Luo Yuting

Dr. Yuting Luo is an Assistant Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China. Her research focuses on low-dimensional materials and electrocatalytic devices, including controllable synthesis of low-dimensional materials, self-driving discovery of materials, and electrochemical synthesis of green hydrogen and green urea. She has published over 40 academic papers and been granted 9 invention patents. Being the first- or corresponding author, she has published 19 papers in journals including Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano, and Chemical Society Reviews. Her works have been highlighted multiple times by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Nature Communications, Science Foundation in China, and so on. Dr. Luo serves as a reviewer for journals such as Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and ACS Nano. She also serves as one of Youth Editorial Board Members for ACS Applied Nano Materials (published by the American Chemical Society) and Energy Materials and Devices (published by Tsinghua University). She is funded by the national high-level talents (youth program) grant and participated in research projects including the NSFC Key International (Regional) Collaborative Research Program and NSFC Major Program. Her honors include Carbon Emerging Young Scientists (2024), Canadian Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships (2022-2024), Beijing Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2022), Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2021), and National Scholarship (2019).

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l Sept 2017-Jan 2021, Tsinghua University, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D.

l Sept 2012-June 2016, Shanghai University (Joint master with SINANO, CAS), Applied Chemistry, M.S.

l Sept 2008-June 2012, Hunan University of Technology, Polymer Materials and Engineering, B.S.

l Mar 2025-now, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Assistant Professor

l Mar 2021-Jan 2025, University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Researcher

l ACS Applied Nano Materials, Early Career Board Member (Published by American Chemical Society)

l Energy Materials and Devices, Early Career Board Member (Published Tsinghua University Press)

Low-dimensional materials and electrocatalytic devices, including 1) Controllable synthesis of low-dimensional materials; 2) Self-driving discovery of materials; 3) Electrochemical synthesis of green hydrogen and green urea.

Published more than 40 papers in prestigious journals with total citations >5,600 and H-index of 33.

10 Selected Publications:

[1] Hu SQ#, Chen YM#, Zhang ZZ, Liu HM, Kang X, Liu JR, Li SL, Luo YT*, Liu BL*. Simultaneous high current density and selective electrocatalytic CO2‐to‐CH4 through intermediate balancing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 12, 202423915.

[2] Luo YT#, Xie K#, Ou PF#, Lavallais C#, Peng T, Chen Z, Zhang ZZ, Wang N, Li XY，Grigioni I，Liu BL，Sinton D, Dunn JB*, Sargent EH*. Selective electrochemical synthesis of urea from nitrate and CO2 via relay catalysis on hybrid catalysts. Nature Catalysis, 2023, 6, 939. (ESI Highly Cited Paper and Hot Paper.

l Reported by AAAS EurekAlert!, Science Daily, Phys.org, Northwestern University, etc.

[3] Luo YT, Zhang ZZ, Manish C*, Liu BL*. Recent advances in design of electrocatalysts for high-current-density water splitting. Advanced Materials, 2022, 2108133. (ESI Highly Cited Paper and Hot Paper)

l Recognized as a Top 10 Cited Paper in Advanced Materials, published in 2022 and 2023.

[4] Luo YT#, Zhang ZZ#, Yang FN, Li J, Liu ZB, Ren WC, Zhang S*, Liu BL*. Stabilized hydroxide-mediated nickel-based electrocatalysts for high-current-density hydrogen evolution in alkaline media. Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 4610. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[5] Zhang C#, Luo YT#, Tan JY, Yu QM, Yang FN, Zhang ZZ, Yang LS, Cheng H-M, Liu BL*. High-throughput fabrication of cheap mineral-based electrocatalysts for high-current-density hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications (Editor’s Choice), 2020, 11, 3724.

[6] Luo YT#, Zhang SQ#, Pan HY, Xiao SJ, Guo ZL, Tang L, Khan U, Ding BF, Li M, Cai ZY, Zhao Y, Lv W, Feng QL, Zou XL*, Lin JH*, Cheng H-M, Liu BL*. Unsaturated single atoms on monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides for ultrafast hydrogen evolution. ACS Nano, 2020,14, 767.

l Reported by NSFC website, Tsinghua news, etc.

[7] Luo YT, Tang L, Khan U, Yu QM, Cheng H-M, Zou XL*, Liu BL*. Morphology and surface chemistry engineering toward pH-universal catalysts for hydrogen evolution at high current density. Nature Communications (Editor’s Choice), 2019, 10, 269. (ESI Highly Cited Paper and Hot Paper)

l Research Highlight 1#: Science Foundation in China, 2019, 27, 1.

l Reported by NSFC website, Tsinghua news, etc.

[8] Cai XK#; Luo YT#; Liu BL*; Cheng H-M*. Preparation of 2D material dispersions and their applications. Chemical Society Reviews, 2018, 47, 6224. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[9] Luo YT, Li X, Cai XK, Zou XL, Kang FY, Cheng H-M, Liu BL*. Two-dimensional MoS2 confined Co(OH)2 electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution in alkaline electrolytes. ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 4565. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[10] Luo YT, Li J, Zhu J, Zhao Y, Gao XF*. Fabrication of condensate microdrop self‐propelling porous films of cerium oxide nanoparticles on copper surfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Hot Paper), 2015, 54, 4876.

l 2024 Carbon 2024 Emerging Young Scientists

l 2022 Beijing Excellent Doctoral Thesis

l 2022 Canadian Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships

l 2021 Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University

l 2019 National Scholarship for Graduate Students, China