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Name:
 Wei Chen
Education:
 Ph.D
Positions:
 PI
Academic title:
 professor
Postal Code:
 130022
Subject categories:
 Electroanalytical Chemistry
Mailing Address:
 Renmin Sreet 5625,Changchun city,Jilin province
E-mail:
 weichen@ciac.jl.cn
Resume:
Education
B. S. in Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi'an, P. R. China, July 1997.
M. S. in Inorganic Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, P. R. China, July 2000.
Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry（Electrochemistry), Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China, December 2003.
Working Experience
Mar. 2005- Mar. 2010: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
April 2010- present: Professor, State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Direction:
Surface electrochemistry; Nano-electrochemistry; Design and application of electrocatalysts for fuel cells; Controlled-synthesis and application of novel functional nanomaterials
Achievements:
Peng Yingang Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences;Guanghua Fellowship, Xiamen University;Powerlong Fellowship, Xiamen University;Excellent Graduate, Xiamen University.
Article:

1. Wei Chen* Shaowei Chen*

“Iridium-platinum alloy nanoparticles: composition-dependent electrocatalytic activity for formic acid electro-oxidation”

    J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21(25), 9169-9178.

2. Yizhong Lu, Rutian Jin, Wei Chen*

“Highly efficient hydrogen storage with PdAg nanotubes”

Nanoscale, 2011, 3(6), 2476-2480.

3. Wentao Wei, Yizhong Lu, Wei Chen*, Shaowei Chen*

“One-pot synthesis, photoluminescence, and electrocatalytic properties of subnanometer-sized copper clusters”

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133(7), 2060-2063.

4. Yizhong Lu, Wei Chen*

 “One- pot synthesis of heterostructured Pt-Ru nanocrystals for catalytic formic acid oxidation”

 Chem. Commun., 2011, 47(9), 2541-2543.

5. Yizhong Lu, Yichen Wang, Wei Chen*

 “Silver nanorods for oxygen reduction: strong effects of protecting ligand on the electrocatalytic activity”

 J. Power Sources, 2011, 196(6), 3033-3038.

6. Yizhong Lu, Wei Chen*

  “Nanoneedle-covered Pd-Ag nanotubes: high electrocatalytic activity for formic acid oxidation”

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2010, 114(49), 21190-21200.

7. Wei Chen, Nate Zuckerman, Xiongwu Kang, Debraj Ghosh, Joseph P. Konopelski, Shaowei Chen

 “Alkyne- protected ruthenium nanoparticles”

 J. Phys. Chem. C, 2010, 114(42), 18146-18152.

8. Wei Chen, Nate Zuckerman, Joseph P. Konopelski, Shaowei Chen, “Pyrene-functionalized ruthenium nanoparticles as effective chemosensors for nitroaromatic derivatives”

Anal. Chem., 2010, 82(2), 461-465.

9. Wei Chen, David Ny, Shaowei Chen

“SnO2-Au hybrid nanoparticles as effective catalysts for oxygen electroreduction in alkaline media”

J. Power Sources, 2010, 195(2), 412-418.

10.Wei Chen, Nate Zuckerman, James W. Lewis, Joseph P. Konopelski, Shaowei Chen

“Pyrene-functionalized ruthenium nanoparticles: novel fluorescence characteristics from intraparticles extended conjugation”

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113(39), 16988-16995.

11.Wei Chen, Shaowei Chen

 “Oxygen electroreduction catalyzed by gold nanoclusters: strong core size effects” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48(24), 4386-4389. (Hot Paper)

12.Wei Chen, Shaowei Chen, Feizhi Ding, Haobin Wang, Lauren E. Brown, Joseph P. Konopelski,

“Nanoparticle-mediated intervalence transfer”

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130(36), 12156-12162.

13.Wei Chen, Jaemin Kim, Shouheng Sun, Shaowei Chen

  “Electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen by FePt alloy nanoparticles”

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112(10), 3891-3898.

14.Wei Chen, Jaemin Kim, Shouheng Sun, Shaowei Chen

 “Composition effects of FePt alloy nanoparticles on the electro-oxidation of formic acid”

Langmuir, 2007, 23(22), 11303-11310

15.Wei Chen, Jaemin Kim, Li-ping Xu, Shouheng Sun, Shaowei Chen, “Langmuir-Blodgett thin films of Fe20Pt80 nanoparticles for the electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid”

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007, 111(36), 13452-13459.

16.Wei Chen, James R. Davies, Debraj Ghosh, Moony C. Tong, Joseph P. Konopelski, Shaowei Chen,

“Carbene-functionalized ruthenium nanoparticles”

 Chem. Mater., 2006, 18(22), 5253-5259.

17.Wei Chen, Jaemin Kim, Shouheng Sun, Shaowei Chen,

“Electro-oxidation of formic acid catalyzed by FePt nanoparticles”

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8(23), 2779-2786.

 
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Commitment to research the situation:
Silver nanoclusters: Size-controlled synthesis,quantized capacitance charging and electrocatalysis