Name:Huhu Cheng    

Information:Associate Professor

Email: huhucheng@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education and Experience:

04/2018~Present: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

04/2016~04/2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China.

04/2016~04/2018: M.S. & Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.

09/2005~07/2009: B.S., Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanxi Normal University


Research Work:

Structure regulation and chemical modification of carbon/polymer-based functional materials for novel energy conversion or storage systems, such as moisture triggered electricity generators, solar-thermal steam generators, biomimetic actuators, flexible energy storage systems.


Selected Publications:   

1. Air-dried high-strength black MXene aerogel for spatiotemporal infrared information management, Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 9780

2. Moisture-enabled self-charging and voltage stabilizing supercapacitor, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 4929

3. Robustly and Intrinsically Stretchable Ionic Gel-Based Moisture-Enabled Power Generator with High Human Body Conformality, ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 12096-12104

4. Inorganic hydrogel based on low-dimensional nanomaterials, ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 2730-274930.

5. Multifunctional solar water harvester with high transport selectivity and fouling rejection capacity, Nature Water, 2023, 1, 982–991

6. Multistage coupling water-enabled electric generator with customizable energy output, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 5702

7. Low-grade waste heat enables over 80 l m-2 h-1 interfacial steam generation based on 3d superhydrophilic foam. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 202211932

8. Moisture adsorption-desorption full cycle power generation, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 2524

9. A reconfigurable and magnetically responsive assembly for dynamic solar steam generation, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 4335

10. Transfer learning enhanced water-enabled electricity generation in highly oriented graphene oxide nanochannels, Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 6819

11. A machine-learning-enhanced simultaneous and multimodal sensor based on moist-electric powered graphene oxide, Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2205249

12. Graphene ionogel ultra-fast filter supercapacitor with 4 V workable window and 150 degrees C operable temperature, Small, 2022, 18, 2200916

13. Spatial-interleaving graphene supercapacitor with high area energy density and mechanical flexibility, ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 8, 12813–12821

14. Textile-based moisture power generator with dual asymmetric structure and high flexibility for wearable applications, Nano Energy, 2022, 95, 10701

15. The promising solar-powered water purification based on graphene functional architectures, EcoMat, 2022, e12205

16. Bilayer of polyelectrolyte films for spontaneous power generation in air up to an integrated 1,000-volt output, Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, 16, 811

17. Janus-interface engineering boosting solar steam towards high-efficiency water collection, Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 5330

18. Highly efficient clean water production from contaminated air with a wide humidity range, Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 1905875

19. Reduced graphene oxide–based spectrally selective absorber with an extremely low thermal emittance and high solar absorptance, Advanced Science, 2020, 1903125

20. Rollable, stretchable, and reconfigurable graphene hygroelectric generators. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1805705

21. All-region-applicable, continuous power supply of graphene oxide composite, Energy & Environmental Science, 2019, 12, 1848

22. Moist-electric generation, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 23083

23. Interface-mediated hygroelectric generator with an output voltage approaching 1.5 volts, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 4166

24. Spontaneous power source in ambient air of a well-directionally reduced graphene oxide bulk, Energy & Environmental Science, 2018, 11, 2839

25. Flexible in-plane graphene oxide moisture-electric converter for touchless interactive panel, Nano Energy, 2018, 45, 37

26. Graphene-based functional architectures sheets regulation and macrostructure construction toward actuators and power generators, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017, 50, 1663

27. Self-healing graphene oxide based functional architectures triggered by moisture, Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27, 42

28. A general and extremely simple remote approach toward graphene bulks with in situ multifunctionalization, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 3305

29. One single graphene oxide film for responsive actuation, ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 9529

30. Moisture-activated torsional graphene-fiber motor, Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 2909

31. Graphene fibers with predetermined deformation as moisture-triggered actuators and robots, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52, 10482

32. Graphene-quantum-dot assembled nanotubes: a new platform for efficient Raman enhancement, ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 2237

33. Ultralow-resistance electrochemical capacitor for integrable line filtering, Nature, 2023, 624, 74–79