Education:
Brown University, PhD, Chemistry.
Wuhan University of Technology, B.S., M.E., Applied Chemistry
Professional Affiliation:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University, 08/2023 – Present
- Postdoctoral research associate, Washington State University. (Supervisor: Prof. Yong Wang), 10/2020-08/2023
- Postdoctoral scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; University of California, Berkeley (Supervisor: Prof. Joel W. Ager, III), 07/2019-09/2020.
- Research assistant (Advisor: Prof. Shouheng Sun), Brown University. 2014-2019
Research Interests
Dr. Junrui Li is interested in atomically precise control over functional nanomaterials, including intermetallics and high-entropy nanoparticles; He also focuses on rational design and development of high-performance materials for carbon resources conversion, particularly in electrochemical applications and electrocatalysis.
Teaching
General Chemistry; Advanced Inorganic Chemistry; Introduction to Material Science; Special topics.
Publications and Patents (selected)
8. Junrui Li*, Hong Zhong, Soo Hong Lee, Hui Li, Walter S. Drisdell, Chaochao Dun, Rihana Burciaga, Conrad Ingram, Scott P. Beckman, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Joel W. Ager. Revealing Co-existing Cu0-Cu+ Sites in Cu3N Nanoensembles for Selective C-C Coupling of CO2 under low overpotential, ChemSusChem 2025, e202500003.
7. Tyler Joe Ziehl, Junrui Li, Shouheng Sun, Peng Zhang*, New Insights into the ORR Catalysis on Pt Alloy Nanoparticles from an Element Specific d-Band Analysis. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 32, 8306–8314.
6. Shouheng Sun, Junrui Li, HARD-MAGNET L10-CoPt NANOPARTICLES ADVANCE FUEL CELL CATALYSIS, 2024, US20220069317A1, U.S. patent granted.
5. Rui Zhang,§ Junrui Li,*,§ Anna Lee Tonkovich, Cody Lockhart, Xiaoyan Wang, Hafsa Karroum, Matthew Seabaugh, Norbert Kruse, and Yong Wang*, Highly productive and robust core@shell HeatPath SiC-Al2O3@Co/Re/Al2O3 catalyst for Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. Appl. Catal. A-Gen, 2023, 666, 119419.
4. Dong Jiang*, Gang Wan, Joakim Halldin Stenlid, Carlos E. García-Vargas, Jianghao Zhang, Chengjun Sun, Junrui Li, Frank Abild-Pedersen*, Christopher J. Tassone* & Yong Wang*. Dynamic and reversible transformations of subnanometre-sized palladium on ceria for efficient methane removal. Nat. Catal. 2023, 6, 618-627.
3. Guiji Liu, Fan Zheng, Junrui Li, Guosong Zeng Yifan Ye, David M. Larson, Junko Yano, Ethan J. Crumlin, Joel W. Ager, Lin-wang Wang, and Francesca M. Toma. Investigation and mitigation of degradation mechanisms in Cu2O photoelectrodes for CO2 reduction to ethylene. Nat. Energy, 2021, 6, 1124–1132.
2. Junrui Li#, Shubham Sharma#, Kecheng Wei, Zitao Chen, David Morris, Honghong Lin, Cheng Zeng, Miaofang Chi, Zhouyang Yin, Michelle Muzzio, Mengqi Shen, Peng Zhang, Andrew A Peterson, Shouheng Sun* Anisotropic Strain Tuning of L10 Ternary Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 45, 19209–19216.
1. Junrui Li, Shubham Sharma, Xiaoming Liu, Yung-tin Pan, Jacob S. Spendelow, Miaofang Chi, Yukai Jia, Peng Zhang, David A. Cullen, Zheng Xi, Honghong Lin, Zhouyang Yin, Bo Shen, Michelle Muzzio, Chao Yu, Yu Seung Kim, Andrew A. Peterson, Karren L. More, Huiyuan Zhu, Shouheng Sun*. Hard-magnet L10-CoPt Nanoparticles Advance Fuel Cell Catalyst, Joule, 2019, 3, 1–12.
Group website link: https://www.junruili.com/
