• Date of Employment:
  2020-10
• School/Department:
  Institute of Frontier Chemistry
• Administrative Position:
  Professor
• Education Level:
  Postgraduate (Doctoral)
• Business Address:
  No. 72 Binhai road, Jimo District, 266237, Qingdao, China
• Gender:
  Male
• Contact Information:
  626d6261958fda55c64e68c59ccd53eded508bee85140f666d08b33370665bcff82ce577f0f1e572763542b829be4cfd9c210786a956c8dcebe212a557d71374954e03b48992f2da6071230eca3e14adc6472ef8c0ea62c37281a2115785868886ab939916ff30809a8c8efa5c435cd52cafa4345902a9c51c3762f02f59cbc1
• Degree:
  Doctoral Degree in Science
• Alma Mater:
  Fudan University
• Supervisor of Master's Candidates
• Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates

Dr. Hao Wu

Ph.D., 2013-2016, @Fudan University (Prof. Gengfeng Zheng)

Postdoctoral fellow, 2016.11−2018.05, @National University of Singapore, NUS (Prof. Ghim Wei Ho) 

2018.06-2020.09, @King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST (Prof. Husam N. Alshareef)

Professor, 2020.10-, @Shandong University (Institute of Frontier Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering)

Academic achievements include: 

1) Proposed a family of solid metal carbide precursor, i.e., MXene, to synthesize MOFs;

2) Developed the organic/acid-etching strategy, by which the microscopic structures can be well tuned;

3) Identified facet determines activity of oxygen evolution reaction catalyst;

Dr. Wu has published >50 papers in international journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., etc., which have been cited by >5200 times (h-index 33). He served as a co-chair of ACS Fall 2023-2026, and young editorial board member of the Journals "EcoEnergy" and "eScience".

ResearcherID：AAA-1497-2021 （https://publons.com/researcher/3988219/hao-wu/）

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis; Electrosynthesis; Energy Storage Materials

Selected Publications (corresponding author)：

(# equal contribution)

1. Xiaokang Chen, et al., Hao Wu*, "...nitrate reduction...", A., 2026, .

2. Hongyan Yang, Lina Ge, Yujin Mou, Dong Zhai, Yongpeng Cui, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Dual-Site Spin State Modulation in Iron-Based Prussian Blue Cathode Enabling Improved Sodium Storage", Adv. Mater., 2026, 38:e74904. (Rising Stars)

3. Yi Tan, Xiaokang Chen, Jian Yuan, Guan Sheng, Wei-Qiao Deng, Ghim Wei Ho, Hao Wu*, "Electrocatalytic Ammonium Nitrate Synthesis through Integrating Nitric Oxide Redox Reactions over Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks", J. Energy Chem., 2026, 116, 558-565.

4. Yi Tan, Xiaokang Chen, Jian Yuan, Guan Sheng, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Concentration-Adaptive Electrocatalytic Urea Synthesis from CO₂ and Nitrate via Porphyrin and Metalloporphyrin MOFs", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202513441.

5. Yujin Mou, Hongyan Yang, Yunjie Lang, Lanju Sun, Xiao Wang, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Ferrocene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks with Dual Redox Sites for Advanced Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2025, 699, 138269.

6. Le Su, Xiaokang Chen, Yi Tan, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, Xiangyang Miao*, "Suppressing Migration of Ru in A High-Entropy Alloy for Durable Acidic Oxygen Evolution", J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 15743-15747. JMCA Emerging Investigators 2025 (L. Su, Jiont PhD) 

7. Xiaokang Chen, Le Su, Yi Tan, Jian Yuan, Yujin Mou, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Breaking the Activity-Durability Trade-off in Platinum Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution through Twin Boundary Engineering", J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2025, 691, 137385.

8. Xiaokang Chen, Yi Tan, Jian Yuan, Shengliang Zhai, Le Su, Yujin Mou, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Enhancing Urea Electrosynthesis from CO₂ and Nitrate through High-Entropy Alloying", Adv. Energy Mater., 2025, 15, 2500872.

9. Xiao Wang#, Zheng Peng#, Wei Zhou, Xiaokang Chen, Yi Tan, Yi-Fan Huang, Zhi Liu, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Ligand Modulation in Metal-Organic Frameworks Derived Regenerable Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202504148. ESI highly cited paper

10. Shengliang Zhai#, Zheng Peng#, Xiaokang Chen, Yi Tan, Yi-Fan Huang, Zhi Liu*, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Brass Phase Determining Selectivity in Urea Electrosynthesis from CO₂ and Nitrate", ACS Catal., 2025, 15, 3276−3283.

11. Lanju Sun#, Chongzhi Zhu#, Lukun Li, Rumeng Zheng, Jian Yuan, Zhiliang Li, Jikai Sun, Guan Sheng, Hao Wu*, "Design of Ligand-Nonbridging Sites in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Boosting Lithium Storage Capacity", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202418031.

12. Hongyan Yang, Xiaokang Chen, Yujin Mou, Qi Li, Jiaojiao Liu, Lanju Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Polar Covalent Triazine Frameworks as High-Performance Potassium Metal Battery Cathodes", Small, 2024, 20, 2406737. (Q. Li, Summer R&D trainee, undergraduate)

13. Xiaokang Chen, Shengliang Zhai, Yi Tan, Le Su, Dong Zhai*, Wei-Qiao Deng*, Hao Wu*, "Enhanced Nitrite Electroreduction to Ammonia via Interfacial Dual-Site Adsorption", J. Energy Chem., 2024, 96, 328-335.

