General
Dongxu Dai, Male, Professor

Email: dxdai@dicp.ac.cn
Telephone: (+86-411) 84379360
Mobile phone: 13898679590
Address: 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, P. R. China
Postcode: 116023

Research Areas

Molecular reaction dynamics is a frontier research field in physical chemistry, which studies the dynamical processes and mechanisms of chemical reactions. It bridges the gap between the basic principles of physics and the complicated chemical processes.  It answers questions about chemical reaction, such as: What are the products in a given reaction or photochemical process? What is the distribution of the quantum states of the product molecules? In which quantum state a molecule is most reactive? How does the collision energy affect the reactivity? Where does the energy go in a reaction? Answers of these questions are very significant to deeply understand the variant chemical processes in the nature, such as atmosphere chemistry, combustion process, life phenomenon and interstellar chemistry.

Education

B.A., 1985, Department of Physics, Peking University; 
M.S., 1988, Department of Physics, Peking University;
Ph.D., 1999, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Experience

August 1988 – now, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 
October 1993 – September 1994, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University. 
April 2000 – June 2002, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Honors & Distinctions

The second prize of National Nature Science Award, 2008
The first prize of Nature Science Award of Liaoning Province, 2007
The first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of CAS, 1994


Publications

1. Chuanyao Zhou, Zefeng Ren, Shijing Tan, Zhibo Ma, Xinchun Mao, Dongxu Dai, Hongjun Fan,Xueming Yang, Jerry LaRue, Russell Cooper, Alec M. Wodtke, Zhuo Wang, Zhenyu Li, Bing Wang, Jinlong Yang, and Jianguo Hou, Site-specific photocatalytic splitting of methanol on TiO2(110), Chemical Science 1,575(2010).

2. Weiqing Zhanga, Yong Zhou, Guorong Wu, Yunpeng Lu, Huilin Pan, Bina Fu, Quan Shuai, Lan Liu, Shu Liu, Liling Zhang, Bo Jiang, Dongxu Dai, Soo-Ying Lee, Zhen Xie, Bastiaan J. Braams, Joel M. Bowman, Michael A. Collins, Dong H. Zhanga, and Xueming Yang, Depression of reactivity by the collision energy in the single barrier H + CD4 -> HD + CD3 reaction, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 107, 12782(2010).


3. Wenri Dong, Chunlei Xiao, Tao Wang, Dongxu Dai, Xueming Yang, Donghui Zhang, Transition-State Spectroscopy of Partial Wave Resonance in The F + HD Reaction, Science 327, 1510(2010).

4. Kaijun Yuan, Yuan Cheng, Lina Cheng, Qing Guo, Dongxu Dai, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, and Richard N. Dixon, Nonadiabatic dissociation dynamics in H2O: Competition between rotationally and nonrotationally mediated pathways, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 105, 19148(2008).

5. Zefeng Ren, Li Che, Minghui Qiu, Xingan Wang, Wenrui Dong, Dongxu Dai, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Zhigang Sun, Bina Fu, Soo-Y. Lee, Xin Xu, and Dong H. Zhang, Probing the resonance potential in the F atom reaction with hydrogen deuteride with spectroscopic accuracy, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 105, 12662(2008).

6. Xingan Wang, Wenrui Dong, Minghui Qiu, Zefeng Ren, Li Che, Dongxu Dai, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Zhigang Sun, Bina Fu, Soo-Y. Lee, Xin Xu, and Dong H. Zhang, HF(v'=3) forward scattering in the F + H2 reaction: Shape resonance and slow-down mechanism, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 105, 6227(2008).

7. Xingan Wang, Wenrui Dong, Chunlei Xiao, Li Che, Zefeng Ren, Dongxu Dai, Xiuyan Wang, Piergiorgio Casavecchia, Xueming Yang, Bin Jiang, Daiqian Xie, Zhigang Sun, Soo-Y. Lee, Dong H. Zhang, Hans-Joachim Werner, Millard H. Alexander, The Extent of Non–Born-Oppenheimer Coupling in the Reaction of Cl(2P) with para-H2, Science 322, 573(2008).

8. Li Che, Zefeng Ren, Xingan Wang, Wenri Dong, Dongxu Dai, Xiuyan Wang, Dong H. Zhang, Xueming Yang, Liusi Sheng, Guoliang Li, Hans-joachim Werner, Fran?ois Lique, Millard H. Alexander, Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the F + o-D2 -> DF + D Reaction, Science 317, 1061(2007).

9. Minghui Qiu, Zefeng Ren, Li Che, Dongxu Dai, Steve A. Harich, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Chuanxiu Xu, Daiqian Xie, Magnus Gustafsson, Rex T. Skodje, Zhigang Sun, Dong H. Zhang, Observation of Feshbach Resonances in the F + H2 -> HF + H Reaction, Science 311, 1440 (2006).

10. Jianyang Zhang, Dongxu Dai, Chia Chen Wang, Steven A. Harich, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Magnus Gustaffson, Rex T. Skodje, State to State to State Dynamics of the D + H2 -> DH + H Reaction: Control of Transition State Pathways via Reagent Orientation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093201(2006).

11. Dongxu Dai, Chia Chen Wang, Guorong Wu, Hui Song, Michael Hayes, Rex T. Skodje, Xiuyan Wang, Dieter Gerlich, and Xueming Yang, State-to-State Dynamics of High-n Rydberg H-Atom Scattering with D2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95,013201(2005).

12. Dongxu Dai, Chia C. Wang, Steven A. Harich, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Sheng Der Chao and Rex T. Skodje, Interference of Quantized Transition-State Pathways in the H + D2 -> D + HD reaction, Science 300, 1730(2003). 

13. Steven A. Harich, Dongxu Dai, Chia C. Wang, Xueming Yang, Sheng Der Chao, Rex T. Skodje, Forward scattering due to slowdown of the intermediate in the H+HD→D+H2 reaction. Nature 419, 281(2002)



Research Interests

Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions,
Non-adiabatic Dynamics in Chemical Reactions,
Chemical Dynamics in Atmosphere,
Chemical Reaction Dynamics on Surfaces.

Students

已指导学生

程丽娜  博士研究生  070304-物理化学  

现指导学生

谢华  博士研究生  070304-物理化学  

秦正波  博士研究生  070304-物理化学  

吴小虎  博士研究生  070304-物理化学