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Wei Li is a researcher affiliated with Tsinghua University in China, specializing in engineering with a focus on civil and structural engineering. Their work spans a range of subfields, including mechanical engineering, building and construction, materials chemistry, and mechanics of materials. The primary area of study involves structural behavior of reinforced concrete, structural load-bearing analysis, and concrete corrosion and durability.

Their research topics also extend to innovative concrete reinforcement materials, structural engineering and vibration analysis, structural response to dynamic loads, and rock mechanics and modeling.

Wei Li has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed publications. Some notable recent papers include:

  • "Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Properties and application of thixotropic cement paste backfill with molybdenum tailings," 2023, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Cu2+ Modified g-C3N4 Photocatalysts for Visible Light Photocatalytic Properties," 2020, Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
  • "S-scheme graphitic carbon nitride/nickel titanate (g-C3N4/NiTiO3) heterojunction as bifunctional photocatalysts for hydrogen production and pollutants degradation," 2025, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "Effect of fracture network on water injection huff-puff for volume stimulation horizontal wells in tight oil reservoir: Field test and numerical simulation study," 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Wei Li frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors including Xubing Wei, Zhexiong Wang, Linzhu Sun, Haitao Fan, and Lianmeng Chen, with repeated joint publications demonstrating ongoing research partnerships.

The scholar's findings are often published in specialized venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Buildings, Construction and Building Materials, Structures, and Scientific Reports. Among these, SSRN Electronic Journal features the highest number of their publications.

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Global atmospheric emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from 1960 to 2008 and future predictions.

    Huizhong Shen;Ye Huang;Rong Wang;Dan Zhu

  • Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

    Almut Arneth;Stephen Sitch;Julia Pongratz;B. D. Stocker

  • Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration.

    Chao Ning;Chao Ning;Tianjiao Li;Ke Wang;Fan Zhang

  • Black Carbon Emissions in China from 1949 to 2050

    Rong Wang;Shu Tao;Wentao Wang;Junfeng Liu

  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

    Giovanni Forzieri;Diego G. Miralles;Philippe Ciais;Ramdane Alkama

  • Emission Factors of Particulate Matter and Elemental Carbon for Crop Residues and Coals Burned in Typical Household Stoves in China

    Guofeng Shen;Yifeng Yang;Wei Wang;Shu Tao

  • Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015)

    Wei Li;Natasha MacBean;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Defourny

  • Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands.

    Jinfeng Chang;Philippe Ciais;Thomas Gasser;Pete Smith

  • Single-site pyrrolic-nitrogen-doped sp 2 -hybridized carbon materials and their pseudocapacitance

    Kesong Tian;Junyan Wang;Ling Cao;Wei Yang

  • Field Measurement of Emission Factors of PM, EC, OC, Parent, Nitro-, and Oxy- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Residential Briquette, Coal Cake, and Wood in Rural Shanxi, China

    Guofeng Shen;Shu Tao;Siye Wei;Yuanchen Chen

  • Emissions of PAHs from Indoor Crop Residue Burning in a Typical Rural Stove: Emission Factors, Size Distributions, and Gas−Particle Partitioning

    Guofeng Shen;Wei Wang;Yifeng Yang;Junnan Ding

  • Emissions of Parent, Nitro, and Oxygenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Residential Wood Combustion in Rural China

    Guofeng Shen;Shu Tao;Siye Wei;Yanyan Zhang

  • High-resolution mapping of combustion processes and implications for CO 2 emissions

    R. Wang;S. Tao;P. Ciais;P. Ciais;H. Z. Shen

  • Exposure to ambient black carbon derived from a unique inventory and high-resolution model

    Rong Wang;Shu Tao;Yves Balkanski;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais

  • Occurrence and Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Derivatives in a Rural Chinese Home through Biomass Fuelled Cooking

    Junnan Ding;Junjun Zhong;Yifeng Yang;Bengang Li

  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

    Daniel S. Goll;Daniel S. Goll;Philippe Ciais;Thorben Amann;Wolfgang Buermann

  • Emission factors and particulate matter size distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from residential coal combustions in rural Northern China

    Guofeng Shen;Wei Wang;Yifeng Yang;Chen Zhu

  • Trend in global black carbon emissions from 1960 to 2007.

    Rong Wang;Shu Tao;Huizhong Shen;Ye Huang

  • Emission Characteristics for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Solid Fuels Burned in Domestic Stoves in Rural China

    Guofeng Shen;Shu Tao;Yuanchen Chen;Yanyan Zhang

  • Global lung cancer risk from PAH exposure highly depends on emission sources and individual susceptibility

    Huizhong Shen;Shu Tao;Junfeng Liu;Ye Huang

  • Atmospheric concentrations and air-soil gas exchange of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in remote, rural village and urban areas of Beijing-Tianjin region, North China.

    Wentao Wang;Staci Simonich;Basant Giri;Basant Giri;Ying Chang

  • Global Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and the Driving Forces

    Qirui Zhong;Huizhong Shen;Xiao Yun;Yilin Chen;Yilin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Tao
Shu Tao Peking University
Huizhong Shen
Huizhong Shen Southern University of Science and Technology
Guofeng Shen
Guofeng Shen Peking University
Rong Wang
Rong Wang Fudan University
Ye Huang
Ye Huang Peking University
Yuanchen Chen
Yuanchen Chen Zhejiang University of Technology
Bin Wang
Bin Wang Peking University
Xilong Wang
Xilong Wang Peking University
Bengang Li
Bengang Li Peking University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University

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