团队简介：主要从事能源与环境光催化半导体材料、微纳光电传感器件构筑与性能调控等研究。近年来，承担国家自然科学基金面上（青年）项目4项，中国博士后科学基金面上项目2项，江苏省自然科学基金面上项目3项，江苏省高等学校自然科学研究重大项目1项，在Applied Catalysis B: Environmental、Advanced Functional Materials、Advanced Energy Materials等期刊上发表高水平学术论文30余篇，授权发明专利13项。
团队骨干：
研究内容：
1.光耦合与表面热耗散调控增强金属纳米催化剂光热还原二氧化碳：构建半导体空心结构为载体的金属纳米催化剂，通过优化结构参数调控米氏共振范围，探索表面包覆对催化剂表面热耗散传输路径的影响规律，通过光耦合与表面热耗散调控实现催化剂光热催化性能增强。
金属纳米催化剂光热催化
2.光催化协同钛基铝热反应的三重长效杀菌抑孢作用及其机理：开放空间内快速、高效、大面积杀菌抑孢反应体系的有效构建能够缓解细菌扩散对人类健康构成的巨大威胁。研究纳米钛粉/金属碘酸盐复合杀菌抑孢体系，通过铝热反应快速释放大量热量，利用金属碘酸盐分解产生杀菌活性物质碘，同时形成燃烧产物TiO2/MOx复合光催化剂，在太阳光照射下，实现开放战场空间内快速物理(热)杀菌、长效化学(碘)灭菌和光催化抑制细菌芽孢再生的作用。
协同反应杀菌机理
3.Z型、S型半导体异质结构筑及光催化性能调控：构筑半导体异质结，研究界面化学成键、电极化和自旋极化等对界面能带结构的调控作用，增强异质结Z型、S型载流子传导几率，提升光催化效率。利用光催化耦合过硫酸盐活化技术强化环境污染物矿化。
直接Z型ZIS/CdS异质结电荷转移机理图及DMPO自由基捕获实验(ESR光谱)
S-型Bi2Sn2O7/Bi2MoO6异质结内建电场增强光催化性能
4.SMSI增强光催化产H2O2及漂白织物共进程反应机制：聚焦纺织品漂白，构建“共进程”贯通式绿色反应体系，运用SMSI增强光催化产H2O2，研究催化剂晶面与表面修饰对SMSI强度协同调控机制，探究SMSI强度对能带结构及光生载流子迁移行为的影响规律，研究光催化原位产H2O2同步漂白织物的脱色机制，发展绿色低碳、短流程、高效纺织印染生产新技术。
新型光催化产H2O2同步漂白织物反应构建示意图
5.量子点/二维材料异质结新型自驱动光电传感器构筑：创新地提出以量子点/二维过渡金属硫化物异质结作为传感电极，集成替代摩擦纳米发电机中的传统金属电极层，构建新型自驱动光电传感器。通过调节核壳量子点结构参数，对异质结界面能带进行精准调控，促进光生载流子产生与分离，研究异质结能带匹配对传感电极电输运性能的作用机制，优化器件结构，提升光电性能。
量子点/二维材料异质结能带调控与光电性能研究
代表性论文：
1.Wei Zhao, Siying Liu, Yun Liu, Shuo Yang, Benzhi Liu, Xuekun Hong, Junyu Shen, Cheng Sun, Integration of ohmic junction and step-scheme heterojunction for enhanced photocatalysis, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024, 654: 134-149.
2.Wei Zhao, Mengru Yan, Xinran Yang, Xiaojun Zeng, Yantong Chen, Benlin Dai, Xiaozhong Chu, Xuekun Hong, Feihu Mu, Shijie Li, Dennis Y. C. Leung, Constructing a novel S-scheme Ag/MIL-68(In)-NH2/Bi4O7 plasmonic heterojunction with boosted visible light catalytic activity, Separation and Purification Technology, 2023, 308: 122896.
3.Xiaxi Yao, Xuekun Hong, Yiding Liu, Visible Mie resonances in dielectric hollow spheres:Principle, regulation, and applications, Responsive Materials, 2023, 1(2): e20230019.
