Yu Li
Affiliation
Institute for New Energy Materials and Low Carbon Technologies Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
E-mail: yli@email.tjut.edu.cn
Research Interest
Catalyst design for renewable energy-driven energy-related molecule conversion.
Education
June 2013 B. Sc. University of Science and Technology of China
June 2018 Ph. D. University of Science and Technology of China
Professional Career
2023-present: Associate Professor, Tianjin University of Technology, China
2018-2023: Assistant Professor, Tianjin University of Technology, China
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. Hierarchical Bimetallic Electrocatalyst with Amorphous SnO Layer for Highly Efficient Electroreduction of CO2, Cui-Zhu Huo, Xin-Xing Cao, Zi-Xian Ye, Yu Li*, and Tong-Bu Lu, ChemCatChem, 2021, 13, 4931-4936.
8. 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.
9. Photocatalyst Design Based on Two-Dimensional Materials, Yu Li, Chao Gao, Ran Long*, and Yujie Xiong*, Mater. Today Chem., 2019, 11, 197-216.
10. 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.
11. 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).
