Dr. Yufeng Zhao is currently a full professor in Insistitute of Sustainable Energy, Shanghai University, director of advanced materials center,. She is also a review editor of Frontiers in Energy Storage, and the editor board member of Nano Advances. Dr. Zhao received her BS (2000) and MS (2003) degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tianjin University, China, and her Ph.D. (2006) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Afterwards, she worked in Deakin University, Australia (2006-2008) and Phillips University Marburg, Germany (2008-2009) as a research scientist. She joined Yanshan University since 2010, and she was also a visiting professor in the NUANCE Center of Northwestern University (2014-2015). Her current research focuses on the development of advanced energy materials for supercapacitors, sodium-ion batteries and electrocatalysts, with particular interest in 2D transition metal compounds and nano-carbon materials. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers on international journals including Adv Mater, Angew Chem, PNAS, Nat Commun, etc. 

 Representative Publications

1) Yufeng Zhao* et al., A universal and scalable transformation of bulk metals into single-atom catalysts in ionic liquids, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2024, 121 (10):e2319136121.

2) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Enable the Domino-like Structural Recovering in Bismuth Anode to Achieve Fast and Durable Na/K Storages, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, DOI:10.1002/anie.202406513

3）Yufeng Zhao* et al., Zinc Single-Atom Regulated Hard Carbons for High Rate and Low Temperature Sodium Ion Batteries, Advanced Materials, 2023, DOI:10.1002/adma.202211461.

4) Yufeng Zhao* et al., A Stress Self-Adaptive Structure to Suppress the Chemo-mechanical Degradation for High Rate and Ultralong Cycle Life Sodium Ion Batteries, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, DOI:10.1002/anie.202303875.

5) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Improving Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution through Local Field Distortion in Mg/Fe Dual-site Catalysts, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202314303

6) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Niobium-doped layered cathode material for high-power and low-temperature sodium-ion batteries, Nature Communications, 2022, 13:3205.

7) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Enabling Fast Na+ Transfer Kinetics in the Whole-Voltage-Region of Hard Carbon Anodes for Ultrahigh Rate Sodium Storage, Advanced Materials, 2022, 34 (13), 2109282.

8) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Turning on Zn 4s Electrons in a N2-Zn-B2 Configuration to Stimulate Remarkable ORR Performance, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60(1): 181-185

9) Yufeng Zhao* et al., An Isolated Zn-Co Atomic Pair for Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58 (9), 2622-2626

10) Yufeng Zhao* et al., Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Synthesis, Characterization, Reaction Mechanisms and Electrochemical Energy Applications, Energy & Environmental Science, 2019, 12, 2890-2923