4.Wei Wang, Tao Li, Sridhar Komarneni, Xin Lu, Baojiang Liu, Recent advances in Co-based co-catalysts for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2022, 608: 1553-1575.
5.Mingfa Peng, Yi Tao, Xuekun Hong, Yushen Liu, Zhen Wen, Xuhui Sun, One-step synthesized PbSe nanocrystal inks decorated 2D MoS2heterostructure for high stability photodetectors with photoresponse extending to near-infrared region, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10(6): 2236-2244.
6.Mingfa Peng, Yulong Ma, Lei Zhang, Shan Cong, Xuekun Hong, Yiheng Gu, Yawei Kuang, Yushen Liu, Zhen Wen, Xuhui Sun, All‐Inorganic CsPbBr3Perovskite Nanocrystals/2D Non‐Layered Cadmium Sulfide Selenide for High‐Performance Photodetectors by Energy Band Alignment Engineering, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31(42): 2105051.
7.Mingfa Peng, Yang Liu, Fei Li, Xuekun Hong, Yushen Liu, Zhen Wen, Zeke Liu, Wanli Ma, Xuhui Sun, Room-Temperature Direct Synthesis of PbSe Quantum Dot Inks for High-Detectivity Near-Infrared Photodetectors, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13(43): 51198-51204.
8.Wei Wang, Ruixiang Yang, Tao Li, Sridhar Komarneni, Baojiang Liu, Advances in recyclable and superior photocatalytic fibers: Material, construction, application and future perspective, Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021, 205: 108512.
9.Weiwei Xu, Wei Tian, Linxing Meng, Fengren Cao, Liang Li, Interfacial Chemical Bond‐Modulated Z‐Scheme Charge Transfer for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11(8): 2003500.
10.Weiwei Xu, Wenchao Gao, Linxing Meng, Wei Tian, Liang Li, Incorporation of Sulfate Anions and Sulfur Vacancies in ZnIn2S4 Photoanode for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical WateSplitting, Advanced Energy Materials, 2021, 11(26): 2101181.
11.Wei Zhao, Tiantian She, Jingyi Zhang, Guoxiang Wang, Sujuan Zhang, Wei Wei, Gang Yang, Lili Zhang, Dehua Xia, Zhipeng Cheng, Haibao Huang, Dennis Y. C. Leung, A novel Z-scheme CeO2/g-C3N4heterojunction photocatalyst for degradation of Bisphenol A and hydrogen evolution and insight of the photocatalysis mechanism, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2021, 85: 18-29.
12.Xinhe Wu, Wei Zhong, Haiqin Ma, Xuekun Hong, Jiajie Fan, Huogen Yu, Ultra--small molybdenum sulfide nanodot-coupled graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets: Trifunctional ammonium tetrathiomolybdate-assisted synthesis and high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021, 586: 719-729.
13.Xiaxi Yao, Xiuli Hu, Wenjun Zhang, Xinyu Gong, Xuhong Wang, Suresh C. Pillai, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Dawei Wang, Mie resonance in hollow nanoshells of ternary TiO2-Au-CdS and enhance photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020, 276: 119153.
14. Xiaxi Yao, Xiuli Hu, Yi Liu, Xuhong Wang, Xuekun Hong, Xuefeng Chen, Suresh C. Pillai, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Dawei Wang, Simultaneous photocatalytic degradation of ibuprofen and H2 evolution over Au/sheaf-like TiO2mesocrystals, Chemosphere, 2020, 261: 127759.
15.Wei Zhao, Yue Feng, Haibao Huang, Pengcheng Zhou, Jing Li, Lili Zhang, Benlin Dai, Jiming Xu, Fengxia Zhu, Ni Sheng, Dennis Y C Leung, A novel Z-scheme Ag3VO4/BiVO4heterojunction photocatalyst: Study on the excellent photocatalytic performance and photocatalytic mechanism,Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019, 245: 448-458.
