Profile

Dr. Qingfeng Zhang, currently a Professor in the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences at Wuhan University. He received his BS degree from Fuzhou University and MS degree from Xiamen University. He then moved to the US and got a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from The University of South Carolina. Before joining Wuhan University, he is the J Evans Attwell-Welch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Smalley-Curl Institute at Rice University. He has published 26 papers since 2012, including Science, ACS Nano, JACS, Nano Lett., ACS Catal., JPCL, etc. His research interest is single-particle imaging and spectroscopy.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2020.12-now Professor at Wuhan University

2017.05-2020.10 Postdoc at Rice University Advisors: Prof. Stephan Link, Prof. Christy F. Landes

2012.09-2017.05 Ph.D. at The University of South Carolina Advisor: Prof. Hui Wang

2009.09-2012.07 M.S. at Xiamen University Advisors: Prof. Zhi-Yuan Jiang, Prof. Zhao-Xiong Xie, Prof. Lan-Sun Zheng

2005.09-2009.07 Fuzhou University Advisor: Prof. Ping Liu

REPRESENTATIVE PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Qingfeng Zhang, Taylor Hernandez, Kyle W. Smith, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, Alan X. Dai, Lauren Warning, Rashad Baiyasi, Lauren A. McCarthy, Hua Guo, Dong-Hua Chen, Jennifer A. Dionne, Christy F. Landes*, and Stephan Link*, “Unraveling the Origin of Chirality from Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Protein Complexes”, Science, 2019, 365, 1475-1478.

Science Perspective: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6460/1378

News Highlight: ScienceDaily, C&EN News, NSF Highlight, Rice News, Bioengineer, Nanowerk, Futurity, Phys.org. Materials Today

2. J. Jesús Velázquez-Salazar^#, Lourdes Bazán-Díaz^#, Qingfeng Zhang^#(co-first author), Rubén Mendoza-Cruz^#, Luis Montaño-Priede, Grégory Guisbiers, Nicolas Large, Stephan Link*, and Miguel José-Yacamán*, “Seed-Mediated Controlled Overgrowth of Five-Fold Concave Branched Nanostructures and Their Single-Particle Scattering Properties”, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 10013-10028.

3. Qingfeng Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Xiaoqi Fu, Esteban Villarreal, Lichao Sun, Shengli Zou, and Hui Wang*, “Photothermal Effect, Local-Field Dependence, and Charge Carrier-Relaying Species in Plasmon-Driven Photocatalysis: A Case Study of Aerobic Nitrothiophenol Coupling Reaction”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 26695-26704.

4. Qingfeng Zhang, and Hui Wang*, “Mechanistic Insights on Plasmon-Driven Photocatalytic Oxidative Coupling of Thiophenol Derivatives: Evidence for Steady-State Photoactivated Oxygen”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122, 5686-5697.

5. Lichao Sun^#, Qingfeng Zhang^#(co-first author), Guangfang Li, Esteban Villarreal, Xiao-Qi Fu, and Hui Wang*, “Multifaceted Gold-Palladium Alloy Nanorods and Their Geometric, Compositional, and Catalytic Tunabilities”, ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 3213-3228.

6. Qingfeng Zhang, Lili Han, Hao Jing, Douglas A. Blom, Ye Lin, Huolin L. Xin, and Hui Wang*, “Facet Control of Gold Nanorods”, ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 2960-2974.

7. Qingfeng Zhang, Hao Jing, Guangfang Li, Ye Lin, Douglas A. Blom, and Hui Wang*, “Intertwining Roles of Silver Ions, Surfactants, and Reducing Agents in Gold Nanorod Overgrowth: Pathway Switch between Silver Underpotential Deposition and Gold-Silver Codeposition”, Chem. Mater., 2016, 28, 2728-2741.

8. Qingfeng Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Esteban Villarreal, Ye Lin, Shengli Zou, and Hui Wang*, “Faceted Gold Nanorods: Nanocuboids, Convex Nanocuboids, and Concave Nanocuboids”, Nano Lett., 2015, 15, 4161-4169.

9. Qingfeng Zhang, and Hui Wang*, “Facet-Dependent Catalytic Activities of Au Nanoparticles Enclosed by High-Index Facets”, ACS Catal., 2014, 4, 4027-4033.

10. Qingfeng Zhang, Nicolas Large, Peter Nordlander, and Hui Wang*, “Porous Au Nanoparticles with Tunable Plasmon Resonances and Intense Field Enhancements for Single-Particle SERS”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2014, 5, 370-374.

11. Qingfeng Zhang, Douglas, A. Blom, and Hui Wang*, “Nanoporosity-Enhanced Catalysis on Subwavelength Au Nanoparticles: a Plasmon-Enhanced Spectroscopic Study”, Chem. Mater., 2014, 26, 5131-5142.

12. Qingfeng Zhang, Nicolas Large, and Hui Wang*, “Gold Nanoparticles with Tipped Surface Structures as Substrates for Single-Particle Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Concave Nanocubes, Nanotrisoctahedra, and Nanostars”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6, 17255-17267.

13. Lauren Warning, Qingfeng Zhang, Rashad Baiyasi, Christy F. Landes*, and Stephan Link*, “Nanoscale Surface-Induced Unfolding of Single Fibronectin Is Restricted by Serum Albumin Crowding”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2020, 11, 1170-1177.

14. Rashad Baiyasi, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, Qingfeng Zhang, Liang Su, Johan Hofkens, Hiroshi Uji-i, Stephan Link, and Christy F. Landes*, “PSF Distortion in Dye-Plasmonic Nanomaterial Interactions: Friend or Foe?”, ACS Photonics, 2019, 6, 699-708.

15.Tingting Zheng, Qingfeng Zhang, Sheng Feng, Jun-Jie Zhu*, Qian Wang, and Hui Wang*, “Robust Nonenzymatic Hybrid Nanoelectrocatalysts for Signal Amplification toward Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Cytosensing”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 2288-2291.