WANG, Lu
Assistant Professor

Education Background
Bachelor&Master (University of Sheffield)
PhD (Nanyang Technological University)
Postdoc research fellowship (University of Toronto)
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Research Field
Photothermal catalysis and electrocatalysis
Email
lwang@cuhk.edu.cn
Biography
Dr. Wang has obtained his Bachelor and Master degree from the University of Sheffield in 2011. He then obtained the PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University at Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry under supervision of Prof. Martin Pumera in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he has joined Prof. Ozin’s research group for postdoc training in the University of Toronto at the Department of Chemistry. In 2020, Dr. Wang has joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
Dr. Wang has published more than 30 papers in highly regarded journals, including Joule, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Analytical Chemistry, etc.
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Academic Publications
Selected Publication:
Lu Wang*, Yuchan Dong, Tingjiang Yan, Zhixin Hu*, Abdinoor A Jelle, Débora Motta Meira, Paul N. Duchesne, Joel Yi Yang Loh, Chenyue Qiu, Emily E. Storey, Yangfan Xu, Wei Sun, Mireille Ghoussoub, Nazir P. Kherani, Amr S. Helmy, Geoffrey A. Ozin*, Black Indium Oxide a Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Catalyst, Nat. Commun. 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16336-z.
Xian-Wei Lv#, Lu Wang#, Guichang Wang, Ran Hao, Jin-Tao Ren, Xiaolu Liu, Paul Nicholson Duchesne, Yuping Liu*, Wei Li, Zhong-Yong Yuan, Geoffrey A Ozin*, ZIF-supported AuCu Nanoalloy for Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrogen and Thin Air, J. Mater. Chem. A. 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA02832K. (# co-first author)
Lu Wang, Tingjiang Yan*, Rui Song, Wei Sun, Yuchan Dong, Jiuli Guo, Zizhong Zhang, Xuxu Wang, Geoffrey A Ozin*, Room-Temperature Activation of H2 by a Surface Frustrated Lewis Pair, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 9501.
Tingjiang Yan#*, Lu Wang#, Yan Liang, Meysam Makaremi, Thomas E Wood, Ying Dai, Baibiao Huang, Abdinoor A Jelle, Yuchan Dong, Geoffrey A Ozin*, Polymorph selection towards photocatalytic gaseous CO2 hydrogenation, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 2521. (# co-first author)
Lu Wang, Mireille Ghoussoub, Hong Wang, Yue Shao, Wei Sun, Athanasios A Tountas, Thomas E Wood, Hai Li, Joel Yi Yang Loh, Yuchan Dong, Meikun Xia, Young Li, Shenghua Wang, Jia Jia, Chenyue Qiu, Chenxi Qian, Nazir P Kherani, Le He*, Xiaohong Zhang*, Geoffrey A Ozin*, Photocatalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide with high selectivity to methanol at atmospheric pressure, Joule. 2018, 2, 1369.
Lu Wang, Meikun Xia, Hong Wang, Kefeng Huang, Chenxi Qian, Christos T Maravelias, Geoffrey A Ozin, Greening ammonia toward the solar ammonia refinery, Joule, 2018, 2, 1055. (Cover)
Hong Wang#*, Lu Wang#, Qiang Wang, Shuyang Ye, Wei Sun, Yue Shao, Zhiping Jiang, Qiao Qiao, Yimei Zhu, Pengfei Song, Debao Li, Le He, Xiaohong Zhang, Jiayin Yuan, Tom Wu, Geoffrey A Ozin*, Ambient Electrosynthesis of Ammonia: Electrode Porosity and Composition Engineering, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 12360. (# co-first author)
Lu Wang, Zdeněk Sofer, Daniel Bou?a, David Sedmidubsky, ?těpán Huber, Stanislava Matějková, Alena Michalcová, Martin Pumera, Graphane nanostripes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 128, 14171.
Lu Wang, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera, “Metal-free” catalytic oxygen reduction reaction on heteroatom-doped graphene is caused by trace metal impurities, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13818.
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