Zhanxi FAN Group

16-Feb-2024

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Our manuscript entitled "Coordination environment engineering of metal centers in coordination polymers for selective carbon dioxide electroreduction toward multi-carbon products" was just accepted by ACS Nano. Ms. Juan WANG, Dr. Mingzi SUN and Mr. Hongming XU contributed equally to this work.

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20-Jan-2024

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Our manuscript entitled "Steering the selectivity of carbon dioxide electroreduction from single-carbon to multi-carbon products on metal-organic frameworks via facet engineering" was just accepted by Nano Lett. Ms. Pengyi LU, Ms. Jia LV and Mr. Yu CHEN contributed equally to this work. 

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17-Jan-2024

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Our manuscript entitled "Crystal phase engineering of ultrathin alloy nanostructures for highly efficient electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia" was just accepted by Adv. Mater. Mr. Yunhao WANG, Mr. Fengkun HAO, Dr. Mingzi SUN and Ms. Meng-Ting LIU contributed equally to this work. 

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21-Nov-2023 

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Our group website has been visited over 25,000 times.  

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15-Nov-2023 

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Prof. Zhanxi FAN was a recipient of "Highly Cited Researchers 2023" according to Web of Science. Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade. These highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for a field or fields and publication year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. 

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02-Nov-2023

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Our manuscript was just accepted by ACS Mater. Lett. Ms. Juan WANG, Mr. Haoyi TAN and Mr. Hongming XU contributed equally to this great work. 

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01-Nov-2023 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by PNAS, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mr. Jingwen ZHOU, Mr. Yuecheng XIONG, Dr. Mingzi SUN, Mr. Zhihang XU and Mr. Yunhao WANG contributed equally to this significant work. 

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04-Oct-2023

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Prof. Zhanxi FAN was listed as World's Top 2% Scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology by Stanford University.  

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28-Sep-2023 

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Our master student, Mr. Yongqiao SONG, was selected as a recipient of "Outstanding Graduate of MSCHEM 2022/23". 

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01-Sep-2023 

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Mr Liang GUO and Mr. Xiang MENG joined our group as PhD students. 

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31-Aug-2023 

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Seven of our 12 PhD students (at that moment) received one of the following scholarships from CityU and SGS:

    (a) "Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Scholarship" by Mr Yunhao WANG (Note that he is the only winner from College of Science, and there are only 5 awardees throughout the university in 2023);

    (b) "Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS) / Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship (IRTS)" by Mr Jingwen ZHOU,                    Mr Jinli YU, and Mr Yuecheng XIONG;

    (c) "Outstanding Academic Performance Award" by Mr Yangbo MA, Ms Juan WANG, and Mr Jinwen YIN. 

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06-Jul-2023

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Our manuscript entitled "Simultaneous defect and size control of metal-organic framework nanostructures for highly efficient carbon dioxide electroreduction to multi-carbon products", by Ms Juan WANG et al. was just accepted by ACS Mater. Lett.

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28-Jun-2023 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by PNAS, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mr. Yunhao WAND, Dr. Mingzi SUN, Mr. Jingwen ZHOU and Mr. Yuecheng XIONG contributed equally to this significant work. 

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08-Jun-2023

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Our manuscript entitled "Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction: Ammonia Synthesis and the Beyond", by Mr. Yuecheng XIONG et al. was just accepted by Adv. Mater. 

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25-May-2023

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Our manuscript entitled "Acidic conditions for efficient carbon dioxide electroreduction in flow and MEA cells", by Mr Jinli YU et al. was just" accepted in principle" by Chem Catal., a Chem sister journal in Cell Press. 

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05-May-2023

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Mr Yunhao WANG obtained the "CSCI Excellent Paper Award for Research Students" by the College of Science in City University of Hong Kong. 

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31-Mar-2023

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Our previous work entitled "Recent progresses in electrochemical CO2 reduction on Cu-based catalysts towards multi-carbon products" by Mr Jinli YU, Ms Juan WANG, Mr Yangbo MA, et al. was recognized as a "Top Downloaded Article" by Adv. Funct. Mater. in Wiley.

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29-Mar-2023 

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Our group website has been visited over 20,000 times.  

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26-Mar-2023

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Our manuscript by Mr Fu LIU et al. was just accepted by Small Structures, a premium interdisciplinary journal that provides a new home for cutting-edge research on sub-macroscopic structures across various dimensions and multiple disciplines. 

