Professor Shaowei Zhang

Selected recent publications

• Tungsten disulphide nanorattle: A new type of high performance electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction，Y. Wen, Y. Xia & S. Zhang*, Journal of Power Sources, 307, 593-598, 2016

• A Family of High-Efficiency Hydrogen-Generation Catalysts Based on Ammonium Species, L. Lu, H. Zhang, S. Zhang* , F. Li, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION,2015, 54[32]: 9328- 9332  

• One-step gas-solid reaction synthesis of W@WS2 nanorattles and their novel catalytic activity, Y. Wen, H. Zhang, S. Zhang*, Nanoscale,2014, 6[21]: 13090-96.

• Fabrication and Luminescence of Monolayered Boron Nitride Quantum Dots, L. Lin, Y. Xu, S. Zhang*, I. Ross, A. Ong, D. Allwood, Small,2014,10[1]: 60-65

• Fabrication of Luminescent Monolayered Tungsten Dichalcogenides Quantum Dots with Giant Spin-Valley Coupling, L. Lin, Y. Xu,S Zhang*, I Ross, A Ong & D Allwood, ACS Nano, 2013,7[9]: 8214-8223

• Creating high yield water soluble luminescent graphene quantum dots via exfoliating and disintegrating carbon nanotubes and graphite flakes, L Lin & S Zhang*, Chemical Communications,2012,48[82]: 10177-10179

• Novel low temperature synthesis and characterisation of hollow silicon carbide spheres, J Ye, S Zhang* & W E Lee, MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS, 2012, 152: 25-30

• Effective solvothermal deoxidization of graphene oxide using solid sulphur as a reducing agent, L Lin & S Zhang*, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY,2012,22[29]: 14385-14393

• Growth of alpha-Si3N4 nanobelts via Ni-catalyzed thermal chemical vapour deposition and their violet-blue luminescent properties, J. Huang, S. Zhang*,Z. Huang,Y. Liu & M. Fang, CRYSTENGCOMM,2013, 15[4]: 785-790

• Molten salt synthesis of silicon carbide nanorods using carbon nanotubes as templates, W. Xie, G. Mobus, S. Zhang*, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 2011,21[45]: 18325-18330