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Lele Duan is affiliated with Westlake University in China and specializes in research areas spanning energy and materials science, with a focus on renewable energy, sustainability, and catalysis.

Their research addresses several key topics including:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Lele Duan has contributed extensively to publications in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Advanced Materials

Notable recent papers by Lele Duan include:

  • Durable CO2 conversion in the proton-exchange membrane system, 2024, Nature
  • Synergizing Mo Single Atoms and Mo₂C Nanoparticles on CNTs Synchronizes Selectivity and Activity of Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction to Ammonia, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Size-Dependent Activity and Selectivity of Atomic-Level Copper Nanoclusters during CO/CO₂ Electroreduction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Regulating kinetics and thermodynamics of electrochemical nitrogen reduction with metal single-atom catalysts in a pressurized electrolyser, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bi₂O₃/BiO₂ Nanoheterojunction for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to Formate, 2022, Nano Letters

Lele Duan regularly collaborates with co-authors, with frequent collaborators being:

  • Haiyuan Zou
  • Hao Dai
  • Yongfei Ji
  • Hong Chen
  • Tao Song

Best Publications

  • A molecular ruthenium catalyst with water-oxidation activity comparable to that of photosystem II

    Lele Duan;Fernando Bozoglian;Sukanta Mandal;Beverly Stewart

  • Isolated Seven-Coordinate Ru(IV) Dimer Complex with [HOHOH]− Bridging Ligand as an Intermediate for Catalytic Water Oxidation

    Lele Duan;Andreas Fischer;Yunhua Xu;Licheng Sun

  • Copper Single Atoms Anchored in Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon as Efficient pH-Universal Catalysts for the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

    Wenjie Zang;Tong Yang;Haiyuan Zou;Shibo Xi

  • A photoelectrochemical device for visible light driven water splitting by a molecular ruthenium catalyst assembled on dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO2.

    Lin Li;Lele Duan;Yunhua Xu;Mikhail Gorlov

  • Highly Efficient Bioinspired Molecular Ru Water Oxidation Catalysts with Negatively Charged Backbone Ligands

    Lele Duan;Lei Wang;Fusheng Li;Fei Li

  • Visible light driven hydrogen production from a photo-active cathode based on a molecular catalyst and organic dye-sensitized p-type nanostructured NiO

    Lin Li;Lele Duan;Fuyu Wen;Can Li

  • Visible Light-Driven Water Oxidation by a Molecular Ruthenium Catalyst in Homogeneous System

    Lele Duan;Yunhua Xu;Pan Zhang;Mei Wang

  • Synergizing Mo Single Atoms and Mo 2 C Nanoparticles on CNTs Synchronizes Selectivity and Activity of Electrocatalytic N 2 Reduction to Ammonia

    Yuanyuan Ma;Yuanyuan Ma;Tong Yang;Haiyuan Zou;Wenjie Zang

  • Chemical and Light‐Driven Oxidation of Water Catalyzed by an Efficient Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex

    Yunhua Xu;Andreas Fischer;Lele Duan;Lianpeng Tong

  • Visible light-driven water oxidation—from molecular catalysts to photoelectrochemical cells

    Lele Duan;Lianpeng Tong;Yunhua Xu;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Size-Dependent Activity and Selectivity of Atomic-Level Copper Nanoclusters during CO/CO 2 Electroreduction

    Weifeng Rong;Weifeng Rong;Haiyuan Zou;Haiyuan Zou;Wenjie Zang;Shibo Xi

  • Highly efficient and robust molecular ruthenium catalysts for water oxidation.

    Lele Duan;Carlos Moyses Araujo;Mårten S.G. Ahlquist;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Structural Modifications of Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Kinetics of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Water Oxidation†

    Lianpeng Tong;Lele Duan;Yunhua Xu;Timofei Privalov

  • Chemical and Photochemical Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes with a Negatively Charged Tridentate Ligand

    Lele Duan;Yunhua Xu;Mikhail Gorlov;Lianpeng Tong

  • Highly efficient and robust molecular water oxidation catalysts based on ruthenium complexes

    Lei Wang;Lele Duan;Ying Wang;Mårten S. G. Ahlquist

  • A new dinuclear ruthenium complex as an efficient water oxidation catalyst.

    Yunhua Xu;Torbjörn Åkermark;Viktor Gyollai;Dapeng Zou

  • In situ coupled amorphous cobalt nitride with nitrogen-doped graphene aerogel as a trifunctional electrocatalyst towards Zn-air battery deriven full water splitting

    Haiyuan Zou;Haiyuan Zou;Ge Li;Lele Duan;Zongkui Kou;Zongkui Kou

  • Evolution of O2 in a Seven‐Coordinate RuIV Dimer Complex with a [HOHOH]− Bridge: A Computational Study

    Jonas Nyhlén;Lele Duan;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun

  • Regulating kinetics and thermodynamics of electrochemical nitrogen reduction with metal single-atom catalysts in a pressurized electrolyser

    Haiyuan Zou;Weifeng Rong;Shuting Wei;Yongfei Ji

  • Insights into Ru-Based Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts : Electronic and Noncovalent-Interaction Effects on Their Catalytic Activities

    Lele Duan;Lei Wang;A. Ken Inge;Andreas Fischer

  • A nickel (II) PY5 complex as an electrocatalyst for water oxidation

    Lei Wang;Lele Duan;Ram B. Ambre;Quentin Daniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Licheng Sun
Licheng Sun Royal Institute of Technology
Hong Chen
Hong Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Björn Åkermark
Björn Åkermark Stockholm University
Ke Fan
Ke Fan Dalian University of Technology
Anders Hagfeldt
Anders Hagfeldt Uppsala University
Junliang Sun
Junliang Sun Peking University
Zongkui Kou
Zongkui Kou Wuhan University of Technology
John Wang
John Wang National University of Singapore
Håkan Rensmo
Håkan Rensmo Uppsala University
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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