•  国家自然科学基金面上项目，镍合金氮化物催化剂表面原子精准调控及高效乙炔加氢机制探索，2025-2028。
•  辽宁省自然科学基金面上项目，高效非贵金属镍基氮化物半加氢催化剂设计合成及构效关系研究，2022-2024。
•  SYNL仪器设备研制项目，原位透射电镜样品台集成化流动供气/液系统研制，2021-2023。
•  国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，间隙碳原子调控负载型镍基催化剂用于高效乙炔选择性加氢，2021.01-2023.12。
•  SYNL青年人才项目，次表面间隙氮原子调控镍基催化剂高效乙炔加氢，2021-2022。
•  中国博士后科学基金面上项目，Pd/ZnO催化剂表界面调控及催化过程演变的原位电子显微学研究，2019-2021。

•  多相催化加氢材料的结构设计与性能调控
•  光热催化反应过程与机制研究
•  铁电极化调控界面催化行为

1. Yinghui Pu; Yiming Niu*; Tongtong Gao; Junnan Chen; Bingsen Zhang*. Interstitial nitrogen-engineered square-planar Ni surfaces enabling efficient hydrogenation. Acta Materialia, 2026, 307: 121954.
2. Yinghui Pu; Yiming Niu*; Tongtong Gao; Junnan Chen; Bingsen Zhang*. Ammonia-directed gas-metal-support interaction forming Ni3ZnN for efficient hydrogenation. Chinese Chemical Letters, 2026, 37: 111520.
3. Shaoming Dong; Yiming Niu*; Yinghui Pu; Yongzhao Wang; Bingsen Zhang*. Subsurface carbon modification of Ni-Ga for improved selectivity in acetylene hydrogenation reaction. Chinese Chemical Letters, 2024, 35: 109525.
4. Lei Zhang; Yiming Niu*; Yinghui Pu; Yongzhao Wang; Shaoming Dong; Yuefeng Liu; Bingsen Zhang*; Zhong-Wen Liu*. In Situ Visualization and Mechanistic Understandings on Facet-Dependent Atomic Redispersion of Platinum on CeO2. Nano Letters, 2023, 23: 11999-12005.
5. Yongzhao Wang#; Yiming Niu#; Yinghui Pu; Shiyan Li; Yuefeng Liu; Bingsen Zhang*. Revealing the dynamic formation mechanism of porous Mo2C: an in-situ TEM study. Chemical Synthesis, 2023, 3: 42.
6. Yinghui Pu#; Bowen He#; Yiming Niu#; Xi Liu*; Bingsen Zhang*. Chemical Electron Microscopy for Heterogeneous Catalysis at Nano: Recent Progress and Challenges. Research, 2023, 6: 0043.
7. Yiming Niu#; Yongzhao Wang#; Junnan Chen; Shiyan Li; Xing Huang; Marc-Georg Willinger; Wei Zhang*; Yuefeng Liu; Bingsen Zhang*. Patterning the consecutive Pd3 to Pd1 on Pd2Ga surface via temperature-promoted reactive metal-support interaction. Science Advances, 2022, 8: eabq5751.
8. 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. Nature Communications, 2020, 11: 3324.
9. Siyang Liu#; Yiming Niu#; Yongzhao Wang; Junnan Chen; Xueping Quan; Xia Zhang*; Bingsen Zhang*. Unravelling the role of active-site isolation in reactivity and reaction pathway control for acetylene hydrogenation. Chemical Communications, 2020, 56: 6372-6375.
10. Yiming Niu#; Xi Liu#; Yongzhao Wang; Song Zhou; Zhengang Lv; Liyun Zhang; Wen Shi; Yongwang Li; Wei Zhang*; Dang Sheng Su*; Bingsen Zhang*. Visualizing Formation of Intermetallic PdZn in a Palladium/Zinc Oxide Catalyst: Interfacial Fertilization by PdHx. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58: 4232-4237.

长期围绕多相催化剂表界面微观结构的原子尺度解析与精准调控开展研究，重点探索金属-载体界面结构、表面原子排布及电子结构对催化反应行为的影响。在界面结构动态演变机制、间隙原子调控策略及高效加氢催化剂设计等方面取得了一系列研究成果，形成了以原位/准原位表征解析催化剂真实活性结构、以微观结构精准调控提升催化性能为特色的研究方向。在Nat. Commun.、Sci. Adv.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Acta Mater.等国际重要学术期刊发表论文52篇，其中第一/共同第一/共同通讯作者论文17篇，被引3000余次；申请专利9项，授权专利5项。

材料物理与化学

指导研究生围绕多相催化材料设计、原位结构表征、催化性能评价及反应机制解析等方向开展科研工作。协助指导的学生曾获得硕士研究生国家奖学金，2名学生获得优秀研究生创新研究项目支持。毕业学生部分继续从事科研工作，部分进入半导体、存储等相关企业就业。