List of works - Pingwu Du

1D Colloidal Hetero-Nanomaterials with Programmed Semiconductor Morphology and Metal Location for Enhancing Solar Energy Conversion.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

A Copper Porphyrin-Based Conjugated Mesoporous Polymer-Derived Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution.

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

A Large π-Extended Carbon Nanoring Based on Nanographene Units: Bottom-Up Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Selective Complexation with Fullerene C70.

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

A Long π-Conjugated Poly(para-Phenylene)-Based Polymeric Segment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

A Three-Dimensional Capsule-like Carbon Nanocage as a Segment Model of Capped Zigzag [12,0] Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Complexation with C70

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

A cycloparaphenylene nanoring with graphenic hexabenzocoronene sidewalls.

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

A facile mechanochemical route to a covalently bonded graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and fullerene hybrid toward enhanced visible light photocatalytic hydrogen production

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

A highly selective turn-on colorimetric, red fluorescent sensor for detecting mobile zinc in living cells

scientific article

A homogeneous system for the photogeneration of hydrogen from water based on a platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophore and a molecular cobalt catalyst

scientific article published on 29 August 2008

Atomic scale analysis of the enhanced electro- and photo-catalytic activity in high-index faceted porous NiO nanowires.

scientific article

Author Correction: Synthesis of a magnetic π-extended carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces

correction of a scholarly article

Bi- and terpyridyl platinum(II) chloro complexes: molecular catalysts for the photogeneration of hydrogen from water or simply precursors for colloidal platinum?

scientific article

Black Phosphorus Revisited: A Missing Metal-Free Elemental Photocatalyst for Visible Light Hydrogen Evolution.

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Cadmium sulfide/graphitic carbon nitride heterostructure nanowire loading with a nickel hydroxide cocatalyst for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production in water under visible light

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Catalysts made of earth-abundant elements (Co, Ni, Fe) for water splitting: Recent progress and future challenges

scientific article published in 2012

Cobalt complexes as artificial hydrogenases for the reductive side of water splitting

scientific article published on 17 May 2013

Cobalt porphyrin electrode films for electrocatalytic water oxidation

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Construction of a short metallofullerene-peapod with a spin probe

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Correction to Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Production from Aqueous Protons Catalyzed by Molecular Cobaloxime Catalysts

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Crystalline Copper Phosphide Nanosheets as an Efficient Janus Catalyst for Overall Water Splitting

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

Cyclometalated 6-phenyl-2,2'-bipyridyl (CNN) platinum(II) acetylide complexes: structure, electrochemistry, photophysics, and oxidative- and reductive-quenching studies.

scientific article published in May 2009

Degradation Chemistry and Stabilization of Exfoliated Few-Layer Black Phosphorus in Water.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Electrochemical, spectroscopic and theoretical studies of a simple bifunctional cobalt corrole catalyst for oxygen evolution and hydrogen production

scientific article

Elucidating the domain structure of the cobalt oxide water splitting catalyst by X-ray pair distribution function analysis

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Energy upconversion sensitized by a platinum(ii) terpyridyl acetylide complex

scientific article published in 2010

Enhanced photocatalytic H2 production on CdS nanorods with simple molecular bidentate cobalt complexes as cocatalysts under visible light.

scientific article published on August 2016

Facile deposition of nanostructured cobalt oxide catalysts from molecular cobaloximes for efficient water oxidation

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

First example of the solid-state thermal cyclometalation of ligated benzophenone imine giving novel luminescent platinum(II) species.

scientific article

From Planar Macrocycle to Cylindrical Molecule: Synthesis and Properties of a Phenanthrene-Based Coronal Nanohoop as a Segment of [6,6]Carbon Nanotube

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Green cobalt oxide (CoOx) film with nanoribbon structures electrodeposited from the BF₂-annulated cobaloxime precursor for efficient water oxidation

scientific article

High catalytic activity for water oxidation based on nanostructured nickel phosphide precursors

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Highly Efficient and Stable Water-Oxidation Electrocatalysis with a Very Low Overpotential using FeNiP Substitutional-Solid-Solution Nanoplate Arrays.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Hydrogen production on a hybrid photocatalytic system composed of ultrathin CdS nanosheets and a molecular nickel complex.

scientific article

In situ generated highly active copper oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction at low overpotential in alkaline solutions

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Making hydrogen from water using a homogeneous system without noble metals.

scientific article published in July 2009

Mimicking the Key Functions of Photosystem II in Artificial Photosynthesis for Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting.

scientific article

MoS2 nanosheet/TiO2 nanowire hybrid nanostructures for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activities.

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

Nickel-based thin film on multiwalled carbon nanotubes as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting.

