Li Xinyuan will join the Institute of NanoChemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology in 2021. His research direction is the regulated synthesis of semiconductor-based heterogeneous nanocrystals and their application in optoelectronic new energy. Students who are interested in semiconductor nanocrystals and optoelectronic new energy are welcome to join the research team.

The ligand-induced local ion exchange strategy is used to study the precise construction and photoelectric properties of metal-semiconductor heterocrystals. The surface atomic level site coordination environment of semiconductor nanocrystals is regulated by intercalation chemistry and its photocatalytic performance is studied.

2015.09-2019.06 Beijing Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Engineering (Supervisor: Professor Zhang Jiatao);
2013.09-2015.06 University of Manchester (jointly trained with HIT 3+2), Materials Science and Engineering, Master of Engineering;
2010.09-2013.07 Harbin Institute of Technology (3+2 joint training), Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering

2021.08-present Beijing Institute of Technology, Pre-appointed Assistant Professor/Special Associate Researcher
2019.07-2021.07 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University (Co-supervisor: Professor Li Yadong, Associate Professor Wang Dingsheng)

He has presided over a youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a postdoctoral science Foundation project, and has published more than 30 SCI papers so far, including Matter, Nano Energy, Advanced Energy Materials, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Nano Research, Material Chemistry Frontier and other journals, including one ESI highly cited paper (Top 1%), 2 approved invention patents. Representative results are as follows:
1.Xinyuan Li#, Muwei Ji#, Hongbo Li*, Hongzhi Wang, Meng Xu, Hongpan Rong, Jing Wei, Jia Liu, Jiajia Liu, Wenxing Chen, Caizhen Zhu, Jin Wang, and Jiatao Zhang* Cation/Anion exchange reactions toward the syntheses of upgraded nanostructures: Principles and applications, Matter 2020, 2, 554-586.
2.Xinyuan Li, Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal, Meng Xu, Yi-Chi Wang, Hongzhi Wang, Muwei Ji, Xiaodong Wan, Thomas J.A. Slater, Jia Liu, Jiajia Liu, Hongpan Rong, Wenxing Chen, Stephen V. Kershaw, Sarah J. Haigh, Andrey L. Rogach, Liming Xie* and Jiatao Zhang* Au@HgxCd1-xTe core@shell nanorods by sequential aqueous cation exchange for near-infrared photodetectors, Nano Energy 2019, 57, 57-65.
3.Xinyuan Li, Hongpan Rong*, Jiatao Zhang, Dingsheng Wang* and Yadong Li Modulating the local coordination environment of single-atom catalysts for enhanced catalytic performance, Nano Research 2020, 13, 1842-1855. (ESI highly cited paper, hot paper)
4.Hongfei Gu, Wenxing Chen, Xinyuan Li*, Atomically dispersed metal catalysts for the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction, J. Mater. Chem. A 2022, 10, 22331-22353.
5.Hongfei Gu, Xinyuan Li*, Jiatao Zhang and Wenxing Chen* Theoretical predictions, experimental modulation strategies, and applications of MXene-supported atomically dispersed metal sites, Small 2022, 18, 2105883.
6.Yuxi Li, Yanbin Li, Xinyuan Li*, Tailei Hou, Chen Qiao, Yunpeng Tai, Xiaole Gu, Di Zhao, Le Sang* and Jiatao Zhang* Microreactor platform for continuous synthesis of electronic doped quantum dots, Nano Research 2022, DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4571-4.
7.Xinyuan Li#, Mengyao Su#, Yi-Chi Wang#, Meng Xu*, Minman Tong*, Sarah J. Haigh and Jiatao Zhang* Telluride nanocrystals with adjustable amorphous shell thickness and core-shell structure modulation by aqueous cation exchange, Inorganic Chemistry 2022, 61, 3989-3996.
8.Mengyao Su, Xinyuan Li* and Jiatao Zhang* Telluride semiconductor nanocrystals: progress on their liquid-phase synthesis and applications, Rare Metals 2022, DOI: 10.1007/s12598-022-01980-9.
9.Shuwen Zhu, Xinyuan Li* and Jiatao Zhang* Atomically surficial modulation in two-dimensional semiconductor nanocrystals for selective photocatalytic reactions, Frontiers in Chemistry 2022, 10, 890287.
10.Muwei Ji#, Xinyuan Li#, Hongzhi Wang, Liu Huang, Meng Xu, Jia Liu, Jiajia Liu, Jin Wang and Jiatao Zhang Versatile synthesis of yolk/shell hybrid nanocrystals via ion-exchange reactions for novel metal/semiconductor and semiconductor/semiconductor conformations, Nano Research 2017, 10, 2977–2987.