Xiuli Lu
Associate professor
Phone: 022-60215704
Email: luxiuli@email.tjut.edu.cn
Address: No. 391 Bin Shui Xi Dao Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300384, China
Education history
2011.09-2016.06 Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D.
2007.09-2011.06 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaocheng University, Bachelor's Degree
Academic Experience & Overseas Background
2020.01-Present Tianjin University of Technology, Associate Research Professor,
2016.08-2019.12 Tianjin University of Technology, Lecturer
Areas of research interest
Construction of high-performance photo/electrocatalysts for CO₂ reduction and water splitting to hydrogen production based on carbon-based materials (including single-atom catalysts and composite materials); exploration of catalytic mechanisms; establishment of the structure-activity relationship between catalyst structure and catalytic performance.
Main research achievements
The Third Level Candidate of Tianjin "131" Innovative Talents Training Program; presided over one National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund project, participated in one NSFC Major Program; as the first/corresponding author, published 19 SCI-indexed papers in prestigious international journals including Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed and Adv. Energy Mater.; participated in the compilation of one textbook and filed three invention patent applications.
Selected publications
1. Yan, Z. T.; Tao, S.; Wang, J.; Lu, X. L.*; Lu, T. B.* Unlocking Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Through Ru–Sn Dual Metal Sites and a Novel Hydroxyl Spillover Effect. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2411942.
2. Wei, Z. W.; Wang, H. J.; Zhang, C.; Xu, K.; Lu, X. L.*; Lu, T. B.* Reversed Charge Transfer and Enhanced Hydrogen Spillover in Pt Nanoclusters Anchored on Titanium Oxide with Rich Oxygen Vacancies Boost Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 16622–16627.
3. Rong, X.; Wang, H. J.; Lu, X. L.*; Si, R.*; Lu, T. B.* Controlled Synthesis of a Vacancy-Defect Single-Atom Catalyst for Boosting CO₂ Electroreduction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1961–1965.
4. Yin, X. P.; Wang, H. J.; Tang, S. F.; Lu, X. L.*; Shu, M.; Si, R.*; Lu, T. B.* Engineering the Coordination Environment of Single-Atom Platinum Anchored on Graphdiyne for Optimizing Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9382–9386.
5. Tang, S. F.; Lu, X. L.*; Zhang, C.; Wei, Z. W.; Si, R.*; Lu, T. B.* Decorating Graphdiyne on Ultrathin Bismuth Subcarbonate Nanosheets to Promote CO₂ Electroreduction to Formate. Sci. Bull. 2021, 66, 1533–1541.
6. Han, Y. Y.; Lu, X. L.*; Tang, S. F.; Yin, X. P.; Wei, Z. W.; Lu, T. B.* Metal-Free 2D/2D Heterojunction of Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Graphdiyne for Improving the Hole Mobility of Graphitic Carbon Nitride. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1702992.
7. Gao C.; Wang H. J.; Tao S.; Zhang C.; Lu, X. L.*; Lu, T. B.* Chloride-Modified Defective Bismuth Nanosheets Providing a Local Proton for Enhanced CO₂ Reduction. Nano Res. 2026,19, 94907926.
8. Tang, S. F.; Yin, X. P.; Wang, G. Y.; Lu, X. L.*; Lu, T. B.* Single Titanium-Oxide Species Implanted in 2D g-C₃N₄ Matrix as a Highly Efficient Visible-Light CO₂ Reduction Photocatalyst. Nano Res. 2019, 12, 457–462.
9. Lu, X. L.; Rong, X.; Zhang, C.*; Lu, T. B.* Carbon-Based Single-Atom Catalysts for CO₂ Electroreduction: Progress and Optimization Strategies. J. Mater. Chem. A 2020, 8, 10695–10708.
10. Yin, X. P.; Luo, S. W.; Tang, S. F.; Lu, X. L.*; Lu, T. B.* In Situ Synthesis of a Nickel Boron Oxide/Graphdiyne Hybrid for Enhanced Photo/Electrocatalytic H₂ Evolution. Chin. J. Catal. 2021, 42, 1379–1386.
