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J-GLOBAL ID:202401005363337896   Update date: Feb. 05, 2026

Zhang Di

ジャン ディ | Zhang Di
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor
Research field  (5): Applied mathematics and statistics ,  Catalytic processes and resource chemistry ,  Energy chemistry ,  Earth resource engineering, energy science ,  Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
Research keywords  (1): Catalysis and material theory, Data-driven machine learning, Computational material science
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (2):
  • 2025 - 2027 Explore the Spin Effects of Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts in Oxygen Electrocatalysis
  • 2024 - 2025 Exploring high Ionic Conductivity Solid-State Electrolytes using Machine-Learning Driven Genetic Algorithms and Metadynamic Simulations
Papers (65):
  • Tingyu Lu, Jing Li, Caikang Wang, Heng Liu, Songbo Ye, Xue Jia, Linda Zhang, Di Zhang, Dongmei Sun, Yanhui Gu, et al. Stepwise Acceleration of Water Dissociation and Hydrogen Spillover for Enhanced Overall Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Catalysis. 2026
  • Di Zhang, Xue Jia, Hung Ba Tran, Seong Hoon Jang, Linda Zhang, Ryuhei Sato, Yusuke Hashimoto, Toyoto Sato, Kiyoe Konno, Shin-ichi Orimo, et al. “DIVE” into hydrogen storage materials discovery with AI agents. Chemical Science. 2026
  • Heng Liu, Hung Ba Tran, Yuan Wang, Di Zhang, Yiming Lu, Hao Li. 2D Topological Electrocatalysts with Spin-Orbit Coupling: Interplay between the “Electrochemical” and “Topological” Surface States. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2025
  • Tengyi Liu, Xiaofan Hou, Di Zhang, Yutaro Hirai, Kosuke Ishibashi, Yasutaka Matsuo, Junya Yoshida, Shimpei Ono, Hao Li, Hiroshi Yabu. Ampere-Level Electrosynthesis of CO via Well-Defined Pyridinic-N Incorporated Cobalt Phthalocyanine. Small. 2025
  • Yong Wang, Baorui Jia, Wanjun Qin, Yuhang Wang, Sijia Liu, Yunpu Qin, Yongzhi Zhao, Luan Liu, Di Zhang, Heng Liu, et al. High-Density W Single Atoms in Two-Dimensional Spinel Oxide Break the Structural Integrity for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2025
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Lectures and oral presentations  (8):
  • Digital Materials Platform and AI-Driven Efficient Materials Development
    (2025)
  • The Front-End of a Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) Electrocatalysis Lab
    (iCAN YOUTH TALKS 102nd 2025)
  • Front-End of a Data-Driven AI Electrocatalysis Lab
    (FRIS Symposium at Tohoku University 2024)
  • Theory-Guided Electrocatalyst Design: pH-Field Coupling Microkinetic Modeling and Active Machine Learning Methods
    (Invited Presentation by North China Electric Power University, China 2024)
  • Unraveling the pH-Dependent Oxygen Reduction Performance on Single-Atom Catalysts: From Single- to Dual-Sabatier Optima
    (20th National Youth Catalysis Academic Conference (NYCC20) of the Chinese Chemical Society 2024)
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Education (2):
  • 2015 - 2021 Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Mechanical Engineering PH. D.
  • 2011 - 2015 Dalian University of Technology School of Mechanical Engineering Bachelor
Work history (3):
  • 2024/01 - 現在 Tohoku University Advanced Institute for Materials Research Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
  • 2022/09 - 2023/12 Tohoku University Advanced Institute for Materials Research Visiting researcher
  • 2021/06 - 2022/09 Shanghai Jiao Tong Universiry School of mechanical engineering Postdoctoral researcher
Committee career (1):
  • 2024/03 - 2028/03 Member Chinese Chemical Society
Awards (6):
  • 2024 - Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigators 2024 The Potential of Zero Charge and Solvation Effects on Single-Atom M-N-C Catalysts for Oxygen Electrocatalysis
  • 2023 - Taiwan, HIWIN Co., Ltd Silver Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Molecular simulation and process regulation of the deposition process of nanocrystalline carbon coatings on metal electrode plates for fuel cells
  • 2023 - Tohoku University Best Poster Award Data-Driven and Theory-Guided Design of Electrocatalysts for a Sustainable Future
  • 2021 - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Excellent Ph.D. Student Fund
  • 2021 - China Postdoctoral Science Foundation National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents
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