State Key Laboratory of Catalysis
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy
Dalian 116023, CHINA
Email: rtchen@dicp.ac.cn
Research Areas
Solar energy, photocatalysis, charge transfer, operando and spatiotemporal imaging technique, surface photovoltage microscopy, time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy
Education
- 2009/09 – 2013/07, Bachelor degree, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
2013/09 – 2020/01, Ph.D., Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Experience
Work Experience
2020/04 – the present, Associate Professor, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Selected Publications
(1) Ruotian Chen, Zefeng Ren, Yu Liang, Guanhua Zhang, Thomas Dittrich, Runze Liu, Yang Liu, Yue Zhao, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Chenwei Ni, Panwang Zhou, Keli Han, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles, Nature, 2022, 610, 296-301.
(2) Ruotian Chen, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Jian Zhu, Sheng Ye, Yuying Gao, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Charge separation via asymmetric illumination in photocatalytic Cu2O particles, Nature Energy, 2018, 3, 655-663.
(3) Ruotian Chen, Chenwei Ni, Jian Zhu, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Surface photovoltge microscopy for mapping charge separation on photocatalyst particles, Nature Protocols, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-024-00992-2.
(4) Ruotian Chen, Deyun Zhang, Ziyuan Wang, Dongfeng Li, Lingcong Zhang, Xiuli Wang, Fengtao Fan and Can Li, Linking the Photoinduced Surface Potential Difference to Interfacial Charge Transfer in Photoelectrocatalytic Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 4667-4674.
(5) Ruotian Chen, Fengtao Fan, Thomas Dittrich, Can Li, Imaging photogenerated charge carriers on surfaces and interfaces of photocatalysts with surface photovoltage microscopy, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 8238-8262.
(6) Ruotian Chen, Fengtao Fan, Can Li, Unraveling Charge-Separation Mechanisms in Photocatalyst Particles by Spatially Resolved Surface Photovoltage Techniques. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202117567.
(7) Ruotian Chen, Shan Pang, Hongyu An, Thomas Dittrich, Fengtao Fan, Can Li, Giant Defect-Induced Effects on Nanoscale Charge Separation in Semiconductor Photocatalysts, Nano Letters, 2019, 19, 426-432.