Hou Chunchao
Basic information：
Professor, Department of new energy and devices, Young Expert of Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province, Outstanding Young Scientist Foundation (Overseas) of Shandong Province.
E-Mail: houchunchao@ouc.edu.cn
Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Electrosynthesis, Batteries, and Nanomaterials
Biography:
Chun-Chao Hou received his Ph.D. degree from Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2017. Then he joined as postdoctoral researcher in AIST/Kyoto University (ChEM-OIL). Currently, he works as a professor in Ocean University of China. His research interest is in inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, and catalytic chemistry, with a specialization in crystalline porous functional materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). His research targets electrocatalysis and electrosynthesis technologies for clean energy utilization. He has published over 50 SCI papers in prestigious journals, including Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Advanced Materials.
Projects:
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Science Fund Project), 2022-2024.
2. Shandong Provincial Excellent Youth Science Fund Project (Overseas), 2023-2025.
3. Shandong Province Taishan Scholar Young Expert Program, 2022-2025.
4. Startup Project under the Young Talent Program, Ocean University of China, 2022-2024.
5. The Major Fundamental Research Project of Shandong Natural Science Fund, 2023-2026
6. The Youth Innovation Plan of Shandong Province, 2023-2025.
Research output:
After OUC:
1. Xianghui Yu, Shuxing Bai, Qinzhu Li, Ziyan Zhao, Qi Sun, Shuang Cao, Hongzhi Cui, Mingxu Liu, Qiang Xu, Chun-Chao Hou.* Performance optimization by antioxidant strategies for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Recent progress and future.EnergyChem 2025, 7, 100142.
2.Yunhui Xie, Xiaoxiao Dong, Wenchao Hu, Dengchao Wang, Yong Peng, Ruqiang Zou, Xin Xiao, Hongzhi Cui, Chi Zhang, Chun-Chao Hou,* and Qiang Xu. Out-of-plane coordinated iron single atoms boosting oxygen electroreduction. Chem. Catal. 2025, Accepted.
3. Xianghui Yu, Yunhui Xie, Xiaoxiao Dong, Dengchao Wang, Tong Sun, Qi Sun, Shuang Cao, Fanlu Meng, Ruqiang Zou, Chi Zhang, Qiang Xu, and Chun-Chao Hou.* Surface-Nanocurvation-Induced Microenvironment Regulation Capable of Controlling the Activity of Single-Atom Electrocatalysts. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, 2424401.
4. Haojing Liu, Han Wang, Fan Yang, Ruqiang Zou, Chun-Chao Hou,* and Qiang Xu.Recent progress on metal-organic framework-based separators for lithium-sulfur batteries,J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025,13, 6124-6151.
5. Yao Jin, Xing Fan, Qiming Li, Mingrui Guo, Jiangdong Bai, Haiping Lin, Yecan Pi, Shuang Cao, Chun-Chao Hou,* and Shuxing Bai, Self-Reconstruction of High Entropy Alloys for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Small 2025, 2408165.
6. Mingxu Liu, Yong Peng, Weibin Chen, Shuang Cao, Shougang Chen, Fanlu Meng, Yongcheng Jin, Chun-Chao Hou,* Ruqiang Zou, Qiang Xu. Metal-organic frameworks for carbon-neutral catalysis: State of the art, challenges, and opportunities, Coordin. Chem. Rev. 2024, 506, 215726.
7. Shuang Cao, Tong Sun, Yong Peng, Xianghui Yu, Qinzhu Li, Fan Lu Meng, Fan Yang, Han Wang, Yunhui Xie, Chun-Chao Hou,* Qiang Xu. Simultaneously Producing H2 and H2O2 by Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Recent Progress and Future. Small 2024, 2404285.
8. Ming Chen, Wei Fu, Chunchao Hou, Yunhai Zhu, and Fanlu Meng. Recent Functionalized Strategies of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Anode Protection of Aqueous Zinc-Ion Battery. Small 2024, 2403724.
9. Haojing Liu, Weiya Li, Hui Chang, Hongkai Hu, Shengrui Cui, Chun-Chao Hou*, Wei Liu, and Yongcheng Jin. Micro Area Interface Wetting Structure with Tailored Li+-Solvation and Fast Transport Properties in Composite Polymer Electrolytes for Enhanced Performance in Solid-State Lithium Batteries. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, 16, 3489-3501.
10. Jin-Rong Li, Ming-Xu Liu, Xia Liu, Xiang-Hui Yu, Qin-Zhu Li, Qi Sun, Tong Sun, Shuang Cao, Chun-Chao Hou.* The Recent Progress of Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts Used at Fuel Cell Level. Small Methods 2024, 8, 2301249.
