2011/02-现在， 南京信息工程大学，化学与材料学院， 教授，博导，江苏特聘教授

2009/11-2010/11，美国加州大学圣芭芭拉分校，高级访问学者（受韩国建国大学委派）

2009/03－2011/02，韩国建国大学, 研究员（Research Professor）

2007/09－2008/02，东南大学,化学化工学院，讲师

2002/09－2007/06，南京大学，化学化工学院，博士

1988/09－1992/07，吉林大学，化学系，学士

研究方向：

1.新能源材料

2.固废资源化

近期，研究集中在石墨烯类环境功能材料和新能源材料的制备和性质；大宗固废生产建筑材料的技术研究。作为第一作者先后在Chem. Mater., Chem. Eng. J., Sensor. Actuat. B-Chem.等杂志上报道石墨烯类环境材料和新能源材料的理论和实验方面的工作。长期从事固废资源化和有机污染物资源化和降解方面的研究，致力于美丽家园建设。

共发表科研论文70余篇，其中SCI论文60余篇；授权专利50余项，其中发明专利，20余项。

获江苏特聘教授、六大人才高峰人才项目资助。

中国化学会、美国化学会、中国气象学会和中国颗粒学会会员，中国标准化委员会委员，江苏化学会理事。

2015-2019年SCI论文

1.        Yuan Bai, Chao-Zhi Zhang, Bin Chen, Hongqi Sun, Enhanced humidity sensing of functionalized reduced graphene oxide with 4-chloro-3-sulfophenylazo groups, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 287 (2019) 258–266.

2.        Ting Li, Chao-Zhi Zhang, Dongqin Ding, Xinxia Fan, Ying Li, Experimental and theoretical study on degradation of oxidized C60 in water via photo-Fenton method, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018, 334, 587-597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2017.10.062

3.        Chao-Zhi Zhang*, Ling-Ling Liu. Preparation of large-size graphene oxide-like with hydroxyl groups and its optoelectronic properties, Optical Materials, 75 (2018) 561-566.

4.        Chao-Zhi Zhang^*, Yang Yuan, Ziyan Guo, Experimental study on functional graphene oxide containing many primary amino groups fast adsorbing heavy metal ions and adsorption mechanism, Separation Science and Technology, 2018, 53(11), 1666–1677. https://doi.org/10.1080/01496395. 2018.1436071.

5.        Zhang, C.-Z., Chen, B., Bai, Y., & Xie, J. (2018). A new functionalized reduced graphene oxide adsorbent for removing heavy metal ions in water via coordination and ion exchange. Separation Science and Technology, 2018, 53(18), 2896-2905. DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2018.1497655. 

6.        Zhang, C.-Z., Yuan, Y., & Li, T. Adsorption and Desorption of Heavy Metals from Water using Aminoethyl Reduced Graphene Oxide. Environmental Engineering Science. 2018, 35 (9), 978-987.  DOI: 10.1089/ees.2017.0541.1-10. 

7.        Ting Li, Chao-Zhi Zhang, Xinxia Fan, Ying Li, Mingxia Song, Degradation of oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes in water via photo-Fenton method and its degradation mechanism, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017, 323, 37–46.

8.        Jiyuan Ge, Jian Jiang, Chenhuan Yuan, Chaozhi Zhang, Minghua Liu, Palladium nanoparticles stabilized by phosphine ligand for aqueous phase room temperature suzuki-Miyaura coupling, Tetrahedron Letters 58 (2017) 1142–1145

9.        Ting Li, Chao-Zhi Zhang, Chengyue Gu, Study on degrading graphene oxide in wastewater under different conditions for developing an efficient and economical degradation method, Environmental Technology, 2017, 38:23, 2999-3006, DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2017.1285357.

10.    Meng-Xiao Niu，Chao-Zhi Zhang, Crystal structure and nonlinear optical properties of 7,8-dihydroxyaminoacenaphthalene, Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, 2017, 26(1), 1750003 (1-10). DOI: 10.1142/S0218863517500035.

