Professor Hui Li

Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry

China University of Geosciences

Wuhan 430074, China

Email：lihui-chem@cug.edu.cn or li_hui@cug.edu.cn

ORCID：0000-0001-7849-9735

Education and Work Experience

2017.9-present   Professor, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry,

               China University of Geosciences, China

2014.1-2017.8   Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara.

(Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco, Prof. Thuc.Q. Nguyen), Swiss National Foundation

“Early Postdoc. Mobility” Fellowship awarded

2013.6-2013.12  Postdoctoral fellow, University of Berne, Switzerland (Prof. Silvio Decurtins)

2009.10-2013.5  PhD., Marie Curie fellow, University of Berne, Switzerland

(Prof. Silvio Decurtins)

2006.09-2009.06  M.S., Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Xiangtan University, China.

2002.09-2006.09  B.S., Polymer Material and Engineering, Xiangtan University, China.

To add:  

2010.10-2010.12   Exchange program within Marie Curie network-study in Prof. Nazario

                 Martin’s group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Research Summary

1. Electrochemical DNA-based biosensors for personalized medicine development. 

2. The development of electrochemical biosensors for early diagnostics of cancer.

Up to now, Prof. Li has published 20 papers including J. Am. Chem. Soc. (4); Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (1); Nanoscale (1); Macromolecules (1) etc.

Awards and Honors

2014-2016, Swiss National Science Foundation 'Early Postdoc Mobility' fellowship

2009-2013, European Union founded 'Marie Curie fellowship' during PhD study,

         the project “Initial Training Networking” FP7

Selected Publications

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7849-9735

[1] Hui Li, Philippe Dauphin-Ducharme, Gabriel Ortega, Kevin W. Plaxco. Calibration-Free Electrochemical Biosensors Supporting Accurate Molecular Measurements Directly in Undiluted Whole Blood, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11207–11213

[2] Hui Li, Philippe Dauphin-Ducharme, Netzahualcóyotl Arroyo-Currás, Claire Tran, Philip A. Vieira, Shaoguang Li, Christina Shin, Jacob Somerson, Tod E. Kippin, and Kevin W. Plaxco. A biomimetic surface greatly improves the in-vivo performance of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 129，7492-7495

[3] Hui Li, Netzahualcóyotl Arroyo-Currás, Di Kang, Francesco Riccic, and Kevin W. Plaxco. Dual-reporter drift correction to enhance the performance of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors in whole blood. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 15809–15812.

[4] An Xiang,^# Hui Li, ^# Songjie Chen, Shi-Xia Liu, Silvio Decurtins, Meilin Bai, Shimin Hou and Jianhui Liao Electronic transport in benzodifuran single-molecule transistors, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 7665–7673 (^#co-first author).

[5] Zhihai Li,^# Hui Li,^# Songjie Chen, Toni Froehlich, Chenyi Yi, Christian Schönenberger, Michel Calame, Silvio Decurtins, Shi-Xia Liu, Eric Borguet. Regulating a Benzodifuran Single Molecule Redox Switch via Electrochemical Gating and Optimization of Molecule/Electrode Coupling, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8867–8870 (^#co-first author)

[6] Hui Li, Chenyi Yi, Sofiane Moussi, Shi-Xia Liu, Claude Daul, Michael Grätzel, and Silvio Decurtins. Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]difuran-Based Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 19798–19801.

[7] Hui Li, Christina Schubert, Rubén D. Costa, Andrea La Rosa, Jürg Thüring, Shi-Xia Liu, Chenyi Yi, Salvatore Filippone, Nazario Martín, Silvio Decurtins, Timothy Clark and Dirk M. Guldi. Probing Charge Transfer in Benzodifuran-C60 Electron Donor-Acceptor Conjugates – Ground and Excited State Assays, ChemPhsyChem, 2013, 14, 2910–2919.

[8] Yves Aeschi,^# Hui Li, ^# Zhencai Cao, Songjie Chen, Anneliese Amacher, Nathalie Bieri, Bilâl Özen, Juerg Hauser, Silvio Decurtins, Songting Tan, Shi-Xia Liu. Directed metalation cascade to access highly functionalized thieno[2,3-f][1]benzofuran, Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 5586–5589. (^#co-first author)

[9] Hui Li, Jie Ding, Songjie Chen, Christoph Beyer, Shi-Xia Liu, Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, Andreas Hauser and Silvio Decurtins, Synthesis, Redox and Photophysical Properties of Benzodifuran-Spiropyran Ensembles, Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 6459–6466.

[10] Wenjing Hong, Hui Li, Shi-Xia Liu, Yongchun Fu, Jianfeng Li, Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, Silvio Decurtins, and Thomas Wandlowski, Trimethylsilyl-Terminated Oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s: An Approach to Single-Molecule Junctions with Covalent Au−C σ-Bonds. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 19425–19431.

[11] Hui Li, Peng Tang, Yan Zhao, Shi-Xia Liu, Yves Aeschi, Lijun Deng, Jörg Braun, Bin Zhao, Yunqi Liu, Songting Tan, Wolfgang Meier, Silvio Decurtins, Benzodifuran-Containing Well-Defined pi-Conjugated Polymers for Photovoltaic Cells. J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., 2012, 50, 2935-2943.

[12] Hui Li, Peng Jiang, Chenyi Yi, Chen Li, Shi-Xia Liu, Songting Tan, Bin Zhao, Jörg Braun, Wolfgang Meier, Thomas Wandlowski and Silvio Decurtins, Benzodifuran-based pi-Conjugated Copolymers for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 8058-8062.

US patent:

[1] Hui Li, Netzahualcoyotl Arroyo, Di Kang and Kevin Plaxco. Dual-Label Electrochemical Sensors with Drift Correction, PCT/US17/053228

[2] Hui Li, Philippe Dauphin-Ducharme, Gabriel Ortega, Kevin W. Plaxco. Calibration-free, drift-free electrochemical sensors employing difference in electron transfer kinetics, UCSB023P, 2017-248