Associate Professor

Email: GuangFL@hust.edu.cn

Academic Areas: Chemistry

Guangfang Li has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science of Technology (HUST) since October 2019. She received her B.S. (Chemistry) with honors from Wuhan Institute of Technology in China in 2012 and Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) from University of South Carolina in 2018. Her Ph.D. work, supervised by Hui Wang, focused on structural transformations and the electrocatalytic properties of complex multimetallic nanostructures. She did postdoctoral research on electrocatalytic methane coupling reaction under the tutelage of John Flake at the Louisiana State University. Currently, her independent research has been focusing on the controllable synthesis and the structure-property relationships of complex nanostructures and the mechanisms of catalytic molecular transformations.

Academic Degrees

2013-2018

PhD in Chemistry, University of South Carolina

2009-2012

ME in inorganic Chemistry, Wuhan Institute of Technology

2005-2009

BS in Analytical Chemistry, Wuhan Institute of Technology

Professional Experience

2019-now

Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, HUST

2018-2019

Postdoc Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University

Courses Taught

1.General Chemistry (for freshman)

2.Environmental Chemistry (for senior undergraduate student)

Awards and Honors

2017

SPARC Research Award, University of South Carolina

2011

Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan Institute of Technology

2007

National Scholarship, Wuhan Institute of Technology

Selected Projects Funded

1.National Science Foundation of China (22005109)

2.Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2020CFB214)

3.Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2020A1515110860)

4.The Foundation of Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure (2020MCF06).

Selected Publications

[1] G. Li, Y. Fang, C. Arges,* C. Plaisance, and J. Flake*, Electrocatalytic Coupling of Methane at Platinum Oxide Electrodes in Superacids. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2020, 167, 155503.

[2] G. Li, Z. Wang, and H. Wang*, Complementing Nanoscale Galvanic Exchange with Redox Manipulation toward Architectural Control of Multimetallic Hollow Nanostructures, ChemNanoMat 2020, 6, 998-1013.

[3] G. Li, Z. Wang, D. A. Blom, and H. Wang*, Tweaking the Interplay among Galvanic Exchange, Oxidative Etching, and Seed-Mediated Deposition toward Architectural Control of Multimetallic Nanoelectrocatalysts, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 26, 23482-23494.

[4] G. Li, Y. Lin, and H. Wang*, Residual Silver Remarkably Enhances Electrocatalytic Activity and Durability of Dealloyed Gold Nanosponge Particles, Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 7248-7253. 29

[5] G. Li, E.Villarreal, Q. Zhang, T. Zheng, J. Zhu, and H. Wang*, Controlled Dealloying of Alloy Nanoparticles toward Optimization of Electrocatalysis on Spongy Metallic Nanoframes, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 23920-23931.

[6] G. Li, M. Sun, E.Villarreal, S.Pandey, S. Phillpot and H. Wang*, Galvanic Replacement-Driven Transformations of Atomically Intermixed Bimetallic Nanocrystals: Effects of Compositional Stoichiometry and Structural Ordering, Langmuir 2018, 34, 4340-4350.

[7] G. Li, and H. Wang*, Dealloyed Nanopourous Au catalysts: from Macroscopic Foam to Nanoparticulate Architectures, ChemNanoMat. 2018, 4, 897-908.

[8] T. Huang, F. Tian, Z. Wen, G. Li*, Y. Liang, R. Chen*, Synergistic mediation of metallic bismuth and oxygen vacancy in Bi/Bi₂WO_6-x to promote ¹O₂ production for the photodegradation of bisphenol A and its analogues in water matrix. J. Hazard. Mater. 2020, 403, 123661