Yu Li Associate professor
Phone: 022-60215704
Email: yli@email.tjut.edu.cn
Address: No. 391 Bin Shui Xi Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300384, China
Education history
2013, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, B. Sc.;
2018, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D.
Areas of research interest
Catalyst design for renewable energy-driven energy-related molecule conversion.
Main research achievements
Prof. Li has published more than 10 academic papers as the first/corresponding author in international journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Energy, Small, Green Chem., Nano Research, and other core journals, with citations over 2000 times. In addition, 6 invention patents have been applied and 2 have been authorized. He worked as the chair in the Young Investigator Project (C) by NSFC and an investigation project by Lanzhou Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, and participated in a Key Project by NSFC.
Selected publications
1. Direct Partial Transformation of 2D Antimony Oxybromide to Halide Perovskite Heterostructure for Efficient CO2 Photoreduction, Su-Xian Yuan, Ke Su, Meng-Ran Zhang, You-Xiang Feng, Yu Li*, Min Zhang*, and Tong-Bu Lu, Small, 2025, 21, 2409909.
2. Coupling Electrochemical CO2 Reduction with Value-Added Anodic Oxidation Reactions: Progress and Challenges, Yu Li and Tong-Bu Lu*, Mater. Chem. Front. 2024, 8, 341-353.
3. Synergy of Surface Phosphates and Oxygen Vacancies Enables Efficient Photocatalytic Methane Conversion at Room Temperature, Xin-Ke Zhou, Yu Li*, Pei-Pei Luo, and Tong-Bu Lu*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 36280-36288.
4. Coupling CO2 Reduction with CH3OH Oxidation for Efficient Electrosynthesis of Formate on Hierarchical Bifunctional CuSn Alloy, Yu Li*, Cui-Zhu Huo, Hong-Juan Wang, Zi-Xian Ye, Pei-Pei Luo, Xin-Xing Cao, and Tong-Bu Lu*, Nano Energy, 2022, 98, 107277.
5. Iron Sites on Defective BiOBr Nanosheets: Tailoring the Molecular Oxygen Activation for Enhanced Photocatalytic Organic Synthesis, Xin-Hui Ye, Yu Li*, Pei-Pei Luo, Bing-Cai He, Xin-Xing Cao, and Tong-Bu Lu*, Nano Res., 2022, 15, 1509-1516.
6. Simultaneously Accelerating Carrier Transfer and Enhancing O2/CH4 Activation via Tailoring the Oxygen-Vacancy-Rich Surface Layer for Cocatalyst-Free Selective Photocatalytic CH4 Conversion, Pei-Pei Luo, Xin-Ke Zhou, Yu Li*, and Tong-Bu Lu*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 21069-21078.
7. Integrating Z-scheme Heterojunction of Co1-C3N4@α-Fe2O3for Efficient Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic CO2Reduction, Bing-Cai He, Chao Zhang, Pei-Pei Luo, Yu Li*, and Tong-Bu Lu*, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7552−7559.
8. Photocatalyst Design Based on Two-Dimensional Materials, Yu Li, Chao Gao, Ran Long*, and Yujie Xiong*, Mater. Today Chem., 2019, 11, 197-216.
9. Scalable Fabrication of Highly Active and Durable Membrane Electrodes toward Water Oxidation, Yu Li, Shuangming Chen, Dawei Xi, Yanan Bo, Ran Long, Chengming Wang, Li Song, and Yujie Xiong*, Small, 2018, 14, 1702109.
10. Isolation of Cu Atoms in Pd Lattice: Forming Highly Selective Sites for Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to CH4, Ran Long, Yu Li, Yan Liu, Shuangming Chen, Xusheng Zheng, Chao Gao, Chaohua He, Nanshan Chen, Zeming Qi, Li Song, Jun Jiang, Junfa Zhu, Yujie Xiong*, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 4486-4492. (co-first author).
