Lu Zhenda

Lu Zhenda

Professor

Address: Room 244, Southwest building, Gulou Campus, Nanjing University

Tel: 025-83593800

Email：luzhenda@nju.edu.cn

Lab Homepage：http://zhenda.nju.edu.cn

Research Areas:

Controlled synthesis and assembly of nanomaterials; quantum dot optoelectronic materials; the applications of nanostructures in energy conversion and storage

Profile:

Lu Zhenda obtained his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, in 2012. He was at Stanford University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 2012 to 2015, engaged in post-doctoral research on the controlled synthesis and assembly of nanomaterials and the development of new high energy lithium battery materials.

So far, he has published over 50 papers (which have been cited for 2,400 times) on such academic journals as Nature Nanotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters, and he is the first author of 16 of these papers. He has also applied four US patents and has been a reviewer for several international academic journals. He was selected into the sixth group of China’s “Global Talents” in 2015 and is now working at Nanjing University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Graduate students advisement:

Lu accepts one or two new doctoral students and two or three master’s students each year. His team welcomes post-doc researchers, full-time researchers and visiting scholars.

Research Achievements

Papers

(Note: * refers to corresponding author; ^# refers to equal contribution)

[1] Liu, N., ^# Lu, Z. D., ^# Zhao, J., Mcdowell, M. T., Lee, H. W., & Zhao, W. T., & Cui, Y. (2014). A pomegranate-inspired nanoscale design for large-volume-change lithium battery anodes. Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 187-192. (Cover Article)

[2] Lu, Z. D., & Yin, Y. D. (2012). Colloidal nanocrystal clusters: tailored synthesis, surface modification and multiple applications. Chemical Society Reviews, 41, 6874-6887.

[3] Lu, Z. D., Gao, C. B., Zhang, Q., Chi, M. F., Howe, J., & Yin, Y. D. (2011). Direct assembly of hydrophobic nanoparticles to multifunctional structures. Nano Letters, 11, 3404-3412.

[4] Lu, Z. D., Ye, M. M., Li, N., Zhong, W. W., & Yin, Y. D. (2010). Self-assembled TiO₂ nanocrystal clusters for selective enrichment of intact phosphorylated proteins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 49, 1862-1866.

[5] Gao, C. B.,^# Lu, Z. D., ^# Liu, Y., ^# Zhang, Q., Chi, M. F., Cheng, Q., & Yin, Y. D. (2012). Highly stable Ag nanoplates for surface plasmon resonance biosensing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51, 5629-5633.

[6] Lu, Z. D., He, L., & Yin, Y. D. (2010). Superparamagnetic nanocrystal clusters for enrichment of low-abundance peptides and proteins. Chemical Communications, 46, 6174-6176.

[7] Lu, Z. D., Duan, J. C., He, L., Hu, Y. X., & Yin, Y. D. (2010). Mesoporous TiO₂ nanocrystal clusters for selective enrichment of phosphopeptides. Analytical Chemistry, 82, 7249-7258.

[8] Lu, Z. D., Sun, L., Nguyen, K., Gao, C. B., & Yin, Y. D. (2011). Formation mechanism and size control in one-pot synthesis of mercapto-silica colloidal spheres. Langmuir, 27, 3372-3380.

[9] Lu, Z. D., Li, C. D, & Yin, Y. D. (2011). Synthesis and thermochromic properties of vanadium dioxide colloidal particles. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 14776-14782.

[10] Zhao, J., Lu, Z. D., Liu, N., Lee, H. W., Mcdowell, M. T., & Cui, Y. (2014). Dry-air-stable lithium silicide-lithium oxide core-shell nanoparticles as high-capacity prelithiation reagents. Nature Communications, 5, 5088.

[11] Lu, Q. P., Lu, Z. D., Lu, Y. Z., Lv, L. F., Ning, Y., Yu, H. X., Hou, Y. B., & Yin, Y. D. (2013). Photocatalytic synthesis and photovoltaic application of Ag-TiO₂ nanorod composites. Nano Letters, 13, 5698-5702.

[12] Zhang, Q., Li, N., Goebl, J., Lu, Z. D., & Yin, Y. D. (2011). A systematic study of the synthesis of silver nanoplates: Is citrate a “magic” reagent? Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 18931-18939.

[13] Gao, C. B., Zhang, Q., Lu, Z. D., & Yin, Y. D. (2011). Templated synthesis of metal nanorods in silica nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, 19706-19709.

Patents:

[1] Yin, Yadong, & Lu, Zhenda. (2013). Direct assembly of hydrophobic nanoparticles to multifunctional structures. Patent No. WO2013006207 A1/EP2726191A1.

[2] Cui, Yi, Liu, Nian, Lu, Zhenda, Zhao, Z. (2015). Large-volume-change lithium battery electrodes. Patent No. US20150099187A1/WO2015051309A1.