He is mainly engaged in the design, synthesis and application research of low-dimensional nanomaterials, especially the controllable preparation of ultra-thin graphene-like two-dimensional nanomaterials and their application research in energy storage and conversion, single-atom catalysts and nanocatalytic chemistry. Teaching "New Inorganic Materials and Applications" and "Semiconductor Materials Physics" undergraduate courses and "thin film Technology" graduate courses. He has presided over a number of National Natural Science Foundation projects, postdoctoral fund and enterprise horizontal projects. He has published more than 80 SCI papers in Nat. Commun., Adv. Funct. Mater., Energy Storage Mater., ACS Catal., Small and other internationally renowned journals, and obtained 6 national authorized invention patents. As an independent reviewer for Nano Res., JMCA, JPCL, ACS AMI and other international journals.

1. Two-dimensional materials;
2. Microwave inorganic synthetic chemistry;
3, single atom and nano catalysis;
4, lithium ion battery, sodium ion battery, magnesium secondary battery, metal-air battery and other key electrode materials and electrocatalysis.

2012.09-2016.07, Beijing Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph. D.
2009.09 to 2012.07, Master of Materials Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry 2005.09 to 2009.07, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Applied Chemistry, Bachelor

2018.11 to now, Associate Researcher, School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology
2016.07-2018.10, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University

[1] Youqi Zhu#, Wenming Sun#, Jun Luo, Wenxing Chen, Tai Cao, Lirong Zheng, Juncai Dong, Jian Zhang, Maolin Zhang, Yunhu Han, Chen Chen, Qing Peng, Dingsheng Wang*, Yadong Li*; A Cocoon Silk Chemistry Strategy to Ultrathin N-Doped Carbon Nanosheet with Metal Single-Site Catalysts, Nature Communications, 2018, 9(1): 3861.
[2] Youqi Zhu, Wenming Sun, Wenxing Chen, Tai Cao, Yu Xiong, Jun Luo, Juncai Dong, Lirong Zheng, Jian Zhang, Xiaolu Wang, Chen Chen, Qing Peng, Dingsheng Wang*, Yadong Li*; Scale-Up Biomass Pathway to Cobalt Single-Site Catalysts Anchored on N-Doped Porous Carbon Nanobelt with Ultrahigh Surface Area, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28(37): 1802167.
[3] Youqi Zhu, Tai Cao, Chuanbao Cao*, Jun Luo, Wenxing Chen, Lirong Zheng, Juncai Dong, Jian Zhang, Yunhu Han, Zhi Li, Chen Chen, Qing Peng, Dingsheng Wang, Yadong Li*; One-Pot Pyrolysis to N-Doped Graphene with High-Density Pt Single Atomic Sites as Heterogeneous Catalyst for Alkene Hydrosilylation, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8(11): 10004-10011.
[4] Yuexing Zhang, Youqi Zhu*, Zhitao Wang, Hui Peng, Xinyu Yang, Yuehua Cao, Changliang Du, Xilan Ma, Chuanbao Cao*, Pulverization-Tolerant CuSe Nanoflakes with High (110) Planar Orientation for High-Performance Magnesium Storage; Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 2104730.
[5] Quanqing Zhao, Faheem K. Butt, Min Yang, Zefeng Guo, Xiuyun Yao, Maximiliano Jesus Moreno Zapata, Youqi Zhu*, Xilan Ma, Chuanbao Cao*, Tuning Oxygen Redox Chemistry of P2-Type Manganese-Based Oxide Cathode via Dual Cu and Co Substitution for Sodium-Ion Batteries; Energy Storage Materials, 2021, 41: 581-587.
[6] Zhitao Wang, Youqi Zhu*, Chen Qiao, Shuo Yang, Jian Jia, Souleymen Rafai, Xilan Ma, Shide Wu, Fengqiu Ji, Chuanbao Cao*, Anionic Se-Substitution Toward High-Performance CuS1-xSex Nanosheet Cathode for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries; Small; 2019, 15:1902797.