Institute: Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Address: 155 Yangqiao Road West,Fuzhou,350002,P.R.China．
Email: g.chai@fjirsm.ac.cn
Research Areas:
1）Synthesis and first principles simulations of catalysts (electrode catalysts in fuel cells/metal air batteries, CO2 electrochemical/photochemical reduction catalysts) and inorganic functional materials(Lithium ion/sodium ion batteries materials, nonlinear optical materials and thermoelectric materials).
2）Machine learning and big data based materials design and materials informatics.
Education:
2007-2012 PHD in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences？.
Work experience:
2016.9 to present: Group leader, prof., Fujian Insititute of Research on the Structure of Matter.
2014.09-2016.08: Research Associate, University College London.
2012.06-2014.08: Postdoc, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Recent publications:
[1] Jia Guo？, Xiaomei Yan？, Qin Liu, Qiang Li, Xiao Xu, Longtian Kang*, Zhanmin Cao*, Guoliang Chai*, Jun Chen, Yaobing Wang, Jiannian Yao, The synthesis and synergistic catalysis of iron phthalocyanine and its graphene-based axial complex for enhanced oxygen reduction,
Nano Energy, 2018, 46, 347-355.
[2] Tao Zhang？, Yang Hou？, Volodymyr Dzhagan, Zhongquan Liao, Guoliang Chai, Markus L？ffler, Davide Olianas, Alberto Milani, Shunqi Xu, Matteo Tommasini, Dietrich R.T. Zahn, Zhikun Zheng, Ehrenfried Zschech, Rainer Jordan, Xinliang Feng*, Copper-surface-mediated synthesis of acetylenic carbon-rich nanofibers for active metal-free photocathodes,
Nature Comm. 2018, DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-03444-0.
[3] Guo-Liang Chai*？, Kaipei Qiu？, Mo Qiao, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Congxiao Shang and Zhengxiao Guo*, Active Sites Engineering Leads to Exceptional ORR and OER Bifunctionality in P,N Co-Doped Graphene Frameworks,
Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 1186-1195.
[4] Guo-Liang Chai*, Z. Hou, D. J. Shu, T. Ikeda, K. Terakura, Active Sites and Mechanisms for Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Alloy Catalysts: Stone–Wales Defect and Curvature Effect,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 13629.
[5] Guo-Liang Chai*, M. Boero, Z. Hou, K. Terakura, and W. D. Cheng, Indirect Four-Electron Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Carbon Materials Catalysts in Acidic Solutions,
ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 7908-7916.
[6] Guo-Liang Chai and Zhengxiao Guo*, Highly Effective Sites and Selectivity of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/CNT Catalysts for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction,
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1268-1275.
[7] Lin Ye, Guoliang Chai*, and Zhenhai Wen*, Zn-MOF-74 Derived N-Doped Mesoporous Carbon as pH-Universal Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction,
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 1606190. ？
[8] Kaipei Qiu, Guoliang Chai, Chaoran Jiang, Min Ling, Junwang Tang, and Zhengxiao Guo*, Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Catalysts by Rational Synthesis of Nanoconfined Maghemite in a Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Framework,
ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 3558-3568.
[9] Xiang Hu, Junxiang Chen, Guang Zeng, Jingchun Jia, Pingwei Cai, Guoliang Chai* and Zhenhai Wen*, Robust 3D Macroporous Structures with SnS Nanoparticle Decorating Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanosheet Networks for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries,
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 23460.
[10] Wendan Cheng*, Chensheng Lin, Hao Zhang, and Guoliang Chai*, Theoretical Evaluation on Terahertz Source Generator from Ternary Metal Chalcogenides of PbM6Te10 (M = Ga, In),
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b10972.
[11] Chensheng Lin, Wendan Cheng, Zhengxiao Guo, Guoliang Chai*, and Hao Zhang, Exceptional Thermoelectric Performance of a “Star-Like” SnSe Nanotube with Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity and a High Power Factor,
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017, 19, 23247-23253.
