Profile
Dr Quan ZHANG
Research Fellow
Dr Quan Zhang was born in Henan province, China. He received a B.S. degree in materials chemistry from Henan University in 2010. In 2013, he received his M.S. degree in materials physics and chemistry from Donghua University. Following that, he moved to Japan and completed his Ph.D. in Science at Kyoto University in 2018. He was a Research Fellow at Kyoto University
until he joined CARES in June 2022.
Past Members
Past Members
Research Interest
- Nanostructured materials;
- Inorganic functional materials;
- Hybrid materials for catalytic reactions
Key Publications
Quan Zhang*, Kohei Kusada, Dongshuang Wu, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Takaaki Toriyama, Syo Matsumura, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota, & Hiroshi Kitagawa. Crystal Structure Control of Binary and Ternary Solid-Solution Alloy Nanoparticles with a Face-Centered Cubic or Hexagonal Close-Packed Phase, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 4224–4232.
Quan Zhang*, Kohei Kusada & Hiroshi Kitagawa. Phase Control of Noble Monometallic and Alloy Nanomaterials by Chemical Reduction Methods, ChemPlusChem, 2021, 86, 504‒519. (Invited Review)
Maiyong Zhu, Yikun Cheng, Qiao Luo, Mohammad El-khateeb & Quan Zhang*. A review of synthetic approaches to hollow nanostructures. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021, 5, 2552‒2587.
Maiyong Zhu, Qiao Luo, Qi Chen, Wenjing Wei, Quan Zhang* & Songjun Li. Glycerol-assisted tuning of the phase and morphology of iron oxide nanostructures for supercapacitor electrode materials. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021, 5, 2758‒2770.
Quan Zhang, Kohei Kusada, Dongshuang Wu, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Takaaki Toriyama, Syo Matsumura, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota & Hiroshi Kitagawa. Solid-Solution Alloy Nanoparticles of a Combination of Immiscible Au and Ru with a Large Gap of Reduction Potential and their Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Performance, Chemical Science, 2019, 10, 5133‒5137.
Quan Zhang, Kohei Kusada, Dongshuang Wu, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Takaaki Toriyama, Syo Matsumura, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota & Hiroshi Kitagawa. Selective Control of fcc and hcp Crystal Structures in Au-Ru Solid-solution Alloy Nanoparticles, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 510.
Quan Zhang, Kohei Kusada, Dongshuang Wu, Shogo Kawaguchi, Yoshiki Kubota & Hiroshi Kitagawa. Crystal Structure-Dependent Thermal Stability and Catalytic Performance of AuRu3 Solid-Solution Alloy Nanoparticles, Chemistry Letters, 2018, 47, 559‒561.
Quan Zhang, Qinghong Zhang, Hongzhi Wang & Yaogang Li. A High Efficiency Microreactor with Pt/ZnO Nanorod Arrays on the Inner Wall for Photodegradation of Phenol, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013, 254, 318‒324.