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

On-surface synthesis of planar acenes via regioselective aryl-aryl coupling

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Optical properties of metal-molybdenum disulfide hybrid nanosheets and their application for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

scientific article published on 09 June 2014

Oxyanion induced variations in domain structure for amorphous cobalt oxide oxygen evolving catalysts, resolved by X-ray pair distribution function analysis

scientific article

Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water using a platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophore

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Photodriven charge separation dynamics in CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dot/cobaloxime hybrid for efficient hydrogen production

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Photogeneration of hydrogen from water using an integrated system based on TiO2 and platinum(II) diimine dithiolate sensitizers

scientific article published on 05 June 2007

Photoinduced electron transfer in platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophores: reductive and oxidative quenching and hydrogen production

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide complexes on platinized TiO(2): toward the photogeneration of H(2) in aqueous media.

scientific article published in October 2009

Protein delivery of a Ni catalyst to photosystem I for light-driven hydrogen production.

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

Pyrolyzed cobalt porphyrin-based conjugated mesoporous polymers as bifunctional catalysts for hydrogen production and oxygen evolution in water.

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Reaction selectivity of homochiral versus heterochiral intermolecular reactions of prochiral terminal alkynes on surfaces

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Reversible mechanochromic luminescence at room temperature in cationic platinum(II) terpyridyl complexes

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Robust and highly active copper-based electrocatalyst for hydrogen production at low overpotential in neutral water.

scientific article published in August 2015

Selective Synthesis of Conjugated Chiral Macrocycles: Sidewall Segments of (-)/(+)-(12,4) Carbon Nanotubes with Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Solar cells and photocatalytic systems: general discussion

scientific article published in January 2014

Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selective bonding of sacrificial C molecules

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Structure-function analyses of solar fuels catalysts using in situ X-ray scattering.

scientific article

Synergistic Effect of a Molecular Cocatalyst and a Heterojunction in a 1 D Semiconductor Photocatalyst for Robust and Highly Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production.

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Synthesis and enhanced electrochemical catalytic performance of monolayer WS2(1-x) Se2x with a tunable band gap.

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Synthesis and structural characterization of a new vapochromic Pt(II) complex based on the 1-terpyridyl-2,3,4,5,6-pentaphenylbenzene (TPPPB) ligand.

scientific article published on 5 December 2007

Synthesis of Giant π-Extended Molecular Macrocyclic Rings as Finite Models of Carbon Nanotubes Displaying Enriched Size-Dependent Physical Properties

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Synthesis of a magnetic π-extended carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces

scientific article published in 2022

Synthesis, electrochemistry, photophysics, and solvatochromism in new cyclometalated 6-phenyl-4-(p-R-phenyl)-2,2'-bipyridyl (R = Me, COOMe, P(O)(OEt)2) (C--N--N) platinum(II) thiophenolate chromophores

scientific article published in February 2009

Trinuclear zinc complexes for biologically relevant μ3-oxoanion binding and carbon dioxide fixation

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Visible light-driven hydrogen production from aqueous protons catalyzed by molecular cobaloxime catalysts.

scientific article published in June 2009

List of works by Pingwu Du

1D Colloidal Hetero-Nanomaterials with Programmed Semiconductor Morphology and Metal Location for Enhancing Solar Energy Conversion.

A Copper Porphyrin-Based Conjugated Mesoporous Polymer-Derived Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution.

A Large π-Extended Carbon Nanoring Based on Nanographene Units: Bottom-Up Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Selective Complexation with Fullerene C70.

A Long π-Conjugated Poly(para-Phenylene)-Based Polymeric Segment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A Three-Dimensional Capsule-like Carbon Nanocage as a Segment Model of Capped Zigzag [12,0] Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Complexation with C70

A cycloparaphenylene nanoring with graphenic hexabenzocoronene sidewalls.

A facile mechanochemical route to a covalently bonded graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and fullerene hybrid toward enhanced visible light photocatalytic hydrogen production

A highly selective turn-on colorimetric, red fluorescent sensor for detecting mobile zinc in living cells

A homogeneous system for the photogeneration of hydrogen from water based on a platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophore and a molecular cobalt catalyst

Atomic scale analysis of the enhanced electro- and photo-catalytic activity in high-index faceted porous NiO nanowires.

Author Correction: Synthesis of a magnetic π-extended carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces

Bi- and terpyridyl platinum(II) chloro complexes: molecular catalysts for the photogeneration of hydrogen from water or simply precursors for colloidal platinum?

Black Phosphorus Revisited: A Missing Metal-Free Elemental Photocatalyst for Visible Light Hydrogen Evolution.

Cadmium sulfide/graphitic carbon nitride heterostructure nanowire loading with a nickel hydroxide cocatalyst for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production in water under visible light

Catalysts made of earth-abundant elements (Co, Ni, Fe) for water splitting: Recent progress and future challenges

Cobalt complexes as artificial hydrogenases for the reductive side of water splitting

Cobalt porphyrin electrode films for electrocatalytic water oxidation

Construction of a short metallofullerene-peapod with a spin probe

Correction to Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Production from Aqueous Protons Catalyzed by Molecular Cobaloxime Catalysts

Crystalline Copper Phosphide Nanosheets as an Efficient Janus Catalyst for Overall Water Splitting

Cyclometalated 6-phenyl-2,2'-bipyridyl (CNN) platinum(II) acetylide complexes: structure, electrochemistry, photophysics, and oxidative- and reductive-quenching studies.

