研究方向介绍：
主要从事固体核磁共振技术开发及其应用研究，在灵敏度增强的同核双量子固体核磁共振技术开发，超快魔角旋转高分辨固体核磁共振技术开发、MOFs和COFs有机框架材料荧光检测水体污染物机理研究，以及光催化反应机理研究中取得一系列科研成果。如采用灵敏度增强的四极核同核双量子技术首次观察到了高硅分子筛中各种铝物种的空间邻近效应，合成了超高检测灵敏度的MOFs材料用于检测水体中的磷酸盐物种，发现了客体分子对激活氮化碳材料中n–π*电子跃迁效应的影响。到目前为止, 主持3项国家自然科学基金项目, 联合主持1项国家自然科学基金大科学装置联合基金重点项目，2项合肥物质科学技术中心重点项目。在Angewandte Chemie International Edition、Nature Communications、 Journal of Energy Chemistry、Chemistry of Materials、Chemical Engineering Journal、Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers等国际学术期刊上发表SCI论文30余篇。担任国家自然科学基金项目函评专家和《科技通报》编委，同时还担任多个国际学术期刊的论文审稿人。
代表性论文：
1. Zhiwu Yu, Anmin Zheng, Qiang Wang, Lei Chen, Jun Xu, Jean-Paul Amoureux, Feng Deng, Insights into the Dealumination of Zeolite HY Revealed by Sensitivity-Enhanced 27Al DQ-MAS NMR Spectroscopy at High Field, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, 49, 8657–8661
2. Zhiwu Yu, Qiang Wang, Lei Chen, Feng Deng*，Brønsted/Lewis Acid Sites Synergy in H-MCM-22 Zeolite Studied by 1H and 27Al DQ-MAS NMR Spectroscopy, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2012, 33: 129–139
3. Deyi Zhan, Abdul Saeed, Zixuan Li, Chengming Wang, Zhiwu Yu*, Junfeng Wang, Nanjing Zhao, Weihong Xu, Jinhuai Liu, Highly fluorescent scandium-tetracarboxylate frameworks: selective detection of nitro-aromatic compounds, sensing mechanism, and their application, Dalton Transactions, 2020 , 49, 17737–17744
4. Xiangang Lin, Haiwei Du, Daochuan Jiang, Peng Zhang, Zhiwu Yu*, Hong Bi, Yupeng Yuan, Microwave awakening the n-π* electronic transition in highly crystalline polymeric carbon nitride nanosheets for photocatalytic hydrogen generation, Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2021, 65, 541-547
5. Yue Liu, Linfan Guo, Yan Chen, Yaqian Wang, Gengsheng Xu, Lina Gu, Zhiwu Yu*, Yupeng Yuan, A porphyrin-based metal-organic framework Al-TCPP for highly selective sensing of copper ions with exceptional low limit of detection, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2023, 11, 111021
6. Liecheng Guo, Qing Yun Zhang, Zhiwu Yu*, Rajamani Krishna, Feng Luo, Minute and Large-Scale Synthesis of Covalent-Organic Frameworks in Water at Room Temperature by a Two-Step Dissolution-Precipitation Method, Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35, 5648-5656
7. Zhili Xu, Jing Li, Deyi Zhan, Yue Liu, Weihong Xu, Junfeng Wang, Zhiwu Yu*, The n–π* electronic transition induced by nitrogen vacancies enhances photocatalytic hydrogen production in carbon nitride, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 501, 157670
8. Zhiwu Yu*, Solid-state NMR reveals that oxygen tri-clusters make glass highly crackresistant, Magnetic Resonance Letters, 2024, 4, 20098
9. Anni Ye, Lizhen Zhong, Liecheng Guo, Feng Gao, Zhiwu Yu*, Feng Luo, Direct phosphorylation of a pyridine-functionalized porous organic polymer for efficient uranium capture, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024, 11, 4619-4624
10. Xiaoli Xia, Fang Wang, Changju Yang, Yujie Wen, Xiang Ning, Zhengting Zhang, Juan Wen, Zhonghan Feng, Xiaokang Ke, Zhiwu Yu, Hanxi Guan, Wenhua Hou, Xuefeng Guo, Weiping Ding, Di Wu, Yadong Li, Luming Peng, Atomic-Scale Mapping of Atomically Dispersed Light-Element Species in Oxide Nanomaterials by Solid-State NMR, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, 148, 19087−19100