Education and Research Experience: 

BS (2003),   Nanjing University
PhD (2010),  The University of Manchester

Principal Research Interests:
Mass transport in atomic scale confinements and channels, electrochemistry, separation, and energy conversion.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Yuan, Gang; Fang, Junjie; Sun, Yukun; Ma, Jiaojiao; Wang, Hao; Zhou, Wanqi; Jiang, Yu; Yang, Chongyang; Zhou, Zhihua; Hu, Rong; Xia, Mingyang; Novoselov, Konstantin S.; Qiu, Hu*; Hu, Sheng*. Chemically gated ion transport in two-dimensional heterogeneous membranes with ultrahigh metal ion selectivity, Science Bulletin70, 3183-3189 (2025)

2. L. Zhou; C. Yang; X. Yang; J. Zhang; C. Wang; W. Wang; M. Li; X. Lu; K. Li; H. Yang; H. Zhou; J. Chen; D. Zhan; V. I. Fal'ko; J. Cheng; Z. Tian; A. K. Geim; Y. Cao*; S. Hu*. Angstrom‐Scale Electrochemistry at Electrodes with Dimensions Commensurable and Smaller than Individual Reacting Species, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62(52): e202314537 (2023)

3. Y. Jiang, R. Hu, C. Yang, Z. Zhou, G. Yuan, H. Zhou, S. Hu* Surface diffusion enhanced ion transport through two-dimensional nanochannels. Sci. Adv. 2023, 9, adi8493.

4. Z. Zhou; Y.Tan; Q. Yang; A. Bera; Z. Xiong; M. Yagmurcukardes; M. Kim; Y. Zou; G. Wang; A. Mishchenko; I. Timokhin; C. Wang; H. Wang; C. Yang; Y. Lu; R. Boya; H. Liao; S. Haigh; H. Liu; F. M. Peeters; Y. Li*; A. K. Geim*; S. Hu*; Gas permeation through graphdiyne-based nanoporous membranes. Nat. Commun. 13, 1-6 (2022).

5. K. Gopinadhan†, S. Hu†, A. Esfandiar, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, F. C. Wang,Q. Yang, A. V. Tyurnina, A.Keerthi, B. Radha*, A. K. Geim*.Complete steric exclusion of ions andproton transport through confinedmonolayer water.Science363, 145–148 (2019).

6. S. Hu*, K. Gopinadhan, A. Rakowski, M. Neek-Amal, T. Heine, I. V. Grigorieva, S. J. Haigh, F. M. Peeters, A. K. Geim* and M. Lozada-Hidalgo*, Transport of hydrogen isotopes through interlayer spacing in van der Waals crystals. Nat. Nanotechnol. 13, 468-472 (2018).

7. M. Lozada-Hidalgo*†, S. Hu†, O. Marshall, A Mishchenko, A. N. Grigorenko, R. A. W. Dryfe, B. Radha, I. V. Grigorieva, A. K. Geim*, Sieving hydrogen isotopes through two-dimensional crystals.Science 351, 68-70 (2016).

8. S. Hu, M. Lozada-Hidalgo*, F. C. Wang, A Mishchenko, F. Schedin, R. R. Nair, E. W.Hill, D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, R. A. W. Dryfe, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu* & A. K. Geim, Proton transport through one-atom-thick crystals. Nature516, 227-230 (2014)