Name: Zhongyou Peng
Gender: Male
Academic Title: Assistant Research Fellow
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Major: Chemistry
E-mail: pengzhongyou@ncu.edu.cn
Research Interests: New Energy Materials and Devices
Education and Professional Experience
2023.06–Present: Full-time Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University
2018.09–2023.06: Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (Integrated Master-Doctor Program), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University. Supervisors: Professor Licheng Tan & Professor Yiwang Chen
2014.09–2018.06: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Nanchang University
Academic Affiliations and Social Services
Young Editorial Board Member, Smart Materials and Devices (2025–present)
Young Editorial Board Member, ES Materials & Manufacturing (2025–present)
Young Editorial Board Member, Materials Futures (2025–present)
Young Editorial Board Member, Sustainable Engineering Novit (2025–present)
Young Editorial Board Member, Carbon Neutrality (2025–present)
Member, Chinese Chemical Society (2023–present)
Awards and Honors
National Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2023)
Second-Class Funding for Postdoctoral Research Performance Evaluation (2025)
Top 10 Academic Stars of Jiangxi Postgraduates (2023)
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangxi Province (2024)
Research Profile
Dr. Peng is mainly engaged in the research and process optimization of energy storage functional electrolytes, aqueous zinc-ion batteries, and sodium-ion batteries. In the past five years, he has published more than 20 SCI papers in international and domestic authoritative journals. Among them, he has published over 10 SCI papers as the first author in top-tier journals including Nature Communications (IF=16.6), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (IF=16.1), Energy & Environmental Science (IF=32.4), and Advanced Functional Materials (IF=19.2). He has filed 4 invention patents and presided over projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation, National Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Program.
Research Projects (Principal Investigator)
Young Scientists Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52502264), ¥300,000, 2026.01–2028.12, Ongoing
National Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grant No. GZC20231027), ¥240,000 + ¥240,000 (matching provincial funding), 2024.01–2026.06, Ongoing
General Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2024M761262), ¥80,000, 2025.01–2026.06, Ongoing
Young Scientists Fund Project of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 20252BAC200629), ¥100,000, 2026.01–2028.12, Ongoing
Second-Class Funding for Postdoctoral Research Performance Evaluation (Grant No. YJB20250014), ¥60,000, Ongoing
Representative Publications
Zhongyou Peng, Shulong Li, Ling Tang, Jinyang Zheng, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Water-shielding electric double layer and stable interphase engineering for durable aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Nature Communications, 2025, 16: 4490. (First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Ling Tang, Shulong Li, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Strong Replaces Weak: Hydrogen Bond-Anchored Electrolyte Enabling Ultra-Stable and Wide-Temperature Aqueous Zinc-Ion Capacitors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64(4): e202418242. (Hot Paper, First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Yuting Huang, Alexander G. Bannov, Shulong Li, Ling Tang, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Regulating oxygen vacancy and coordination environment of manganese dioxides for enhanced high-mass-loading energy storage. Energy & Environmental Science, 2024, 17(10): 3384-3395. (ESI Highly Cited Paper, First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Alexander G. Bannov, Shulong Li, Yuting Huang, Ling Tang, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Coupling Uniform Pore Size and Multi Chemisorption Sites: Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon for Ultra-fast and Large Zinc Ion Storage. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33(40): 2303205. (First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Shulong Li, Yuting Huang, Junxi Guo, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Sodium-intercalated Manganese Oxides for Achieving Ultra-Stable and Fast Charge Storage Kinetics in Wide-Voltage Aqueous Supercapacitors. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32(46): 2206539. (First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Junxi Guo, Qichang He, Shulong Li, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Hierarchically nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon nanospheres with dual ion adsorption capability for superior rate and ultra-stable zinc ion hybrid supercapacitors. Science China Materials, 2022, 65(9): 2401-2411. (First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Jun Huang, Qichang He, Shulong Li, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Green Quasi-Solid-State Planar Asymmetric Supercapacitors with High Working Voltage and Extraordinary Volumetric Energy Density. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9(25): 14363-14371. (Hot Paper, First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Jun Huang, Qichang He, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Highly Porous Mn₃O₄ Nanosheets with in-situ Coated Carbon Enabling Fully Screen-Printed Planar Supercapacitors with Remarkable Volumetric Performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9(7): 4273-4280. (First Author)
Zhongyou Peng, Jun Huang, Ying Wang, Kai Yuan, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Construction of Hierarchical Carbon Coated Fe₃O₄ Nanorods Anode for 2.6 V Aqueous Asymmetric Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Energy Density. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019, 7(48): 27313-27322. (First Author)
Shulong Li#, Zhongyou Peng#, Yuting Huang, Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*. Electrostatic Self-assembly of MXene and Carbon Nanotube@MnO₂ Multilevel Hybrids for Achieving Fast Charge Storage Kinetics in Aqueous Asymmetric Supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, 10(44): 23886-23895. (Co-first Author)
