负载型催化材料设计合成、微结构及构效关系研究；
原位/准原位电子显微学方法、电子能量损失谱学方法研究。

在纳米催化剂表界面结构及其构效关系研究，以及原位/准原位电子显微学方法探索化学环境中催化剂动态行为特征方面取得了一些进展，相关成果在Nat Commun、Angew Chem Int Ed、JACS、JEC、ACS Catal等期刊上发表SCI论文200余篇，总被引用10000余次，H指数53，参与撰写专著1部，申请中国专利12项。近期参与组织国际/国内会议5次，在国际/国内学术会议做Keynote/邀请报告及受邀到清华大学、中科院大连化学物理研究所等多家知名学府和科研院所做学术报告40余次。
近期部分代表性文章：
1)Wen Shi, Yiming Niu, Shunlin Li, Liyun Zhang, Ying Zhang, Gianluigi A. Botton, Ying Wan*, Bingsen Zhang*
     Revealing the Structure Evolution of Heterogeneous Pd Catalyst in Suzuki Reaction via the   Identical Location Transmission Electron Microscopy (IL-TEM)
ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 8621-8637.
2)Yiming Niu, Xing Huang, Yongzhao Wang, Ming Xu, Junnan Chen, Shuliang Xu, Marc-Georg Willinger, Wei Zhang*, Min Wei*, Bingsen Zhang*
Manipulating interstitial carbon atoms in the nickel octahedral site for highly efficient hydrogenation of alkyne
Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 3324.
3)Ming Lu, Wenjuan Han, Haibo Li*, Wei Zhang*, Bingsen Zhang*
There is plenty of space in the MXene layers: the confinement and fillings
J. Energy Chem., 2020, 48, 344-363. (Review/Cover paper)
4)Wenjuan Han, Ming LU, Junnan Chen, Haojie Li, Haibo Li, Bingsen Zhang*, Wei Zhang*, Weitao Zheng*
Activating MXene as a host of EMIm+ by electrochemistry-driven ferri-ion pre-intercalation
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 16265-16270. (JMCA Hot Papers)
5)Liyun Zhang, Yuxiao Ding, Yoobin Esther Koh, Bongjin Simon Mun, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Yiming Niu, Wen Shi, Bingsen Zhang*
Probing the origin of the enhanced catalytic performance of sp3@sp2 nanocarbon supported Pd catalyst for CO oxidation
Carbon, 2020, 156, 463-469.
6)Jinfang Su, Wen Shi, Xiaochun Liu, Liyun Zhang, Shaobo Cheng, Ying Zhang, Gianluigi A. Botton, Bingsen Zhang*
Probing the Performance of Structurally Controlled Platinum-Cobalt Bimetallic Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde
J. Catal., 2020, 388, 164-170.
7)Junnan Chen, Xueping Chen, Ming Lu, Yiming Niu, Bingsen Zhang*
Quantitative Analysis Method for Nitrogen Electron Energy-Loss Near-Edge Structures in Nanocarbons Based on Density Functional Theory Calculations and Linear Regression 
Ultramicroscopy, 2020, 215, 113006.
8)Yiming Niu#, Xi Liu#, Yongzhao Wang, Song Zhou, Zhengang Lv, Liyun Zhang, Wen Shi, Yongwang Li, Wei Zhang*, Dangsheng Su*, Bingsen Zhang*
Visualizing Formation of Intermetallic PdZn in a Palladium/Zinc Oxide Catalyst: Interfacial Fertilization by PdHx
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 4232-4237. (Cover paper)
9)Wen Shi#, Tongtong Gao#, Liyun Zhang, Yanshuang Ma, Zhongwen Liu*, Bingsen Zhang*
Tailoring the surface structures of iron oxide nanorods to support Au nanoparticles for CO oxidation
Chin. J. Catal., 2019, 40, 1884-1894.
10)Wen Shi, Bingsen Zhang*, Yangming Lin, Qi Wang, Qiang Zhang, Dang Sheng Su*
Tuning the Interaction between Pt Nanoparticles and Carbon Supports: Insights from Identical Location Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 7844-7854.