2018.09-2023.06, Fudan University, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry (Supervisor: Prof. Gengfeng Zheng)

2014.09-2018.06, Wuhan University of Technology, School of Materials and Engineering, Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials Engineering (Supervisor: Prof. Liqiang Mai and Prof. Qinyou An)

2026.08-, Assistant Professor at China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jitao Tong University

2025.06-2026.08, Postdoc at Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University (Supervisor: Prof. Edward H. Sargent)

2023.07-2025.06, Postdoc at School of Chemical Engineering, Adelaide University (Supervisor: Prof. Shi-Zhang Qiao and Prof. Yao Zheng)

1. Electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction

2. New-type catalytic structural sites, electrolytes and related catalytic mechanism studies

3. Electrochemical CO₂ capture and conversion

Dr. Chen Peng is continuously recruiting undergraduate/master/doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows, as well as international students, in the fields of chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and power engineering. Priority will be given to candidates with research experience in electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction, materials synthesis, Raman or infrared spectroscopy, and electrochemical CO₂ capture and conversion. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me via email (I plan to recruit 1-2 master's students and 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in 2026; and 1 master's student and 1 doctoral student in 2027)

2025-2027, Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Project, leading

2021-2025, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, participating, ranked 2/16

2020-2023, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Project), participating

2019-2022, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Outstanding academic leader), participating

Dr. Chen Peng has published 17 peer-reviewed research articles as the first (or co-first)/corresponding authors in the international journals of Chem, Nat. Commun., Nat. Biomed. Eng., Adv. Mater. (x2), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Catal. (x2), Adv. Energy Mater. (x3), etc. His papers have been cited over 2,600 times (H-index 27, Google Scholar), with an average of over 70 citations per article.

