Research Areas

The Environmental Energy Conversion Materials Research Team, the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, focuses on the fields of energy and environment, with the core research direction being efficient, low-consumption, and environmentally friendly low-temperature catalytic materials and technologies. They systematically conduct research on low-temperature efficient catalytic conversion materials for organic and inorganic gaseous pollutants, as well as catalytic conversion and utilization systems based on new clean energy carriers such as green hydrogen. Additionally, they also carry out intelligent environmental protection and energy-saving systems driven by big data and artificial intelligence.

The research team emphasizes the equal importance of basic research and application transformation, promoting theoretical innovation and engineering application of low-temperature catalytic technology in the fields of deep treatment of industrial waste gas and efficient conversion of green energy. They aim to achieve cutting-edge breakthroughs in low-temperature catalytic materials at the scientific level, form core catalytic technologies that are independently controllable at the technical level, provide key support for energy-saving and carbon reduction, quality improvement and efficiency enhancement in high-energy-consuming industries at the industrial level, and offer advanced, economically feasible and scalable overall solutions for continuous improvement of the ecological environment and green and low-carbon transformation of energy at the social level.

The research team consists of 14 members, including one director and three research assistants. The team has presided over and participated in major projects, and has published over 100 SCI-indexed papers.


Key Research Areas

· Applications of catalytic materials in energy and environmental protection

· Applications of big data analysis in energy conservation and environmental protection


Core Researchers

· LI Xinjun, LI Juan, WANG Xianlong, HAN Peiwei*, FAN Yuanrou, KONG Weijuan

· LI Heqing, LI Siwen, ZHOU Haofeng, WANG Ting, ZHOU Yuchen, ZHANG Shisong, CAI Xiaomin, LIN Jie, GUAN Zhengren


Signature Achievements

·Ying Yang; Xinjun Li; Juntao Chen; Liangyan Wang; Effect of doping mode on the photocatalytic activities of Mo/TiO2. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 2004, 163(3): 517-522.

·Liangpeng Wu; Juan Li; Shaohong Zhang; Lizhen Long; Xinjun Li; Chaoping Cen; Effect of Ordered TiO2 Nanotube Array Substrate on Photocatalytic Performance of CdS-Sensitized ZnO Nanorod Arrays. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, (44): 22591-22597.

·Yang Xu; Yu Xiang; Long Lizhen; Wang Tiejun; Ma Longlong; Wu Liangpeng; Bai Yu;Li Xinjun; Liao Shijun; Pt nanoparticles entrapped in titanate nanotubes (TNT) for phenol hydrogenation: the confinement effect of TNT. Chemical Cmmunications, 2014, 50(21): 2794-2796.

·Wang Xiaoyang; Yang Xu; Miao Lei; Gao Jie; Peng Quanming; Wu Liangpeng; Chen Siyi; Li Xinjun; Bi2O3 decorated TiO2 nanotube confined Pt nanoparticles with enhanced activity for catalytic combustion of ethylene. Journal of Materials Science, 2019, 54(6): 4637-4646.

· Peiwei Han; Jun Zhang; Weiling Zhang; Zizhen Niu; Guowei Wang; Xiangnan Li; Juan Li; Nan Wang; Xiaoman Wang; Huangzhao Wei; Yong Chen; Xinjun Li; Promotional role of Ni photodepositing on Ru confined TiO2 nanotubes catalyzed CO2 methanation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 488151081.


Contact Name:LI Xinjun, Team Leader

Contact Number:+86 13926438325, +86 20-87057781

Contact Email:lixj@ms.giec.ac.cn