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D-Index
163
Citations
107389
World Ranking
88
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Can Li is affiliated with the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in China, contributing extensively to research in materials science and engineering. Their work spans multiple disciplines with a particular focus on materials chemistry and renewable energy applications.

The scientist's research primarily explores advanced photocatalysis techniques, copper-based nanomaterials and their applications, perovskite materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, conducting polymers, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Frequent coauthors of Can Li include Rengui Li, Fengtao Fan, Xin Guo, Zhaochi Feng, and Xiuli Wang, reflecting collaboration within a broad network of researchers in related fields.

The venues where Can Li most often publishes include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie

Can Li's recent publications include:

  • "Recent advances and perspectives for solar-driven water splitting using particulate photocatalysts," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide," 2021, Science
  • "Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles," 2022, Nature
  • "Alloying of Cu with Ru Enabling the Relay Catalysis for Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia," 2023, Advanced Materials
  • "Unraveling of cocatalysts photodeposited selectively on facets of BiVO4 to boost solar water splitting," 2022, Nature Communications

The main fields of study associated with Can Li include materials science, where there are 472 publications, and engineering, with 389 publications. More specific subfields encompass:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology

The diverse expertise represented in the subfields indicates a multidisciplinary approach combining chemistry, materials science, and engineering principles to address challenges in energy and sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Roles of cocatalysts in photocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis.

    Jinhui Yang;Donge Wang;Hongxian Han;Can Li

  • Titanium dioxide-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic fuel generations.

    Yi Ma;Xiuli Wang;Yushuai Jia;Xiaobo Chen

  • Recent developments in heterogeneous photocatalysts for solar-driven overall water splitting

    Zheng Wang;Can Li;Kazunari Domen;Kazunari Domen

  • Enhancement of photocatalytic H2 evolution on CdS by loading MoS2 as Cocatalyst under visible light irradiation.

    Xu Zong;Hongjian Yan;Guopeng Wu;Guijun Ma

  • Spatial separation of photogenerated electrons and holes among {010} and {110} crystal facets of BiVO4

    Rengui Li;Fuxiang Zhang;Donge Wang;Jingxiu Yang;Jingxiu Yang

  • Importance of the Relationship between Surface Phases and Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2

    Jing Zhang;Qian Xu;Zhaochi Feng;Meijun Li

  • Visible-light-driven hydrogen production with extremely high quantum efficiency on Pt-PdS/CdS photocatalyst

    Hongjian Yan;Jinhui Yang;Jinhui Yang;Guijun Ma;Guijun Ma;Guopeng Wu

  • UV Raman spectroscopic study on TiO2. I. Phase transformation at the surface and in the bulk

    Jing Zhang;Meijun Li;Zhaochi Feng;Jun Chen

  • Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage

    Xiaobo Chen;Can Li;Michaël Grätzel;Robert Kostecki

  • A highly selective and stable ZnO-ZrO 2 solid solution catalyst for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol.

    Jijie Wang;Guanna Li;Guanna Li;Zelong Li;Chizhou Tang

  • Surface optimization to eliminate hysteresis for record efficiency planar perovskite solar cells

    Dong Yang;Xin Zhou;Ruixia Yang;Zhou Yang

  • Advances in solar energy conversion

    Jinlong Gong;Can Li;Michael R. Wasielewski

  • High efficiency flexible perovskite solar cells using superior low temperature TiO2

    Dong Yang;Ruixia Yang;Jing Zhang;Zhou Yang

  • Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide adsorption on cerium oxide studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Part 1.—Formation of carbonate species on dehydroxylated CeO2, at room temperature

    Can Li;Yoshihisa Sakata;Toru Arai;Kazunari Domen

  • Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Promoted by an α–β phase Junction on Ga2O3†

    Xiang Wang;Qian Xu;Mingrun Li;Shuai Shen

  • Analysis of the chemical diffusion coefficient of lithium ions in Li3V2(PO4)3 cathode material

    X.H. Rui;N. Ding;J. Liu;C. Li

  • Highly efficient photocatalysts constructed by rational assembly of dual-cocatalysts separately on different facets of BiVO4

    Rengui Li;Rengui Li;Hongxian Han;Fuxiang Zhang;Donge Wang

  • Photocatalytic water reduction under visible light on a novel ZnIn2S4 catalyst synthesized by hydrothermal method.

    Zhibin Lei;Wansheng You;Meiying Liu;Guohua Zhou

  • Dion-Jacobson Phase 2D Layered Perovskites for Solar Cells with Ultrahigh Stability

    Sajjad Ahmad;Sajjad Ahmad;Ping Fu;Shuwen Yu;Qing Yang;Qing Yang

  • Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting: Significance of Cocatalysts, Electrolyte, and Interfaces

    Chunmei Ding;Jingying Shi;Zhiliang Wang;Can Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhaochi Feng
Zhaochi Feng Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Qihua Yang
Qihua Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fengtao Fan
Fengtao Fan Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Qin Xin
Qin Xin Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Rengui Li
Rengui Li Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Fuxiang Zhang
Fuxiang Zhang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Xu Zong
Xu Zong Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Wen-Hua Zhang
Wen-Hua Zhang Yunnan University
Guanna Li
Guanna Li Wageningen University & Research
Mingrun Li
Mingrun Li Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

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