(1) With the help of fluorescence up-conversion and transient absorption techniques, perform kinetic studies on photo-electronic and photo-chemical transformation, and to extract novel strategies for photocatalysis and photovoltaic conversion ultimately.

(2) Applications of charge and spin properties of electron or hole in accurate measurement and directed design of the nano-optoelectronic materials/organic molecule hybrid systems and interfacial charge transfer processes.

(1) 2019: The Youth Star of Science and Technology from Dalian;

(2) 2020: The Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS;

(3) 2021: The Youth Excellence Award from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics;

(4) 2022: The Excellent youth Scientific Talent from Dalian;

(5) 2022: Zhang Dayu Young Scholar from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics;

(6) 2023: The Excellence Youth scientific and technological talents from Dalian;

(7) 2024: Wiley China Open Science High Contribution Author Award.

[1]  Shengliang Qi, Kaixin Zhu, Ting Xu, Hefeng Zhang, Xiangyang Guo, Junhui Wang*, Fuxiang Zhang* and Xu Zong*, Water-stable high-entropy metal-organic framework nanosheets for photocatalytic hydrogen production. Adv. Mater., 2024, 36(26): 2403328.

[2]  Chunzhi Li, Jiali Liu, He Li*, Kaifeng Wu, Junhui Wang* and Qihua Yang*, Covalent organic frameworks with high quantum efficiency in sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13(1): 2357.

[3]  Junhui Wang*, Lifeng Wang, Shuwen Yu, Tao Ding, Dongmei Xiang and Kaifeng Wu*, Spin-blockade and phonon bottleneck for hot electron relaxation observed in n-doped colloidal quantum dots. Nat. Commun., 2021, 12(1): 550.

[4]  Junhui Wang^#, Tao Ding^#, Kaimin Gao, Lifeng Wang, Panwang Zhou and Kaifeng Wu*, Marcus inverted region of charge transfer from low-dimensional semiconductor materials. Nat. Commun., 2021, 12(1): 6333.

[5]  Junhui Wang^#, Tao Ding^# and Kaifeng Wu*, Coulomb barrier for sequential two-electron transfer in a nano-engineered photocatalyst. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142(32): 13934-13940.

[6]  Junhui Wang, Tao Ding, Chengming Nie, Mei Wang, Panwang Zhou and Kaifeng Wu*, Spin-controlled charge recombination pathways across the inorganic/organic interface. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142(10): 4723-4731.

[7]  Junhui Wang, Tao Ding and Kaifeng Wu*, Electron transfer into electron-accumulated nanocrystals: mimicking intermediate events in multielectron photocatalysis II. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140(32): 10117-10120.

[8]  Junhui Wang, Tao Ding and Kaifeng Wu*, Charge transfer from n-doped nanocrystals: mimicking intermediate events in multi-electron photocatalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140(25): 7791-7794.

[9]  Huan Lin^#, Junhui Wang^#, Jiwu Zhao, Yan Zhuang, Bingqian Liu, Yujiao Zhu, Huaping Jia, Kaifeng Wu, Jinni Shen, Xianzhi Fu, Xuming Zhang* and Jinlin Long*, Molecular dipole-induced photoredox catalysis for hydrogen evolution over self-assembled naphthalimide nanoribbons. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61(12): e202117645 (1-6).

[10]  Lifeng Wang^#, Jingyi Zhu^#, Junhui Wang* and Kaifeng Wu*, Hot electron cooling in n-doped colloidal nanoplatelets following near-infrared intersubband excitation. Nano Lett., 2024, 24(34): 10691-10698.

[11]  Chenhui Wang^#, Guang Dai^#*, Junhui Wang*, Minghuan Cui, Yingguo Yang, Sirui Yang, Chaochao Qin, Shuai Chang, Kaifeng Wu, Yufang Liu and Haizheng Zhong*, Low-threshold blue quasi-2D perovskite laser through domain distribution control. Nano Lett., 2022, 22(3): 1338-1344.

[12]  Shengda Wang, Xingcheng Li, Xinyu Zhang, Pingsen Huang, Pengwei Fang, Junhui Wang*, Shangfeng Yang*, Kaifeng Wu and Pingwu Du*, A supramolecular polymeric heterojunction composed of all-carbon conjugated polymer and fullerenes. Chem. Sci., 2021, 12(31): 10506-10513.

[13]  Dongpeng Zhang^#, Pengfei Wang^#, Junhui Wang^#, Yanxiao Li, Yuguo Xia and Sihui Zhan*, Tailoring of electronic and surface structures boosts exciton-triggering photocatalysis for singlet oxygen generation. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), 2021, 118(48): e2114729118 (1-9).

[14]  Chengming Nie, Wenjun Ni, Lunlun Gong, Jian Jiang, Junhui Wang* and Mei Wang*, Charge transfer dynamics and catalytic performance of a covalently linked hybrid assembly comprising a functionalized cobalt tetraazamacrocyclic catalyst and CuInS₂/ZnS quantum dots for photochemical hydrogen production. J. Mater. Chem. A (Hot paper), 2019, 7(48): 27432-27440.

[15]  Lifeng Wang, Dongmei Xiang, Kaimin Gao, Junhui Wang* and Kaifeng Wu, Colloidal n-Doped CdSe and CdSe/ZnS nanoplatelets. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2021, 12(46): 11259-11266.