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ZHOU Xiaochun / 周小春
  • Department：Division of Advanced Materials
  • Position：Professor
  • Expertise：Single molecule catalysis; Electrochemistry; fuel cell; Hydrogen production
  • Email：xczhou2013@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
1.　  Single molecule/nanoparticle catalysis;

2.　  Thin layer electrode;

3.　  Hydrogen production from small organic molecule, or sun light;

Experience:

Employment

Mar. 2013 - Present Professor Division of Advanced Materials, SINANO, CAS

Mar. 2010- Mar.2013 Research associate Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, USA

Mar. 2008- Mar 2010 Postdoc Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, USA

Education

Ph.D. 2008 Physical Chemistry (Chemical Physics) Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS

B.S. 2002 Applied Chemistry China University of Petroleum

Selected Publication:
1.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Eric Choudhary, Nesha May Andoy, Ningmu Zou, Peng Chen, “Scalable Parallel Screening of Catalyst Activity at the Single-Particle Level and Sub-diffraction Resolution”, ACS Catalysis 2013, accepted.

2.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Nesha May Andoy, Guokun Liu, Eric Choudhary, Kyu-Sung Han, Hao Shen, Peng Chen, "Quantitative Super-resolution Imaging Uncovers Reactivity Patterns on Single Nanocatalysts", Nature Nanotechnology, 2012, 7, 237-241.

3.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Weilin Xu, Guokun Liu, Debashis Panda, Peng Chen, "Size Dependent Catalytic Activity and Dynamics of Gold Nanoparticles at the Single-Molecule Level", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 138-146.

4.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Yunjie Huang, Changpeng Liu, Jianhui Liao, Tianhong Lu, Wei Xing, "Available hydrogen from formic acid decomposed by rare earth elements promoted Pd-Au/C catalysts at low temperature". ChemSusChem, 2010, 3, 1379-1382.

5.　  P. Chen*, Xiaochun Zhou, H. Shen, N. M. Andoy, E. Choudhary, K.-S. Han, G. Liu, W. Meng, "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Nanocatalysis", Chemical Society Reviews, 2010, 39, 4560-4570.

6.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Yunjie Huang, Wei Xing, Changpeng Liu, Jianhui Liao and Tianhong Lu, "High-quality hydrogen from the catalyzed decomposition of formic acid by Pd-Au/C and Pd-Ag/C" . Chem. Commun., 2008, 3540–3542.

7.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Wei Xing, Changpeng Liu and Tianhong Lu, "Platinum-macrocycle co-catalyst for electro-oxidation of formic acid". Journal of Power Sources, 2008, 179, 481-488.

8.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Wei Xing, Changpeng Liu and Tianhong Lu, "Platinum-macrocycle co-catalyst for electro-oxidation of formic acid". Electrochemistry Communications, 2007, 9, 1469-1473.

9.　  Xiaochun Zhou, Tianhong Lu, Wei Xing and Changpeng Liu, "Effect of cations in solution on the oxidation of methanol on the surface of platinum electrode". Electrochimica Acta, 2006, 52, 1688-1691.

10.　 Xiaochun Zhou, Wenze Ouyang, Changpeng Liu, Tianhong Lu, Wei Xing and Lijia An, "A new flow field and its two-dimension model for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) ". Journal of Power Sources, 2006, 158, 1209-1221.

11.　 Xiaochun Zhou, Songtao Li, Yi Su, Changpeng Liu, Mingyou Huang, Tianhong Lu and Wei Xing, "Preparation and simulation of an additional catalyst layer for direct methanol fuel cell". Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2006, 588, 129-139.