Huaqiang Cao FRSC FIMMM, Professor of Chemistry
2001 Nanjing University, Department of Chemistry, Ph. D
2001-2003 Tsinghua University, Department of Chemistry, Post-doctoral
2003- now Tsinghua University, Department of Chemistry, Associate Professor, Professor (2012-)
2007-2008 University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Visiting Scholar
2014-2015 University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Senior Visiting Fellow
2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM)
His research interest is to study the synthesis-structure-mechanism-property relationship in low-dimensional materials. He has published nearly 100 academic papers. Since 2015, he has been selected in the Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers list for 8 consecutive years.
Papers:
1. Yulan Tian, Huaqiang Cao*, Haijun Yang, Wenqing Yao, Zirui Qiao, and Anthony K Cheetham*, Electron spin catalysis with graphene belts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215295. (proposed and demonstrated for carbon-spin catalysis mechanism)
2. Zhifang Liu, Huaipeng Wang, Huaqiang Cao*, Dan Xie, Chun Li, Haijun Yang, Wenqing Yao, and Anthony K. Cheetham*, Ultratough hydrogen-bond-bridged phosphorene films. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2203332. (proposed the nanomechanical formula:
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3. Huaqiang Cao*, Cheng Wang, Baojun Li, Tianyu Chen, Peng Han, Yan Zhang, Haijun Yang, Qunyang Li, and Anthony K. Cheetham*, Successive free-radical C(sp2)–C(sp2) coupling reactions to form graphene. CCS Chem. 2022, 4,584-597. (proposed and demonstrated the mechanism of C(sp2) -C(sp2) radical coupling of aryl halides under sodium metal)
4. Zhifang Liu, Yilin Sun, Huaqiang Cao*, Dan Xie*, Wei Li, Jiaou Wang, and Anthony K. Cheetham*, Unzipping of black phosphorus to form zigzag-phosphorene nanobelts. Nature Commun. 2020, 11, 3917. (proposed the unzipping mechanism of black phosphorus to phosphorene)
5. Cheng Wang, Shuai Wu, Xiao Yang, Zihe Yan, Guoxin Xie*, Sichun Zhang, Jiadao Wang, and Huaqiang Cao*, Thickness-dependent Young’s modulus of polycrystalline a-PbO nanosheets. Nanotechnology 2020, 31, 395712. (proposed the nanomechanical formulation: E= E0 +kt-1)
Book:
Huaqiang Cao, Synthesis and Applications of Inorganic Nanostructures, Wiley-VCH, 2017.
