EDUCATION
2003-2008, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Received PhD degree in June, 2008 (with Prof. Jie Zhang).
1999-2003, Department of Chemistry, Inner Mongolia Normal University. Received BS degree in June, 2003 (with Prof. Yi Zhang)
ACADEMIC CAREER
2025-, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
2018-, Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, China.
2014-2018, Professor, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
2009-2014, Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK.
RESEARCH AREAS
Synthesis, structures, physical properties and device applications of hybrid organic-inorganic crystals.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2024 Jiaxi Lu Supervisor Excellence Award, China
2024 The First Prize of High Education Teaching, The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (1/6)
2024 Rigaku International Prize, Rigaku Corporation, Japan
EDITORAL BOARDS
2023- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of APL Materials.
2024- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Chemical Letters. .
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Wei Li, Zhe-Ming Wang, Alessandro Stroppa, Song Gao, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites, Wiley-VCH, 2020, Print ISBN:9783527344314, Online ISBN:9783527344338.
Zi-Ying Li, Rui Feng, Shi-Shuang Huang, Wei Li,* Xian-He Bu, Reconfigured Spin-flip process enables efficient and persistent triplet excitons in organic-inorganic metal halides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 7017-7027.
Zhi-Gang Li, Xiang Li, Xiao-Hui Dong, Hai-Peng Song, Zi-Ying Li, Xiang Wu, Ilya Kupenko, Michael Hanfland, Konstantin Glazyrin, Jacky Even, Wei Li,* Xian-He Bu, Edge states in 2D A2PbBr4 hybrid perovskites enabled by local structural reorganization, Adv. Mater. 2025, 2419606.
Zhi-Gang Li, Xiao-Hui Dong, Hai-Peng Song, Shi-Shuang Huang, Huan Hu, Zi-Ying Li, Xiang Wu, Wei Li,* Xian-He Bu, Chirality-mediated 1D-to-2D phase transition in hybrid lead halide perovskites, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 27946-27955.
Li-Jun Ji, Tian-Yi Yang, Guo-Qiang Feng, Sha Li, Wei Li,* Xian-He Bu, Liquid-phase exfoliation of 3D metal-organic frameworks into nanosheets, Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2404756.
Tian-Meng Guo, Fei-Fei Gao, Yong-Ji Gong, Zhi-Gang Li, Feng-Xia Wei, Wei Li,* Xian-He Bu, Chiral Two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites for piezoelectric ultrasound detection, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 22475-22482.
