Prof
Lianzhou Wang
ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials
School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia
Ph: 61-7-336-54218
Fax: 61-7-334-63973
Email: l.wang@uq.edu.au
Lianzhou Wang is currently a Professor in School of Chemical Engineering and ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, the University of Queensland. Before joining UQ in 2004, he has worked at two leading national research institutions (NIMS and AIST) of Japan as a research fellow for five years.
Research overview
Professor Wang's research focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and application of functional nanomaterials for use in cleaner and more efficient energy conversion/storage systems, including photocatalytsts, rechargeable lithium batteries, and water treatment membranes. In the last six years' time, as a Chief Investigator, he has succeeded in winning 9 ARC grants, two CSIRO Flagship Cluster projects, one major Queensland Government fund, one CRC program, and a number of UQ grants. Prof. Wang has contributed more than 120 original journal publications (including top ranking journals such as Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., J. Am Chem. Soc., Adv.Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Chem. Mater., Small, Chem. Commun., etc.), 11 patents and over 80 presentations. He also won several prestigious Fellowships/awards including STA Fellowship of Japan, ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship of Australia, UQ Research Excellence Award of 2008, and the Winner of the Scopus Young Research Award of 2011 (Engineering and Technology category, organised by Universities Australia and Elsevier)
Teaching and RHD supervision activities
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Course coordinator of second year undergraduate core course CHEE2003 Fluid & Particle Mechanics
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Lecturer of fourth year engineering course CHEE4301 Nanomaterials and Their Characterisation
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Lecturer of fourth year engineering course CHEE4302 Electrochemistry and Corrosion
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Research Supervision: 6 RHD awarded, principal supervisor of 7 PhD students and 1 MPhil student
Current Projects
CRC Polymer program (2012-2017): New barrier materials for solar cells (CE)
Dow Chemical Strategic grant (2011-2014): New cathode materials for lithium ion batteries (CE)
UQ VC’s Senior Research Fellowship grant (2011-2013): Designing Advanced Materials for Efficient Solar-driven Energy Conversion (CE)
CSIRO Flagship Project (2011-2014) Flexible transparent electrodes for plastic electronics (CE)
ARC LIEF grant (2011-2012): An integrated kinetic measurement system enabling efficient solar energy conversion (CE)
ARC LP grant (2011-2013), Solar-driven massive hydrogen production from biomass and biomass/coal mixtures by supercritical water Gasification (CE)
ARC DP grant (2010-2012) Designing new visible-light active photocatalysts for efficient CO2 reduction (CE)
Queensland-China Alliance on Clean Energy Tech (2009-2012), Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Technologies
Top 10 recent publications
A. Mukherji, B. Seger, GQ Lu, Lianzhou Wang, Nitrogen Doped Sr2Ta2O7 Coupled with Graphene Sheets as Photocatalysts for Increased Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (5), pp 3483–3492.
X. Wu, ZG Chen, GQ Lu, Lianzhou Wang, Nanosized Anatase TiO2 Single Crystals with Tunable Exposed (001) Facets for Enhanced Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2011, 21, 4167-4172. (Frontispiece)
X. Wu, GQ Lu, Lianzhou Wang, Shell-in-Shell TiO2 Hollow Spheres Synthesized by One-Pot Hydrothermal Method for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Application, Energy and Environmental Science, 2011, 4, 3565-3572.
A. Mukherji, R. Marschall, A. Tanksale, CH Sun, S. Smith, GQ Lu, Lianzhou Wang, N-doped CsTaWO6 as a New Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting under Solar Irradiation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2011, 21(1), 126-132. (Frontispiece, highlighted by Nature Photonics, 2011)
X. Zong, C Sun, ZG Chen, A. Mukherji, J. Zou, S. Smith, GQ Lu, Lianzhou Wang, Nitrogen doping in ion-exchangeable layered tantalate towards visible-light induced water oxidation, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47(22), 6293-6295.
Y Wang, C Sun, X Yan, FX Xiu, Lianzhou Wang, SC Smith, KL. Wang, GQ Lu, and J Zou, Lattice Distortion Oriented Angular Self-Assembly of Monolayer Titania Sheets, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2011, 133(4), 695-697.
(Review Article) G. Liu, Lianzhou Wang, H.G. Yang, H. Cheng, G.Q. Lu, Titania-based photocatalysts—crystal growth, doping and heterostructuring, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 20(5), 831-843.
YC. Zhu, H. Liu, F. Li, Q. Ruan, H. Wang, M. Fujiwara, Lianzhou Wang, G.Q. Lu, Dipolar Molecules as Impellers Achieving Electric-Field-Stimulated Release, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2010, 132 (5), pp 1450–1451.
Lianzhou Wang, F.Q Tang, K. Ozawa, ZG Chen, A. Mukherj, Y.C Zhu, J. Zou, H. Cheng, GQ Lu, A General Single Source Route for Nanoporous Hollow Structure Preparation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 7048-7051.
G. Liu, Lianzhou Wang, CH. Sun, X. Yan, XW Wang, ZG. Chen, S. Smith, HM. Cheng, G.Q. Lu, , Band-to-Band Visible-Light Photon Excitation and Photoactivity Induced by Homogeneous Nitrogen Doping in Layered Titanates, Chemistry of Materials, 2009, 21, 1266-1274.