Di Chen serves as an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University before earning his Ph.D. in the same field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the supervision of Prof. Tuller. He then completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University in Chueh Group. In 2019, he returned to Tsinghua University and joined the Future Laboratory. He got a joint-appointment from the School of Materials Science and Engineering from 2021. He leads a research group that specializes in electroceramics, high-temperature electrochemistry, and energy conversion systems, including solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells.

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Group Member 

Postdoc (4): Hongyang Su, Min Xu, Chaoliang Geng, Hongdong Cai

Co-advised Ph.D student (3): Yuming Shu (Central South University), Ziyun Zhang (ShanghaiTech University), Chang Liu (Tsinghua University)

Research assistant (4): Peng Liu, Xiang Li

Undergraduate, UROP/SRT (7): Xiaoying Yan, Wenle Yan, Hanghang Lei, Ziyi Li, Xi Chen, Ye Zhou, Siqi Min

Internship(3): Yuting Li(East China University of Science and Technology), Jiebing Huang(Beijing University of Chemical Technology), Zheyuan Tang(Northeastern University)

Group Alumni and following affiliation

Postdoc (2): Yun Zhao (China Agricultural University), Jianbing Xu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

Research assistant (4): Yu Zhao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Ruijia Zhang (The University of Hong Kong), Chufeng Xiao(The Imperial College), Liming Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Undergraduate, UROP/SRT (6): Shichang Cheng(Tsinghua), Shuhui Ma(Tsinghua), Ran Cao(Tsinghua), Changfu Chen(Tsinghua), Han Qing (Tsinghua Shenzhen), Jingwei Tang (Tsinghua)

Internship (5): Siyuan Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Lidan Luo(Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yan Lin(Northwestern Polytechnical University), Xiuhui Zuo (University of Michigan), Liyu Chen (University College London)

National Projects

1. National Key R&D Program of China of International Cooperation and Exchanges, “Development of the high-performance reversible proton conducting cells with surface engineering” (2022YFE0198500), PI, 2022-2025.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, “The oxygen reduction reaction mechanism study enabled by the in situ modification of the atomic structure on the (La, Ae)FeO3 surface” (52102137), PI, 2022-2024

3. National Key R&D Program of China for the Youth Scientists, “The precise characterization of the oxygen vacancies on the surface of the rare-earth oxide and the determination of the descriptor of the redox reaction”(2021YFB3502000), PI, 2021-2024.

4. National Key R&D Program of China, “The advanced electronic phase transition semiconductors and resistors based on rare-earth elements” (2021YFA0718900),  PM, 2021-2026.


Industry Projects

1. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, co-PI,

2. Guo Qiang Institute funded by Country Garden, “Artificial intelligence based key technologies and applications for life enhancement of solid-oxide fuel cells” (2020GQG1003), PI, 2021- 2023.

3. Foshan City-Tsinghua Industry-University-Research Cooperation Collaborative, “Study on Antibacterial Function of Architectural Ceramic Surface” (2020THFS0122), PI, 2021- 2022.

4. Microsoft Research Asia, “How to cut carbon emission by applying data science on clean energy technology”(PO99386669), PI, 2020.

Other projects

1. Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program for Youth Scientists on Interdisciplinary Research, “The exsolution mechanism of nanoparticles and their application in olfactory sensing chips”, PI, 2022-2024.

2. Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, “The exsolution of alloy nanoparticles from rare earth oxide and their application in high-temperature oxide fuel cells” (RERU2022006), PI, 2022- 2023.

3. Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramic and Fine Processing, “Development of electrochemical-assisted pulsed laser deposition for in-situ growth of SmNiO3 thin films” (KF202101), PI, 2021- 2023.

Projects led by Postdocs

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Youth Scientists, PI: Dr. Hongyang Su, 2022-2024.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Youth Scientists, PI: Dr. Jianbing Xu, 2022-2024.

3. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI: Dr. Hongyang Su, 2021-2022.

4. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI: Dr. Jianbing Xu, 2020-2022.

5. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI: Dr. Min Xu, 2023-2025.

6. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI: Dr. Chaoliang Geng, 2023-2025.

Projects led by undergraduates

1. Science Foundation of Beijing, PI: Wenle Yan, 2023-2024.

2. Tsinghua University Undergraduate Academic Research Advancement Program, x11, Sixie Chen (2024), Ruixin Xu (2024), Zhe Xu (2024), Lingke Meng (2024), Kai Sheng (2024), Letian Zhang (2024), Ye Zhou (2024), Xi Chen (2024), Hanghang Lei (2024), Yuchuan Hu (2024), Wenle Yan (2023).

3. Students Research Training Program (SRT, similar to UROP), x10. 


4. Heyning-Roelli Scholarship for Exchange Students, Wenle Yan, @ETH, 2023。

5. Summer Exchange Program, Wenle Yan, @MIT, 2024.

Selected Publications

• M. Xu, R. Cao, S. Wu, J. Lee, D. Chen*, J. T.S. Irvine*, Nanoparticle Exsolution via Electrochemical Switching in La0.52Ca0.28Ni0.06Ti0.94O3 Fibers for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,  Journal of Materials Chemistry A , (2023).

• Y. Zhao, H. Su, J. Xu, S. Chen, P. Liu, E. Guo, Y. Lin, H. L. Tuller, D. Chen*, Measurement and Control of Oxygen Non-stoichiometry in Praseodymium-Cerium Oxide Thin Films by Coulometric Titration,  Journal of Electroceramics , (2023).

• M Xu, R. Cao, H. Qin, N. Zhang, W. Yan, L. Liu, J. T.S. Irvine, D. Chen*, Exsolved materials for CO2 reduction in high-temperature electrolysis cells,  Materials Reports: Energy,  (2023).

• Y. Zhao, W. He, J. Xu, H. Su, P. Liu, H. Le, D. Chen*, Antibacterial properties of TiO2 film were improved by hydrogen reduction heat treatment,  Chinese Surface Engineering , (2023).  

• J. Xu, J. Tan, H. Li, Y. Ye, D. Chen*, Modeling the heating dynamics of a semiconductor bridge initiator with deep neural network,  Micromachines , 13(10): 1611 (2022).

• J. Xu, H. Li, J. Tan, M. Han, D. Chen*, Research progress on data science of solid oxide fuel cells, lithium batteries and CO2electroreduction catalysts,  Journal of The Chinese Ceramic Society , 50(11): 3021-3039 (2022)

• D. Chen, Z. Guan, D. Zhang, S. Nemsak, L. Trotochaud, H. Bluhm, E. Crumlin, H. L. Tuller, and W. C. Chueh*, Constructing pathway of mixed ion & electron transfer reactions for O2 incorporation in Pr0.1Ce0.9O2-x,  Nature Catalysis , 3, 94 (2020).

Patents

F. Gao, D. Chen, B. Lu, T. Palacios, Passivation technique for wide bandgap semiconductor devices, International Patent No. WO: 2013/163137, (2012)