Cheung Kong Scholar, Nanjing University
● Growth mechanism, structural regulation and functionalization of carbon-based nanotubes
● Synthesis, characterization and properties of some novel nanostructured materials, e.g. group-III nitrides and ZnO
● Advanced nanomaterials for fuel cells and field emission devices
Zheng Hu was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu in 1964. He attended Nanjing University for his undergraduate and postgraduate education from 1981 to 1991, and earned his BS (1985), MS (1988), PhD (1991) degrees in Physics. After two-year’s postdoctoral research in Department of Chemistry, he assumed an associate professor position in 1993, professor position in 1999, and Cheung Kong Scholar distinguished professor position in 2007. As a guest scientist, he visited Research Center of Karlsruhe (Germany), University of Cambridge (UK), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) for two years.
Hu has mainly worked in the research field of materials chemistry addressing on the synthesis and growth mechanism of a range of nanoscale materials such as carbon-based nanotubes and group III nitrides, the characterization of the unique physical properties of these materials, as well as the demonstration of applications of these materials in fuel cells and nanodevices. This research by definition is highly interdisciplinary.
S. J. Jiang, Y. W. Ma, G. Q. Jian, H. S. Tao, X. Z. Wang, Y. N. Fan, Y. N. Lu, Z. Hu* and Y. Chen, “Facile construction of Pt-Co/CNx nanotube electrocatalysts and their application to oxygen reduction reaction” Adv. Mater. (2009) DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900677
C. Liu, Z. Hu*, Q. Wu, X. Z. Wang, Y. Chen, H. Sang, J. M. Zhu, S. Z. Deng and N. S. Xu, “Vapor-solid growth and characterization of aluminum nitride nanocones” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005)1318
X. Chen, J. Ma, Z. Hu*, Q. Wu, and Y. Chen, “AlN nanotube: round or faceted?” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005)7982
Y. J. Tian, Z. Hu*, Y. Yang, X. Z. Wang, X. Chen, H. Xu, Q. Wu, W. J. Ji and Y. Chen, “In situ TA-MS study on the six-membered-ring-based growth of carbon nanotubes with benzene precursor” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (2004)1180
Q. Wu, Z. Hu*, X. Z. Wang, Y. N. Lu, X. Chen, H. Xu and Y. Chen, “Synthesis and characterization of faceted hexagonal aluminum nitride nanotubes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125 (2003)10176