Name: Zhenyu Zhou

Gender: Male

Job title: Lecturer

Email Address: zhouzhenyu@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience：

2022.06 ~ present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Lecturer

2017.10 ~ 2021.12: Technical University of Munich, Doctoral degree

2013.09 ~ 2016.06: South China University of Technology, Master’s degree

2009.09 ~ 2013.06: Zhengzhou University, Bachelor’s degree.

Teaching：

Undertake core theoretical and practical courses for undergraduates, such as "Principles of Chemical Engineering" and "Basis of Chemical Transmission Process"; The teaching work of the postgraduate courses of “Materials and Chemical Transmission Principle”, “Frontier Problems of Modern Chemical Engineering” and “Progress of Chemical Technology”, etc.

Research fields:

Major in gas adsorption separation, sensor design and electrocatalytic performance research of metal organic frame (MOFs) materials. Director of one Provincial Natural Science Foundation project, participator of four German Research Foundation (DFG) projects, one National Natural Science Foundation key project and one Provincial Natural Science Foundation key project. More than 10 SCI publications in renowned journals, such as, Angew.Chem. Int. Ed, Chem. Eng. J, Small, J Mater. Chem. A, Sep. Purif. Technol, Chem. Eng. Sci, Langmuir. Applied for 2 Invention Patents.

Research projects：

National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024.01.01 ~ 2026.12.01, Director

Jiangxi Province Natural Science Foundation, 2023.07.01 ~ 2025.06.30, Director

Awards and Honors：

Gan Po Talents Support Plan - Introduction Project of High-Level and Urgently Needed Overseas Talents, 2023.08

China Scholarship Council, Full scholarship, 2017.10

University Creative Science and Technology Design on Environmental Protection, Bronze Award, 2015.06

Representative papers and patents:

(1) Zhenyu Zhou, Soumya Mukherjee, Shujin Hou, Weijin Li,* Martin Elsner, Roland A. Fischer.* Porphyrinic MOF Film for Multifaceted Electrochemical Sensing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60, 20551–20557.

(2) Zhenyu Zhou, Jun Wang,* Shujin Hou, Soumya Mukherjee,* Roland A. Fischer.* Room Temperature Synthesis Mediated Porphyrinic NanoMOF Enables Benchmark Electrochemical Biosensing. Small, 2023, 2301933.

(3) Zhenyu Zhou, Jing Zhang, Soumya Mukherjee, Shujin Hou, Rachit Khare, Markus Döblinger, Ondřej Tomanec, Michal Otyepka, Liujiang Zhou,* Weijin Li,* Roland A. Fischer.* A Porphyrinic MOF Derived Single-atom Electrocatalyst Enables Methanol Oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 449, 137888.

(4) Zhenyu Zhou, Soumya Mukherjee, Julien Warnan, Weijin Li,* Suttipong Wannapaiboon, Shujin Hou, Katia Rodewald, Bernhard Rieger, Peter G Weidler, Christof Wöll, Roland A Fischer.* Porphyrin based metal–organic framework films: nucleation and growth. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8, 25941-25950.

(5) Zhiwei Zhao, Hanting Xiong, Yong Peng, Xing Liu, Pengxiang Wang, Junhui Liu, Zhenning Deng, Shixia Chen, Jingwen Chen, Zhenyu Zhou,* Shuguang Deng, Jun Wang.* Pore Environment Modulation of Metal-Organic Frameworks Enables Efficient Adsorptive Separation of Xe/Kr. Separation and Purification Technology, 2023, 325, 124529.

(6) Anna Lisa Semrau,† Zhenyu Zhou,† Soumya Mukherjee, Min Tu, Weijin Li,* Roland A Fischer.* Surface-Mounted Metal–Organic Frameworks: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives. Langmuir, 2021, 37, 6847-6863. (Equal first authors)

(7) Zhenyu Zhou, Liang Mei, Chen Ma, Feng Xu, Jing Xiao,* Qibin Xia, Zhong Li. A novel bimetallic MIL-101(Cr, Mg) with high CO2 adsorption capacity and CO2/N2 selectivity. Chemical Engineering Science, 2016, 147, 109-117.

(8) Zhenyu Zhou, Baihua Cheng, Chen Ma, Feng Xu, Jing Xiao,* Qibin Xia, Zhong Li.* Flexible and mechanically-stable MIL-101(Cr)@PFs for efficient benzene vapor and CO2 adsorption. RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 94276-94282.