(1) Interfacial electronic structure and ultrafast electron dynamics
(2)Surface chemistry
Chuanyao Zhou was born in 1985, Hunan Province. He received the BS and PhD from USTC and DICP in 2005 and 2012, respectively. He joined the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics in 2011 and was promoted as a professor in 2019. His research interest focuses on the electronic structure, ultrafast electron dynamics and surface chemistry in the solar conversion systems. Zhou has over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and some of them are published in J Am Chem Soc, ACS Catalysis, Nano Letters, Chemical Science, J Phys Chem Lett, Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, Chemical Society Reviews, Energy & Environmental Science, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry and Surface Science Reports.
(1) Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, 2016
[1] Gao, Y.; Wang, K.; Wang, T.; Xia, S.; Hao, Q.; Wang, Z.; Wen, B.*; Ren, Z.; Yang, X.; Selloni, A.*; Zhou, C.*, Disentangling the Contribution of Surface and Bulk Ti3+ Defects to the Band Gap States of Rutile TiO2(011). JACS Au 2025, 5 (4), 1822-1832.
[2] Chang, X.; Yu, C.; Yang, C.; Xie, H.; Xia, S.; Fang, Z.; Li, J.; Zhang, S.; Liu, F.; Wang, T.; Tan, Y.; Chen, X.; Shi, S.; Guo, Q.; Xu, Q.; Hu, J.; Ding, H.; Huang, C.*; Zhou, C.*; Zhu, J.; Yang, X.; Yang, W.*, Groove-Confined Cobalt Catalyst for Low-Temperature CO2 Activation. J Am Chem Soc 2025, 147 (19), 16164-16170.
[3] Wang, Z.; Gao, Y.; Wang, T.; Chen, W.; Ren, Z.; Yang, X.; Zhou, C.*, Photocatalyzed oxidation of water on oxygen pretreated rutile TiO2(110). Chin Chem Lett 2025, 36 (4), 110602.
[4] Xia, S.; Wang, T.; Ren, Z.; Yang, X.; Guo, Q.*; Zhou, C.*, Adsorption Structure-Activity Correlation in the Photocatalytic Chemistry of Methanol and Water on TiO2(110). Acc Chem Res 2024, 57 (23), 3407-3418.
[5] Xia, S. C.; Xie, H. Z.; Li, J. L.; Zhang, W. Q.; Ren, Z. F.; Dai, D. X.; Yang, X. M.; Zhou, C.*, Excitation Photon Energy-Dependent Carrier Multiplication in Graphite. Acs Mater Lett 2024, 6 (12), 5484-5491.
[6] Li, J.; Wang, T.; Xia, S.; Chen, W.; Ren, Z.; Sun, M.; Che, L.*; Yang, X.; Zhou, C.*, Site-Selective Excitation of Ti3+ Ions in Rutile TiO2 Via Anisotropic Intra-Atomic 3d→3d Transition, JACS Au 2024, 4(2), 491-501.
[7] Dong, S.; Hu, J.; Xia, S.; Wang, B.; Wang, Z.; Wang, T.; Chen, W.; Ren, Z.; Fan, H.; Dai, D.; Cheng, J. *; Yang, X.; Zhou, C. *, Origin of the Adsorption-State-Dependent Photoactivity of Methanol on TiO2(110). ACS Catal 2021, 11 (5), 2620-2630.
[8] Hao, Q.; ZhiqiangWang; Wang, T.; Ren, Z.; Zhou, C.*; Yang, X.*, Role of Pt Loading in the Photocatalytic Chemistry of Methanol on Rutile TiO2(110). ACS Catal 2019, 9 (1), 286-294.
[9] Guo, Q.#; Zhou, C. #; Ma, Z.; Ren, Z.; Fan, H.; Yang, X.*, Elementary photocatalytic chemistry on TiO2 surfaces. Chem Soc Rev 2016, 45 (13), 3701-3730. (# equal contribution)
[10] Wang, Z.; Wen, B.; Hao, Q.; Liu, L. M.*; Zhou, C.*; Mao, X.; Lang, X.; Yin, W. J.; Dai, D.; Selloni, A.*; Yang, X.*, Localized Excitation of Ti3+ Ions in the Photoabsorption and Photocatalytic Activity of Reduced Rutile TiO2. J Am Chem Soc 2015, 137 (28), 9146-9152.
[11] Zhou, C.; Ma, Z.; Ren, Z.; Wodtke, A. M.; Yang, X.*, Surface Photochemistry Probed by Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy. Energy Environ Sci 2012, 5, 6833-6844.
[12] Zhou, C.; Ren, Z. F.; Tan, S. J.; Ma, Z. B.; Mao, X. C.; Dai, D. X.; Fan, H. J.*; Yang, X. M.*; LaRue, J.; Cooper, R.; Wodtke, A. M.; Wang, Z.; Li, Z. Y.; Wang, B.*; Yang, J. L.; Hou, J. G., Site-specific photocatalytic splitting of methanol on TiO2(110). Chem Sci 2010, 1 (5), 575-580. (Highlighted by Science)