Kun Qi(祁琨)

Professor, Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 1990

E-mail: kunqi@dicp.ac.cn

Educational Experience:

2008-2012, Bachelor’s degree (Metal Materials Engineering), Yantai University, China

2012-2017, Doctoral degree (Materials Physics and Chemistry), Jilin University, China

Work Experience:

2017-2019, Postdoc Researcher, Monash University, Australian

2019-2022, Postdoc Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France

2022-2024, Research Assistant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

2024-present, Professor, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy and State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Research Interest: Metastable electrocatalysis CO2 reduction reaction

Brief introduction of research work:

Dr. Kun Qi has devoted his efforts to tackling the challenge of achieving both catalytic activity/selectivity and stability simultaneously. His research focuses on the systematic design and synthesis of metastable electrocatalytic materials and their structural transformations, with a particular emphasis on the metastable CO2 reduction reaction (catalyst and reaction system). He has published 46 peer-reviewed publications in the journals such as Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, ACS Nano (2), ACS Catalysis, Nano-Micro Letters (2), among others. Additionally, he holds authorship of 6 patents, distributed across the European Union (3), Australia (1), and China (2).

Representative Publications: (*corresponding author; #co-first author)

9. Yang Zhang, Kun Qi*, Damien Voiry* et al. Grain-boundary engineering boosted undercoordinated active sites for scalable conversion of CO2 to ethylene. ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 17483-17491.

8. Kun Qi, Damien Voiry*. et al. Unlocking direct CO2 electrolysis to C3 products via electrolyte supersaturation. Nature Catalysis, 2023, 6, 319-331.

7. Huali Wu#, Amrita Singh-MorganMougel#, Kun Qi#, Victor Mougel* & Damien Voiry*. Electrocatalyst microenvironment engineering for enhanced product selectivity in carbon dioxide and nitrogen reduction reactions. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 8, 5375-5396.

6. Feihong Ren#, Kun Qi#, Damien Voiry*, Stefano Deabate* et al. Converting the liquid electrolyte of Li batteries into a catalyst for CO2RR via laser irradiation. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023, 6, 12, 6773-6780.

5. Kun Qi#, Yang Zhang#, Damien Voiry* et al. Enhancing the CO2-to-CO conversion from 2D silver nanoprisms via superstructure assembly. ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 4, 7682-7693.

4. Keqiang Chen#, Kun Qi#, Tong Zhou#, Yupeng Zhang*, Han Zhang*, Paras N. Prasad* et al. Water-dispersible CsPbBr3 perovskites nanocrystals with ultra-stability and its application in electrochemical CO2 reduction. Nano-Micro Letters, 2021, 11, 102.

3. Kun Qi& Damien Voiry* et al. Single-atom is not alone: Metal-support interactions in single-atom catalysis. Materials Today, 2020, 40, 173-192.

2. Lahcene Maachou#, Kun Qi#, Damien Voiry* et al. Biomimetic electro-oxidation of alkyl sulfides from exfoliated molybdenum disulfide nanosheets. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8, 25053-25060.

1. Kun Qi, Damien Voiry* et al. Single-atom cobalt array bound to distorted 1T MoS2 with ensemble effect for hydrogen evolution catalysis. Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 5231.