Team
Jiong LU
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Bio
Dr Lu joined NUS as an Assistant Professor in 2015 after his Postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley. His team conducts interdisciplinary research on low-dimensional materials for optoelectronic, energy and environmental related applications. He aims to understand and control the chemical and physical processes – from the atomic to the macroscopic scale, for creating novel functional materials and devices.
His lab is dedicated to the synthesis of single-atom and superatom catalysis for CO2 fixation and uses their low-temperature qPlus-based atomic force microscopy for in-situ imaging of chemical reactions atsingle atomic bond level. The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) offer the unique capability of exploring the local electronic and magnetic properties of individual atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2013-2014
- Research Fellow, NUS, Singapore, 2011-2013
- PhD, Chemistry, NUS, 2011
- BSc, Chemistry, Fudan University, 2007
Selected Awards & Honours
- Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize, NUS, 2012
Research Interests
- Synthesis and application of two-dimensional materials and their nanostructures
- Atomic-scale imaging/spectroscopy and 2D materials based devices.
- Surface and interface science
Selected Publications
- Huinian Zhang, Jing Li, Shibo Xi, Yonghua Du, Xiao Hai, Junying Wang, Haomin Xu, Gang Wu, Jia Zhang, Jiong Lu, Junzhong Wang (2019). A Graphene-Supported Single-Atom FeN5 Catalytic Site for Efficient Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. AngewandteChemie, 58, 42, 14871-14876. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201906079]
- Jie Su, Mykola Telychko, Pan Hu, Gennevieve Macam, Pingo Mutombo, Hejian Zhang, Yang Bao, Fang Cheng, Zhi-Quan Huang, Zhizhan Qiu, Sherman J. R. Tan, Hsin Lin, Pavel Jelínek, Feng-Chuan Chuang, Jishan Wu, Jiong Lu (2019). Atomically Precise Bottom-Up Synthesis of π-Extended [5]Triangulene. Science Advances, 5, 7, 7717. [https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaav7717]
- J, Lu*, Hsin-Zon Tsai, Alpin N. Tatan, Sebastian Wickenburg, Arash A. Omrani1, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alex Zettl, Vitor M. Pereira, Michael F. Crommie (2019). Electrons imitating light: Frustrated supercritical collapse in charged arrays on graphene, Nature communications 10, 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08371-2
- Huan Yan, Xiaoxu Zhao, Na Guo, ZhiyangLyu, Yonghua Du, Shibo Xi, Rui Guo, Cheng Chen, Zhongxin Chen, Wei Liu, Chuanhao Yao, Jing Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Wei Chen, Chenliang Su, Chun Zhang, Jiong Lu (2018). Atomic Engineering of High-Density Isolated Co Atoms on Graphene with Proximal-Atom Controlled Reaction Selectivity. Nature Communications, 9, 3197. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05754-9]
- Yanpeng Liu, J. N. B. Rodrigues, Yong Zheng Luo, Linjun Li, Alexandra Carvalho, Ming Yang, Evan Laksono, Junpeng Lu, Yang Bao, Hai Xu, Sherman J. R. Tan , ZhizhanQiu, ChorngHaur Sow, Yuan Ping Feng, A. H. Castro Neto , Shaffique Adam , Jiong Lu, Kian Ping Loh (2018). Tailoring Sample-Wide Pseudo-Magnetic Fields on a Graphene–Black Phosphorus Heterostructure. Nature Nanotechnology, 13, 828–834. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0178-z]
- Leng, K., Abdelwahab, I., Verzhbitskiy, I., Telychko, M., Chu, L., Fu, W., Chi, X., Guo, N., Chen, Z., Chen, Z., Zhang, C., Xu, Q. H., Lu, J., Chhowalla, M., Eda, G., Loh K. P. (2018) Molecularly thin two-dimensional hybrid perovskites with tunable optoelectronic properties due to reversible surface relaxation. Nature Materials, 17,908-914. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0164-8
- Zhizhan Qiu, Hanyan Fang, Alexandra Carvalho, A. S. Rodin, Yanpeng Liu, Sherman J. R. Tan, Mykola Telychko, Pin Lv, Jie Su, Yewu Wang, A. H. Castro Neto, and Jiong Lu (2017). Resolving the spatial structures of bound hole states in black phosphorus Nano letters 17 (11), 6935-6940. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03356
- T Sun, B Tian, Jiong Lu, C Su (2017). Recent advances in Fe (or Co)/N/C electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5 (36), 18933-18950. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA04915C
- Sebastian Wickenburg, Jiong Lu, Johannes Lischner, Hsin-Zon Tsai, Arash A. Omrani, Alexander Riss, Christoph Karrasch, Aaron Bradley, Han Sae Jung, Ramin Khajeh, Dillon Wong, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alex Zettl, A.H. Castro Neto, Steven G. Louie, Michael F. Crommie (2016). Tuning Charge and Correlation Effects for a Single Molecule on a Graphene Device. Nature Communications, 7, 13553. [https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13553]
- Hai Xu, Shuanglong Liu, Zijing Ding, Sherman J. R. Tan, Kah Meng Yam, Yang Bao, Chang Tai Nai, Man-Fai Ng, Jiong Lu, Chun Zhang, Kian Ping Loh (2016). Oscillating Edge States in One-Dimensional Mos2 Nature Communications, 7, 12904. [https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12904]