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Overview

Dan Li is affiliated with Jinan University in China and specializes in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a strong emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. The scientist's body of work is extensive, totaling several hundred publications, primarily focused on areas intersecting chemistry and materials engineering.

The research topics explored by Dan Li cover a range of advanced subjects, including:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis

Dan Li's work has been published in various scientific venues with multiple articles in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Frequent collaborators of Dan Li include Mo Xie, Guo-Hong Ning, Weigang Lu, Dong Luo, and Xiao-Ping Zhou, each contributing to numerous joint publications alongside Li.

Among the recent research papers authored or co-authored by Dan Li are:

  • Metal-organic frameworks as photoluminescent biosensing platforms: mechanisms and applications (2021), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • Orthogonal-array dynamic molecular sieving of propylene/propane mixtures (2021), published in Nature
  • Enhanced efficiency with CDCA co-adsorption for dye-sensitized solar cells based on metallosalophen complexes (2020), published in Solar Energy
  • Scalable Synthesis of Ultrathin Polyimide Covalent Organic Framework Nanosheets for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Toward visible-light-assisted photocatalytic nitrogen fixation: A titanium metal organic framework with functionalized ligands (2020), published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

The research scope of Dan Li integrates experimental and theoretical approaches to the synthesis, characterization, and application of novel chemical frameworks and nanomaterials, focusing on improving the efficiency and functionality of materials for energy conversion, environmental applications, and sensor technologies.

Best Publications

  • Topological Analysis of Metal–Organic Frameworks with Polytopic Linkers and/or Multiple Building Units and the Minimal Transitivity Principle

    Mian Li;Dan Li;Michael O’Keeffe;Michael O’Keeffe;Omar M. Yaghi;Omar M. Yaghi

  • Structures of Metal–Organic Frameworks with Rod Secondary Building Units

    Alexander Schoedel;Alexander Schoedel;Alexander Schoedel;Mian Li;Dan Li;Dan Li;Michael O’Keeffe

  • Metal-organic frameworks as photoluminescent biosensing platforms: mechanisms and applications.

    Yifang Zhao;Heng Zeng;Xiao-Wei Zhu;Weigang Lu

  • Copper(I) halides: A versatile family in coordination chemistry and crystal engineering

    Rong Peng;Mian Li;Dan Li

  • Orthogonal-array dynamic molecular sieving of propylene/propane mixtures.

    Heng Zeng;Mo Xie;Ting Wang;Rong-Jia Wei

  • Biological metal–organic frameworks: Structures, host–guest chemistry and bio-applications

    Hong Cai;Yong-Liang Huang;Dan Li

  • A dynamic, luminescent and entangled MOF as a qualitative sensor for volatile organic solvents and a quantitative monitor for acetonitrile vapour

    Jun-Hao Wang;Mian Li;Dan Li

  • Cage-Interconnected Metal–Organic Framework with Tailored Apertures for Efficient C2H6/C2H4 Separation under Humid Conditions

    Heng Zeng;Xiao-Jing Xie;Mo Xie;Yong-Liang Huang

  • Induced Fit of C2H2 in a Flexible MOF Through Cooperative Action of Open Metal Sites

    Heng Zeng;Mo Xie;Yong-Liang Huang;Yifang Zhao

  • Enhanced efficiency with CDCA co-adsorption for dye-sensitized solar cells based on metallosalophen complexes

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  • Scalable Synthesis of Ultrathin Polyimide Covalent Organic Framework Nanosheets for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Haiyan Duan;Haiyan Duan;Haiyan Duan;Ke Li;Ke Li;Mo Xie;Jia-Ming Chen

  • Twelve-Connected Net with Face-Centered Cubic Topology: A Coordination Polymer Based on [Cu12(μ4-SCH3)6]6+ Clusters and CN− Linkers

    Dan Li;Tao Wu;Xiao-Ping Zhou;Rui Zhou

  • Toward visible-light-assisted photocatalytic nitrogen fixation: A titanium metal organic framework with functionalized ligands

    Hao Huang;Hao Huang;Xu-Sheng Wang;Xu-Sheng Wang;Davin Philo;Davin Philo;Fumihiko Ichihara;Fumihiko Ichihara

  • Coinage-Metal-Based Cyclic Trinuclear Complexes with Metal–Metal Interactions: Theories to Experiments and Structures to Functions

    Ji Zheng;Zhou Lu;Kun Wu;Guo-Hong Ning

  • Lanthanide-functionalized metal–organic frameworks as ratiometric luminescent sensors

    Yifang Zhao;Dan Li

  • Self-catalyzed growth of Cu@graphdiyne core–shell nanowires array for high efficient hydrogen evolution cathode

    Yurui Xue;Yurui Xue;Yuan Guo;Yuanping Yi;Yongjun Li

  • Hierarchically encapsulating enzymes with multi-shelled metal-organic frameworks for tandem biocatalytic reactions

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  • Two novel nanoporous supramolecular architectures based on copper(i) coordination polymers with uniform (8, 3) and (8(2)10) nets: in situ formation of tetrazolate ligands.

    Tao Wu;Bi-Hua Yi;Dan Li

  • Intermolecular Enantioselective Dearomatization Reaction of β‐Naphthol Using meso‐Aziridine: A Bifunctional In Situ Generated Magnesium Catalyst

    Dongxu Yang;Linqing Wang;Fengxia Han;Dan Li

  • Building a Pyrazole–Benzothiadiazole–Pyrazole Photosensitizer into Metal–Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Aerobic Oxidation

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  • Synthesis of a Chiral Crystal Form of MOF-5, CMOF-5, by Chiral Induction

    Shi-Yuan Zhang;Shi-Yuan Zhang;Dan Li;Dong Guo;Hui Zhang

  • Extraordinarily Durable Graphdiyne-Supported Electrocatalyst with High Activity for Hydrogen Production at All Values of pH.

    Yurui Xue;Jiaofu Li;Zheng Xue;Yongjun Li

  • Photoinduced C–C bond formation from alkyl halides catalysed by luminescent dinuclear gold(I) and copper(I) complexes

    Dan Li;Chi-Ming Che;Hoi-Lun Kwong;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam

  • A dual-emitting Cu6–Cu2–Cu6 cluster as a self-calibrated, wide-range luminescent molecular thermometer

    Jun-Hao Wang;Mian Li;Ji Zheng;Xiao-Chun Huang

  • A highly stable MOF with a rod SBU and a tetracarboxylate linker: unusual topology and CO2 adsorption behaviour under ambient conditions

    Ru-Jin Li;Mian Li;Xiao-Ping Zhou;Dan Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Seik Weng Ng
Seik Weng Ng University of Malaya
Tao Wu
Tao Wu Soochow University
Xiao-Chun Huang
Xiao-Chun Huang Shantou University
Tianfeng Chen
Tianfeng Chen Jinan University
Chi-Ming Che
Chi-Ming Che University of Hong Kong
Shie-Ming Peng
Shie-Ming Peng National Taiwan University
Michael O'Keeffe
Michael O'Keeffe Arizona State University
Omar M. Yaghi
Omar M. Yaghi University of California, Berkeley
Thomas C. W. Mak
Thomas C. W. Mak Chinese University of Hong Kong
Li Qi
Li Qi Chinese Academy of Sciences

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