Dr. Li Ding obtained his doctoral degree in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2019. From July 2019 to July 2022, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at South China University of Technology. In August 2022, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University as an assistant researcher. In 2018, Dr. Li Ding received the outstanding doctoral dissertation innovation fund of South China University of Technology. He received the best oral presentation Award at the 13th conference of the Aseanian Membrane Society. And the first prize in the Basic Research Achievement Award of the China Chemical Society in 2023. He was selected as the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by Beijing Association of Science and Technology (2023-2025). He has been dedicated to the research of membrane separation technology, including the structural regulation and application of novel two-dimensional membranes, industrial application of water electrolysis membranes, and the application of hollow fiber membranes. To date, he has published over 30 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Sustainability, Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Adv. Funct. Mater., and co-authored the first English book on MXene membranes. He holds more than 10 granted patents. He has led several projects, including National Natural Science Foundation projects, sub-project of National Key R&D Program of China, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, China postdoctoral projects, and various collaborative projects.

2010~2014 B.Sc., Chemical Engineering and Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology

2014~2019 Ph.D., School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology

20019~2022 Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology

2022~present Assistant researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Membrane technology and membrane process

1. Guoxiong Deng, Yiwen Liao, Yakai Lin, Li Ding*, Haihui Wang*, Engineering Robust Triazine Crosslinked and Pyridine Capped Anion Exchange Membrane for Advanced Water Electrolysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202412632

2. Yiwen Liao, Guoxiong Deng, Haoyu Wu, Li Ding*, Haihui Wang*, A Porous Skeleton‐Supported Organic/Inorganic Composite Membrane for High‐Efficient Alkaline Water Electrolysis, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 34, 2309871

3. Lingzhi Huang, Haoyu Wu, Li Ding*, Jürgen Caro, Haihui Wang*, Shearing Liquid-Crystalline MXene into Lamellar Membranes with Super-Aligned Nanochannels for Ion Sieving, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 63, e202314638

4. Rui Wang; Li Ding*, Jian Xue; Haoyu Wu; Chengzhi Cai; Zhiwei Qiao*; Jurgen Caro; Haihui Wang*, Engineering of Covalent Organic Framework Nanosheet Membranes for Fast and Efficient Ion Sieving: Charge‐Induced Cation Confined Transport, Small Methods, 2024, 9, 2401111

5. Lingzhi Huang, Li Ding*, Jürgen Caro*, Haihui Wang*, MXene-based Membranes for Drinking Water Production, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202311138

6. Li Ding, Libo Li, Yanchang Liu, Yi Wu, Zong Lu, Junjie Deng, Yanying Wei*, Jürgen Caro*, Haihui Wang*; Effective ion sieving with Ti3C2Tx MXene membranes for production of drinking water from seawater, Nature Sustainability, 2020, 3, 296-302.

7. Li Ding, Dan Xiao, Zong Lu, Junjie Deng, Yanying Wei, Jürgen Caro*, Haihui Wang*, Oppositely Charged Ti3C2Tx MXene Membranes with 2D Nanofluidic Channels for Osmotic Energy Harvesting, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 8720-8726.

8. Li Ding, Yanying Wei, Libo Li, Tao Zhang, Haihui Wang*, Jian Xue, Liang-Xin Ding, Suqing Wang, Jürgen Caro*, Yury Gogotsi*; MXene molecular sieving membranes for highly efficient gas separation; Nat. Commun.; 2018, 9, 155.

9. Li Ding, Mengting Zheng, Dan Xiao, Zihao Zhao, Jian Xue, Shanqing Zhang, Jürgen Caro* and Haihui Wang*, Bioinspired Ti3C2Tx Mxene-Based Ionic Diode Membrane for High-Efficient Osmotic Energy Conversion, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; 2022, e202206152.

10. Li Ding, Yanying Wei*,Yanjie Wang, Hongbin Chen, Jürgen Caro*, Haihui Wang*; A two‐dimensional lamellar membrane: MXene nanosheet stacks, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.；2017, 56, 1825–1829.

11. Li Ding, Dan Xiao, Zihao Zhao, Yanying Wei, Jian Xue, Jürgen Caro, and Haihui Wang*, Ultrathin and Ultrastrong Kevlar Aramid Nanofiber Membranes for Highly Stable Osmotic Energy Conversion. Advanced Science, 2022: 2202869.

12. Haihui Wang, Yanying Wei, Li Ding, MXene membranes for Separations, John Wiley & Sons, 2022. (Published book).