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)
Prof. Huaqiang Cao’s research has covered a wide variety of areas in inorganic and materials chemistry, and organic chemistry for understanding the relationship between the synthesis-structure-mechanism-performance of materials. His current research focuses on free radical chemistry, carbon spin catalysis, nano-optics, low-dimensional material synthesis and properties. He has published over 100 academic papers. Since 2015, he has been selected in the Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers list for 9 consecutive years.
Papers:
1. Wei Fu, Jiefu Yin, Huaqiang Cao*, Zhongfu Zhou, Junying Zhang, Jingjing Fu, Jamie H. Warner, Cheng Wang, Xiaofang Jia, G. Neville Greaves, and Anthony K Cheetham*, Non-blinking luminescence from charged single graphene quantum dots. Adv. Mater.2023, 35， 2304074 (proposed charged trion non-blinking mechanism of graphene quantum dots)
2. Wei Fu, Huaqiang Cao* and Anthony K Cheetham*, Single non-blinking graphene quantum dots identified by single-particle catalysis. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2023, 11, 2300434. (proposed a method for determining single quantum dots)
3. Cheng Wang, Zirui Qiao, Yulan Tian, Haijun Yang, Huangqiang Cao*, and Anthony K Cheetham*, Alcohol imination catalyzed by carbon nanostructures synthesized by C(sp2)-C(sp3) free radical coupling. iScience 2023, 26, 106659. (constructing carbon-spin-catalysts by free-radical C(sp2)-C(sp3) coupling reactions)
4. 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)
5. 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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6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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.
Contact：
Tel： 0086-10-62794233
E-mail: hqcao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
