2D conjugated polymers; Organic frameworks; Photocatalysis; Functional coatings; Marine materials

Work experience:
2020/01-present: Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, CAS, Professor
2016/01-2019/12: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Postdoc, co/Prof. Xinliang Feng
2018/09-2018/12: University of Cambridge, UK, Visiting Scientist, co/Prof. Henning Sirringhaus
Education:
2011-2015: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, PhD. in Macromolecular Chemistry
2008-2011: Sichuan University, China, M.Sc. in Biomass Chemistry and Engineering
2004-2008: Sichuan University, China, B.Sc. in Light Chemical Engineering

2025: 2DM Young Scientist Awards, IOP publishing
2024: Young Scientists for Marine Research, China Youth Daily & China Pacific Society
2023: Outstanding Young Researcher, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2022: IAAM Fellow, International Association of Advanced Materials
2020: Excellent Youth Foundation, Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
2019: 3315 Innovation Research Team, Ningbo S&T Bureau
2018: INSPIRE grant, cfaed, TU Dresden
2015: SASTIP scholarship, Graduate Academy, TU Dresden

1. Tao Zhang#, Shu Chen#, Petko St Petkov#, Peng Zhang#, Haoyuan Qi#, Nguyen Ngan Nguyen#, Wenjie Zhang, Jiho Yoon, Peining Li, Thomas Brumme, Alexey Alfonsov, Zhongquan Liao, Mike Hambsch, Shunqi Xu, Lars Mester, Vladislav Kataev, Bernd Büchner, Stefan CB Mannsfeld, Ehrenfried Zschech, Stuart SP Parkin, Ute Kaiser, Thomas Heine*, Renhao Dong*, Rainer Hillenbrand*, Xinliang Feng*, Two-dimensional polyaniline crystal with metallic out-of-plane conductivity. Nature, 2025, 638, 411.
2. Shengxu Li, Shunqi Xu, En Lin, Tonghai Wang, Haoyong Yang, Junyi Han, Yuxiang Zhao, Qunji Xue, Paolo Samorì, Zhenjie Zhang*, Tao Zhang*, Synthesis of single-crystalline sp2-carbon-linked covalent organic frameworks through imine-to-olefin transformation. Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17, 226.
3. Haoyong Yang, Junyi Han, Shengxu Li, Petko St Petkov, Qunji Xue, Xinliang Feng*, Tao Zhang*, Synthesis of crystalline two-dimensional conjugated polymers through irreversible chemistry under mild conditions. Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 2336.
4. Quanquan Yang#, Yaqi Chen#, Nengji Liu, Shengxu Li, Mengwei Chen, Wanzhen Zheng, Yubin Fu, Junyi Han*, Raul D. Rodriguez*, Yang Hou*, Tao Zhang*, Enhanced oconfinement of copper-organic interfaces within phthalocyanine frameworks for selective electroreduction of CO to acetate. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 25, 22132.
5. Guangen Fu#, Denghui Yang, Shunqi Xu, Shengxu Li, Yuxiang Zhao, Haoyong Yang, Daheng Wu, Petko Petkov, Zhi-An Lan*, Xinchen Wang*, Tao Zhang*, Construction of thiadiazole-bridged sp2-carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks with diminished excitation binding energy toward superior photocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 2, 1318.
6. Ke Wang#, Haoyong Yang#, Zhongquan Liao, Shengxu Li, Mike Hambsch, Guangen Fu, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Qi Sun, Tao Zhang*, Monolayer-assisted surface-initiated schiff-base-mediated aldol polycondensation for the synthesis of crystalline sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic framework thin films. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 9, 5203.
7. Shengxu Li#, Rui Ma#, Shunqi Xu*, Tianyue Zheng, Guangen Fu, Yanling Wu, Zhongquan Liao, Yongbo Kuang, Yang Hou, Dashuai Wang, Petko Stoev Petkov, Kristina Simeonova, Xinliang Feng, Li-Zhu Wu, Xu-Bing Li*, Tao Zhang*, Direct construction of isomeric benzobisoxazole–vinylene-linked covalent organic frameworks with distinct photocatalytic properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 30, 13953.
8. Quanquan Yang, Junyi Han, Shengxu Li, Mengwei Chen, Sheng Wang*, Tao Zhang*, Isomeric Π conjugated covalent organic frameworks with tunable nitrogen topologies for integrated gold adsorption and photoreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, e202516067.
9. Daheng Wu#, Wei Li#, Tao Zhang*, Surface-initiated zero-valent metal mediated controlled radical polymerization (SI-Mt0CRP) for brush engineering. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023, 56, 17, 2329.
10. Tao Zhang#, Haoyuan Qi#, Zhongquan Liao#, Yehu David Horev, Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz, Petko St Petkov, Zhe Zhang, Rishi Shivhare, Panpan Zhang, Kejun Liu, Viktor Bezugly, Shaohua Liu, Zhikun Zheng, Stefan Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Hossam Haick, Ehrenfried Zschech, Ute Kaiser, Renhao Dong, Xinliang Feng*, Engineering Crystalline Quasi-Two-Dimensional Polyaniline thin film with enhanced electrical and chemiresistive sensing performances. Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 4225.
11. Tao Zhang#, Yang Hou#, Volodymyr Dzhagan, Zhongquan Liao, Guoliang Chai, Markus Löffler, Davide Olianas, Alberto Milani, Shunqi Xu, Matteo Tommasini, Dietrich RT Zahn, Zhikun Zheng, Ehrenfried Zschech, Rainer Jordan, Xinliang Feng*, Copper-surface-mediated synthesis of acetylenic carbon-rich ofibers for active metal-free photocathodes, Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 1140.
12. Tao Zhang*, Zhongquan Liao, Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, Arezoo Dianat, Xiaoling Liu, Peng Xiao, Ihsan Amin, Rafael Gutierrez, Tao Chen, Ehrenfried Zschech, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Rainer Jordan*, Polymerization driven monomer passage through monolayer chemical vapour deposition graphene. Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 4051.