Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
CHEN Ruotian
Title: Associate Professor
Subject: Catalytic Chemistry
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Email: rtchen@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests
solar energy, photocatalysis, charge separation, spatiotemporal imaging, surface photovoltage
The research is focused on developing and leveraging high space- and time- resolved photoelectrical imaging techniques to spatiotemporally probe charge separation, transfer, and extraction processes in solar energy conversion for providing deep insights into the underlying mechanisms and guiding rational design of catalysts and devices.[Insert the attached picture]
The research is focused on developing and leveraging high space- and time- resolved photoelectrical imaging techniques to spatiotemporally probe charge separation, transfer, and extraction processes in solar energy conversion for providing deep insights into the underlying mechanisms and guiding rational design of catalysts and devices.[Insert the attached picture]
Biography
Ruotian Chen received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013 and received his PhD (with Prof. Can Li) in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 2019. He is currently an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis and the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean
Energy at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.
Honors and Awards
1. Outstanding Thesis Awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2021)
2. Chambroad Technology Award (2020)
3. Outstanding PHD talent, DICP (2020)
4. Chinese Academy of Sciences President Award (2019)
5. Lu JIAXI Award for Excellent Student (2019)
6. Baosteel Education Award of Outstanding Student (2019)
7. Yanchang Petroleum Award for Excellent Student, First Prize (2019)
8. Pollyanna Chu Award for Excellent PhD Student (2019)
9. Pacemaker to Merit Student of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019)
10. National Scholarship for PhD Student (2018)
Publications
1. Ruotian Chen, Zefeng Ren, Yu Liang, Guanhua Zhang, Thomas Dittrich, Runze Liu, Yang Liu, Yue Zhao, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Chenwei Ni, Panwang Zhou, Keli Han, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles, Nature, 2022, in press.
2. Ruotian Chen, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Jian Zhu, Sheng Ye, Yuying Gao, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Charge separation via asymmetric illumination in photocatalytic Cu2O particles, Nature Energy, 2018, 3, 655-663.
3. Ruotian Chen, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Unraveling Charge‐Separation Mechanisms in Photocatalyst Particles by Spatially Resolved Surface Photovoltage Techniques, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, e202117567.
4. Ruotian Chen, Thomas Dittrich, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Imaging photogenerated charge carriers on surfaces and interfaces of photocatalysts with surface photovoltage microscopy, Chemical Society Reviews, 2018, 47, 8238-8262.
5. Ruotian Chen, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Thomas Dittrich, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Giant Defect-Induced Effects on Nanoscale Charge Separation in Semiconductor Photocatalysts, Nano Letters, 2019, 19, 426-432.