Personal profile:

Aiyun Meng, Ph.D., associate professor, Shenzhen High-Level Professional. In 2019, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from Wuhan University of Technology under the supervision of Professor Jiaguo Yu. From June 2019 to July 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute of Micro/Nano Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University. Her current research lies on the preparation of highly-efficient photocatalytic materials and their applications. She has written two monograph chapters and published 19 papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as Adv. Mater., Appl. Catal. B, etc., many of which are ESI high cited papers with more than 1000 citations. She has hosted NSFC general project, NSFC Youth Fund and China Postdoctoral Fund. In addition, she is currently a reviewer for Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Journal of Materials Science & Technology.

Education background:

2013.09-2019.06    Wuhan University of Technology, School of Material Science and Engineering, PhD degree.

2009.09-2013.06    Wuhan University of Technology, School of Material Science and Engineering, Bachelor degree.

Work experience:

2023.04-now        Shenzhen University of Technology, School of New Materials and New Energy, Associate Professor.

2021.07-2023.03     Shenzhen University of Technology, School of New Materials and New Energy, Associate Researcher.

2019.06-2021.07     Shenzhen University, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Postdoctor.

Research fields:

1. Photocatalytic CO₂ conversion into hydrocarbon fuels and high value- added chemicals

2. Photocatalytic H₂ production via water splitting

3. Photocatalytic H₂O₂ production

Research projects:

1. 2023. 01. 01~2026. 12. 31, General program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), title: Construction of inorganic-organic composite flexible nanofiber-based step-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst and the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution coupled with selective oxidation of alcohols, in process.

2. 2021. 01. 01~2023. 12. 31, Youth Science Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), title: Fabrication of two-dimensional C₃N₄-based step-scheme composite photocatalysts for CO₂ reduction, in process.

3. 2021. 07. 14~2024. 07. 13, Shenzhen Postdoctoral Research funding, title: Construction of C₃N₄-based step-scheme composite photocatalysts and the photocatalytic activity, in process.

4. 2020. 07. 01~2021. 05. 31, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, title: Fabrication and photocatalytic CO₂ reduction performance of two-dimensional C₃N₄/MTiO₃ step-scheme composite photocatalysts, finished.

5. 2021. 09. 01~2022. 08. 31, Cooperative project with Hongzhiwei Technology (Shanghai) Co., LTD, title: Fabrication of two-dimensional C₃N₄-based step-scheme composite photocatalysts for CO₂ reduction, Finished.

Representative Papers:

1. Aiyun Meng^#, Shuang Zhou^#, Da Wen, Peigang Han*, Yaorong Su, g‐C₃N₄/CoTiO₃ S‐scheme heterojunction for enhanced visible light hydrogen production through photocatalytic pure water splitting, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2022, 43, 2548-2557. (IF=12.920)

2. Aiyun Meng, Liuyang Zhang, Bei Cheng and Jiaguo Yu*, Dual cocatalysts in TiO₂ photocatalysis. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1807660. (IF=32.086, hot papers, highly-cited papers)

3. Aiyun Meng, Jun Zhang, Difa Xu, Bei Cheng and Jiaguo Yu*, Enhanced photocatalytic H₂-production activity of anatase TiO₂ nanosheet by selectively depositing dual-cocatalysts on {101} and {001} facets. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2016, 198, 286–294. (IF=24.391, highly-cited papers)

4. Aiyun Meng, Bei Cheng, Haiyan Tan, Jiajie Fan, Chenliang Su* and Jiaguo Yu*, TiO₂/polydopamine S-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst with enhanced CO₂-reduction selectivity. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021, 289, 120039. (IF=24.391)

5. Aiyun Meng, Shuang Wu, Bei Cheng, Jiaguo Yu* and Jingsan Xu*, Enhanced photocatalytic CO2 reduction to alcohols over vertically-aligned Ni(OH)₂ nanosheets decorated TiO₂ fibers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6, 4729-4736. (IF=14.511)

6. Aiyun Meng, Liuyang Zhang, Bei Cheng and JiaguoYu*, TiO₂-MnO_x-Pt hybrid multi-heterojunction film photocatalyst with enhanced photocatalytic CO₂-reduction activity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 5581-5589. (IF=10.383, highly-cited papers)

7. Aiyun Meng, Bicheng Zhu, Bo Zhong, Liuyang Zhang and Bei Cheng*, Direct Z-scheme TiO2/CdS hierarchical photocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic H₂-production activity. Applied Surface Science, 2017, 422, 518–527. (IF=7.392, highly-cited papers)

8. Aiyun Meng, Zhenyuan Teng, Qitao Zhang, Chenliang Su*, Intrinsic defects in polymeric carbon nitride for photocatalysis applications. Chemistry-An Asian Journal, 2020, 15, 3405-3415. (IF=4.1)

9. Jiangtao Huang, Aiyun Meng*, Zongyan Zhang, Guanjie Ma, Yuhao Long, Xingyu Li, Peigang Han * and Bin He*, Porous BiVO₄ /Boron-Doped Diamond Heterojunction Photoanode with Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Activity. Molecules, 2022, 27, 5218. (IF: 4.927)

Monographs:

1. Chapter title: Surface heterojunction of photocatalysts (the fifth chapter). Monograph: J. Yu, M. Jaroniec, C. Jiang, Surface Science of Photocatalysis, Elsevier, Academic Press, London, 2020, UK.

2. Chapter title: Applications of dual cocatalysts in photocatalysts (the eighth chapter). Monograph: Synthesis Science of photocatalysts. In process.

Patents:

1. Aiyun Meng, Qiying Wang, Shuang Zhou, Yaorong Su, Shenke Xu, Peigang Han, A novel perovskite composite photocatalyst and its application: China, ZL 202111356028.5.

2. Jiaguo Yu, Jun Zhang, Aiyun Meng, TiO₂-Pt-Co₃O₄ ternary composite photocatalyst and its preparation method: China, CN 201610046441.4[P].

Email: Mengaiyun@sztu.edu.cn