Name: Weixue Li (李微雪)

Date of birth: December 1970, Xinxiang City, Henan Province

Address:

Tel: 86-551-63600650

Fax: 86-551-63606970

E-mail: wxli70@ustc.edu.cn

Home page:http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wxli70/

PERSONAL PROFILE

2015.06-Present  University of Science and Technology of China， Professor

2004.07-2015.06  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Researcher

2002.08-2004.06  Department of Physics, Aarhus University, Denmark, Postdoctoral Fellow

1999.01-2002.07   Fritz Haber-Institute, Max Planck Institute, Germany, Postdoctoral Fellow

1992.09-1995.06  Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD

1988.09-1992.06  China Institute of Atomic Energy, Master

1995.09-1998.12  Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Bachelor

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Theoretical and computational catalysis mainly includes the following contents:

1. structure sensitivity: material crystal phase, appearance, size, interface effect

2. Reaction selectivity: synthesis gas chemistry and methanol chemistry; C-O bond activation, C-C bond formation

3. Material stability: kinetics and stability theory of catalytic material structure evolution

RESERCH PROJECT

2014  Talent introduction start-up project of University of Science and Technology of China

2014  Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Innovation Cross and Cooperative Innovation Team

2013  Chinese Academy of Sciences Precursor Project

2012   National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

THE WINNING EXPERIENCE

2014  Young and Middle-aged Scientific and Technological Innovation Leading Talents of the Ministry of Science and Technology

2014  China Youth Catalysis Award

2014  Zhu Li Yuehua Outstanding Teacher Award of CAS

2013  Leading Talent of Dalian City, Liaoning Province

2013  Excellent Master Tutor of Liaoning Province

2012  Science and Technology Innovation Award of Dalian Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2012  National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2011  Honorary title of Hundred Talent Level of Liaoning Province in

2009  Excellent Postdoctoral Tutor of Dalian Institute of Chemical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. Crystallographic Dependence of CO Activation on Cobalt Catalysts: HCP versus FCC J. X. Liu, H. Y. Su, D. P. Sun, B. Y. Zhang, W. X. Li * J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 16284-16287

2. Carbon Chain Growth via Formyl Insertion on Rh and Co Catalysts in Syngas Conversion; Y. H. Zhao, K. J. Sun, X. F. Ma, J. X. Liu, D. P.Sun, H. Y. Su, and W. X. Li * ; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed 50 (2011) 5335-5338

3. Atomistic Theory of Ostwald Ripening and Disintegration of Supported Metal Particles under Reaction Conditions, R. H. Ouyang, JX. Liu, W. X. Li* , J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 1760-177

4. Platinum-modulated Cobalt NanoCatalysts for Low Temperature Aqueous Phase Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, H. Wang, W. Zhou, J.X.Liu, R. Si, G. Sun, M. Q. Zhong , H. Y. Su, H. B. Zhao, J. A. Rodriguez, S. J. Pennycook, J. C. Idrobo, W. X. Li *, Y. Kou *, D. Ma *, J.Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 4149-4158

5. Interface confined ferrous centers for catalytic oxidation; Q. Fu+, W. X. Li+ , Y. X Yao, H. Y. Liu, H. Y. Su, D. Ma, X. K. Gu, L. M. Chen,Z. Wang, H. Zhang, B. Wang, X. H. Bao * ; (+ contributed equally) Science 328 (2010) 1141-1144

6. Crystal Plane Controlled Selectivity of Cu2O Catalysts in Propylene Oxidation with Molecular Oxygen Q. Hua, T. Cao, X. K. Gu, J. Q.Lu, Z. Q. Jiang, X. R. Pan, L. F. Luo, W.X. Li and W. X. Huang* Angew. Chem. Int.Ed. 53 (2014) 4856

7. Mechanistic Studies of Water Electrolysis and Hydrogen Electro-Oxidation on High Temperature Ceria-Based Solid Oxide Electrochemical Cells, C. J. Zhang, M. Grass, Y. Yu, C. Dejoie, W. C. Ding, K. Gaskell, N. Jabeen, Y. P. Hong, A. Shavorskiy, H. Bluhm, W. X. Li, G. Jackson, Z. Hussain, Z. Liu*, B. Eichhorn*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 11572-11579

8. In-situ Oxidation Study of Pt(110) and its Interaction with CO; D. R. Butcher, M. E. Grass, Z. H. Zeng, F. Aksoy, H. Bluhm, W. X. Li*, B. S. Mun *, G. A. Somorjai, Z. Liu *, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011) 20319-20325

9. Size-selective carbon nano-clusters as precursors to the growth of epitaxial graphene; B. Wang, X. F. Ma, M. Caffio, R. Schaub *, and W. X. Li*; Nano Lett. 11 (2011) 424-430

10. In Situ UV Raman Spectroscopic Study on the Synthesis Mechanism of AIPO-5; F. T Fan, Z. C. Feng, K. J. Sun, M. L. Guo, Q. Guo, Y.Song, W. X. Li, and C. Lit; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, (2009) 8743-8747

11. Experimental observation of quantum oscillation of surface chemical reactivities ; X. Ma, P. Jiang, Y. Qi, J.F. Jia, Y. Yang, W.H. Duan, W. X. Li, X.H. Bao, S. B. Zhang, and Q.K. Xue: PNAS 104 (2007) 9204

12. Role of surface elastic relaxations in an O-induced nanopattern on Pt(110)-(1x2); S. Helveg, W. X. Li, N. C. Bartelt, S. Horch, E.Laegsgaard, B. Hammer and F.Besenbacher; Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 115501

13. One-dimensional PtO2 Oxide at Pt Steps: formation and reaction with CO; J.G. Wang, W. X. Li, M. Borg, J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, T.M. Pedersen, E. Lundgren, J.Weissenrieder, J. Klikovits, M. Schmid, B. Hammer, and J. N. Andersen*; Phys. Rev. Lett. 95(2005)256102

14. Two-step reaction on a strained, nanoscale segmented surface; C. Africh, F. Esch, W. X. Li, M. Corso, B. Hammer, R. Rosei, and G.Comellit; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 126104

15.  Oxidation of Pt(110) ; W. X. Li, L. Osterlund, E. K. Vestergaard, R.T. Vang, J. Matthiesen, T.M. Pedersen, E. Legsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbachert; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 146104

16.  Why is a noble metal catalytically active? The role of the O-Ag interaction in the function of silver as an oxidation catalyst; W. X. Li, C. Stampfl and M. Scheflert; Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 256102

17. The role of sub-surface oxygen in oxide formation at transition metal surfaces; M. Todorova, W. X. Li, M.V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, C.Stampfl, K. Reuter, and M. Scheffler*; Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 096103．