Professor

Personal Profile

In November 2011, she graduated from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi 'an Jiaotong University with a PhD degree. Since November 2011, she has been teaching at Institute of Modern Physics, Northwestern University. She has been doing postdoctoral research in City University of Hong Kong, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

scientific research

Research direction: Design and theoretical simulation of high-performance hydrogen storage materials, CO2 catalytic raw materials and battery materials based on first principles.

Presided over 1 project of National Natural Science Foundation of China; 2 natural Science Foundation projects of Shaanxi Province; 1 special Fund project of Shaanxi Education Department; 1 Program for Overseas Study Talents in Shaanxi Province; 1 horizontal project; Selected into the project of Northwestern University Youth Backbone Support Program in 2013. More than 70 papers have been published on international authoritative journals such as ACS Cataysis, Nano Scale, JMCA, APL, JPCC, PCCP, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. Published a monograph “Hydrogen bond interaction and hydrogen storage material design” in Science Press.

Academic Achievements in recent Five years

[1] Tan Q, Shu C Y, Abbott J, Zhao Q F, L T, Qu T, Chen Y Z, Zhu H Y*, et al. Highly dispersed Pd-CeO2 nanoparticles supported on Ndoped core−shell structured mesoporous carbon for methanol oxidation in alkaline media. ACS Catal. 2019, 9(7): 6362−6371.

[2] Guo Y N, Zhu H Y* Zhao H, Zhao Q F, Zhou C H, Suo B B, et al. A theoretical bstudy of the electrochemical reduction of CO2 on cerium dioxide supported palladium single atoms and nanoparticles. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23(46): 26185-26194.

[3] Zhao H, Zhu H Y*, Feng Y F, Zhao Q F, Suo B B, Zou W L, et al. Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to methanol on iridium dioxide with CO* spectators. Chemelectrochem. 2021, 7(24): 5036-5043.

[4] Zhang Q Y, Zhao Q F, Liang X M, Wang X L, Ma F X, Suo B B, Zou W L, Han H X, Song Q, Wu Q, Li Y W, Zhu H Y*. Computational studies of electrochemical CO2 reduction on chalcogen doped Cu4 cluster. Int J Hydrogen Energy, 2018 43(21): 9935-9942.

[5] Zhu H Y*, Li Y W, Zhu G Z, Su H B, Chan S H, Sun Q. Be12O12 Nano-cage as a promising catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation. Sci Rep. 2017, 7: 40562.

[6] Haiyan Zhu. Hydrogen bond interaction and hydrogen storage material design[M]. Beijing：Science Press, 2018.7.

[7] Li X H, Yang X X, Liu, LT, Zhao H, Li Y W, Zhu H Y*, et al. Chemical vapor deposition for N/S-Doped single Fe site catalysts for the oxygen reduction in direct methanol fuel cells. ACS Catal. 2021, 11(12): 7450-7459.

[8] Feng Y F, Zhu H Y*, Zhang Q Y, Zhao Q F, Zhao H, Suo B B, et al. Theoretical study on the two novel planar-type all-nitrogen N44- anions: Structures, stability, reaction rate and their stable mechanisms via protonation. Chem Phys Lett. 2021，771: 138519.

[9] Zhao Q F, Song Q, Zhu H Y*, Zhang Z Y, Jiang Z Y, Zhou B. Origin of the structural diversity of the alkaline metal borohydride MBH4 (M =Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs): insights from first-principles calculations. Int J Hydrogen Energy. 2020, 45 (16): 9946- 9958.