11. Jin-Rong Li; Mingxu Liu; Xia Liu; Xiang-Hui Yu; Qin-Zhu Li; Qi Sun; Tong Sun; Shuang Cao; Chun-Chao Hou*. The cathode catalysts of hydrogen fuel cell: From laboratory toward practical application. Small Methods 2024, 2401569.
12. Jinrong Li, Xianghui Yu, Qi Sun, Yong Peng, Shuang Cao, Chun-Chao Hou,* Qiang Xu. Exploring the Predominant Factors Influencing the Oxygen Reduction Performance of PtCo/C Catalysts. Chem. Res. Chinese Universities 2024, 40, 753-760.
13. Jun Zhou, Qin-Zhu Li, Jin-Rong Li, Tong Sun, Shuang Cao, Yong Chen, Chun-Chao Hou.* A Multifunctional Solar-Driven Formic Acid Decomposition System Using Bimetallic Phosphides/CdS as Catalysts to Obtain H2, CO, or Syngas. Energy Technol. 2024, 12, 2400415.
14. Wenhao Guo, Huaipeng Pang, Xinyu Yang, Lin Li, Jinxiang Peng, Meiqi Zhao, Chunchao Hou, Yunhai Zhu, Fanlu Meng. Engineering modulated microscale assembly of MOF derived iron/nickel selenide for optimizing the oxygen evolution reaction. J. Mater. Chem. A 2024, 12, 15781-15791.
15. Qinzhu Li, Jinrong Li, Yanhong Liu, Jun Zhou, Xianghui Yu, Chunchao Hou, Xia Liu, Shuang Cao, Lingyu Piao. Synergistic Effect of Rutile and Brookite TiO2 for Photocatalytic Formic Acid Dehydrogenation. Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 15034-15043.
16. Shuang Cao, Tong Sun, Jin-Rong Li, Qin-Zhu Li, Chun-Chao Hou,* Qi Sun. The cathode catalysts of hydrogen fuel cell: From laboratory toward practical application. Nano Res. 2023, 16, 4365-4380.
17. Fulai Liu; Yanyan He; Xiaopeng Liu; Zhuan Wang; Honglai LIU; Xiang Zhu; Chun-Chao Hou*; Yuxiang Weng; Qianfan Zhang; Yong Chen, Regulating Excitonic Effects in Covalent Organic Frameworks to Promote Free Charge Carrier Generation. ACS catal., 2022, 12, 9494-9502.
18. Ruiqi Xu, Hongzhi Cui, Kunyu Sun, Xiaojie Song, Kaige Yang, Na Wei, Chun-Chao Hou, Minggang Zhao. Controllable 3D interconnected featured pore structure of transition metal borides-carbonitride/MoS2 for efficiently solar evaporation and wastewater purification. Chem. Eng. J. 2022, 137275.
Prior to OUC:
1. Chun-Chao Hou, Qiang Li, Chuan-Jun Wang, Cheng-Yun Peng, Qian-Qian Chen, Hui-Fang Ye, Wen-Fu Fu, Chi-Ming Che, Núria López, Yong Chen. Ternary Ni-Co-P nanoparticles as noble-metal-free catalysts to boost the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia-borane. Energy Environ. Sci. 2017, 10, 1770.
2. Chun-Chao Hou, Lianli Zou, Qiang Xu. A Hydrangea-Like Superstructure of Open Carbon Cages with Hierarchical Porosity and Highly Active Metal Sites. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1904689.
3. Chun-Chao Hou, Lianli Zou, Liming Sun, Kexin Zhang, Zheng Liu, Yinwei Li, Caixia Li, Ruqiang Zou, Jihong Yu, Qiang Xu. Single-Atom Iron Catalysts on Overhang-Eave Carbon Cages for High-Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 7384.
4. Chun-Chao Hou, Lianli Zou, Yu Wang, Qiang Xu. MOF-Mediated Fabrication of Porous 3-D Superstructure of Carbon Nanosheets Decorated with Ultrafine Cobalt Phosphide Nanoparticles for Efficient Electrolysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, DOI:10.1002/anie.202011347.
5. Chun-Chao Hou, Hao-Fan Wang, Caixia Li and Qiang Xu. From Metal-Organic Frameworks to Single/Dual-Atom and Cluster Metal Catalysts for Energy Applications. Energy Environ. Sci. 2020, 13, 1658-1693.
6. Chun-Chao Hou, Yu Wang, Lianli Zou, Miao Wang, Hongwen Liu, Zheng Liu, Hao-Fan Wang, Caixia Li and Qiang Xu. A Gas-Steamed MOF Route to P-doped Carbon Cages with Enhanced Zn-Ion Energy Storage Capability and Ultrastability. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33: 2101698.
7. Chun-Chao Hou, Qiang Xu. Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy. Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 9, 1801307.
