Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
LI Gao
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 13029497938
Email: gaoli@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

Synthesis and application of metal nanoclusters (e.g. 2-5 nm metal oxides, well-defined metal clusters, etc): structure-composition-function correlations.

Biography
1. 2015/07-present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor
2. 2014/07-2015/07: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Associate Professor
3. 2011/09-2014/06: CMU, posdoc.
4. 2005/09-2011/06: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ph.D, Applied Chemistry
5. 2000/09-2004/07: Hunan Normal University, B.S., Chemistry 
Honors and Awards
 
Publications
1. Zhaoxian Qin, Jiangwei Zhang, Chong-Qing Wan,* Shuang Liu, Hadi Abroshan,* Rongchao Jin,* and Gao Li,* Atomically Precise Nanoclusters with Reversible Isomeric Transformation for Rotary Nanomotors. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 6019.
2. Xiaorui Du, Yike Huang, Xiaoli Pan, Bing Han, Yang Su, Qike Jiang, Mingrun Li, Hailian Tang, Gao Li,* and Botao Qiao,* Size-dependent strong metal-support interaction in TiO2 supported Au nanocatalysts. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 5811.
3. Zhaoxian Qin, Sachil Sharma, Chong-Qing Wan,* Sami Malola, Wen-wu Xu, Hannu H?kkinen*, and Gao Li,* A Homoleptic Alkynyl-Ligated [Au13Ag16L24]3- Cluster as a Catalytically Active Eight-Electron Superatom. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, 970.
4. Youhai Cao, Yang Su, Liangliang Xu, Xiaohua Yang*, Zhongkang Han*, Rui Cao and Gao Li*, Ionic liquids modified oxygen vacancy-rich amorphous FeNi hydroxide nanoclusters on carbon-based materials as an efficient electrocatalyst for electrochemical water oxidation. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022, 71, 167.
5. Rongchao Jin,* Gao Li, Sachil Sharma, Yingwei Li, and Xiangsha Du, Toward Active-Site Tailoring in Heterogeneous Catalysis by Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters with Crystallographic Structures. Chemistry Review, 2021, 121, 567–648