1. Chen Peng^#, Songtao Yang^#, Gan Luo*, Shuai Yan, Ning Chen, Junbo Zhang, Yangshen Chen, Xuchun Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Wei Wei, Tsun-Kong Sham, Gengfeng Zheng*. Ampere-level CO₂-to-formate electrosynthesis using highly-exposed bismuth(110) facets modified by sulfur-anchored sodium cations. Chem 2023, 9, 2830-2840. --Top 10 Representative Papers of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials in 2023 (Link). --Reported by “ScienceNet.cn” (Link).
2. Chen Peng, Gan Luo, Junbo Zhang, Menghuan Chen, Zhiqiang Wang, Tsun-Kong Sham, Lijuan Zhang, Yafei Li*, Gengfeng Zheng*. Double sulfur vacancies by lithium tuning enhance CO₂ electroreduction to n-propanol. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 1580. --ESI Highly Cited.
3. Chen Peng^#, Jiaxin Ma^#, Gan Luo*, Shuai Yan, Ning Chen, Zhiqiang Wang, Wei Wei, Tsun-Kong Sham, Yao Zheng, Min Kuang*, Gengfeng Zheng*. High-Density Ordered Cu₃-Mg Sites Boost Highly Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethanol with Industrial Current Density. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202316907. --VIP paper. --Highlighted by “Chin. Chem. Lett.: Topologically close-packed intermetallic alloy electrocatalysts for CO₂ reduction towards high value-added multi-carbon chemicals” (Link). --ESI Highly Cited.
4. Chen Peng, Songtao Yang, Gan Luo*, Shuai Yan, Mohsen Shakouri, Junbo Zhang, Yangshen Chen, Weihan Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Tsun-Kong Sham, Gengfeng Zheng*. Surface Co-Modification of Halide Anions and Potassium Cations Promotes High-rate CO₂-to-Ethanol Electrosynthesis. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 220447.
5. Chen Peng, Gan Luo, Zikai Xu, Shuai Yan, Junbo Zhang, Menghuan Chen, Linping Qian, Wei Wei*, Qing Han*, Gengfeng Zheng*. Lithiation-Enabled High-Density Nitrogen Vacancies Electrocatalyze CO₂ to C₂ products. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2103150.
6. Chen Peng, Haifeng Shen, Min Zheng, Mietek Jaroniec, Yao Zheng*, Shi-Zhang Qiao*. New insights into CO₂ electroreduction in acidic seawater. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 468-476. --Collected by “National Library of Australia” (Link).
7. Chen Peng^#, Xin Mao^#, Min Zheng, Mietek Jaroniec, Yan Jiao, Yao Zheng*, Shi-Zhang Qiao*. Ultradiluted (Alkyl)ammonium Enables Acidic CO₂ Electroreduction. ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 13346-13352.
8. Chen Peng^#, Zikai Xu^#, Gan Luo*, Shuai Yan, Junbo Zhang, Si Li, Lo Yueh Chang, Zhiqiang Wang, Tsun-Kong Sham, Gengfeng Zheng*. Highly-exposed Single-interlayered Copper Edge Enable High-rate CO₂-to-CH₄ Electrosynthesis. Adv. Energy Mater. 2022, 12, 2200195.
9. Ruyi Yang^#, Peng Zhao^#, Liyang Wang^#, Chenli Feng^#, Chen Peng^#, Zhexuan Wang, Yingying Zhang, Minqian Shen, Kaiwen Shi, Shijun Weng, Chunqiong Dong, Fu Zeng, Tianyun Zhang, Xingdong Chen, Shuiyuan Wang, Yiheng Wang, Yuanyuan Luo, Qingyuan Chen, Yuqing Chen, Chengyong Jiang, Shanshan Jia, Zhaofei Yu, Jian Liu, Fei Wang, Su Jiang, Wendong Xu, Liang Li, Gang Wang, Xiaofen Mo, Gengfeng Zheng, Aihua Chen, Xingtao Zhou, Chunhui Jiang*, Yuanzhi Yuan*, Biao Yan*, Jiayi Zhang*. Assessment of visual function in blind mice and monkeys with subretinally implanted nanowire arrays as artificial photoreceptors. Nat. Biomed. Eng. 2024, 8, 1018-1039. --Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances of Fudan University in 2023 (Link). --Collected by “Technology for neuroengineering” in Nat. Biomed. Eng. (Link). --Reported by “People's Daily” (Link).
10. Wei Shen^#, Chen Peng^#, Qiujin Xia^#, Yang Hu, Xiaogang Sun, Yizheng Ye, Haodian Xie, Shanshan Wu, Nan Zhang, Li An, Yao Zheng, Shouheng Sun*, Pinxian Xi*, Chun-Hua Yan. Y-doped CuS Promotes Selective Electroreduction of CO₂ to Ethanol. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 40807-40815.
11. Zikai Xu^#, Chen Peng^#, Gan Luo*, Songtao Yang, Pinger Yu, Shuai Yan, Mohsen Shakouri, Zhiqiang Wang, Tsun-Kong Sham, Gengfeng Zheng*. High-rate CO₂-to-CH₄ Electrosynthesis by Undercoordinated Cu Sites in Alkaline-Earth-Metal Perovskites with Strong Basicity. Adv. Energy Mater. 2023, 13, 2204417.
12. Jinzhi Sheng^#, Chen Peng^#, Yanan Xu, Haoying Lyu, Xu Xu*, Qinyou An, Liqiang Mai*. KTi₂(PO₄)₃ with Large Ion Diffusion Channel for High‐Efficiency Sodium Storage. Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7, 1700247.

• Young Editorial Board Member of eScience, Nano-Micro Letters, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Carbon Neutralization
• Independent reviewer of high-impact journals, such as Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Energy Chemistry, etc.
• Official Nominator for the VinFuture Prize

2025 Shanghai Natural Science Award (Second Class), ranked 2^nd

2025 Shanghai Pujiang Talent

2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Honorable Mention Award

2024 Outstanding Doctoral Award for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials, Shortlist

2023 Academic Star Special Award, Fudan University

2023 Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award

2022 Nano Research Energy Young Star Researcher-Gold Award

2022 Rising Talents Prize at the ENFL Virtual Asia-Pacific Graduate Student Symposium, ACS Fall Meeting

2022 Tongji Kelan Education Scholarship, Special Award of Academician Dongyuan Zhao

2022 Dow Chemical Scholarship for PhD Students

2021 National Scholarship for PhD Students

2018 Xianghui Scholarship