Dean’s Chair Professor Lu Jiong

Current position and past employment history

  • Assistant Head for International Relations and Infrastructure, 2024-present
  • Dean’s Chair Professorship, 2023-present
  • Director of the Chemical, Molecular, and Materials Analysis Centre, 2021-present
  • Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, 2021 to present
  • Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, 2015-2021
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, 2013-2014
  • Research Fellow, NUS, Singapore, 2011 – 2013
  • PhD. (Chemistry) National University of Singapore, 2007-2011
  • Sc. (Chemistry) Fudan University, China, 2003-2007

Research Interests

Our research group has focused on designing emergent low-dimensional materials at atomically precise length scales to investigate their novel quantum properties and tackle contemporary challenges in quantum devices and sustainable chemical transformations. Specifically, we have pursued two key directions: the development of emergent atomic quantum materials and novel catalytic materials with atomically precise active sites to address critical bottlenecks hindering their practical applications. Our primary experimental tool is the low-temperature scanning probe microscope, specifically the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM). These advanced techniques enable the precise construction of quantum states of matter and offer unparalleled insights into how the quantum world operates at the atomic scale.

Representative publications 

  • Janus graphene nanoribbons with localised states on a zigzag edge

SS Song, et al. SG Louie*, J Lu* Nature  10.1038/s41586-024-08296-x, 2024

  • Geminal-atom catalysis for cross-coupling

X Hai, et al.Y Zhu*, J Li*,  J Lu* Nature 622, 754-760,2023

  • Evidence for Electron-hole Crystals in a Mott Insulator

Zhizhan Qiu, et al.KS Novoselov*, J Lu* Nature Materials 23, 1055–1062 (2024)

  • Highly-Entangled Polyradical Nanographene with Coexisting Strong Correlation and Topological Frustration

ST Song, et al. JS Wu*, J Lu* Nature Chemistry  16, 938–944, 2024

  • Intelligent synthesis of magnetic nanographenes via chemist-intuited atomic robotic probe

Su, JL Li, et al. XN Wang*, J Lu* Nature Synthesis  3, 466–476, 2024

  • Ferromagnetic single-atom spin catalyst for boosting water splitting

T Sun, et al J Lu*  Nature Nanotechnology, 18, 763–771, 2023

  • Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis

X Li, et al J Lu* Nature Reviews Chemistry, 1-14, 2023

  • Atomically precise vacancy-assembled quantum antidots

YF Han, et al.  J Lu*  Nature Nanotechnology 18, 1401–1408 (2023)

  • Using single vacancies to build quantum antidots with atomic precision

H Fang, J Lu* Nature Nanotechnology 18, 1379–1380 (2023)

  • Scalable two-step annealing method for preparing ultra-high-density single-atom catalyst libraries

X Hai, et al J Lu* Nature Nanotechnology, 1-8 2022

  • Printable two-dimensional superconducting monolayers

J Li, et al.  J Lu*  Nature Materials, 20, 181–187, 2021

 

Recent Awards and recognition

  • FOS Outstanding Scientist Awards 2024
  • Singapore Young Scientist Awards 2024
  • Tsinghua Xuetang Lectureship 2023
  • Associate Editor of Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society 2023
  • Lead PI of NRF-CRP programme 2023
  • Dean’s Chair Professorship 2023
  • Young Researcher Award, NUS 2022
  • Faculty Young Scientist Award, NUS 2021
  • JACS Early Career Investigators virtual collection 2021
  • JMCA Emerging Investigators 2019

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