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Prof. ZHU Zonglong
朱宗龍教授
PhD(HKUST)

Research Grants Coordinator of College of Science
Chair Professor of Chemistry & Photovoltaic Technology


Contact Information
Office: YEUNG-P5512
Phone: +852 3442-4559
Fax: +852 3442-0522
Email: zonglzhu@cityu.edu.hk
Web: Personal Homepage
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8285-9665
Scopus
Author ID:
55750367600
Research Interests
  • materials innovation and interfacial engineering
  • renewable energy
  • nanotechnology

Prof. Zonglong Zhu serves as the Chair Professor of Chemistry and Photovoltaic Technology in the Department of Chemistry at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, following a Bachelor of Science degree from Nanjing University in 2010. After completing his Ph.D., Prof. Zhu pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle.Prof. Zhu has published over 150 SCI-indexed publications, which have collectively garnered more than 18,000 citations. His portfolio includes 110 articles in prestigious, top-tier journals, with impactful contributions to the journal Science in 2022, 2023, and 2024. He has authored more than 75 publications as the corresponding author and has 29 Highly Cited Papers. Prof. Zhu was also named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field) for three consecutive years (2022-2024). Additionally, he has been ranked among Stanford University's top 2% of highly cited scientists worldwide from 2021 to 2024.

Prof. Zhu has been awarded including the RGC Research Fellow Award and the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau). He has received over HK$45 million in competitive research grants, with more than HK$30 million as a Principal Investigator (PI) or Project Coordinator (PC). These grants led by him include funding from prestigious programs such as the Collaborative Research Fund, Research Impact Fund, NSFC-RGC Joint Fund, Innovation and Technology Support Programme (ITSP) seed and platform, Mainland-Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme (MHKTCFS) funded by Mainland and Hong Kong, Guangdong and Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau Technology Research Programme (Type C), Shenzhen Key Research Project in Natural Sciences Basic Research.
 

For more information, visit Prof. Zonglong Zhu’s official group website.

Selected Publications

 (#equal contribution, *corresponding author)
(Full publication list is available here: https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?user=_HSF3-oAAAAJ&hl=en and https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/zonglong-zhu(d6552e68-3ebf-48ea-8580-8b39b961648c)/publications.html)

  • Danpeng Gao; Bo Li; Qi Liu; Chunlei Zhang; Zexin Yu; Shuai Li; Jianqiu Gong; Liangchen Qian; Francesco Vanin; Kelly Schutt; Melissa A. Davis; Axel F. Palmstrom; Steven P. Harvey; Nicholas J. Long; Joseph M. Luther; Xiao Cheng Zeng; Zonglong Zhu*, Long-term stability in perovskite solar cells through atomic layer deposition of tin oxide. Science, 2024 386, 6718, 187
  • Zhen Li, Xianglang Sun, Xiaopeng Zheng, Bo Li, Danpeng Gao, Shoufeng Zhang, Xin Wu, Shuai Li, Jianqiu Gong, Joseph M. Luther, Zhong’an Li*, Zonglong Zhu*, Stabilized hole-selective layer for high-performance inverted p-i-n perovskite solar cells. Science 2023, 382, 6668, 284
  • Zhen Li, Bo Li, Xin Wu, Stephanie A. Sheppard, Shoufeng Zhang, Danpeng Gao, Nicholas J. Long*, Zonglong Zhu*, Organometallic-functionalized interfaces for highly efficient inverted perovskite solar cells. Science 2022, 376, 6591, 416.
Research Positions Available

Several positions including Postdoctoral Fellows, Postgraduate Students and Research Assistants are available in Prof. Zhu’s research lab. Please kindly contact Prof. Zhu (zonglzhu@cityu.edu.hk) directly if you are interested in.

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