11.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Ting Li, Yang Yuan, Cheng-Yue Gu, Meng-Xiao Niu, Hui Cao, Effect of bromine substituent on optical properties of compounds, Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2017, 30(5), e3620. DOI: 10.1002/poc.3620.

12.    Xiao Zhang, Biwu Chu, Junhua Li, Chaozhi Zhang, Effects of seed particles Al2O3, Al₂(SO4)₃ and H₂SO₄ on secondary organic aerosol, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2017, 11(4): 5 (1-9) DOI 10.1007/s11783-017-0936-4.

13.    Yan-Xiao Su, Chao-Zhi Zhang and Ming-Xia Song, Optical properties of (Z )-2-(2-phenylhydrazinylidene)acenaphthen-1(2H)-one: a potential electron donor in organic solar cells,  Acta Cryst. (2017). C73, 458–463.

14.    Ting Li, Chao-Zhi Zhang, Yan-Xiao Su, Meng-Xiao Niu, Cheng-Yue Gu and Ming-Xia Song, Crystal Structure and Optoelectronic Properties of Antiaromatic Compound 3,4,9,10-Tetrahydrodicyclopenta[cd,lm]perylene, Crystallography Reports, 2017, 62(6), 885–888. DOI: 10.1134/S1063774517060165.

15.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Yan-Xiao Su, and Meng-Xiao Niu, A selective chemosensor for detection of Ag(I) and Cu(I) based on an acenaphthoquinone derivative and its complexes, Journal of Coordination Chemistry,  2016, 69(21), 3158-3171. 

16.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Shu-Duo Gu, Dan Shen, Yang Yuan, Mingdao Zhang. Synthesis of an A-D-A type of molecule used as electron acceptor for improving charge transfer in organic solar cells, Chemical Physics 475 (2016) 104–111.

17.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Meng-Xiao Niu, Study on mechanism of isomerization between ammonium thiocyanate and thiourea, Journal of Molecular Structure 1125 (2016) 643-648.

18.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Ting Li, Yang Yuan, Jianqiang Xu, An efficient and environment-friendly method of removing grapheme oxide in wastewater and its degradation mechanisms, Chemosphere 153 (2016) 531-540.

19.    Chao-Zhi Zhang, Dan Shen, Yang Yuan, Ming-Xia Song, Shi-Juan Li, Hui Cao, Syntheses of planar 1,5,2,4,6,8-dithiotetrazocine derivatives and thermodynamic study on intermolecular charge transfer for developing efficient organic solar cell, Materials Chemistry and Physics 177 (2016) 463-471.

20.    Chao-Zhi Zhang,* Dan Shen, Yang Yuan, Shi-Juan Li, and Hui Cao*. Syntheses and Optoelectronic Properties of Planar Compounds 3,7-diaryl-1,5,2,4,6,8-dithiotetrazocine  J. Heterocyclic. Chem., 2016, 53(6), 1813-1819. DOI: 10.1002/jhet.2491.

21.    Wenkang Su, Huazhen Chang, Yue Peng, Chaozhi Zhang* and Junhua Li*，Reaction Pathway Investigation on the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH₃ over Cu/SSZ-13 at Low Temperatures, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2015, 49, 467−473.

22.    Xiaoxu Sun, Ruiyang Qu, Ying Lei, Bingyang Bai, Huazhen Chang, Yue Peng, Wenkang Su, Chaozhi Zhang*, Junhua Li*. Lean NO_XX–SnO₂–CeO₂ catalyst at low temperatures, Catal. Today 2015, 258, 556–563.

23.    Chao-Zhi Zhang*, Shi-Juan Li, Hui Cao, Ming-Xia Song, Qing-Gang Kong Synthesis and crystal structure of 3-(40-nitrophenyl)iminocoumarin, and cyclization reaction mechanism based on DFT calculation, J. Mol. Struct. 2015, 1088, 1–6.

24.    Shi-Juan Li, Dan Shen, and Chao-Zhi Zhang*. Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 2-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)- 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-ol, Crystall. Rep. 2015, 60(6), 874–879.