Education 1980 B.Sc. St. Martin's Coll. 1985 Ph.D. Idaho Position 2015-2015 Chairman, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Since 2012 Head, United College, CUHK Since 2011 Associate Director, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, CUHK Since 2002 Professor, Department of Chemistry,The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2000-2010 Director, Environmental Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1995-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1985-1995 Assistant / Associate Professor, University of Central Missouri 1984-1985 Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound

Preparation and characterization of novel nano-structured materials Environmental applications of photocatalysis

Zhuofeng Hu, Luyan Yuan, Zhifeng Liu, Zhurui Shen, Jimmy C. Yu,“An Elemental Phosphorus Photocatalyst with a Record High Hydrogen Evolution Efficiency,”Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2016, 55, 9580-9585. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201603331 Zhuofeng Hu, Zhurui Shen, Jimmy C. Yu,“Converting Carbohydrates to Carbon-Based Photocatalysts for Environmental Treatment,”Environmental Science and Technology 2017, 51, 7076-7083. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00118 Qiming Sun, Ning Wang, Jihong Yu, Jimmy C. Yu,“A Hollow Porous CdS Photocatalyst,”Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1804368. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804368 Jianhua Yang, Yanzhen Guo, Ruibin Jiang, Feng Qin, Han Zhang, Wenzheng Lu, Jianfang Wang, Jimmy C. Yu,“High-Efficiency “Working-in-Tandem” Nitrogen Photofixation Achieved by Assembling Plasmonic Gold Nanocrystals on Ultrathin Titania Nanosheets,”Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, 8497-8508. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b03537 Bo Wang, Kemeng Xiao, Zhifeng Jiang, Jianfang Wang, Jimmy C. Yu, Po Keung Wong,“Biohybrid Photoheterotrophic Metabolism for Significant Enhancement of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Pure Microbial Cultures,”Energy & Environmental Science 2019, 12, 2185-2191. DOI: 10.1039/C9EE00705A Yang Liu, Zhuofeng Hu, Jimmy C. Yu,“Fe Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Nitrogen Fixation on BiOBr Nanosheets,”Chemistry of Materials 2020, 32, 1488−1494. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04448 Jie Li, Guangming Zhan, Jianhua Yang, Fengjiao Quan, Chengliang Mao, Yang Liu, Bo Wang, Fengcai Lei, Lejing Li, Alice W. M. Chan, Liangpang Xu, Yanbiao Shi, Yi Du, Weichang Hao, Po Keung Wong, Jianfang Wang, Shi-Xue Dou, Lizhi Zhang, Jimmy C. Yu,“Efficient Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrate on Strained Ruthenium Nanoclusters,”Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 7036-7046. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c00418 Lejing Li, Zhuofeng Hu, Jimmy C. Yu,“On-Demand Synthesis of H2O2 by Water Oxidation for Sustainable Resource Production and Organic Pollutant Degradation,”Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, in press. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008031