BS (2002),  School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Shanghaijiaotong University

MS (2005),  School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Shanghaijiaotong University

PhD (2008),  Queen's University Belfast

Method developmet Ab initio electrochemistry Photocatalysis Aqueous chemisty vs semiconductor physics Surface acidity of oxides Heterogeneous catalysis in gas phase

1. J.-J Sun, J. Cheng*, Solid-to-liquid phase transitions of sub-nanometer clusters enhance chemical transformation. Nature Commun., 2019, 10, 5400.

2. C.-Y. Li#, J.-B. Le#, Y.-H. Wang, S. Chen, Z.-L. Yang, J.-F. Li*, J. Cheng*, Z.-Q. Tian, In situ probing electrified interfacial water structures at atomically flat surfaces, Nature Mater., 2019, 18, 697.

3. X.-Y. Huang#, C. Tang#, J.-Q. Li#, L.-C. Chen#, J.-T. Zheng, P. Zhang, J.-B. Le, R.-H. Li, X.-H. Li, J.-Y. Liu*, Y. Yang, J. Shi, Z.-B. Chen, M.-D. Bai, H.-L. Zhang, H.-P. Xia, J. Cheng*, Z.-Q. Tian and W.-J. Hong*, Electric field-induced selective catalysis of single-molecule reaction, Sci. Adv., 2019, 5, eaaw3072.

4. X.-J. Zhao#, H. Hou#, X.-T. Fan#, Y. Wang, Y.-M. Liu, C. Tang, S.-H. Liu, P.-P. Ding, J. Cheng*, D.-H. Lin, C. Wang, Y. Yang and Y.-Z. Tan*, Molecular bilayer graphene, Nature Commun., 2019, 10, 3057.

5.  Y.-H. Wang#, J.-B. Le#, W.-Q. Li, J. Wei, P. M. Radjenovic, H. Zhang, X.-S. Zhou*, J. Cheng*, Z.-Q. Tian, J.-F. Li*, In situ Spectroscopic Insight into the Origin of the Enhanced Performance of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts towards the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 16062.

6. J.-Huang, G. Csanyi, J.-B. Zhao*, J. Cheng*, V. L. Deringer*, First-principles study of alkali-metal intercalation in disordered carbon anode materials, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 19070.

7. G. Fu#, X. Wen#, S. Xi, Z. Chen, W. Li, J.-Y. Zhang, A. Tadich, R. Wu, D.-C. Qi, Y. Du, J. Cheng*, K. H. L. Zhang*, Tuning the Electronic Structure of NiO via Li Doping for the Fast Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 419.

8. X. Wu#, X. Fan#, S. Xie#, J Lin, J. Cheng*, Q. Zhang*, L. Chen, Y. Wang*, Solar energy-driven lignin-first approach to full utilization of lignocellulosic biomass under mild conditions, Nature Catal., 2018, 1, 772.

9. S. Xie#, Z. Shen#, J. Deng#, P. Guo#, Q. Zhang, H. Zhang, C. Ma, Z. Jiang, J. Cheng*, D. Deng*, Y. Wang*, Visible light-driven C−H activation and C–C coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol, Nature Commun., 2018, 9, 1181.

10. J.-B. Le, M. Iannuzzi, A. Cuesta, J. Cheng*, Determining potentials of zero charge of metal vs standard hydrogen electrode from density functional theory based molecular dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017, 119, 016801.

11.  B. An#, L. Zeng#, M. Jia#, Z. Li, Z. Lin, Z. Lin, Y. Song,Y. Zhou, J. Cheng*,C. Wang*, W. Lin*, Molecular Iridium Complexes in Metal-Organic Frameworks Catalyze CO2 Hydrogenation via Concerted Proton and Hydride Transfer.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 17747-17750.

12. J. Cheng*, J. VandeVondele*, Calculation of electrochemical energy levels in water using the random phase approximation and a double hybrid functional, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016, 116, 086402.

13. J. Cheng*, X. Liu, J. VandeVondele, M. Sulpizi, M. Sprik*, Redox potentials and acidity constants from density functional theory based molecular dynamics, Acc. Chem. Res., 2014, 47, 3522.

14. J. Cheng*, X. Liu, J. A. Kattirtzi, J. VandeVondele, M. Sprik, Aligning electronic and protonic energy levels of proton coupled electron transfer in water oxidation on aqueous TiO2, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 12046.

15.  Y.-K. Lv, J. Cheng*, A. Steiner, L. Gan, D. S. Wright*, Dipole-induced Band Gap Reduction in an Inorganic Cage, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 126, 1965.