Bin Chang

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current

Research Interests

Bin Chang completed his Ph.D. at Shandong University in 2020. Now, Dr. Chang is postdoctoral researcher in the KAUST catalysis center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His current research is mainly focused on the design and synthesis of functional nanomaterials for energy conversion, including photo-/electro-catalytic nitrogen fixation and organic synthesis.

Selected Publications

  • Dynamic construction of a durable epitaxial catalytic layer for industrial alkaline water splitting

Bin Chang,# Xiaoyan Liu,# Shouwei Zuo,# Yuanfu Ren, Jietong He, Daqing Wang, Yongjiu Lei, Miao Hu, Wan-Lu Li, Mohd Adnan Khan, Rashed Aleisa, Riming Hu, Yang Hou, Hong Liu, Weijia Zhou,* Zhiping Lai, Husam N Alshareef, Huabin Zhang*

Nature Communication 2025, 16, 7959.

  • Proton exchange membrane water splitting: Advances in electrode structure and mass‐charge transport optimization

Wenting Feng, Bin Chang,* Yuanfu Ren, Debin Kong, Hua Bing Tao, Linjie Zhi, Mohd Adnan Khan, Rashed Aleisa, Magnus Rueping, Huabin Zhang*

Advanced Materials 2025, 37, 2416012.


  • Dynamic redox induced localized charge accumulation accelerating proton exchange membrane electrolysis

Bin Chang,# Yuanfu Ren,# Nan Mu, Shouwei Zuo, Chen Zou, Wei Zhou, Linrui Wen, Huabing Tao, Weijia Zhou, Zhiping Lai, Yoji Kobayashi, Huabin Zhang*

Advanced Materials 2025, 37, 2405447.

  • Electronic perturbation of isolated Fe coordination structure for enhanced nitrogen fixation

Bin Chang,# Zhen Cao,# Yuanfu Ren, Cailing Chen, Luigi Cavallo,* Fazal Raziq, Shouwei Zuo, Weijia Zhou, Yu Han, Huabin Zhang*

ACS Nano 2024, 18, 288.

  • Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor

Bin Chang, Chengyang Feng, Max Garcia-Melchor, Huabin Zhang

Chem 2023, 9, 2733.

  • Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon (C2+) products: challenges and perspectives

Bin Chang, Hong Pang, Fazal Raziq, Sibo Wang, Kuo-Wei Huang, Jinhua Ye, Huabin Zhang

Energy and Environmental Science 2023, 16, 4714.


Education

  • Ph.D., Materials, Shandong University, China, 2020
  • Master, Chemistry, Fuzhou University, China, 2016

Professional Profile

  • 2022-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
  • 2020-2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Jinan (China)/ Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Canada)


Awards

  • National Natural Science Foundation (52202366), 2023.01~2025.12, ¥300,000 (Principal Investigator, under research)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2021QE011), 2022.01~2024.12, ¥150,000 (Principal Investigator, under research)
  • Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program of Shandong Province (SDBX2020009), 2020.12~2022.06, ¥500,000 (Principal Investigator, project completed)
  • National Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M701402), 2021.06~2022.06, ¥80,000 (Principal Investigator, project completed)
  • Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment (SKLPEE-KF202110), 2021.01~2023.12, ¥40,000 (Principal Investigator, under research)

KAUST Affiliations

  • KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
  • Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Electrocatalysis Nitrogen fixation Electrochemical organic synthesis