Cheng Tang

Dr. Tang has been focusing on the atomic-level design and engineering of nanomaterials for high-performance batteries and electrochemical production of fuels and chemicals. He has co-published 1 book, 1 book chapter and >70 refereed journal papers, including 1 ESI Hot paper (top 0.1 %), 19 ESI Highly Cited papers (top 1 %), and 8 cover-featured papers. These include 31 papers as the first/co-first author in flagship Materials & Chemistry journals including Adv. Mater. (9), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2), Sci. Adv. (1), Chem. Soc. Rev. (1), Acc. Chem. Res. (1), Adv. Funct. Mater. (1), J. Mater. Chem. A (5), and others. His h-index = 43 and total citations > 7000 on Google Scholar.

He has been awarded the 2020 Global Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics), and was recognised as the World’s Top 2% Scientists (released by Stanford University). He was also awarded the 2019 Chorafas Foundation Award in Chemistry (only 5 winners worldwide), the 2018 CPCIF-Clariant CleanTech Award, NDNC2016 Young Scholar Award, China National Scholarship for Graduate Students (3 times), the Top-Grade Scholarship at Tsinghua University (10/33000), Academic Rookies of Tsinghua (10/33000), Tsinghua’s Person of the Year 2016 (10/45000), First Prize of Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, etc. He is highly honoured to give the commencement address at THU 2018 Graduate Graduation Ceremony.

His research interests include:

1. nanomaterials including graphene, 2D materials, single-atom catalysts, 3D porous frameworks, high-entropy nanomaterials, etc.

2. lithium-sulfur batteries

3. bifunctional oxygen reduction/evolution in zinc-air batteries

4. on-site/demand electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide

5. electrocatalytic nitrogen cycling (nitrogen reduction, nitrogen oxidation, nitrate reduction, etc.)





Appointments



2018 Research Fellow University of Adelaide





Education



— Tsinghua University China PhD

— Tsinghua University China B.E.

— Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom
Postgraduate research

associate





Most cited publications



Spatially Confined Hybridization of Nanometer-Sized NiFe Hydroxides into Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Frameworks Leading to Superior Oxygen Evolution Reactivity

Authors:  Tang, Cheng; Wang, Han-Sen; Wang, Hao-Fan; ...  Wei, Fei

Published: Aug 2015 in Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.201501901



Nitrogen-Doped Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Sandwiches: Facile Catalytic Growth on Bifunctional Natural Catalysts and Their Applications as Scaffolds for High-Rate Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Authors:  Tang, Cheng; Zhang, Qiang; Zhao, Meng-Qiang; ...  Wei, Fei

Published: 2014 in Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.201401243



Bifunctional Transition Metal Hydroxysulfides: Room-Temperature Sulfurization and Their Applications in Zn-Air Batteries

Authors:  Wang, Hao-Fan; Tang, Cheng; Wang, Bin; ...  Zhang, Qiang

Published: Sep 2017 in Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.201702327



Topological Defects in Metal-Free Nanocarbon for Oxygen Electrocatalysis

Authors:  Tang, Cheng; Wang, Hao-Fan; Chen, Xiang; ...  Wei, Fei

Published: Aug 2016 in Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.201601406



A Review of Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia under Ambient Conditions

Published: May 2018 in Advanced Energy Materials

DOI: 10.1002/AENM.201800369