Assistant Professor of Department of Chemistry
| Office: | YEUNG-G6619 |
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| Phone: | +852 3442-6347 |
| Fax: | +852 3442-0522 |
| Email: | xing.li@cityu.edu.hk |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-5470-1043 |
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Xing Li received his B.S. degree with first-class honors from Nanyang Technological University (2014) and his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore (2018). From 2018 to 2021, Dr. Li was a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore. He then moved to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 2021 to 2024. In May 2024, Dr. Li joined the City University of Hong Kong as the inaugural Presidential Assistant Professor.
Dr. Li’s research interest focuses on developing molecular nanoporosity and stimuli-responsive materials to enable emerging technologies in energy storage and environmental applications. His work spans covalent organic frameworks (COFs), Li-gas batteries, and electrochemical carbon capture. During his Ph.D., he pioneered the first tunable white-emissive COFs and developed methods for bandgap engineering of COFs. From 2018 to 2021, he addressed challenges in the ultrafast, scalable synthesis and layer-controlled exfoliation of highly crystalline COFs, created new reactivity in COFs for robust heterogeneous catalysis, and developed killer applications of COFs for energy storage. Between 2021 and 2024, he developed efficient methods to electrify conventional carbon capture processes and resolved long-standing stability issues at the molecular level.
As the first author, Dr Li’s interdisciplinary work in chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering has been recognized by prestigious journals, including Nature Chemistry, Nature Synthesis, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Materials. His contributions to COFs have been highlighted in Nature Collection, “Celebrating 15 Years of Covalent Organic Frameworks” and “Synthesis and Enabling Technologies”. His work on electrochemical carbon capture has also been featured by Nature Collection, “Carbon dioxide removal, capture and storage” and “Chemical Engineering Distilled”.
Dr. Li's group is now open for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and research assistants.
Interested candidates please send the following documents to xing.li@cityu.edu.hk
- A cover letter detailing your research interests and career goals.
- CV/Resume.
- Academic transcripts.
- Contact information for at least two references (three for postdoc applicants).
(# Denotes equal contributions; * Denotes corresponding authors)
Full publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HUiTz6gAAAAJ&hl=en
- X. Li, X. Zhao, L. Zhang, A. Mathur, Y. Xu, Z. Fang, L. Gu, Y. Liu, Y. Liu*, Redox-Tunable Isoindigos for Electrochemically Mediated Carbon Capture. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 1175.
- X. Li, A. Mathur, A. Liu, Y. Liu, Electrifying Carbon Capture by Developing Nanomaterials at the Interface of Molecular and Process Engineering. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023, 56, 2763-2775.
- X. Li#, K. Zhang#, Z. Li#, Y. Yan, Y. Yuan, L. Ma, K. Xie*, K. P. Loh*, Rational Design of Covalent Organic Frameworks as Gas Diffusion Layers for Multi-atmosphere Lithium-Air Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, e202217869. (VIP paper)
- X. Li#, X. Zhao#, Y. Liu*, T. A. Hatton*, Y. Liu*, Redox-Tunable Lewis Bases for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture. Nature Energy, 2022, 7, 1065-1075. (Highlighted by Nature Energy News & Views)
- X. Li#, K. Zhang#, G. Wang, Y. Yuan, G. Zhan, T. Ghosh, W. P.D. Wong, F. Chen, H.-S. Xu, U. Mirsaidov, K. Xie, J. Lin*, K. P. Loh*, Constructing Ambivalent Imidazopyridinium-linked Covalent Organic Frameworks. Nature Synthesis, 2022, 1, 382-392. (Highlighted by Nature Synthesis News & Views)
- X. Li, H.-S. Xu, K. Leng, S. W. Chee, X. Zhao, N. Jain, H. Xu, J. Qiao, Q. Gao, I.-H. Park, S. Y. Quek, U. Mirsaidov and K. P. Loh*, Partitioning the Interlayer Space of Covalent Organic Frameworks by Embedding Pseudorotaxanes in Their Backbones. Nature Chemistry, 2020, 12, 1115-1122. (Cover Article, selected in Nature Collection - Celebrating 15 Years of Covalent Organic Frameworks and selected in Nature Collection - Synthesis and Enabling Technologies as cover article)
- X. Li#, Q. Hou#, W. Huang, H.-S. Xu, X. Wang, W. Yu, R. Li, K. Zhang, L. Wang, Z. Chen, K. Xie*, and K. P. Loh*, Solution-Processable Covalent Organic Framework Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Li-Organic Batteries. ACS Energy Letter, 2020, 5, 3498-3506. (Cover Article)
- X. Li, P. Yadav, K. P. Loh*, Function-Oriented Synthesis of Two-dimensional (2D) Covalent Organic Frameworks - from 3D Solids to 2D Sheets. Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, 49, 4835. (Inside Back Cover Article)
- X. Li#, J. Qiao#, S. W. Chee, H.-S. Xu, X. Zhao, H. S. Choi, W. Yu, S. Y. Quek, U. Mirsaidov, K. P. Loh*, Rapid, Scalable Construction of Highly Crystalline Acylhydrazone Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks via Dipole-Induced Antiparallel Stacking. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 4932-4943. (Highly Cited Paper from Web of Science)
- X. Li#, H. Wang#, Z. Chen, H.-S. Xu, W. Yu, C. Liu, X. Wang; K. Zhang, K. Xie*, K. P. Loh*, Covalent-Organic-Framework-Based Li-CO2 Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1905879.
- X. Li, K. P. Loh*, Recent Progress in Covalent Organic Frameworks as Solid-State Ion Conductors. ACS Materials Letter, 2019, 1, 327-335.
- X. Li, Q. Gao, J. Aneesh, H.-S. Xu; Z. Chen, W. Tang, C. Liu, X. Shi, K. V. Adarsh, Y. Lu*, K. P. Loh*, Molecular Engineering of Bandgaps in Covalent Organic Frameworks. Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30, 5743-5749.
- X. Li, Q. Gao, J. Wang, Y. Chen, Z.-H. Chen, H.-S. Xu, W. Tang, K. Leng, G.-H. Ning, J. Wu, Q.-H. Xu, S. Y. Quek, Y. Lu, K. P. Loh*, Tuneable Nearly White-Emissive Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks. Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 2335. (Selected in Nature Collection - Celebrating 15 Years of Covalent Organic Frameworks)