Education Background
2017.09-2023.06 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013.09-2017.06 B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Central China Normal University
Working Experiences
2026.02 – present Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2023.10 – 2025.10 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Awards and Honors
2022 Third Prize of Yanchang Petroleum Scholarship
Research Interests
1. Surface and interface regulation of copper and single-atom nanomaterials for energy catalysis.
2. Electrochemical CO2/CO reduction to multicarbon fuels and chemicals.
3. Operando characterization of electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms.
Publications (#: equal contribution)
1. Hefei Li, Tianfu Liu, Pengfei Wei, Long Lin, Dunfeng Gao*, Guoxiong Wang*, Xinhe Bao, High-rate CO2 electroreduction to C2+ products over a copper-copper iodide catalyst, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 14329-14333.
2. Hefei Li#, Haobo Li#, Pengfei Wei, Yi Wang, Yipeng Zang, Dunfeng Gao*, Guoxiong Wang*, Xinhe Bao*, Tailoring acidic microenvironments for carbon-efficient CO2 electrolysis over a Ni-N-C catalyst in a membrane electrode assembly electrolyzer, Energy Environ. Sci., 2023, 16, 1502-1510.
3. Hefei Li#, Pengfei Wei#, Tianfu Liu#, Mingrun Li, Chao Wang, Rongtan Li, Jinyu Ye, Zhi-you Zhou, Shi-gang Sun, Qiang Fu, Dunfeng Gao*, Guoxiong Wang*, Xinhe Bao, CO electrolysis to multicarbon products over grain boundary-rich Cu nanoparticles in membrane electrode assembly electrolyzers, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 4603.
4. Hefei Li, Pengfei Wei, Dunfeng Gao*, Guoxiong Wang*, In situ Raman spectroscopy studies for electrochemical CO2 reduction over Cu catalysts, Curr. Opin. Green Sustain. Chem., 2022, 34, 100589.
5. Hefei Li, Feng Jiao*, Tandem catalytic strategy for converting biogas into carbon nanofibers, Chem Catal., 2025, 5, 4.
6. Yuting Xu#, Hefei Li#, Jiaqi Yang, Yilang Liu, Ahryeon Lee, Feng Jiao*, Fanglin Che*, Active learning-guided catalyst design for selective acetate production in CO electroreduction, Nat. Commun., 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66493-2.