Qingzhe Zhang is currently a full professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He earned his PhD in materials science from INRS in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Dongling Ma and Prof. Mohamed Chaker, who are both Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs. His research interest includes energy and environmental catalysis, treatment of emerging pollutants (such as PFAS),  and development of environmental nanomaterials. He holds the titles of Qilu Young Scholar, Overseas Excellent Youth of Shandong Province, Taishan Scholar Youth Expert, high-level talent in Shandong Province, Overseas Scientific and Technological Talent of Shandong Province, member of Expert Committee of China Energy Society and Chinese Society for Imaging Science and Technology. He was also selected for the Key Talent Project in Qingdao. He was awarded a 4-year pursuing PhD degree scholarship from the China Scholarship Council, CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (only 1 obtained in Engineering, Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences Category of Canada), the Doctoral Research Award from le Fonds de recherche du Québec-Nature et technologies (FRQNT), and FRQNT's Louis-Berlinguet New Research Star Award. He has authored more than 66 peer-reviewed papers with total citations of > 3050, which have been published in Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Catalysis, ACS Energy Letters, Nature Communications, Advanced Energy Materials, Chemistry of Materials, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, etc. He also published 1 book chapter and got 1 issued US and international patent.

Selected Publications

Total Publications: 66; Full list in Google Scholar; Total citations > 3050, H-index: 31; 

* Corresponding author; # Co-first author

1.  Zixiang Gao#, Fuyu Liu#, Zongwei Chen#, Qiang Song, P J Cullen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhihong Zuo, Jun Zhong, Xize Lu, Zhuofeng Hu*, Runzeng Liu, Qingzhe Zhang*, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai. Nature Communications, 2025, accepted in principle. (Nature-indexed journal; IF: 15.7)

2. Xize Lu, Zongwei Chen, Zhuofeng Hu, Fuyu Liu, Zhihong Zuo, Zixiang Gao, Haiguang Zhang, Youcai Zhu, Runzeng Liu, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai, Dongling Ma*, Qingzhe Zhang*. Boosted Charge Transfer for Highly Efficient Photosynthesis of H₂O₂ over Z-Scheme I^-/K⁺ Co-Doped g-C₃N₄/Metal-Organic-Frameworks in Pure Water under Visible Light. Advanced Energy Materials, 2024, 14, 2401873. (IF: 26) 

3. Xiangcheng Shan, Zhipeng Yin, Yuechen Jia, Fuyu Liu, Yong Wang, Jiarui Kong, Xiaoyang Song, Min Zhang, Yongfu Li, Haiguang Zhang, Fanran Meng, Dongling Ma, Qingzhe Zhang*, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai. Ion-Regulated Water Activation in Plasmonic Aerogels for Highly Efficient and Salt-Resistive Solar Desalination. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202514279. (Nature-indexed journal; IF: 19.0) 

4. Qingzhe Zhang, Shengyun Huang, Jiujun Deng, Deepak T. Gangadharan, Zhenhe Xu, Giacomo Giorgi, Maurizia Palummo, Mohamed Chaker, and Dongling Ma. Ice-Assisted Synthesis of Black Phosphorus Nanosheets as a Metal-Free Photocatalyst: 2D/2D Heterostructure for Broadband H₂ Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 29, 1902486. (Citations: 164; Nature-indexed journal; IF: 19.0) 

5. Qingzhe Zhang, Jiujun Deng, Zhenhe Xu, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma. High-efficiency Broadband C₃N₄ Photocatalysts: Synergistic Effects from Upconversion and Plasmons. ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 6225-6234. (Citations: 160; IF: 12.9) 

6. Qingzhe Zhang, Amir Mirzaei, Yong Wang, Guolong Song, Chen Wang, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma. Extracting Hot Holes from Plasmonic Semiconductors for Photocatalysis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2022, 317, 121792. (Citations: 28; IF: 21.1)

7. Qingzhe Zhang, Fan Yang, Shuai Zhou, Nan Bao, Zhenhe Xu, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma. Broadband Photocatalysts Enabled by 0D/2D Heterojunctions of Near-Infrared Quantum Dots/Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020, 270, 118879. (Citations: 75; IF: 21.1) 

8. Yu Gao, Junying Lin, Qingzhe Zhang *, He Yu, Fu Ding, Baotong Xu, Yaguang Sun, Zhenhe Xu. Facile synthesis of heterostructured YVO₄/g-C₃N₄/Ag photocatalysts with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic performance. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2018, 224, 586-593. (Citations: 95; IF: 21.1)

9. Honglei Li, Xiaoyang Song, Xiangcheng Shan, Fuyu Liu, Dehao Liu, Mengjiao Feng, Xing Xu*, Qingzhe Zhang*, Yongguang Yin, Yong Cai. Ion‐Regulated Water Activation in Plasmonic Aerogels for Highly Efficient and Salt‐Resistive Solar Desalination. Small, 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202514279. (IF: 12.1)

10. Yong Wang, Qingzhe Zhang *, Yongchen Wang, Lucas V. Besteiro, Yannan Liu, Jin Zhong Zhang, Jason K. Cooper, Jing Zhao, Guozhu Chen, Mohamed Chaker, and Dongling Ma. Ultrastable plasmonic Cu-based core-shell nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 2, 695-705. (Citations: 16; IF: 8.6; Front Cover)

11. Jiujun Deng ^#, Qingzhe Zhang ^#, Xiaoxin Lv, Duo Zhang, Hui Xu, Dongling Ma, Jun Zhong. Understanding Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. ACS Energy Letters, 2020, 5, 975-993. (Citations: 56; IF: 22.0)

12. Qingzhe Zhang, Xin Jin, Zhenhe Xu, Jianming Zhang, Ulises F. Rendón, Luca Razzari, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma. Plasmonic Au Loaded Hierarchical Hollow Porous TiO₂ Spheres: Synergistic Catalysts for Nitroaromatic Reduction. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2018, 9, 5317-5326. (Citations: 65; IF: 5.7; Nature-indexed journal; Top 20 most read articles) 

13. Ting Yu, Wanting He, Qingzhe Zhang *, Dongling Ma*. Advanced Nanomaterials and Characterization Techniques for Photovoltaic and Photocatalysis Applications. Accounts of Materials Research, 2023, 4, 507-521.（IF: 14.6）

14. Qingzhe Zhang, Xiaolei Liu, Mohamed Chaker, Dongling Ma. Advancing Graphitic Carbon Nitride-Based Photocatalysts towards Broadband Solar Energy Harvesting. ACS Materials Letters, 2021, 3, 663-697. (Citations: 70; IF: 11.4; Top 20 most read articles) 

15. Qingzhe Zhang, Zhihong Zuo, Dongling Ma. Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Solar-Driven Photocatalysis. Chemical Communications, 2023, 59, 7704-7716. (IF: 4.9; Nature-indexed journal; Chemical Communications HOT Articles 2023) 

16. Chen Wang, Amir Mirzaei, Yong Wang, Mohamed Chaker, Qingzhe Zhang*, Dongling Ma*. Construction of Ultrathin BiVO₄‐Au‐Cu₂O Nanosheets with Multiple Charge Transfer Paths for Effective Visible‐Light‐Driven Photocatalytic Degradation of Tetracycline. Small Methods, 2024, 9, 2301804. （IF: 10.7）

Patents

 Q. Zhang, D. Ma, M. Chaker. Metal-Free Few-Layer Phosphorus Nanomaterial: Method for Its Preparation and Use Thereof. US17/045,570; CA3096131A; PCT/CA2019/050813.