（1）First-principles simulations and synthesis of materials for energy storage and conversion, such as catalytic, battery and thermoelectric materials (especially electrochemical/photochemical catalysts and corresponding surface/interface investigation). 

（2）Inorganic functional materials for photoelectric applications, such as nonlinear optical materials. 

（3）Machine learning and big-data based materials design and materials informatics.

2007-2012 PHD in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

   

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.

   

[1] Jun-Dong Yi#, Ruikuan Xie#, Zai-Lai Xie, Guo-Liang Chai*, Rui-Ping Chen, Yuan-Biao Huang*,and Rong Cao*, Highly Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to CH₄ by in situ Generated Cu₂O Single-Type Sites on Conductive MOF: Stabilizing Key Intermediates with Hydrogen Bond, 

 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202010601. 

[2] Chaojun Lei, Qiang Zheng, Fanpeng Cheng, Yang Hou*, Bin Yang, Zhongjian Li,Zhenhai Wen, Lecheng Lei, Guoliang Chai*, and Xinliang Feng*, High-Performance Metal-Free Nanosheets Array Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid, 

Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 2003000.  

[3] Yongyu Pang, Ke Wang, Huan Xie, Yuan Sun, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, and Guo-Liang Chai*, Mesoporous Carbon Hollow Spheres as Efficient Electrocatalysts forOxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide in Neutral Electrolytes, 

ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 7434-7442.

[4] T. Wang, A. Chutia, D. Brett, P. Shearing, G. He*, G. Chai* and I. P. Parkin*, Palladium alloys used as electrocatalysts for the oxygenreduction reaction,

 Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0EE03915B.

[5] Jian Guo, Liqun Kang, Xuekun Lu, Siyu Zhao, Jianwei Li, Paul R. Shearing, Ryan Wang, Dan J.L. Brett, Guanjie He*, Guoliang Chai*, Ivan P. Parkin*,

Energy Storage Materials, 2021, 35, 530–537.

[6] Yan Li, Junwei Li, Junheng Huang, Junxiang Chen, Yan Kong, Bin Yang, Zhongjian Li, Lecheng Lei, Guoliang Chai, Zhenhai Wen,* Liming Dai,* and Yang Hou*,

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, doi.org/10.1002/anie.202100526.

[7] 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. 

[8] Tao Zhang^†, Yang Hou^†, Volodymyr Dzhagan, Zhongquan Liao, Guoliang Chai, Markus Löffler, 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.

[9] 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.

[10] 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. 

[11] 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.

[12] 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. 

[13] 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. 

[14] 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. 

[15] 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.

已指导学生

庞泳喻  硕士研究生  085204-材料工程  

现指导学生

庞泳喻  博士研究生  080501-材料物理与化学  

杲辉  硕士研究生  070301-无机化学  

吴广青  硕士研究生  070301-无机化学  

陈武  硕士研究生  085600-材料与化工