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Xile Hu

Xile Hu (born 1978 in Putian, China) is a Swiss chemist specialized in catalysis. He is a professor in chemistry at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and leads the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at the School of Basic Sciences.[1][2]

Professor
Xile Hu
Xile Hu in 2017
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Putian, China
NationalitySwiss
AwardsNational Latsis Prize (2017)
Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship (2017)
Resonate Award (2018)
Homogeneous Catalysis Award (2019)
International Catalysis Award (2020)
Highly Cited Researcher (2017-2021)
Academic background
Alma materPeking University
University of California, San Diego
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorKarsten Meyer
Other advisorsJonas C. Peters
Academic work
DisciplineChemistry
Sub-disciplineCatalysis
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsOrganometallic chemistry
Synthetic methodology
Homogeneous catalysis
Energy materials
Electrocatalysis
Bio-mimetic and bio-speculated coordination chemistry
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsci/

Career

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Hu studied chemistry at Peking University and received his Bachelor’s degree in 2000. During his undergraduate, he worked with Jianhua Lin. He then joined the lab of Karsten Meyer at University of California, San Diego as PhD student and graduated with a thesis on "Metal complexes of tripodal N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: synthesis, structure, bonding, and reactivity."[3][4] In 2005, he went to work as postdoctoral researcher with Jonas C. Peters at the California Institute of Technology. Here he initiated and developed a research project on molecular electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution.[5]

In 2007, he became Assistant Professor of chemistry at EPFL. In 2013, he was promoted as Associate Professor, and in 2016, he became Full Professor at EPFL. Since 2007 he has led the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences.[1][2]

Research

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Hu's research group directs an interdisciplinary research program to develop catalysis for sustainable synthesis of added-value chemicals and for cost-effective production of solar fuels.[6] They aim at the development of catalysts that are made of Earth-abundant elements and that enable the chemical transformations important in synthesis, energy, and sustainability.[7] They focus on base metal catalyzed organic synthesis,[8] electrochemical water splitting,[9] CO2 reduction,[10] fuel cell catalysis,[11] and the development of synthetic models for the active site of metalloenzymes.[12]

Distinctions

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In 2011, Hu won the Werner prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. In 2012 he was selected as an extraordinary young scientist by the world economic forum. In 2013, he received the Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship. In 2014, he won the European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry at the Eurobic conference. In 2015, he received the Young Researcher Award from the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. In 2016, he received the Bau Family Award in Inorganic Chemistry. In 2017, he was awarded with the National Latsis Prize by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the International Latsis Foundation,[13] the Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship for 2017,[6] and the Tajima Prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry.[14] In 2018, he received the Resonate Award from Caltech,[15] in 2019, the Homogeneous Catalysis Award by Royal Society of Chemistry,[16] and in 2020, the International Catalysis Award by the International Association of Catalysis Societies.[17] Hu was named "Highly Cited Researcher" by Publons (Clarivate Analytics) for 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.[18]

In 2014, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK),[19] and in 2019 fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.[20] Since 2020 he is a member of the Academia Europaea.[21]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b "LSCI". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  2. ^ a b "23 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
  3. ^ Xile, Hu. "Metal Complexes of Tripodal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity" (PDF).
  4. ^ Hu, Xile; Castro-Rodriguez, Ingrid; Olsen, Kristian; Meyer, Karsten (2004-02-01). "Group 11 Metal Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Nature of the MetalCarbene Bond". Organometallics. 23 (4): 755–764. doi:10.1021/om0341855. ISSN 0276-7333.
  5. ^ Hu, Xile; Brunschwig, Bruce S.; Peters, Jonas C. (2007-07-01). "Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Low Overpotentials by Cobalt Macrocyclic Glyoxime and Tetraimine Complexes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (29): 8988–8998. doi:10.1021/ja067876b. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 17602556.
  6. ^ a b "Research". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  7. ^ Morales-Guio, Carlos G.; Liardet, Laurent; Mayer, Matthew T.; Tilley, S. David; Grätzel, Michael; Hu, Xile (2015). "Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production in Alkaline Solutions Using Cu2O Coated with Earth-Abundant Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (2): 664–667. doi:10.1002/anie.201410569. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 25403656.
  8. ^ Vechorkin, Oleg; Hu, Xile (2011), "Bis[(2-dimethylamino)phenyl]amine Nickel(II) Chloride", Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, American Cancer Society, doi:10.1002/047084289x.rn01347, ISBN 978-0-470-84289-8, retrieved 2020-11-26
  9. ^ Thalluri, Sitaramanjaneya Mouli; Bai, Lichen; Lv, Cuncai; Huang, Zhipeng; Hu, Xile; Liu, Lifeng (2020). "Strategies for Semiconductor/Electrocatalyst Coupling toward Solar-Driven Water Splitting". Advanced Science. 7 (6): 1902102. doi:10.1002/advs.201902102. ISSN 2198-3844. PMC 7080548. PMID 32195077.
  10. ^ Gu, Jun; Hsu, Chia-Shuo; Bai, Lichen; Chen, Hao Ming; Hu, Xile (2019-06-14). "Atomically dispersed Fe 3+ sites catalyze efficient CO 2 electroreduction to CO". Science. 364 (6445): 1091–1094. Bibcode:2019Sci...364.1091G. doi:10.1126/science.aaw7515. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 31197014. S2CID 189816234.
  11. ^ Chang, Jinfa; Feng, Ligang; Liu, Changpeng; Xing, Wei; Hu, Xile (2014-04-17). "Ni2P enhances the activity and durability of the Pt anode catalyst in direct methanol fuel cells". Energy & Environmental Science. 7 (5): 1628–1632. doi:10.1039/C4EE00100A. ISSN 1754-5706.
  12. ^ Xu, Tao; Wodrich, Matthew D.; Scopelliti, Rosario; Corminboeuf, Clemence; Hu, Xile (2017-02-07). "Nickel pincer model of the active site of lactate racemase involves ligand participation in hydride transfer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (6): 1242–1245. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114.1242X. doi:10.1073/pnas.1616038114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5307482. PMID 28115700.
  13. ^ "National Latsis Prize 2017 awarded to chemist Xile Hu - SNF". www.snf.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  14. ^ "International Society of Electrochemistry". www.ise-online.org. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  15. ^ "Resonate Awards 2018". Resnick Sustainability Institute. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  16. ^ "Homogeneous Catalysis Award". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  17. ^ "17th International Congress in Catalysis | June 14–19, 2020 • San Diego, CA USA". 2020icc.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  18. ^ "xile hu's Publons profile". publons.com. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  19. ^ "Xile Hu". ChemCatChem. 11 (14): 3127. 2019. doi:10.1002/cctc.201900931. ISSN 1867-3899. S2CID 221548027.
  20. ^ "European Academy of Sciences - Xile Hu". www.eurasc.org. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  21. ^ "Academy of Europe: Hu Xile". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
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