Degradation Chemistry and Stabilization of Exfoliated Few-Layer Black Phosphorus in Water.

Electrochemical, spectroscopic and theoretical studies of a simple bifunctional cobalt corrole catalyst for oxygen evolution and hydrogen production

Elucidating the domain structure of the cobalt oxide water splitting catalyst by X-ray pair distribution function analysis

Energy upconversion sensitized by a platinum(ii) terpyridyl acetylide complex

Enhanced photocatalytic H2 production on CdS nanorods with simple molecular bidentate cobalt complexes as cocatalysts under visible light.

Facile deposition of nanostructured cobalt oxide catalysts from molecular cobaloximes for efficient water oxidation

First example of the solid-state thermal cyclometalation of ligated benzophenone imine giving novel luminescent platinum(II) species.

From Planar Macrocycle to Cylindrical Molecule: Synthesis and Properties of a Phenanthrene-Based Coronal Nanohoop as a Segment of [6,6]Carbon Nanotube

Green cobalt oxide (CoOx) film with nanoribbon structures electrodeposited from the BF₂-annulated cobaloxime precursor for efficient water oxidation

High catalytic activity for water oxidation based on nanostructured nickel phosphide precursors

Highly Efficient and Stable Water-Oxidation Electrocatalysis with a Very Low Overpotential using FeNiP Substitutional-Solid-Solution Nanoplate Arrays.

Hydrogen production on a hybrid photocatalytic system composed of ultrathin CdS nanosheets and a molecular nickel complex.

In situ generated highly active copper oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction at low overpotential in alkaline solutions

Making hydrogen from water using a homogeneous system without noble metals.

Mimicking the Key Functions of Photosystem II in Artificial Photosynthesis for Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting.

MoS2 nanosheet/TiO2 nanowire hybrid nanostructures for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activities.

Nickel-based thin film on multiwalled carbon nanotubes as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting.

On-surface synthesis of planar acenes via regioselective aryl-aryl coupling

Optical properties of metal-molybdenum disulfide hybrid nanosheets and their application for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Oxyanion induced variations in domain structure for amorphous cobalt oxide oxygen evolving catalysts, resolved by X-ray pair distribution function analysis

Photocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water using a platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophore

Photodriven charge separation dynamics in CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dot/cobaloxime hybrid for efficient hydrogen production

Photogeneration of hydrogen from water using an integrated system based on TiO2 and platinum(II) diimine dithiolate sensitizers

Photoinduced electron transfer in platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide chromophores: reductive and oxidative quenching and hydrogen production

Platinum(II) terpyridyl acetylide complexes on platinized TiO(2): toward the photogeneration of H(2) in aqueous media.

Protein delivery of a Ni catalyst to photosystem I for light-driven hydrogen production.

Pyrolyzed cobalt porphyrin-based conjugated mesoporous polymers as bifunctional catalysts for hydrogen production and oxygen evolution in water.

Reaction selectivity of homochiral versus heterochiral intermolecular reactions of prochiral terminal alkynes on surfaces

Reversible mechanochromic luminescence at room temperature in cationic platinum(II) terpyridyl complexes

Robust and highly active copper-based electrocatalyst for hydrogen production at low overpotential in neutral water.

Selective Synthesis of Conjugated Chiral Macrocycles: Sidewall Segments of (-)/(+)-(12,4) Carbon Nanotubes with Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Solar cells and photocatalytic systems: general discussion

Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selective bonding of sacrificial C molecules

Structure-function analyses of solar fuels catalysts using in situ X-ray scattering.

Synergistic Effect of a Molecular Cocatalyst and a Heterojunction in a 1 D Semiconductor Photocatalyst for Robust and Highly Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production.

Synthesis and enhanced electrochemical catalytic performance of monolayer WS2(1-x) Se2x with a tunable band gap.

Synthesis and structural characterization of a new vapochromic Pt(II) complex based on the 1-terpyridyl-2,3,4,5,6-pentaphenylbenzene (TPPPB) ligand.

Synthesis of Giant π-Extended Molecular Macrocyclic Rings as Finite Models of Carbon Nanotubes Displaying Enriched Size-Dependent Physical Properties

Synthesis of a magnetic π-extended carbon nanosolenoid with Riemann surfaces

Synthesis, electrochemistry, photophysics, and solvatochromism in new cyclometalated 6-phenyl-4-(p-R-phenyl)-2,2'-bipyridyl (R = Me, COOMe, P(O)(OEt)2) (C--N--N) platinum(II) thiophenolate chromophores

Trinuclear zinc complexes for biologically relevant μ3-oxoanion binding and carbon dioxide fixation

Visible light-driven hydrogen production from aqueous protons catalyzed by molecular cobaloxime catalysts.