ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5470-1043
Scopus Author ID: 57191033925
ResearcherID: AAW-3673-2021
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Xing Li received his B.S. degree with first-class honors from Nanyang Technological University (2014) and his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore (2018). From 2018 to 2021, Dr. Li was a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore. He then moved to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 2021 to 2024. In May 2024, Dr. Li joined the City University of Hong Kong as the inaugural Presidential Assistant Professor.

Dr. Li’s research interest focuses on developing molecular nanoporosity and stimuli-responsive materials to enable emerging technologies in energy storage and environmental applications. His work spans covalent organic frameworks (COFs), Li-gas batteries, and electrochemical carbon capture. During his Ph.D., he pioneered the first tunable white-emissive COFs and developed methods for bandgap engineering of COFs. From 2018 to 2021, he addressed challenges in the ultrafast, scalable synthesis and layer-controlled exfoliation of highly crystalline COFs, created new reactivity in COFs for robust heterogeneous catalysis, and developed killer applications of COFs for energy storage. Between 2021 and 2024, he developed efficient methods to electrify conventional carbon capture processes and resolved long-standing stability issues at the molecular level.

As the first author, Dr Li’s interdisciplinary work in chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering has been recognized by prestigious journals, including Nature Chemistry, Nature Synthesis, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Materials. His contributions to COFs have been highlighted in Nature Collection, “Celebrating 15 Years of Covalent Organic Frameworks” and “Synthesis and Enabling Technologies”. His work on electrochemical carbon capture has also been featured by Nature Collection, “Carbon dioxide removal, capture and storage” and “Chemical Engineering Distilled”.