Solar energy, photocatalysis, charge transfer, operando and spatiotemporal imaging technique, surface photovoltage technique  

• 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)

   

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.

(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, 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.

(4)   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.

(5)   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.

(6)   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.