Education and Working Experience

• 2002-2006   B.Eng., Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

• 2006-2011   Ph.D., East China University of Science & Technology, China

• 2011-2016   Lecturer, East China University of Science & Technology, China.

• 2015-2016   Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada

• 2017-till now Professor, Fudan University, China

Research Interests

Representative Publications

1. Shi W, Shen T, Xing C, Sun K, Yan Q, Niu W, Yang X, Li J, Wei C, Wang R, Fu S, Yang Y, Xue L, Chen J, Cui S, Hu X, Xie K, Xu X*, Duan S*, Xu Y*, Zhang B*, Ultrastable supported oxygen evolution electrocatalyst formed by ripeninginduced embedding, Science 2025, 387: 971.

2. Sun K, Mao W, Jin L, Shi W, Niu W, Wei C, He Y, Yan Q, Wang R, Li Y, Zhang B*, Enhancing Heterointerface Coupling for Durable Industrial-Level Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64 (23): e202502250.

3. Wei C, Liu C, Zhang Z, Sun K, Xing C, Shi W, Li Y, Li J*, Zhang B*, Dynamic template reconstruction induced mesoporous iridium catalysts for high-current-density PEMWE. Joule 2025, 9: 102058.

4. Niu W, Feng J, Chen J, Deng L, Guo W*, Li H, Zhang L, Li Y, Zhang B*, High-efficiency C3 electrosynthesis on a lattice-strain-stabilized nitrogen-doped Cu surface. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15 (1): 7070.

5. Zhu Y, Liu C, Cui S, Lu Z, Ye J, Wen Y, Shi W, Huang X, Xue L, Bian J, Li Y, Xu Y*, Zhang B*, Multistep dissolution of lamellar crystals generates superthin amorphous Ni(OH)2 catalyst for UOR. Adv. Mater. 2023, 35 (24): 2301549.

6. Niu W, Chen Z, Guo W, Mao W, Liu Y, Guo Y, Chen J, Huang R, Kang L, Ma Y, Yan Q, Ye J, Cui C, Zhang L, Wang P, Xu X*, Zhang B*, Pb-rich Cu grain boundary sites for selective CO-to-n-propanol electroconversion. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14 (1): 4882.

7. Zhang B*, Wang L, Cao Z, Kozlov SM, García de Arquer FP, Dinh CT, Li J, Wang Z, Zheng X, Zhang L, Wen Y, Voznyy O, Comin R, De Luna P, Regier T, Bi W, Alp EE, Pao C-W, Zheng L, Hu Y, Ji Y, Li Y, Zhang Y, Cavallo L*, Peng H*, Sargent EH*, High-valence metals improve oxygen evolution reaction performance by modulating 3d metal oxidation cycle energetics. Nat. Catal. 2020, 3 (12): 985-992.

8. Zhang B, Zheng X, Voznyy O, Comin R, Bajdich M, García-Melchor M, Han L, Xu J, Liu M, Zheng L, García de Arquer FP, Dinh CT, Fan F, Yuan M, Yassitepe E, Chen N, Regier T, Liu P, Li Y, De Luna P, Janmohamed A, Xin HL, Yang H, Vojvodic A*, Sargent EH*, Homogeneously dispersed multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts. Science 2016, 352 (6283): 333-337.

9. Zheng X#, Zhang B#, De Luna P#, Liang Y, Comin R, Voznyy O, Han L, García de Arquer FP, Liu M, Dinh CT, Regier T, Dynes JJ, He S, Xin HL, Peng H, Prendergast D, Du X, Sargent EH*, Theory-driven design of high-valence metal sites for water oxidation confirmed using in situ soft X-ray absorption. Nat. Chem. 2018, 10 (2): 149-154.

10. Liu M#, Pang Y#, Zhang B#, De Luna P#, Voznyy O, Xu J, Zheng X, Dinh CT, Fan F, Cao C, de Arquer FPG, Safaei TS, Mepham A, Klinkova A, Kumacheva E, Filleter T, Sinton D, Kelley SO, Sargent EH, Enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction via field-induced reagent concentration. Nature 2016, 537 (7620): 382-386.