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Biography
Dr. Biaobiao Zhang received his PhD in Applied Chemistry from Dalian University of Technology in 2015. He joined Prof. Licheng Sun’s research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher since 2015. His research works focus on mechanism of O−O bonds formation by the natural OEC, development of molecular WOCs and molecular WOCs engineered materials for artificial photosynthesis device. He started his independent career as an assistant professor at Westlake University in 2020.
History
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Research
Dr. Biaobiao Zhang has long been devoted to the field of artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels. He has conducted more than ten years of research on the development of high-efficiency water oxidation catalysts and device assembly, and published over 55 papers in internationally renowned academic journals. Among them, there are over 20 first author and corresponding author papers, including publications in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., Joule, JACS Au, ACS Catal., J. Energy Chem., Chem. Commun., ChemSusChem etc.. He participated in the writing of the chemistry book "Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III".
Dr. Biaobiao Zhang’s group recently focus on the following researches: developing catalysts for acidic water oxidation for PEM electrolyzer; catalytic NH3 oxidation; CO2 electroreduction for liquid fuels.
Representative Publications
1. Bingquan Jia,# Zhe Chen,# Chengjin Li, Zhuofeng Li, Xiaoxia Zhou, Tao Wang, Wenxing Yang, Licheng Sun, and Biaobiao Zhang,* “Indium Cyanamide for Industrial-Grade CO2 Electroreduction to Formic Acid.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 14101–14111.
2. Chen Tao, Yi Jiang,* Yunxuan Ding, Bingquan Jia, Ruitong Liu, Peifeng Li, Wenxing Yang, Lixin Xia, Licheng Sun, Biaobiao Zhang,* “Surface Reconstruction and Passivation of BiVO4 Photoanodes Depending on the “Structure Breaker” Cs+.” JACS Au, 2023, 10.1021/jacsau.3c00100. (Front cover)
3. Lizhou Fan, Yuxiang Song, Fan Zhang, Brian JJ Timmer, Alexander Kravberg, Biaobiao Zhang,* Licheng Sun, “Holistic functional biomimetics: a key to make an efficient electrocatalyst for water oxidation.” J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 10669–10676.
4. Jiajia Yi,# Shaoqi Zhan,# Lin Chen,# Qiang Tian, Ning Wang,* Jun Li, Wenhua Xu, Biaobiao Zhang,* Mårten SG Ahlquist,* “Electrostatic Interactions Accelerating Water Oxidation Catalysis via Intercatalyst O–O Coupling.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 2484–2490.
5. Biaobiao Zhang, Lizhou Fan, Ram B. Ambre, Tianqi Liu, Qijun Meng, Brian J. J. Timmer, Licheng Sun,* “Advancing PEM Electrolyzers with Molecular Catalysts: An Opportunity.” Joule, 2020, 4, 1408–1444.
6. Qijun Meng, Biaobiao Zhang,* Lizhou Fan, Haidong Liu, Mario Valvo, Kristina Edström, Maria Cuartero, Roland de Marco, Gaston A. Crespo, Licheng Sun, “Efficient BiVO4 Photoanodes by Postsynthetic Treatment: Remarkable Improvements in Photoelectrochemical Performance from Facile Borate Modification” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 19027–19033.
7. Biaobiao Zhang and Licheng Sun,* “Ru-bda: unique molecular catalysts for water oxidation involving 7-coordination and negatively charged ligands” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 5565–5580.
8. Biaobiao Zhang and Licheng Sun,* “Artificial photosynthesis: advantages and challenges of molecular catalyst.” Chem. Soc. Rev., 2019, 48, 2216–2264.
9. Biaobiao Zhang and Licheng Sun,* “Why nature chose the Mn4CaO5 cluster as water-splitting catalyst in photosystem II: a new hypothesis for the mechanism of O–O bond formation.” Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 14381–14387.
10. Biaobiao Zhang, Quentin Daniel, Lizhou Fan, Tianqi Liu, Qijun Meng and Licheng Sun,* “Identifying MnVII-oxo species during electrochemical water oxidation by manganese oxide.” iScience, 2018, 4, 144–152.
11. Biaobiao Zhang, Hong Chen, Quentin Daniel, Bertrand Philippe, Fengshou Yu, Mario Valvo, Yuanyuan Li, Ram B. Ambre, Peili Zhang, Fei Li, Håkan Rensmo, and Licheng Sun,* “Defective and “c-Disordered” Hortensia-like layered MnOx as an efficient electrocatalyst for water oxidation at neutral pH.” ACS Catal., 2017, 7, 6311–6322.
12. Biaobiao Zhang, Fei Li,* Rong Zhang, Chengbing Ma, Lin Chen, Licheng Sun,* “Characterization of a trinuclear ruthenium species in catalytic water oxidation by Ru(bda)(pic)2 in neutral media.” Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 8619–8622.
13. Biaobiao Zhang, Fei Li,* Fengshou Yu, Xiaohong Wang, Xu Zhou, Hua Li, Yi Jiang, Licheng Sun,* “Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water oxidation by supported cobalt-oxo cubanes.” ACS Catal., 2014, 4, 804–809.
14. Fei Li (Supervisor),* Biaobiao Zhang, Xiaona Li, Yi Jiang, Lin Chen, Yanqing Li, Licheng Sun,* “Highly efficient oxidation of water by a molecular catalyst immobilized on carbon nanotubes.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 12276–12279.
Contact Us
Email：zhangbiaobiao@westlake.edu.cn