1) Development of environmental catalytic materials

2) Photocatalysis and pollution control chemistry

1) Sheng-qi Guo, Zhenzhong Hu, Mengmeng Zhen, Bingchuan Gu, Boxiong Shen*, Fan Dong, Insights for optimum cation defects in photocatalysis: A case study of hematite nanostructures, Appl. Catal. B: Environ. DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.118506.

2) Sheng-qi Guo, Xiao-he Zhu, Hai-jun Zhang, Bing-chuan Gu, Wei Chen*, Lu Liu*, Pedro J. J. Alvarez*, Improving Photocatalytic Water Treatment through Nanocrystal Engineering: Mesoporous Nanosheet-Assembled 3D BiOCl Hierarchical Nanostructures that Induce Unprecedented Large Vacancies, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52, 68726880.

3) Liyan Wang, Sheng-qi Guo*, Yantao Chen, Meilan Pan, Edison Huixiang Ang, Zhi-hao Yuan*, A Mechanism Investigation of how the Alloying Effect Improves the Photocatalytic Nitrate Reduction Activity of Bismuth Oxyhalide Nanosheets, ChemPhotoChem, DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201900217. (Cover Feature)

4) Sheng-qi Guo, Ling-chang Wang, Chen-guang Zhang, Gao-can Qi, Bing-chuan Gu, Lu Liu*, Zhi-hao Yuan*, A unique semiconductor–carbon–metal hybrid structure design as a counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 6837–6845.

5) Sheng-qi Guo, Xiao Zhang, Zhen Zhou*, Guan-dao Gao*, Lu Liu*, Facile preparation of hierarchical Nb2O5 microspheres with photocatalytic activities and electrochemical properties, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 9236–9243.