Jinhu Yang got his doctoral degree (Physical Chemistry) at Peking University in 2005. He joined as Research Associate in Prof. Shihe Yang’ Lab of HKUST in the fall of 2005. Then, he entered the Institute of Frontier Science of Tokyo University, Japan in 2006 as Foreign Researcher supported by JSPS organization, conducting the preparation, characterization and property exploration of magnetic materials and energy materials. In 2009, he joined in Prof. Lukas Schemidlt-Mende’s group of Munich University and started research of nanostructured hybrid solar cells. Jinhu Yang has published over 40 refereed papers, which have been cited over 2000 times (H-index: 21).

1. Fabrication & assembly of nanocrystals

2. Nanostructured electrode materials for Li/Na-ion batteries

3. Photo/electro-catalysis towards clean chemical energy production

1. Foreigner Researcher of Japanese Society of Promotion Science (JSPS)

2. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow

3. Pujiang Scholar awarded by Shanghai STC

1. Ting He, Lianhai Zu, Yan Zhang, Chengliang Mao, Xiaoxiang Xu, Jinhu Yang,* and Shihe Yang*, “Amorphous Semiconductor Nanowires Created by Site-Specific Heteroatom Substitution with Significantly Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Performance”.ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 7882-7891.

2. Lianhai Zu, Yao Qin,* and Jinhu Yang*,“In-situ Synergistic Crystallization-induced Synthesis of Novel Au Nanostar-encrusted ZnO Mesocrystals with High-quality Heterojunctions for High-performance Gas Sensors”.J. Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 10209-10218.

3. Jinhu Yang*, Ying Li, Lianhai Zu, Lianming Tong, Guanglei Liu, Yao Qin* and Donglu Shi*,“Light-concentrating Plasmonic Au Superstructures with Significantly Visible-light-enhanced Catalytic Performance”ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2015, 7, 8200-8208.

4. Chengxin Peng, Huixin Chen, Qiongyu Li, Weiwei Cai, Yao Qin, Qingsheng Wu, Jinhu Yang*,and Yong Yang*,“Synergistically Reinforced Lithium Storage Performance of In-Situ Chemically Grown Silicon@Silicon Oxide Core-Shell Nanowires on Three-Dimensional Conductive Graphitic Scaffolds”.J. Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2, 13859–13867.

5. Chengxin Peng, Zubiao Wen, Yao Qin, Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Chongzhong Li, Shihe Yang, Donglu Shi, andJinhu Yang*, “Three-Dimensional Graphitized Carbon Nanovesicles for High-Performance Supercapacitors Based on Ionic Liquids”.ChemSuSChem.2014, 7, 777-784.

6. Yuanhui Zuo, Yao Qin, Chao Jin, Donglu Shi, Qingsheng Wu* andJinhu Yang*, “Double-side ZnO nanorod arrays on single-crystal Ag holed microdisks with enhanced photocataltytic efficiency”,Nanoscale, 2013,5, 4388-4394.

7. Jie Li, Yao Qin, Chao Jin, Ying Li, Donglu Shi, Lihua Gan* andJinhu Yang*, “Highly Ordered Monolayer/Bilayer TiO₂Hollow Sphere Films with Widely Tunable Visible-light Reflection and Absorption Band”.Nanoscale, 2013,5, 5009-5016.

8. Chengxin Peng, Bingdi Chen, Yao Qin, Shihe Yang, Siyang Liu andJinhu Yang*,“Facile ultrasonic synthesis of CoO quantum dot/Graphene nanosheet composites with high lithium storage capacity”.ACS Nano2012,6, 1074-1081. (ESIHigh-cited Paper)

9. Shaowu Wang, Yang Yu, Yuanhui Zuo, Chunzhong Li,Jinhu Yang*, and Conghua Lu*,“Synthesis and photocatalysis of hierarchical heteroassemblies of ZnO branched nanorod arrays on Ag core nanowires”.Nanoscale2012,4, 5895-5901. (FrontCover)

10. Yao Qin, Feng Zhang, Anwei Zhu, Yongping, Luo, Yang Tian* andJinhu Yang*,“Hierarchically Porous CuO Hollow Spheres Fabricated via a One-pot Template-free Method for High Performance Gas Sensors”J. Phys. Chem. C2012,116, 11994-12000. (ESI Highly-cited paper)

Book Chapter

Jinhu Yang, “Nanomaterial-Based Sensors for Environmental Monitoring”, Chapter 5 of Book “Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials and Applications”, pp. 91-110; DOI: 10.1142/9789814616928_0005.Worldscientific press,2014.