Materials
LI Rengui
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 0411-84379698
Email: rgli@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

1. Charge separation strategy and mechanism in photocatalytic  water splitting

2. Novel semiconductor materials for solar energy conversion

3. Scalable photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production

Biography
1. 2018-         Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.
2. 2019-2020     Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology
3. 2014-2018     Associate professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.
4. 2009-2014     PhD, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.
Honors and Awards

1. The National Youth Talent Support Program（2021）

2. Youth Science and Technology Award of Liaoning Province (2021)

3. Outstanding Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS

4. Top Young Talent of Liaoning Province (2019)

5. Outstanding Young Talent of CAS Shenyang branch (2018)

6. Zhang Dayu Youth scholar by DICP (2018)

7. Rising Star of Catalysis in China (2017)

8. Young Scientist Prize of International Congress on Catalysis (2016)

9. Reward-gainers of the excellent PhD dissertations, CAS (2015)

10. Special Award of Natural Science Academic Achievement in Liaoning Province (2013)

Publications

1. Yue Zhao, Chunmei Ding, Jian Zhu, Wei Qin, Xiaoping Tao, Fengtao Fan, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. A Hydrogen Farm Strategy for Scalable Solar Hydrogen Production with Particulate Photocatalysts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 9653-9658.

2. Ming Shi, Guanna Li, Jianming Li, Xu Jin, Xiaoping Tao, Bin Zeng, Evgeny A Pidko, Rengui Li*, Can Li*, Intrinsic Facet‐dependent Reactivity of Well‐defined BiOBr Nanosheets on Photocatalytic Water Splitting. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 6590-6595.

3. Zheng Li, Liang Zhang, Yong Liu, Chenyi Shao, Yuying Gao, Fengtao Fan, Junxi Wang, Jinmin Li, Janchang Yan*, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. Surface polarity-induced spatial charge separation boosting photocatalytic overall water splitting on GaN nanorod arrays. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 935-942.

4. Ming Shi, Guanna Li, Wenming Tian, Shengye Jin, Xiaoping Tao, Yiming Jiang, Rengui Li*, and Can Li*. Understanding the Tunability of Electronic Properties for Lead-free Inorganic Halid Perovskites Via Crystalline Structural Transformations. Advanced Materials., 2020, 2002137.

5. Zhiliang Wang#, Takashi Hisatomi#, RenguiLi#, Kazuhiro Sayama, Gang Liu*, Kazunari Domen*, Can Li*, LianzhouWang*. Efficiency Accreditation and Testing Protocols for Particulate Photocatalysts toward Solar Fuel Production. Joule, 2021, 5, 1-16.

6. Ming Shi, Hongpeng Zhou, Wenming Tian, Bin Yang, Songqiu Yang, Keli Han, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. Lead-free B-site bimetallic perovskite photocatalyst for efficient benzylic C-H bond activation. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021， 2, 100656.

7. Rengui Li, Wen-Hui Cheng, Matthias H Richter, Joseph S DuChene, Wenming Tian, Can Li, Harry A Atwater*. Unassisted Highly Selective Gas-Phase CO2 Reduction with a Plasmonic Au/p-GaN Photocatalyst Using H2O as an Electron Donor. ACS Energy Letters, 2021, 6 (5), 1849-1856.

8. Linchao Mu, Yue Zhao, Ailong Li, Shengyang Wang, Zhiliang Wang, Jingxiu Yang, Yi Wang, Taifeng Liu, Ruotian Chen, Jian Zhu, Fengtao Fan, Rengui Li* and Can Li*. Enhancing charge separation on high symmetry SrTiO3 exposed with anisotropic facets for photocatalytic water splitting. Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 2463-2469.

9. Xiaoping Tao, Yue Zhao, Linchao Mu, Shengyang Wang, Rengui Li* and Can Li*, Bismuth Tantalum Oxyhalogen: A Promising Candidate Photocatalyst for Solar Water Splitting, Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, 1701392.

10. Xiaoping Tao, Yuying Gao, Shengyang Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yang Liu, Yue Zhao, Fengtao Fan, Michel Dupuis, Rengui Li*, Can Li*. Interfacial charge modulation: an efficient strategy for boosting spatial charge separation on semiconductor photocatalysts, Advanced Energy Materials, 2019, 1803951.

11. Xiaoping Tao, Wenwen Shi, Bin Zeng, Yue Zhao, Na Ta, Shengyang Wang, Abraham Abdul Adenle, Rengui Li* and Can Li*. Photoinduced Surface Activation of Semiconductor Photocatalysts under Reaction Conditions: A Commonly Overlooked Phenomenon in Photocatalysis. ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 5941-5948.

12. Rengui Li, Fuxiang Zhang, Donge Wang, Jingxiu Yang, Mingrun Li, Jian Zhu, Xin Zhou, Hongxian Han and Can Li. Spatial Separation of Photogenerated Electrons and Holes among {010} and {110} Crystal Facets of BiVO4. Nature Commun., 2013, 4:1432. 

13. Rengui Li, Hongxian Han, Fuxiang Zhang, Donge Wang and Can Li. Highly efficient photocatalysts constructed by rational assembly of dual-cocatalysts separately on different facets of BiVO4. Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7, 1369-1376.

14. Rengui Li, Yuxiang Weng, Xin Zhou, Xiuli Wang, Yang Mi, Ruifeng Chong, Hongxian Han and Can Li. Achieving overall water splitting using titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts of different phases. Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 2377-2382.