1. Research Interests

Carbon, Carbon-based Carbides, Metal Oxide Nanomaterials and 2D materials used for energy and environment application such as hydrogen evolution, photocatalysis and sensors.

2.Paper

More than 60 published papers in journal recent years including Small methods、ChemcatChem、Chem. Eng. J.、Chemselect、Chem Mater、ACS Appl. interface Mater.、ACS Appl. NanoMater、ACS Omega、Chin Chem Lett、RSC Adv.、Appl. Sur. Sci.、Int. J. hydrogen energy、Mater. Lett.、Chem. Eng. J.、Mater. Today、Appl. Catal A、J. Mater. Sci. etc. Very recently, parts papers are as follows.

1. Xiaorong Nie, Tianyu Guo, Qianqian Du, Rui Liu, Lu Liu, Ruihua Zhao, Jie Zhang, Jianping Du, Jinping Li, Mesoporous carbon nanotablets coupled with Mo2C nanoparticles: Combining morphology and structure to realize high activity for efficient hydrogen evolution, ChemSelect 2020, 5, 5974-5980.

2. Rui Liu, Qianqian Du, Ruihua Zhao, Xiaorong Nie, Lu Liu, Jinping Li, Jianping Du, Ultrafine Mo2C nanoparticles confined in 2D meshlike carbon nanolayers for effective hydrogen evolution, ChemCatChem 2020, 12, 3195-3201(Highlighted by ASNChina AdvancedScienceNews).

3. Wenqiong Shi, Yangyang Shang, Md. Maruf Ahmed, Ruihua Zhao, Shenghu Li, Jianping Du, Jinping Li, A facile controllable self-assembly of 3D elliptical ZnO microspheres from 1D nanowires for effective detection of acetone, Mater. Lett. 2020, 270, 127706.

4. MD. Maruf Ahmed, Ruihua Zhao, Bayram Hayytov, Yangyang Shang, Jinping Li, Jianping Du, Morphology evolution of ZnO by controlling solvent and electrochemical sensing of hexagonal nanotablets toward organoamines, Chin. Chem. Lett. 2020, 31(8): 2091-2094.

5. Yangyang Shang, Wenqiong Shi, Ruihua Zhao, Md. Maruf Ahmed, Jinping Li, Jianping Du, Simple Self-assembly of 3D laminated CuO/SnO2 hybrid for the detection of triethylamine, Chin. Chem. Lett. 2020, 31(8): 2055-2058.

6. Ruihua Zhao, Hui Wang, Na Gao, Rui Liu, Tianyu Guo, JintingWu, Tao Zhang, Jinping Li, Jianping Du,Tewodros Asefa. Hollow hemispherical carbons with Mo2C nanoparticles by precursor design: Effective noble metal-free catalysts for dehydrogenation. Small Methods, 2020, 4, 1900597 (Highlighted by MaterialsViews).

3.Patent

Issued 15 authorized patents

4. Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China, International cooperation projects of key R & D programs of Shanxi Province, projects of Shanxi Province, Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China and Fund Program for the Scientific Activities of Selected Returned Overseas Professionals in Shanxi Province, key coal based science and technology projects of Shanxi Province and key scientific and technological projects of Taiyuan City, etc

5.Honors

Natural science of Shanxi Province second award