012). (Featured as Editors’ Suggestions; highlighted on DOE homepage)
15. Zhou, W.*; Zou, X.; Najmaei, S.; Liu, Z.; Shi, Y.; Kong, J.; Lou, J.; Ajayan, P. M.; Yakobson, B. I.; Idrobo, J. C. Intrinsic structural defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide. Nano Letters 13, 2615-2522 (2013).
14. Zhou, W.*; Oxley, M.P.; Lupini, A.R.; Krivanek, O.L.; Pennycook, S.J.; Idrobo, J.C*. Single atom microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, 1342-1354 (2012).
13. Zhou, W.*; Pennycook, S. J.; Idrobo, J. C.*Localization of inelastic electron scattering in the low-loss energy regime. Ultramicroscopy 119, 51-56 (2012).
12. Lin, J.; Pantelides, S.T.; Zhou, W.*Vacancy-induced growth of inversion domains in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayer. ACS Nano 9, 5189-5197 (2015).
11. Gong, M.#; Zhou, W.#; Kenney M.J.; Kapusta, R.; Cowley, S.; Wu, Y.; Lu, B.; Lin, M.; Wang, D.; Yang, J.; Hwang, B.; Dai, H. Blending Cr2O3 into NiO-Ni electrocatalyst for sustained water splitting. Angew. Chem. Int. Edit 127, 12157-12161 (2015).
10. Gong, Y.; Lei, S.; Ye, G.; Li, B.; He, Y.; Keyshar, K.; Zhang, X.; Wang, Q.; Lou, J.; Liu, Z.; Vajtai, R.; Zhou, W.*; Ajayan, P.M.* Two-step growth of two-dimensional WSe2/MoSe2 heterostructures. Nano Letters 15, 6135-6141 (2015).
9. Gong, Y.; Liu, Z.; Lupini, A.R.; Shi, G.; Lin, J.; Najmaei, S.; Lin, Z.; Elias, A.L.; Berkdemir, A.; You, G.; Terrones, H.; Terrones, M.; Vajtai, R.; Pantelides, S.T.; Pennycook, S.J.; Lou, J.; Zhou, W.*; Ajayan, P.M.* Band gap engineering and layer-by-layer mapping of selenium-doped molybdenum disulfide. Nano Letters 14, 442-449 (2014).
8. Dixit, H.#; Zhou, W.#; Idrobo, J. C.; Nanda, J.; Cooper, V. R. Facet dependent disorder in the pristine high voltage lithium-manganese-rich cathodes. ACS Nano 8, 12710-12716 (2014).
7. Lin, J.; Fang, W.; Zhou, W.*; Lupini, A.R.; Idrobo, J.C.; Kong, J.; Pennycook, S.J.; Pantelides, S.T. AC/AB stacking boundaries in bilayer graphene. Nano Letters13, 3262-3268 (2013)
6. Wang, H.#; Zhou, W.#; Liu, J.#; Si, R.; Sun, G.; Zhong, M.; Su, H.; Zhao, H.; Rodriguez, J.A.; Pennycook, S. J.; Idrobo, J. C.; Li, W.; Kou, Y.; Ma, D. Platinum-modulated cobalt nanocatalysts for low-temperature aqueous-phase Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135, 4149-4158 (2013).
5. Shi, Y.#; Zhou, W.#; Lu, A.; Fang, W.; Lee, Y.; Hsu, A.L.; Kim, S.M.; Kim, K.K.; Yang, H.Y.; Li, L.; Idrobo, J.C.; Kong, J. van der Waals epitaxy of MoS2 layers using graphene as growth templates. Nano Letters 12, 2784-2791(2012).
4. Zhou, W.*; Wachs, I. E.; Kiely, C. J.* Nanostructural and chemical characterization of supported metal oxide catalysts by aberration corrected analytical electron microscopy. Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science 16, 10-22 (2012).
3. Lee, J.; Yang, Z.; Zhou, W.; Pennycook, S.J.; Pantelides, S.T.; Chisholm, M.F. Stabilization of graphene nanopore. PNAS 111, 7522-7526 (2014).
2. Liu, Z.; Ma, L.; Gang, S.; Zhou, W.; Gong, Y.; Lei, S.; Yang, X.; Zhang, J.; Yu, J.; Hackenberg, K. P.; Babakhani, A.; Idrobo, J. C.; Vajtai, R.; Lou, J.; Ajayan, P. M. In-plane heterostructures of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride with controlled domain sizes. Nature Nanotechnology 8, 119-124 (2013).
1. Lee, J.; Zhou, W.; Idrobo, J. C.; Pennycook, S. J.; Pantelides, S. T. Vacancy-driven anisotropic defect distribution in the battery-cathode material LiFePO4. Physical Review Letters 107, 085507 (2011). (Featured as Editors’ Suggestions)
Collaboration
Prof. Hongjun Gao (IoP, CAS); Prof. Ding Ma (Peking University); Prof. Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University); Prof. Stephen Pennycook (UCAS); Prof. Zheng Liu (Nanyang Technological University); Prof. Kian Ping Loh (National University of Singapore); Prof. Hongjie Dai (Stanford University); Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan (Rice University); Prof. Jun Lou (Rice University); Dr. Kazu Suenaga (AIST, Japan); Prof. Qihua Xiong (Tsinghua University); Dr. Juan-Carlos Idrobo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); Dr. Andrew Lupini (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); Prof. Jing Kong (MIT); Prof. Christopher Kiely (Lehigh University); Prof. Yongji Gong (Beihang University); Prof. Yu-Yang Zhang (UCAS)
Group members
已指导学生
陈喜亚 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
笪蕴力 硕士研究生 085204-材料工程
高闯 硕士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
现指导学生
马银行 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
李傲雯 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
许名权 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
朱勇 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
孟东倩 硕士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
彭星杰 硕士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
高猛 博士研究生 070205-凝聚态物理
Group Alumni
Yunli Da (2021 M.S., UCAS)
Kai Xu (2021 B.S., UCAS)
Xiya Chen, 东方晶源微电子科技有限公司 电子光学工程师。(2020 Ph.D., UCAS. Co-supervised with Prof. Hong-Jun Gao.)
Xin Wei, Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. (2020 B.S., UCAS)
Ziyu Xiang, Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Berkeley. (2020 B.S., UCAS)
Chuang Gao, Ph.D. candidate at University of Antwerp. (2019 Master, UCAS. Co-supervised with Prof. Hong-Jun Gao).
Xiaoxu Zhao, Postdoc, Nanyang Technological University. (2019 Ph.D., National University of Singapore. Co-supervised with Profs. Kian Ping Loh and Steve Pennycook.)
Junhao Lin, Associated Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology. (2015 Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Co-supervised with Prof. Sokrates Pantelides.)