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17-Mar-2023

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Mr Fu LIU, our first-year PhD student, obtained the "CSCI Excellent Paper Award for Research Students" by the College of Science in City University of Hong Kong. 

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14-Mar-2023 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., a flagship journal across the physical sciences in Cell Press. Mr Jinli YU, Ms Mingzi SUN, Ms Juan WANG, Mr Yunhao WANG and Mr Yang LI contributed equally to this great work. 

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11-Mar-2023 

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Our manuscript by Mr Guozhi WANG et al. was just accepted by Nanoscale, for the Special Issue of "Celebrating 25 years of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials at Henan University". 

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10-Mar-2023 

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Our manuscript by Mr Fengkun HAO et al. was just accepted by Energy Lab, a premium journal aiming to deliver cutting-edge progress and raise the bars of discussions, evaluations and analyses in Energy Science and Engineering. 

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19-Jan-2023 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Chem. Soc. Rev., a leading journal across the chemical sciences. Mr Fu LIU, a first-year PhD student in our group, is the first author of this work. 

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15-Nov-2022 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was a recipient of "Highly Cited Researchers 2022" according to Web of Science. Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade. These highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for a field or fields and publication year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. 

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31-Oct-2022 

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Mr Fu LIU joined our group as a Research Assistant. He will start the PhD study in our group from 01-Jan-2023. 

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12-Oct-2022 

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Mr Fengkun HAO joined our group as a Research Assistant. He will start the PhD study in our group from 01-Jan-2023. 

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10-Oct-2022 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was listed as World's Top 2% Scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology by Stanford University.  

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09-Oct-2022 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Small Methods. Mr Jinwen YIN and Mr Jingwen ZHOU contributed equally to this work. 

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16-Sep-2022 

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Our manuscript entitled "Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to high-value multi-carbon products with metal-organic frameworks and their derived materials", by Ms Juan WANG et al. was just accepted by ACS Mater. Lett. 

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02-Sep-2022 

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Five of our 8 PhD students (at that moment) received the "Research Tuition Scholarship" (i.e., Mr Yangbo MA and Mr Jinli YU) and "Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship" (i.e., Mr Jingwen ZHOU, Ms Pengyi LU and Mr Yuecheng XIONG) by City University of Hong Kong. 

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02-Sep-2022 

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Three of our 8 PhD students (at that moment), i.e., Mr Jingwen ZHOU, Mr Yangbo MA and Mr Yuecheng XIONG, obtained the "Outstanding Academic Performance Award" by the College of Science in City University of Hong Kong. 

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25-Aug-2022 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by PNAS, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Mr Jingwen ZHOU, Dr Tianshuai WANG, Mr Lin CHEN and Dr Lingwen LIAO contributed equally to this significant work. 

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01-Aug-2022 

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Mr Guozhi WANG and Mr Hongming XU joined our group as PhD students. 

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22-Jul-2022 

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Our manuscript entitled "Interfacial electric field effect on electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction", by Mr Jinli YU et al. was just "accepted in principle" by Chem Catal., a Chem sister journal in Cell Press. 

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29-Apr-2022 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Matter, a Cell sister journal in Cell Press. Mr Yuecheng XIONG and Mr Jingwen ZHOU contributed equally to this work. 

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18-Apr-2022 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Mr Yunhao WANG, Mr Jingwen ZHOU, Mr Chao Lin, Dr Bo CHEN and Dr Zhiqiang GUAN contributed equally to this work. 

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23-Mar-2022

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Our work on the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction was highlighted by Nature as a spotlight. 

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09-Mar-2022

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Adv. Mater. as an invited paper for the "Rising Stars Series". Mr Yangbo MA, Mr Jinli YU, Dr Mingzi SUN and Dr Bo CHEN contributed equally to this work. 

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15-Dec-2021 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Small as an invited paper for the "Rising Stars Series". In this work, for the first time, we have realized the application of unusual phase metal nanomaterials in CO2RR under the industry-relevant current density. Ms Juan WANG, Mr Jinli YU, Dr Mingzi SUN and Dr Lingwen LIAO contributed equally to this work. 

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09-Dec-2021 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mr Xichen ZHOU, Mr Yangbo MA, Dr Yiyao GE, Mr Shangqian ZHU and Mr Yu CUI contributed equally to this work. 

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16-Nov-2021 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was a recipient of "Highly Cited Researchers 2021" according to Web of Science. It recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. 

