Biography

Fields of research:

1. Development of efficient photocatalytic nanomaterials for hydrogen production and environment remediation.

2. Synthesis of thermoelectric nanomaterials and construction of functional device.

Granted Projects:

1.National Natural Science Foundation of China: Fabrication and Visible-light Photocatalytic H₂-production Activities of Novel Multi-metal Phosphide/g-C₃N₄Photocatalysts. (21878129, 2019.01-2022.12) (PI)

2.Chinese-German Cooperation Research Project: Construction of Highly-ordered Nanoarrays as Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrodes and Investigation of Electron Transfer Kinetics at Solid-Liquid Interface. (GZ 1579, 2020-2023) (PI)

3.National Natural Science Foundation of China: Visible-Light-Driven Photoelectrocatalytic Degradation Activities, Synergy and Mechanism for Microcytins of g-C₃N₄-based Heterostructures. (21471046,2015.1-2018.12） (PI)

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Controlled Preparation and Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production of Complex Oxides/Graphene Nanocomposite.（21276116,2013.1-2016.12）(PI)

5.National Natural Science Foundation of China: Controllable Synthesis in Aqueous Solution and Thermoelectricity Property of Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ Core/Shell Quantum Dots. (21001086,2011.1-2013.12）(PI)

Main Publications:

1. Shi, Weidong; Song, Shuyan; Zhang, Hongjie. Hydrothermal synthetic strategies of inorganic semiconducting nanostructures. ChemSoc Rev 2013, 42, 5714-5743.

2. Hong, Yuanzhi; Jiang, Yinhua; Li, Changsheng; Fan, Weiqiang; Yan, Xu; Yan, Ming; Shi, Weidong*. In-situ synthesis of direct solid-state Z-scheme V2 O5/gC3N4 heterojunctions with enhanced visible light efficiency in photocatalytic degradation of pollutants. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2016, 180, 663-673.

3. JinhuiHao, Wenshu Yang, Zhen Peng, Chi Zhang*, Zhipeng Huang*, Weidong Shi*. A Nitrogen Doping Method for CoS2 Electrocatalysts with Enhanced Water Oxidation Performance. ACS Catalysis. 2017, 7: 4214-4220.

4. Lei Xing*, Prodip K. Das, Keith Scott, Weidong Shi*. Inhomogeneous distribution of platinum and ionomer in the porous cathode to maximize the performance of a PEM fuel cell. AIChE Journal. 2017, 11: 4895-4910.

5. Fagen Wang*, Bolin Han, Linjia Zhang, Leilei Xu, Hao Yu, Weidong Shi*. CO₂ reforming with methane over small-sized Ni@SiO2 catalysts with unique features of sintering-free and low carbon, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2018, 235: 26–35.

Information of postgraduate supervision:

Platform and team introduction

Professor SHI's research team currently has 7 professors, 5 associate professors and young teachers, and more than 60 doctoral and master's students.The team has been devoted to the research of synergetic catalyst for hydrogen production, CO₂ reduction and supercapacitorresearch. The research team has obtained a series of innovative achievements in recent years.Prof.SHI has undertaken more than 20 national or provincial level research projects, including National Natural Science Fund, Chinese-German Cooperation Research Project etc. He has published more than 300 SCI/EI papers and achieved over 30 invention patents of China. He has won the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Jiangsu Province, the First Prize of Science and Technology of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry. He has also guided students to obtain 2 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu University.

Application materials

1. Personal CV (including basic information, education background, work experience and main research achievements);

2. Five representative papers in PDF format in the past five years.

Application requirements

1. Having Chemical Engineering, Materials Sciences or Chemistry background.

2. Those who having laser processing or advanced manufacturing research experience are more preferred.

3. Having a master or a doctoral degree (or a doctoral candidate) with age below 35 and having good English communication skills.