精细化工

基于新型孔性材料及其复合材料的底层设计和组装，以及面向吸附式空气集水及热转换、气体存储及分离、异相光电催化、人工光捕获、水体污染物处理等能源环境相关性能的探索及应用开发，包括：
1）金属有机骨架材料（MOFs）的结构多元化、稳定化探索及性能调控；
2）氢键有机骨架材料（HOFs）及共价有机骨架材料（COFs）的结构设计及性能探究；
3）新型孔性材料复合物的复合机制探索及性能研究。

已在国际重要学术期刊上发表60多篇SCI论文，包括化学学科一流期刊J. Am. Chem. Soc.和Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.，以及化学和材料领域权威期刊Adv. Mater.，J. Mater. Chem. A，Mater. Horiz.，Chem. Comm.，Chem. Eur. J.，Inorg. Chem.，Inorg. Chem. Front.等，其中第一作者及通讯作者论文24篇，部分工作以热门文章及封面论文发表，并被国际著名科普媒体Chemistry World 以及国内科普新媒体X-MOL和纳米人作为亮点工作进行报道。已申请和授权多项国内发明专利，并申请1项美国发明专利。现担任《Materials》期刊主题编辑，J. Am. Chem. Soc.，Chem. Mater.，ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces，J. Mater. Chem. A，Chem. Comm.等多个国际权威期刊的独立审稿人。

1. Zhiyong Lu*, Jiaxin Duan, Hao Tan, Liting Du, Xiang Zhao, Rui Wang, Satoshi Kato, Shilong Yang, and Joseph T. Hupp*, Isomer of NU-1000 with a Blocking c-pore Exhibits High Water–Vapor Uptake Capacity and Greatly Enhanced Cycle Stability, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 4150-4157. (2022影响因子：16.383)
2. Zhiyong Lu*, Liting Du, Ruyong Guo, Guangbao Zhang, Jingui Duan*, Jianfeng Zhang, Lin Han, Junfeng Bai*, Joseph T. Hupp, A Double-walled Zn36@Zn104 Multicomponent Senary Metal–Organic Polyhedral Framework and Its Isoreticular Evolution, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 17942-17946. (2022影响因子：16.383)
3. Zhiyong Lu*, Jian Liu, Xuan Zhang, Yijun Liao, Rui Wang, Kun Zhang, Jiafei Lyu, Omar Farha, Joseph Hupp*, Node-Accessible Zirconium MOFs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 21110-21121. (2022影响因子：16.383)
4. Jingjing Jiang†, Zhiyong Lu†, Mingxing Zhang, Jingui Duan, Wenwei Zhang, Yi Pan, and Junfeng Bai*, Higher Symmetry Multinuclear Clusters of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Highly Selective CO2 Capture, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 17825-17829. (†共同一作，2022影响因子：16.383)
5. Liting Du†, Zhiyong Lu†, Kaiyuan Zheng, Junyi Wang, Xin Zheng, Yi Pan, Xiao-Zeng You, Junfeng Bai, Fine Tuning Pore Size by Coordination Sites Shifting and Sur-face Polarization of Metal-Organic Frameworks to Sharply Enhance the Selectivity for CO2. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 562-565. (†共同一作，ESI高引论文，2022影响因子：16.383)
6. Qiubing Dong, Yuhang Huang, Jingmeng Wan, Zhiyong Lu, Zhaoxu Wang, Cheng Gu, Jingui Duan*, and Junfeng Bai*, Confining Water Nanotubes in a Cu10O13-Based Metal–Organic Framework for Propylene/Propane Separation with Record-High Selectivity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00515. (2022影响因子：16.383)
7. Zhihengyu Chen, Gautam D. Stroscio, Jian Liu, Zhiyong Lu, Joseph T. Hupp, Laura Gagliardi*, and Karena W. Chapman*, Node Distortion as a Tunable Mechanism for Negative Thermal Expansion in Metal–Organic Frameworks, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 268-276. (2022影响因子：16.383)
8. Xinlin Li, Jierui Yu, Zhiyong Lu, Jiaxin Duan, H. Christopher Fry, David J. Gosztola, Karan Maindan, Sreehari Surendran Rajasree, and Pravas Deria, Photoinduced Charge Transfer with a Small Driving Force Facilitated by Exciplex-like Complex Formation in Metal–Organic Frameworks, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 15286-15297. (2022影响因子：16.383)
9. Ying Yang, Xuan Zhang, Siriluk Kanchanakungwankul, Zhiyong Lu, Hyunho Noh, Zoha H. Syed, Omar K. Farha, Donald G. Truhlar, and Joseph T. Hupp*, Unexpected “Spontaneous” Evolution of Catalytic, MOF-Supported Single Cu(II) Cations to Catalytic, MOF-Supported Cu(0) Nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 21169-21177. (2022影响因子：16.383)
10. Ruirui Yun, Zhiyong Lu, Yi Pan, Xiaozeng You, Junfeng Bai*, Formation of a Metal-Organic Framework with High Surface Area and Gas Uptake by Breaking Edges Off Truncated Cuboctahedral Cages, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 11282–11285. (2022影响因子：16.823)
11. Huajie Huang, Minmin Yan, Cuizhen Yang, Haiyan He, Quanguo Jiang, Lu Yang, Zhiyong Lu, Ziqi Sun, Xingtao Xu, Yoshio Bando, Yusuke Yamauchi, Graphene Nanoarchitectonics: Recent Advances in Graphene-Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Adv. Mater., 2019, 31, 1903415. (2022影响因子：32.086)
12. Zhiyong Lu*, Jiaxin Duan, Liting Du, Qin Liu, Neil M. Schweitzerd, Joseph T. Hupp, Incorporation of free halide ions stabilizes metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) against pore collapse and renders large-pore Zr-MOFs functional for water harvesting, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 6442-6447. (2022影响因子：14.511)
13. Zhiyong Lu*, Jianfeng Zhang, Jingui Duan*, Liting Du, Cheng Hang, Pore Space Partition via Secondary Metal Ions Entrapped by Pyrimidine Hooks: Influences on Structural Flexibility and Carbon Dioxide Capture, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 17287-17292. (封面论文及热点论文，2022影响因子：14.511)
14. Qin Liu, Zhihengyu Chen, Hafeera Shabbir, Jiaxin (Dawn) Duan, Wentuan Bi, Zhiyong Lu, Neil Schweitzer, Selim Alayoglu, Subhadip Goswami, Karena W. Chapman, Rachel B. Getman, Qining Wang, Justin M. Notestein, Joseph T. Hupp, Presentation of gas-phase-reactant-accessible single-rhodium-atom catalysts for CO oxidation, via MOF confinement of an Anderson polyoxometalate, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 18226-18234. (2022影响因子：14.511)
15. Tianmeng Zhang, Ruyong Guo, Guobing Ying, Zhiyong Lu, Chao Peng, Mingxia Shen, Jianfeng Zhang*, Absolute film separation of dyes/salts and emulsions with a superhigh water permeance through graded nanofluidic channels, Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 1536-1542. (2022影响因子：15.717)
16. Zhiyong Lu, Junfeng Bai*, Cheng Hang, Fei Meng, Wenlong Liu, Yi Pan, Xiaozeng You, The Utilization of Amide Groups to Expand and Functionalize Metal-Organic Frameworks Simultaneously, Chem. Eur. J., 2016, 22, 6277-6285. (封面论文及热点论文，2022影响因子：5.020)