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05-Nov-2021 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was honored as a "Vebleo Fellow" by Vebleo, which is an organizer of international in-person and virtual conferences, workshops, and exhibitions in the multidisciplinary fields of science, engineering, and technology across the globe. Vebleo Fellow recognizes researcher or scientist who has prominence and leadership in the field of science, engineering, and technology.

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03-Nov-2021 

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Our group website has been visited over 10,000 times.  

Thanks very much for your attention and support!

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20-Oct-2021 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was listed as World's Top 2% Scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology by Stanford University.  

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07-Sep-2021 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was highlighted as an "Emerging Investigator" in the special issue of J. Mater. Chem. A. 

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01-Sep-2021 

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Mr Yuecheng XIONG joined our group as a PhD student. 

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31-Aug-2021 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN served as a Guest Editor for the journal, SmartMat. The research topic is "Low-dimensional nanomaterials for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction reaction".

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14-Jun-2021 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater. Mr Jinli YU, Ms Juan WANG and Mr Yangbo MA contributed equally to this work. 

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09-Jun-2021 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by J. Mater. Chem. A. It belongs to 2021 Emerging Investigators Themed Issue. Ms Pengyi LU, Mr Jingwen ZHOU and Mr Yukun HU contributed equally to this work. 

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03-Mar-2021 

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Our manuscript was just published by Matter, a Cell sister journal in Cell Press. Mr Yangbo MA and Ms Juan WANG contributed equally to this work. 

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15-Dec-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN served as a Guest Editor for the journal, Nanomaterials. The research topic is "Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Metal-Based Nanomaterials".

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08-Dec-2020 

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Our manuscript was just accepted by ACS Mater. Lett. Mr Jinwen YIN, Ms Juan WANG and Mr Yangbo MA contributed equally to this work. 

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18-Nov-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was a recipient of "Highly Cited Researchers 2020", according to Web of Science. 

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24-Oct-2020 

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The total citation of our scientific publications exceeds 10,000 times.  

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08-Oct-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was listed as World's Top 2% Scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology by Stanford University.  

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14-Sep-2020 

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Our manuscript was accepted by Acc. Chem. Res. In this work, we provided an overview for the wet-chemical synthesis of Au nanomaterials over the past one and a half centuries. Particularly, the crystal phase control of Au nanomaterials with wet-chemical methods in the last decade was highlighted! Mr Shiyao LU, Ms Jinzhe LIANG and Mr Huiwu LONG contributed equally to this work.

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09-Sep-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal, Nanomaterials.

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01-Sep-2020 

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Ms Juan WANG, Mr Yunhao WANG, Mr Jinli YU, Ms Pengyi LU, Mr Yangbo MA, Mr Jinwen YIN and Mr Jingwen ZHOU joined our group as the first batch of PhD students.

Welcome!

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10-Aug-2020 

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Our manuscript entitled "Phase engineering of nanomaterials for clean energy and catalytic applications" was just accepted by Adv. Energy Mater. Mr Huangxu LI, Mr Xichen ZHOU and Mr Wei ZHAI contributed equally to this work. 

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18-Jun-2020 

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Our manuscript was accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. In this work, we studied the catalytic properties of copper nanostructures with unusual crystal phases in the carbon dioxide reduction reaction. Dr Zhanxi FAN is a co-first author of this paper. 

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05-Jun-2020 

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Our manuscript was accepted by Nature Commun. In this work, for the first time, we reported the synthesis of gold nanorods with a well-defined fcc-2H-fcc heterophase, which possess unique optical property and intriguing catalytic performance in the carbon dioxide reduction reaction. 

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22-May-2020 

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Our collaboration work was accepted by Nanoscale Adv. Dr Zhanxi FAN is a corresponding author of this paper. 

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18-Apr-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN served as a Guest Editor for the journal, Rare Metals. The research topic is "Emerging technologies for materials design and characterization in electrochemical reaction".

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01-Apr-2020 

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Our paper was published online in Nature Rev. Chem. In this work, the concept of "Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials (PEN)" was proposed. Dr Zhanxi FAN is a co-first author of this paper. 

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24-Feb-2020 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN served as a Guest Editor for the journal, Frontiers in Energy Research. The research topic, "Emerging Technologies for Materials Design and Characterization in Energy Conversion and Storage", was published online. Congratulations!

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19-Nov-2019 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN was a recipient of "Highly Cited Researchers 2019", according to Web of Science. 

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18-Nov-2019 

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Dr Zhanxi FAN joined the Department of Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor.

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01-Aug-2019

 

The Group Website was established!

A new journey began!