Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
CHEN Li
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
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Email: chenli@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

1. Development of infrared laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (IR-LIF) techniques with single-photon sensitivity;

2. Applications of ultra-sensitive IR-LIF spectroscopy in surface molecular reaction dynamics.

Biography

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor, 2021/01 - present

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Associate Professor, 2018/10 - 2021/01 

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, G？ttingen, Germany, Postdoc, 2012/09 - 2018/09 

école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical engineering, 2008/08 - 2012/08

Institute of Modern Optics, Peking University, Beijing, China, M.S. in Optics, 2004/09 - 2008/07 

Huazhong University of Science &Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, B.S. in Physics, 2000/09 - 2004/07 

Honors and Awards
 
Publications
1. Jascha A. Lau, Li Chen, Arnab Choudhury, Dirk Schwarzer, Varun B. Verma, Alec M. Wodtke, “Transporting and concentrating vibrational energy to promote isomerization.” Nature 2021 2021 589 (7842) 
2. Li Chen, Jascha A. Lau, Dirk Schwarzer, J？rg Meyer, Varun B. Verma, Alec M. Wodtke, "The Sommerfeld ground-wave limit for a molecule adsorbed at a surface." Science 2019, 363(6423): 158-161.
3. Li Chen, Dirk Schwarzer, Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Francesco Marsili, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam and Alec M. Wodtke, "Mid-infrared Laser-Induced Fluorescence with Nanosecond Time Resolution Using a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector: New Technology for Molecular Science." Accounts Chem Res 2017, 50 (6), 1400-1409. 
4. Lau, J. A., Arnab Choudhury, Li Chen, Dirk Schwarzer, Varun Verma, Alec.M. Wodtke. "Observation of an isomerizing double-well quantum system in the condensed phase." Science 2020 367(6474): 175-178.  
5. Li Chen, Dirk Schwarzer, Jascha A. Lau, Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Francesco Marsili, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam and Alec M. Wodtke, "Ultra-sensitive mid-infrared emission spectrometer with sub-ns temporal resolution. " Opt Express 2018 , 26 (12), 14859-14868. (OSA Spotlight) 
6. Li Chen, H. Ueta, R. Bisson, R. D. Beck, Vibrationally bond-selected chemisorption of methane isotopologues on Pt(111) studied by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy. Faraday Discuss 2012 157, 285-295. 
7. Li Chen, H. Ueta, R. Bisson, R. D. Beck, Quantum state-resolved gas/surface reaction dynamics probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments 2013 84, 053902 1-9. (Editor's picks)