Nanomaterials Hydrothermal synthesis Chemistry of Materials Crystal growth Solvothermal synthesis Sorbents Visible-light-driven photocatalysts Photocatalytic splitting of water Photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to renewable hydrocarbon fuel

During my PhD at Shaanxi Normal University, I was engaged in the fabrication of new potential materials applied in photo/electrocatalysis. Two highly pure materials were prepared for the first time, under the given facilities in our lab., and their detailed properties were preliminarily studied. During my PhD, I am nominated for ‘Outstanding International Researcher Award for year 2015-2019 SNNU’ award. Currently I am at a position of postdoc researcher and working on the optimization and fabrication of potential ‘Plasmonic Nanoparticles Modified MWO4-Graphene Composite Nanomaterials’ and their use in photo/electrocatalysis especially to achieve catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to renewable hydrocarbon fuel (CO2 + H2O → hydrocarbon + O2). I was also engaged in to understand the performance and the underlying mechanism of the as-prepared nanostructures evaluated by photocatalytic NO oxidation under visible light irradiation.