Prof. Jun MA

Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Room 1716, Science and Technology Experimental Building, West Campus of USTC

Education and work experience

2023.09—Present, Distinguished Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, China. 

2019.01—2023.08, Professor, Department of Materials Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.

2017.04—2018.12, JSPS Program Specific Researcher, Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto, University, Japan.

2015.10—2017.04, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 

2012.10—2015.10, Ph.D., Institut de Chimie Physique,Université Paris Saclay, France.

2009.09—2015.10, M.S., Department of Applied Chemistry, Peking University, China.

2005.09—2009.07, B.S. in Applied Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences, Wuhan University of Technology, China.

Research Interests

Radiation Radical Chemistry

Radiation preparation and application of functional hydrogels

Polymer-based coating electron beam curing

Recent Representative Papers

1). Yu, H.; Hu, M.; Chen, C.; Hu, C.; Li, Q.; Hu, F.; Peng, S.; Ma, J. Ambient Γ‐Rays‐Mediated Noble‐Metal Deposition on Defect‐Rich Manganese Oxide for Glycerol‐Assisted H ₂ Evolution at Industrial‐Level Current Density. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, 62 (52). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202314569.

2). Jiang, Z.; Clavaguéra, C.; Hu, C.; Denisov, S. A.; Shen, S.; Hu, F.; Ma, J.; Mostafavi, M. Direct Time-Resolved Observation of Surface-Bound Carbon Dioxide Radical Anions on Metallic Nanocatalysts. Nat Commun 2023, 14 (1), 7116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42936-6.

3). Hu, C.; Jiang, Z.; Wu, Q.; Cao, S.; Li, Q.; Chen, C.; Yuan, L.; Wang, Y.; Yang, W.; Yang, J.; Peng, J.; Shi, W.; Zhai, M.; Mostafavi, M.; Ma, J. Selective CO2 Reduction to CH3OH over Atomic Dual-Metal Sites Embedded in a Metal-Organic Framework with High-Energy Radiation. Nat Commun 2023, 14 (1), 4767. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40418-3

4). Hu, C.; Cheng, L.; Zhou, L.; Jiang, Z.; Gan, P.; Cao, S.; Li, Q.; Chen, C.; Wang, Y.; Mostafavi, M.; Wang, S.; Ma, J. Radiolytic Water Splitting Sensitized by Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks. J Am Chem Soc 2023, 145 (9), 5578–5588. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c00547

5). Wang, Z.; Wang, Y.; Ge, Z.; Tian, Y.; Ai, M.; Cao, S.; Wang, M.; Wang, S.; Ma, J. Color-Phase Readout Radiochromic Photonic Crystal Dosimeter. Matter 2022, 5 (11), 4060–4075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2022.08.015.

6). Jiang, Z.; Adjei, D.; Denisov, S. A.; Mostafavi, M.; Ma, J. Transient Kinetics of Short-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Sulfonate with Radiolytic Reducing Species. Environ Sci Technol Lett 2023, 10 (1), 59–65. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00837.

7). Chen, C.; Zhang, Y.; Li, Q.; Wang, Y.; Ma, J. Guanidine-Embedded Poly(Ionic Liquid) as a Versatile Precursor for Self-Templated Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbons: Tailoring the Microstructure for Enhanced CO2 Capture. Fuel 2022, 329, 125357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125357.

8). Shi, P.; Li, Q.; Wang, Y.; Weng, H.; Ma, J. Gas Production from Hydrothermal and Radiolytic Reactions at Silicon Carbide-Water Interfaces. Journal of Nuclear Materials 2022, 563, 153624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2022.153624.

9). Ma, J.; Kumar, A.; Muroya, Y.; Yamashita, S.; Sakurai, T.; Denisov, S. A.; Sevilla, M. D.; Adhikary, A.; Seki, S.; Mostafavi, M. Observation of Dissociative Quasi-Free Electron Attachment to Nucleoside via Excited Anion Radical in Solution. Nat Commun 2019, 10 (1), 102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08005-z.

10). Ma, J.; Wang, F.; Denisov, S. A.; Adhikary, A.; Mostafavi, M. Reactivity of Prehydrated Electrons toward Nucleobases and Nucleotides in Aqueous Solution. Sci Adv 2017, 3 (12), e1701669. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701669.