14. Xiao Wang, Wei Zhou, Shengliang Zhai, Xiaokang Chen, Zheng Peng,* Zhi Liu,* Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Metal-Organic Frameworks: Direct Synthesis by Organic Acid-Etching and Reconstruction Disclosure as Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202400323. ESI highly cited paper、Top viewed article

15. Yi Tan, Yijin Zhao, Xiaokang Chen, Shengliang Zhai, Xiao Wang, Le Su, Hongyan Yang, Wei-Qiao Deng, Ghim Wei Ho,* Hao Wu*, "Cooperative Cu with Defective MXene for Enhanced Nitrate Electroreduction to Ammonia" EcoEnergy, 2024, 2, 258-267. (Y. Zhao, Summer R&D trainee, undergraduate)

16. Hongyan Yang, Qi Li, Lanju Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Xiaokang Chen, Yi Tan, Xiao Wang, Chengcheng Liu, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "MXene-derived Na⁺-pillared vanadate cathodes for dendrite-free potassium metal batteries", Small, 2024, 20, 2306572. (Q. Li, Summer R&D trainee, undergraduate)

17. Shengliang Zhai, Dong Zhai, Lanju Sun, Nianyun Feng, Xiaokang Chen, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Single platinum atoms anchored on N-doped carbon materials composed of bipyridine as efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts", Mater. Chem. Front., 2023, 7, 2889-2895.

18. Lanju Sun, Jikai Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Hongyan Yang, Xiaokang Chen, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Nb₂CT_x MXene Derived Polymorphic Nb₂O₅", Small, 2023, 19, 2300914.

19. Hongyan Yang, Lanju Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Xiao Wang, Chengcheng Liu, Hao Wu*, Wei-Qiao Deng*, "Ordered-Range Tuning of Flash Graphene for Fast-Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries", ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2023, 6, 2450-2458.

20. Lanju Sun, Honglei Wang, Shengliang Zhai, Jikai Sun, Xu Fang, Hongyan Yang, Dong Zhai, Chengcheng Liu, Wei-Qiao Deng*, Hao Wu*, "Dual-conductive metal-organic framework@MXene heterogeneity Stabilizes Lithium-ion Storage", J. Energy Chem., 2023, 76, 368-376.

21. Yi Tan, Li Yang, Dong Zhai, Lanju Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Wei Zhou, Xiao Wang, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "MXene-Derived Metal-Organic Framework@MXene Heterostructures toward Electrochemical NO Sensing", Small, 2022, 18, 2204942.

22. Zhengxiang Gu, Yechuan Zhang, Xuelian Wei, Zhenyu Duan, Long Ren, Jiecheng Ji, Xiaoqin Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Qiyong Gong, Hao Wu*, Kui Luo*, "Unveiling the Accelerated Water Electrolysis Kinetics of Heterostructural Iron-Cobalt-Nickel Sulfides by Probing into Crystalline/Amorphous Interfaces in Stepwise Catalytic Reactions", Adv. Sci., 2022, 9, 2201903.

23. Lanju Sun, Jikai Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Tiantian Dong, Hongyan Yang, Yi Tan, Xu Fang, Chengcheng Liu, Wei-Qiao Deng, Hao Wu*, "Homologous MXene-Derived Electrodes for Potassium-Ion Full Batteries", Adv. Energy Mater., 2022, 12, 2200113. (Back Cover)

24. Xiao Wang, Wei Zhou, Hao Wu*, Wei-Qiao Deng*, "Protocol for fabrication and characterization of Fe-SAC@COF for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction", STAR Protocol, 2022, 3,101626.

25. Xiao Wang#, Lei Sun#, Wei Zhou, Li Yang, Guoqing Ren, Hao Wu*, Wei-Qiao Deng*, "Iron Single Atom Catalysts Confined in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction", Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., 2022, 3, 100804.

26. Lanju Sun, Honglei Wang, Shengliang Zhai, Xiao Wang,Hao Wu*, and Wei-Qiao Deng, "Edge-on-Plane-Confined Covalent Organic Frameworks Enable a Defect- and Nitrogen-Rich Carbon Matrix for High-Rate Lithium-Ion Storage", ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2021, 4, 5957-5962. 

27. Danna Song#, Jikai Sun#, Lanju Sun, Shengliang Zhai, Ghim Wei Ho*, Hao Wu*, Wei-Qiao Deng, "Acidic Media Regulated Hierarchical Cobalt Compounds with Phosphorous Doping as Water Splitting Electrocatalysts" Adv. Energy Mater., 2021, 11, 2100358.

    
    

    Representitive Publications Prior to Joining Shandong University

28. Wu H, et al., Alshareef, H. N.*,“MXene-Derived Metal-Organic Frameworks”J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 20037.

29. Wu H, et al., Alshareef, H. N.*, “Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks Selectively Grown on Laser-Scribed Graphene for Electrochemical Microsupercapacitors”Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 9, 1900482.

30. Wu H, et al., Ho G. W.*, “Identification of facet-governing-reactivity in hematite for oxygen evolution”Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1804341.

31. Wu H, et al., Zheng GF*, Ho G. W.*, "Topotactic engineering of ultrathin two dimensional non-layered nickel selenides for full water splitting" Adv. Energy Mater., 2018, 8, 1702704.“Frontispiece Cover”

32. Wu H, et al., Zheng GF*,“Egg-derived mesoporous carbon microspheres as bifunctional oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction electrocatalysts”Adv. Energy. Mater., 2016, 6, 1600794.