Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Bachelor degree from Tiangong University in 2012 and his Doctor degree from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. His current research focuses on energy and environmental catalysis. Targeting the common scientific challenges of interfacial diffusion and mass transfer in catalytic reactions, he has dedicated his research to the design of gas-liquid-solid three-phase catalytic systems and the exploration of interfacial mass transfer-reaction mechanisms. 

He has published more than 40 papers as the first or corresponding author in prestigious journals including Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Materials. His publications have garnered over 23,000 citations, with an h-index of 71.

Photocatalysis

[1] Run Shi, Zeping Wang, Yunxuan Zhao, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Zhenhua Li, Bikun Zhang, Zhimei Sun, Chuan Xia, Haotian Wang*, Tierui Zhang*, Room temperature electrochemical acetylene reduction to ethylene with high conversion and selectivity. Nat. Catal. 4(7), 565–574 (2021).
[2] Run Shi, Xuerui Zhang, Chengyu Li, Yunxuan Zhao, Rui Li, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Tierui Zhang*, Electrochemical oxidation of concentrated benzyl alcohol to high-purity benzaldehyde via superwetting organic-solid-water interfaces. Sci. Adv. 10(17), adn0947 (2024).
[3] Pu Wang, Xingyu Zhang, Run Shi*, Jiaqi Zhao, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Junwang Tang, Tierui Zhang*, Photocatalytic ethylene production by oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane with dioxygen on ZnO-supported PdZn intermetallic nanoparticles. Nat. Commun. 15, 789 (2024).
[4] Run Shi, Jiahao Guo, Xuerui Zhang, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Zhaojun Han, Yunxuan Zhao, Lu Shang, Chao Zhou, Lei Jiang, Tierui Zhang, Efficient wettability-controlled electroreduction of CO2 to CO at Au/C interfaces. Nat. Commun. 11(1), 3028 (2020).
[5] Zeping Wang, Chengyu Li, Gongao Peng, Run Shi*, Lu Shang*, Tierui Zhang*, Highly selective acetylene-to-ethylene electroreduction over Cd-decorated Cu catalyst with efficiently inhibited carbon-carbon coupling. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63(19), e202400122 (2024).
[6] Pu Wang, Run Shi*, Yunxuan Zhao, Zhenhua Li, Jiaqing Zhao, Jiaqi Zhao, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Li-Zhu Wu, Tierui Zhang*, Selective photocatalytic oxidative coupling of methane via regulating methyl intermediates over Metal/ZnO nanoparticles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62(23), e202304301 (2023).
[7] Huining Huang, Run Shi*, Zhenhua Li, Jiaqi Zhao, Chenliang Su, Tierui Zhang*, Triphase photocatalytic CO2 reduction over silver-decorated titanium oxide at a gas-water boundary. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61(17), e202200802 (2022).
[8] Huining Huang, Run Shi*, Xuerui Zhang, Jiaqing Zhao, Chenliang Su, Tierui Zhang*, Photothermal-assisted triphase photocatalysis over a multifunctional bilayer paper. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60(42), 22963–22969 (2021).
[9] Jiaqi Zhao, Peng Miao, Xuerui Zhang, Pu Wang, Zhenhua Li, Li-Zhu Wu, Run Shi*, Tierui Zhang*, Photothermal mineralization of polyolefin microplastics via TiO2 hierarchical porous layer-based semiwetting air-plastic-solid interfaces. Adv. Mater. 36(25), 2400681 (2024).
[10] Zhenhua Li, Xin Zhang, Jinjia Liu, Run Shi*, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Xiao–Dong Wen, Tierui Zhang*, Titania-supported Ni2P/Ni catalysts for selective solar-driven CO hydrogenation. Adv. Mater. 33(26), 2103248 (2021).