Prof. Qichun ZHANG

Prof. Qichun Zhang obtained his B.S. from Nanjing University in 1992, MS in physical organic chemistry (organic solid lab) from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, MS in organic chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and completed his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of California Riverside in 2007. After conducting fifteen months of postdoctoral research at the Northwestern University (October 2007 – December 2008), he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) as an Assistant Professor. In March 2014, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In 2020, he moved to department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as a full professor. Further, he also has three-year work experience at the research institute of Nanjing Chemical Industry Co. (Aug. 1992 – Aug. 1995) and two-year’s research experience in ICCAS (August 1998 – June 2000). Currently, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an associate editor of Journal Solid State Chemistry. He also is a International Advisory Board member of Chemistry – An Asian Journal, the Advisory board member of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, the Advisory board member of Materials Chemistry Frontiers, and the Advisory board member of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Moreover, he is a Guest Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2016-2017), Guest Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2017-2018), Guest Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2017-2018), and Guest Editor of Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2019-2020). His research focuses on carbon-rich conjugated materials and their applications including (1) Design, synthesis and characterization of novel organic conjugated materials as well as their applications in flexible and stretchable optoelectronic devices, both in thin films (field-effect transistors, photovoltaics, memory, OLEDs, thermoelectric, sensing, etc.) and at the nanoscale; (2) Novel electrode materials as well as new design for Microbial Fuel Cells and energy storage devices; (3) Novel crystalline materials for photocatalytic applications; (4) Inorganic-organic hybrid materials or organic molecules for bio-applications and drugs; and (5) non-traditional conjugated polymers and carbon materials. In 2018 and 2019, he was recognized as one of highly-cited researchers (top 1%) in cross-field in Clarivate Analytics. He has published over 380 papers and filed 4 patents (H-index: 77).